New York: William Farquhar Payson, [1932].. Oblong quarto. Light sky blue cloth, with printed label (after a design by Wright). Photographs. Cloth faded through dust jacket around spine, thumb-tip size rust mark to top edge of rear cover, neat private bookplate on pastedown, a bit of the usual tanning to the endsheets, a couple of spots on fore-edge (one extending slightly into the fore-edge of the rear free endsheet), but a very good copy in slightly rubbed and dusty pictorial dust jacket with a small, narrow chip at top edge of the front panel and some sunning to spine. First edition, in the second state binding. "This is the first book in which Wright defined his proposal for a decentralized, agrarian society based on the proper use of the machine" - Sweeney. SWEENEY 328.

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Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WRCLIT88934
Title: THE DISAPPEARING CITY
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Farquhar Payson
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [1932].

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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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....
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Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Second State: used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...

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