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Apprentice to Genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright
by Tafel, Edgar
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0070628157
- ISBN 13
- 9780070628151
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, rust colored cloth covered boards with silver decorative title and spine titles. 228 pp. including index and appendix listing selected publicly owned buildings open to the public. Very generously illustrated throughout with hundreds of color and black and white photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright and his buildings, exterior, interior, sketches, drawings and even some of his graphic art copy for magazines. A fascinating biography and memoir with commentary on the working style and the architetural achievements of one of America's most famous architects, by an established and renowned architect who worked at Wright's side as his apprentice and colleague for 9 years. A very tight, clean, bright, unmarked and unread volume with fresh cloth and sparkling titles in a crisp, very tight, clean, glossy, unclipped dust jacket with one closed edge tear at rear panel near spine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09570
- Title
- Apprentice to Genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright
- Author
- Tafel, Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0070628157
- ISBN 13
- 9780070628151
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- BIOGAPHY, BIOGRAPHICAL, FRANK, LLOYD, WRIGHT, ARCHITECT, AMERICAN, TAFEL, ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY, ARCHITECTURAL, PRAIRIE, SCHOOL, AMERICA, HISTORICAL, ILLUSTRATED, FALLINGWATER, HOMES, RESIDENTIAL, BUILDING, DOMESTIC, CLASSIC, MODERN, , TALIESIN, DESIGN, D
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- Architecture;
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Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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