The Imperial Hotel Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architecture of Unity by James Cary (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Great condition. Front free end paper has previous owner's signature. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Open copy in very good condition, 1st edition from 1968, dust jacket/DJ wrapped in complimentary Brodart protector, tight binding with clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Erstwhile owner's bookplate on front endpaper; notations on half-title page; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Mylar included to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.4.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Beige buckram cloth with embossed step-detail on cover. Ex-library: pocket and label on rear paste-down. Small 4to. 45 pp. (text) + 77 pp B/w photo plates (63); biblio.; 6 fold out blueprint drawings with perforated library stamps. Ships fast with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 46, [79] pages illustrations, 6 folded plans. Binding sturdy, very light wear to corners; contents fine, folding plans excellent. Shelfwear and sunning to price-clipped dust jacket, with a 1" tear to head of front panel. 900 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1968. Book is gorgeous and has tan cloth boards with black titles. The dust jacket is spectacular. Many images of the Imperial Hotel under construction. The is several fold-out floor plans, post text. Included with this book is an envelope from the committee for the preservation of the hotel. Selling quality books for 40 years.

First Edition. Small Quarto. . Second printing. 46 pages, +79 pages of illustrations, six folded plates. Pages 23-48 are "Quotations from Frank Lloyd Wright", Bibliography on p. 125. One of the key works expressing Wright's philosophy integrating quotations from his autobiography with the twelve pages entitled 'Building Against Doomsday'. The author has included many of Wright's insights on the development of the 'prairie house' from his first 'yearing for simplicity' as 'organic' with planes parallel to earth. The hotel not only is among the most important of the early items by Wright or that it survived the 1923 earthquake and that Steen Rassmussen, Denmark's architectural-historian noted as the finest of Frank Lloyd Wright's works. A near fine copy bound in beige linen stamped in blind, spine lettering black, in a very good pictorial dust jacket lettered in red and black some light edge wear, price sticker to upper front flap.