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A Testament
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good +
- Seller
-
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Horizon Press, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 256 p.: frontispiece (following double-page title page), many full-page plans and black-and-white photographs included in pagination (including folded elevation of the proposed Mile-High Illinois sky-high city); 31 cm. White cloth with red and black spine title and red square on front board. Dust jacket with jacket photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright by Valentino Sarra. First edition. Includes plans and photographs of many of Wright's proposed, but unexecuted, and completed buildings, along with his autobiographical and philosophical reflections on architecture. Book is in Very Good Condition: slight discoloration along fore-edges of boards; pages of text that face plates have light yellowing; otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: 6-cm. tear from upper edges of front section with archival repair on inside; 1-cm. from tail at back joint, without loss; rubbed; chipping and creasing along upper edge.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003727
- Title
- A Testament
- Author
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Horizon Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
If the item is not as described, the buyer must contact us within 72 hours of their receipt of it. We will refund the full amount with the costs of return shipping within 24 hours of receipt of the item.
About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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