story tower tree escaped crowded di wright frank lloyd (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Book has intact original fold out pages of drawings and photographs of the tower. Book is without flaws inside and out, but has a large marker of former owner's signature on inside front cover. The gold stampong on front hardcover and spine is slightly faded.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No dust jacket. Modest wear/rubbing to boards, clean pages and sound binding.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with mylar-covered dj. 1956. Some foxing to fold-out pages. Toning to ffep & pastedown due to newspaper clipping tipped in. Moderate edge wear to dust jacket, small perforation to front cover, some corner wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good copy in black cloth with red and gilt titles. "Frank Lloyd Wright" is heavily rubbed on spine. Edge-wear, rubbing. Small bump on top fore-edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good edition, spine slightly sunned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Quarto, 134pp, half-tone illustrations, publisher s black cloth stamped in gilt and red, printed ffep with Walt Whitman quote (ownership signature at ffep, hint of toning, very slight wear and dusting, a very good copy). In dust jacket (split in two at spine, additional chips and loss, a poor to fair dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. In worn and tattered dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First. Inscribed by Introduction author Fred C. Price on front endpaper. Black cloth binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is price-intact, small edgechips, single small triangular tear to bottom front cover, now protected within mylar cover. Laid-in: Pictorial wraps publicity folder produced by the Price Tower. Includes single page information sheet, color photo, six b/w photos and blueprint photo, b/w postcard and order form.; 134 pages; Signed by Contributor.

Condizione: Very Good. New York: Horizon Press, 1956. 1st edition. 4to hardcover. 130 pgs. 130 illustrations, 6 color plates. Very Good book and Near Good dust jacket. The boards are lightly faded along the bottom edge. There is some offsetting to the front endpapers, and a bookseller label to the front pastedown. The jacket is shelfworn, price clipped with a few tears. (Modern Architecture) Inquire if you need further information.

First Edition, First Printing. First edition. This book measures approximately 11" x 8.75", with 130 numbered pages. Comes with its original dust jacket. This book is in near fine condition. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Minor chipping and edgewear. Original $6.00 price on bottom of front flap. "The Story of the Tower" is a documentation of the Price Tower and its construction, the only realized skyscraper designed by Wright. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (M6-31).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Book has a faded area where an area of the dust jacket is missing. Dust jacket also has some rugged edgeds on it. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***.

Photos, illustr including color folding plates, 11.25 x 8.75, red decoration and gilt lettered black cloth, 133 pp, covers lightly rubbed, extremities bumped, hinges loose else a nice copy in well worn and torn and edge chipped dustjacket. FIRST ED, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE BUILDING'S OWNER HAROLD C. PRICE, SIGNED BY PRICE ON SPECIAL BOOKPLACE (loose in book with glue residue inside front cover) PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE PRICE TOWER FEB. 9, 1956. The Price Tower was Wright's only skyscraper, and was built for Price, who owned an oil pipeline company in Bartlesville, OK. Wright supposedly got his inspiration from a tree (hence the subtitle) and the building is built like a tree with a central core off of which the floors are cantilevered.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. INSCRIBED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT --IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION-- on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1956 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its dark cloth, with a very thin band of light offsetting along the upper and lower edges. And in a bright, price-intact, VG to VG+ dustjacket, with a bit of light chipping along the spine crown and very minor creasing at the front panel's edges. Still though, a very presentable copy. Quarto, dozens of crisp black-and-white photos and plans throughout. (From the front dustjacket flap: "For the first time, the growth of a building --from original idea to plan to actual day-to-day construction and ultimately to completion-- is presented in one full-length book. The Price Tower is one of the supreme masterpieces by the world's greatest architect, 'an idea' to quote Frank Lloyd Wright 'which had to wait over twenty-five years for full realization' -- the skyscraper now at last come into its own".

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Presentation, SIGNED by the author, "To Harry Riskes - Frank Lloyd Wright / 57" (Harry Riskes was a contractor working for Frank Lloyd Wright for many years). Also includes another presentation to Riskes from his colleague, John G. Phillips. Quarto. 134pp. Illustrated throughout with frontis portrait, photographs and plans, 2 folding color plates. Black cloth decorated and lettered in red and gilt. Tiny scar to center of inner rear hinge. A fine copy. Well-illustrated story of Wright's nineteen-story office and apartment skyscraper for the H. C. Price Company in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardback-. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Probable 1st. Grey jacket; 134 pages.

First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Davies at Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright, '57". Davies (1928-2022), one of Wright's students, later worked as an architect in St Paul, Minnesota. The Story of the Tower is an account of the design and construction of Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Wright's only skyscraper. Quarto. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 2 folding colour plates, photographic illustrations throughout. Original black cloth, spine lettered in bronze and red, front cover lettered in bronze and stamped in in red. With dust jacket. Small marks to cloth; jacket unclipped, rubbed, extremities lightly worn, spine, folds, and three small tears reinforced to verso: a near-fine copy in good jacket.