FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: HIS LIFE AND HIS ARCHITECTURE
by Twombly, Robert C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 444 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout text with over 150 b/w photographs of Wright's personal life, his architectural works and genius, schematic drawings, extensive footnotes, and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published books available. Pages are clean and bright. Light browning on top edge of text block. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine. Color pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear, one large chip at bottom of spine. B/W photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright on back cover. Lightly toned. Record # 220694
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220694
- Title
- FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: HIS LIFE AND HIS ARCHITECTURE
- Author
- Twombly, Robert C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Architecture, Biography, 1st, , .
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Monroe Street Books
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Middlebury, Vermont
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- Cloth
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...