Praise Architecture by Gio Ponti (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Translated by Giuseppina and Mario Salvadori; Preface by Mario Salvaori. Gray cloth hard covers with white and black type on spine. Dust jacket is rubbed, edgeworn with small tears; $6.95 price. Previous owner name inside front cover. Slight soiling to page ends, book is slightly cocked. First published in Italy in 1957, this edition has had additional photos added.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Meditations and observations on architecture and life by a transcendent figure in 20th century architecture and design. Section titles include The Politics of Architecture; Personal Mature Thoughts; Fantasy of Precisions; The Architect, the Artist; The Staircase; The Window; The Room,; Raw materials; House and Garden; Taste and Tastelessness; Women and Architecture; Industrial Design; and Listening to the Building. First American edition, published by F. W. Dodge Corporation in 1960. 8vo, hardcover, 270 pages with b/w illustrations. No dust jacket. Translated by Giuseppina and Mario Salvadori with a preface by Mario Salvadori. Ponti supplied new photographs and drawings to illustrate this first English-languge edition. Slight lean to spine. Minor fraying to cloth. Scarce.

First American Edition. Hardcover in jacket, quite good with nonauthorial gift inscription, edge wear and slight toning. slight soiling to jacket. Illustrated. Translated form the Italian original.