[INSCRIBED] Design This Day: The Technique of Order in the Machine Age (With Additional Signatures)

Walter Dorwin Teague

Published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company, New York, 1940

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1612384251089

Bibliographic Details

• Title: [INSCRIBED] Design This Day: The Technique of Order in the Machine Age (With Additional Signatures)
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Design
  • Signature