Tomorrow's House: A Complete Guide for the Home Builder
by Nelson, george and Henry Wright
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1945. Third Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. A Very Good copy (owner's name in ink on front pastedown) in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket with a small piece missing from the crown of the spine. 214 pp., including a listing of architects and designers whose work appears in this book, and a listing of photographers whose pictures appear. A comprehensive room by room planning guide for designing a modern house using pictorial examples from the work of the period's leading modern architects. One of George Nelson's earliest books written as a consultant to the prestigious Architectural Forum Magazine and co-authored by Henry Wright, then managing editor. Some chipping to price-clipped DJ edges and top of book spine. Owner's bookplate on ffep, darkening to rear endpaper and pastedown, and light foxing to edges.
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- Bookseller
- modern-ISM
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013595
- Title
- Tomorrow's House: A Complete Guide for the Home Builder
- Author
- Nelson, george and Henry Wright
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Modern Architecture, Architecture, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Paul Laszlo, Richard Neutra, W. L. Pereira, Raphael Soriano, Lloyd Wright, George Howe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, William Lescazr, Frank Lloyd Wright
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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About modern-ISM
On-line with emphasis on architecture, art and design. Classics also included.
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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