Howard Van Doren Shaw (4 results)

Hardcover in slipcase. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Limited Edition. Stout 8vo. Pp. 653. Foreword by Mark Van Doren. Beige half cloth over marbled paper covered boards, titles stamped in blue on the spine, head edge gilt, colored endpapers and preliminary leaf. Edition limited to 2000, this copy hand numbered 266 and signed in ink by Newquist and Van Doren. In the black paper covered slipcase with titles and interviewees printed in black on mounted goldenrod label: corners rubbed, light scuffing. Sixty-three one-hour interviews with authors, columnists and publishers about "their working philosophies.". Signed.…

Hardcover. 653p., inscription on flyleaf signed by Newquist, limitation page states 319/2000 copies signed by both Newquist and Mark Van Doren, very good first edition, first printing stated in half-cloth boards in very good slipcase. Interviews with 63 writers, actors, photographers and others. From the library of Herbert Gold, a contributor. …

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 175 pages. Monograph on this overelooked architect who designed The Art Institute of Chicago and numerous other buildings. Includes over 200 black and white images and architectural plans. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Unlike writers, painters, or composers, who can produce finished works of art in expectance of future recognition, the architect is dependent on the immediate availability of patrons and clients and is constrained by their needs, funds, and wishes. The study of these patrons and clients is a vital if often neglected part of architectural history. This book depicts the backgrounds, personalities, and attitudes of two groups of clients involved in the dramatic confrontation in Chicago around the turn of the century between Frank Lloyd Wright and one of the ablest of his conventional contemporaries, Howard Van Doren Shaw.…