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1940
1940Pict Rec Arch Prog 2.jpg (2720 bytes) Frank Lloyd Wright: A Pictorial Record of Architectural Progress (Soft Cover - Spiral Bound)  (Published by The Institute of Modern Art, Boston) Wright, Frank Lloyd Supplement to the Loan Exhibition held by The Institute of Modern Art - January 24 - March 3, 1940.  The exhibition was a photographic exhibition, and this was the supplemental catalog that accompanied the exhibition.  It dealt specifically with homes.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 502) Pp 62 0502.00.0799
1941
1941 Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture: Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940.  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited Gutheim, Frederick Published as the initial volume by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in the Frank Lloyd Wright series.  Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940.  Original HC List Price $3.50. (First Edition)  (Sweeney 532) Pp 275 0532.00.0904
1941OnArch41 2.jpg (3266 bytes) Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture: Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940.  (Hard Cover)  (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited Gutheim, Frederick Published as the initial volume by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in the Frank Lloyd Wright series.  Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940. Original HC List Price $3.50.  (Fourth Edition)  (Sweeney 532) Pp 275 0532.00.1299
1942
1942NatureofMaterial 2.jpg (2953 bytes) The Nature of Materials: 1887 - 1941, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright  (Hard Cover DJ)  (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York) Hitchcock, Henry-Russell This is the second volume in the series of three published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce devoted to a complete presentation of the life, literature and work of Wright.  This is the essential background book on the architect’s work. Includes 414 photographs and illustrations.  Original HC list price $3.50. 8.5 x 8.5.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 573) Pp 143 0573.00.0702
1942NatureofMaterial 2.jpg (2953 bytes) In The Nature of Materials: 1887 - 1941, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright  (Hard Cover DJ)  (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York) Hitchcock, Henry-Russell This is the second volume in the series of three published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce devoted to a complete presentation of the life, literature and work of Wright. This is the essential background book on the architect’s work. Includes 414 photographs and illustrations. Original HC list price $6.00. 8.5 x 8.5.  (Third Edition)  (Sweeney 573) Pp 143 0573.00.0399
1943
1943 An Autobiography  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd First published in 1932 by Longmans, Green and Company.  Duell, Sloan and Pearce reprints An Autobiography to complete their trilogy.  This Duell First Edition divides Book One into Book One and Book Two.  Book Three: Work,  Book Four: Freedom.  There is an addition to the version, Book Five: Form.  All the original photographs were deleted and one new photograph added.  3,000 copies were printed of this first edition.  By 1962, it had gone through an eighth printing. (See FLW versus America, Page 37)  Original HC List Price $4.50. 8.5 x 8.5.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 595) Pp 561 0595.00.1299
1945
1945AmericaIsWest 2.jpg (4348 bytes) America is West  (Hard Cover)  (Published by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis) Wright, Frank Lloyd A compilation of many writers.  Section Ten, Chapter nine: "Young Architect in Chicago".  A reprint from "An Autobiography", 1932 and 1943 Editions page 63-71.  (First Edition) Pp 481-490 0609.01.1099
1945 An Autobiography  (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Faber & Faber Limited and The Hyperion Press Limited, London) Wright, Frank Lloyd 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition.  In 1946 a second edition was printed, and in a third of 2,000 copies was printed in 1947.  Original HC List Price £35.00 (App $52.50)  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 606) Pp 486 0606.00.0205
1945AutoLondon45 2.jpg (3114 bytes) An Autobiography  (Hard Cover) (Published by Faber & Faber Limited and The Hyperion Press Limited, London) Wright, Frank Lloyd 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition.  In 1946 a second edition was printed, and in a third of 2,000 copies was printed in 1947.  Second Copy.  Original HC List Price £35.00 (App $52.50)  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 606) Pp 486 0606.01.0301
1945DemocracyBuilds 2.jpg (4891 bytes) When Democracy Builds  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago) Wright, Frank Lloyd In 1932 Wright published his classic indictment on the city as “The Disappearing City”. Wright continued to work on his thesis and in 1945 republished it as "When Democracy Builds".  Copyright 1945 by the University of Chicago. Published 1945.  In 1958 he published his third and final version, “The Living City” expanding and rewriting it completely.  Original HC List Price $4.00.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 609) Pp 131 0609.00.1099
1945 When Democracy Builds  (Hard Cover)  (Published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago) Wright, Frank Lloyd Copyright 1945 by the University of Chicago. Published 1945. Third Impression September 1945.  (Third Edition)  (Sweeney 609) Pp 131 0609.02.0403
