Design Day Technique Order Machine by Walter Dorwin Teague (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 291 pages. First Edition. ex-library. Cover worn. Spine partially split.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Poor. No Jacket. First UK Edition. Very heavy wear to boards. Cloth to spine partially detached. Split to front hinge. Pages bound in. Usual library additions and remnants. Moderate to heavy foxing to pastedowns and endpapers - otherwise internally clean. Age-toning to edges of page block. A classic work by a major 20th Century American designer. A reading copy. 237pp 0 Size: 160mm x 250mm. Ex-Library.

Hard. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st UK Edition. Preface to the British Edition dated 1946. Rubbing to covers, bumping to corners and edges, a couple of small brown stains (1cm x 1cm each) to front cover, small ink inscrip. to f-fep. Internally sound, pages clear and bright Size: 4to.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 237 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: NF/na (paperback, 2 very minor chips at back bottom). Limited Ed Printing (#384 of 500). Unread. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940, first printin. small 4to., 7 1/4" x 9 1/2", xvii+291pp., illustrated with numerous b/w plates. Blus cloth with gilt titles. Mild fade to the cloth, endpapers darkened, else very good, text clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Contents Include: Rightness Resurgent; Mastery in the Machine Age; Sources of Form; Fitness To Function; FitnessTto Materials; Fitness To Techniques; Unity; Simplicity; Rhythmic Relationships, Etc. Good to good+ tight condition with very slight wear to top/bottom of spine and cover corners. Revised Edition. Presentation inscription written on first front end page. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.

First UK Edition. Hardcover with the rather torn and dust-jacket.237 pages, with numerous plates of b/w photographs. Teague's modernist exposition, originally published in America in 1940 by Brace and Company, is the study of the technique of order in the mechanical age. A fine copy, free of inscriptions, with the tatty jacket, seldom found at all on this volume. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First U.K. edition. Hardback. Light shelf wear and edge fading, otherwise very good indeed in a good dust jacket with fading, chips, tears and repairs.

Wraps. Small 4to. 203 pp. Very good +. Slight rubbing to covers. Illustrated with in text black & white figures.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book showing a light reading crease, some rubbing to cover. Otherwise an attractive copy - tight binding, unmarked pages, no major defects.

Photos, 9.5 x 7.25", blue cloth, 291pp with index, covers worn and soiled, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, hinges loose, spine sunned, pp toned (esp. endpapers). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "To Bill Hart- A collaborator in design this day- with the author's warm regards.Apr. 28, 1940" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (as Walter Teague).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine, slight spine lean, in a Very Good SCARCE dust jacket, small chips and creases at top and bottom edges. Jacket photograph by Paul Kramer, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. An important mid-century work on design and architecture, uncommon in collectible condition. Size: Wide 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition of Teague's modernist exposition Design this Day: Technique and Order in the Machine Age published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company, NY, in 1940. Missing the rare dust jacket, but with a warm inscription dated 1945 from Teague to Elizabeth Morris Poucher, a printmaker and sculptor who worked in Teague s office from 1944-1946. Additionally signed by industrial designers Frank Del Giudice and Stowe Myers. Del Giudice, who specialized in airline interiors, spent his entire career at Walter Dorwin Teague Associates. Myers worked with Norman Bel Geddes before joining Teague in 1934. 291 pages, 4to, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photos. Slight lean to spine. Bumping to front board; spine ends slightly frayed. Small tears to rear hinge, not affecting integrity. Inscribed by Author(s).

First English edition. 8vo; 237 pp.; 128 illustrations from photographs and drawings.A very good copy or better in original black cloth, in a worn dust jacket with rubbed patch to front panel. The classic study of design in the machine age, updated and revised by the author from the American edition originally published in 1940. A very nice book with the format changed slightly and the illustrations hors texte but on better glossy paper.

First edition. Large 8vo; pp. xvii, 291; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Owner's name; else a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lacking the dust jacket. The classic study of design in the machine age.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Photographs, Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Original blue cloth, near fine to fine. Spine bright. With a beautiful very fine dust jacket with the original price on the front flap. This book has come out of storage after 50 years and, as a result, the jacket is as new as one could expect. Teague was the designer of the 1939 New York World's Fair, and created six of the major exhibits. An extraordinary and prophetic look into the future of design and architecture. A beautiful book in all respects. No markings, chips, or tears.