1945Tomorrows House 2.jpg (3810 bytes) Tomorrow’s House  (Hard Cover)  (Published by Simon and Schuster, New York) Nelson, George; Wright, Henry Original HC List Price $3.00.  Text & Photos  (First Edition) Pp 208-213 0624.01.0401
1945 Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida (Published by Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida) Florida Southern College An informational book about Florida Southern College.  Page three includes two interior photographs.  Page eleven includes three photographs and one illustration of the E.T. Roux Library nearly complete.  Pages 24-25 includes two photographs of the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel which was completed in 1941.  9 x 12. Pp 36 0647.02.0207
1946
1946 My Father Who is on Earth  (Published by G. P. Putman’s Sons, New York)  (Hard Cover DJ) Wright, John Lloyd An unconventional portrait of an unconventional man - Frank Lloyd Wright, stormy petrel of architecture.  The author is his son, who tells the things only he could tell about his father.  Original cover price $3.50.  5.75 x 8.5.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 648) Pp 195 0648.00.0607
1946MyFather 2.jpg (5830 bytes) My Father Who is on Earth  (Hard Cover)  (Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York) Wright, John Lloyd An unconventional portrait of an unconventional man - Frank Lloyd Wright, stormy petrel of architecture.  The author is his son, who tells the things only he could tell about his father.  Original cover price $3.50.  5.75 x 8.5.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 648) Pp 195 0648.01.0101
1946MyFatherMil 2.jpg (3607 bytes) My Father Who is on Earth  (Hard Cover - Rebound by the Milwaukee Public Library)  (Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York) Wright, John Lloyd An unconventional portrait of an unconventional man - Frank Lloyd Wright, stormy petrel of architecture.  The author is his son, who tells the things only he could tell about his father.  Original cover price $3.50.  5.25 x 8.  (First Edition)  (Milwaukee Public Library Recover)  (Sweeney 648) Pp 195 0648.02.0200
1946FacesDestiny 2.jpg (4032 bytes) Faces of Destiny  (Hard Cover)  (Published simultaneously by Ziff-Davis Publishing Co, Chicago, New York and George G. Harrap Co. LTD., London) Karsh, Yousuf Short Biography and portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (Second Edition) Pp 158-9 0648.01.1101
1946 Annual Forum, 1946, New York Herald Tribune.  Reprinted as the Taliesin Square-Paper #10: Nonpolitical Voice.  (Hard Cover)  (Published by the New York Tribune, Inc., New York) New York Herald Tribune The Struggle for Justice as a World Force. Report of the New York Herald Tribune Annual Forum. At the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City. October 28, 29 and 30, 1946. Second Session: Tuesday, October 29, 1946, 1:46p.m. (#9): "The Right to be One’s Self" Frank Lloyd Wright.  Original HC List Price $1.50.  (First Edition) Pp 113-7 0648.02.0102
1947
1947 When Democracy Builds  (Hard Cover)  (Published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago) Wright, Frank Lloyd Revised Edition. Copyright 1945 by the University of Chicago. Published 1945. Second Edition 1945. Second Impression 1947.  (Second Edition)  (Sweeney 609) Pp 140 0609.01.0799
1947 Usonia Homes, A Cooperative, Inc.  (Published by the Eastern Cooperative League) Henken, David A pamphlet describing the Usonia Homes Cooperative, Pleaseantville, New York.  David Henken, a Taliesin apprentice between 1942 and 1944 formed the Rochdale Cooperative in 1944.  It became Usonia Homes in 1944.  97 acres were purchase in 1947.  Three Wright homes were built (Friedman, Serlin and Reisley).  40 were built by Wright apprentices including Henken.  Includes seven photographs of Wright homes.  8.5 x 11.  (First Edition) Pp 8 0720.05.0307
1948
1925/1948 The Life Work of the American Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, (1925: Published by C.A. Mees Santpoort, Holland.  1948: Bound and distributed by A. Kroch and Sons, Publishers. Chicago) Introduction by H. Th. Wijdeveld 1925: Seven separate issue of the art magazine Wendingen (7-3 through 7-9) were bound together in a single book. 3,000 copies of the book were published according to “Wendingen: A Journal for the Arts, 1918-1932" page 168.   1947: Nov 27, Kroch ordered 500 copies of the remaining unbound stock according to “Wendingen”. 1948: Publisher A. Kroch & Son publishes 500 copies of the original 1926 printing that had been left unbound, according to “Sweeney”. 13 x 13.5.  (First 1948 Edition)  (Sweeney 165) Pp 164 0165.01.0506
1949
1949NewTheater1949 2.jpg (6375 bytes) The New Theatre - Special Exhibition, January 26 - February 27, 1949.  The Architectural Model, Plan, Renderings of:  (Project for Hartford Conn.). Hartford Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum, Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibit brochure for show at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum.  The Architectural Model, Plan, Renderings of The New Theatre.  These designs were revived in 1949 for a group in Hartford Conn.  Adequate funds were not raised, and it remained a project.   This exhibit was for showing the Architectural Model, Plans and Renderings.  First public exhibition.  (Sweeney 749) Pp 4 0749.00.1101
1949 Genius and the Mobocracy   (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York) Wright, Frank Lloyd Original HC List Price $5.00.  (First Edition)  (Two Copies)  (Sweeney 750) Pp 113
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