BIOGRAPHIES
Date: DJ 1946 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Published by G. P. Putman’s Sons, New York) (Hard Cover DJ)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: 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. Review in Saturday Review. Original cover price $3.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 648)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.00.0607
Date: Cover 1946 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Hard Cover) (Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: 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. (First Edition) (Sweeney 648)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.01.0101
Date: 1946 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Hard Cover - Rebound by the Milwaukee Public Library) (Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: 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. (First Edition) (Milwaukee Public Library Recover) (Sweeney 648)
Size: 5.25 x 8
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.02.0200
Date: 1992 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Soft Cover) (Published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: 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 SC List Price $5.95. (Second Edition) (Sweeney 648)
Size:
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.03.0400
Date: 1959 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Rebel in Concrete (Hard Cover - Library Binding) (Published by Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia)
Author: Forsee, Aylesa
Description: Includes 20 full pages of photographs. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1263)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 182
S#: 1263.00.0500
Date: 1959 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Rebel in Concrete (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia)
Author: Forsee, Aylesa
Description: Includes 20 full pages of photographs. Original HC List Price $2.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1263)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 182
S#: 1263.01.0902
Date: 1959 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Rebel in Concrete (Published by Macrae Smith Company: Philadelphia) (Hard Cover DJ)
Author: Forsee, Aylesa
Description: Includes 20 full pages of photographs. Original cover price $4.50. (Fourth Edition) (Sweeney 1263)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 182
S#: 1263.02.0307
Date: 1961 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York)
Author: Farr, Finis
Description: Dust jacket: This is the first full-length biography of Wright, the greatest American Architect who became one of the great American legends. "I intend," said Wright on more than one occasion, "to be the greatest architect who ever lived." Original HC List Price $5.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1459)
Size: 5.75 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 293
S#: 1459.00.0799
Date: 1962 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (British Version) (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Jnathan Cape, London)
Author: Farr, Finis
Description: First published in the US, 1961. Different version from US copy. 6 x 8.9. (First British Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 224
S#: 1459.01.0405
Date: 1962 Title: Living Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover) (Published by Britannica Books, Chicago)
Author: Ransohoff, Doris
Description: Original HC List Price $2.95. (Compton’s) (First Edition) Two copies. (Sweeney 1486)
Size: 5.6 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 191
S#: 1486.00.0499, 1486.00.0899
Date: 1965 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright America’s Greatest Architect (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Harcourt, Brace and World, New York)
Author: Jacobs, Herbert
Description: A stormy genius, idolized by his devoted students and followers but misunderstood and often mistrusted by those too conventional to follow his swift imagination, Wright was the leading force in the development of modern architecture. Jacobs commissioned Wright to design two homes for his family. Original HC List Price $3.95 (First Edition) (Sweeney 1601)
Size: 5.75 x 8.25
Pages: Pp 223
S#: 1601.00.0899
Date: 1991 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright America’s Greatest Architect (Hard Cover) (Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut)
Author: Jacobs, Herbert
Description: Collector’s Edition, bound in genuine leather. Wright's Luxfer Prism Glass design used on cover. (First Easton Press Edition) (Sweeney 1601)
Size: 6 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 223
S#: 1601.01.0506Date: 1966 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life, His Work, His Words (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Horizon Press)
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Description: Original HC List Price $10.00 (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648)
Original HC List Price $10.00 (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648) Three copies, Two with Dust Jacket.
Size:
Pages: Pp 224
S#: 1648.00.1198, 1648.01.0699, 1648.02.0501
Date: 1970 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life, His Work, His Words (Hard Cover) (Published by Editorial Troquel S.A., San Jose, Buenos Aires)
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Description: (Spanish Version) Very similar to the 1966 English version. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648)
Size: 8x10
Pages: Pp 240
S#: 1648.03.0906
Date: 1970 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life, His Work, His Words (Great Britain Version) (Published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., London, Nairobi, Kenya; Victoria, Australia; Johannesburg, S. Africa) (Hard Cover DJ)
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Description: Exactly the same as the 1966 English version except for the cover and dust jacket. Original cover price 70s (£3.50). (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648)
Size: 8.25 x 10.25
Pages: Pp 224
S#: 1648.04.0407
Date: 1968 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright - Rebel Architect (Hard Cover - Library Binding) (Published by Franklin Watts, Inc. New York)
Author: Naden, Corinne J.
Description: He may well have been America's greatest architect. He was probably the most influential architect of any age. Years ahead of his time, he created a new kind of architectural expression that has never been equaled. Two Copies. (First and Second Edition) (Sweeney 1729)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 147
S#: 1729.00.1000, 1729.02.0105
Date: 1972 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect (Hard Cover - DJ)
Author: Willard, Charlotte
Description: Original HC List Price $5.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1881)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 183
S#: 1881.00.0100
Date: 1973 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Interpretive Biography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Harper & Row, Publications, New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London)
Author: Twombly, Robert
Description: Twombly presents a complete look at the man who demythologized American architecture through liberating the concepts of ram materials, the wool and steel, which were his tools. His strong horizontal lines, projecting eaves and centralized family areas spoke of Wright's understanding of the quality of life. Portions of this work previously appear in "The Wisconsin Magazine of History" and in "American Quarterly". (First Edition) (Sweeney 1920)
Size: 5.6 x 8.4
Pages: Pp 373
S#: 1920.00.0199
Date: HC 1979 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life and His Architecture (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto)
Author: Twombly, Robert C.
Description: A revision and update of "Frank Lloyd Wright, An Interpretive Biography". A complete biography covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs and drawings), and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published work available. Original HC List Price $39.95. (Second Edition)
Size: 6.5 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 444
S#: 1979.02.0100
Date: SC 1979 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life and His Architecture (Soft Cover) (Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto)
Author: Twombly, Robert C.
Description: A revision and update of "Frank Lloyd Wright, An Interpretive Biography". A complete biography covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs and drawings), and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published work available. Original SC List Price $21.95. (Fifth Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 444
ST#: 1979.19.0207
Date: 1983 HC Title: Man About Town (Hard Cover) (Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass and London, England)
Author: Muschamp, Herbert
Description: Original HC List Price $15.00. Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 214
ST#: 1983.16.0706
Date: 1983 SC Title: Man About Town (Soft Cover) (Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass and London, England)
Author: Muschamp, Herbert
Description: Original SC List Price $7.95. Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City. (First SC Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 214
ST#: 1983.02.0201
Date: 1986 Title: An American Genius: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Philosophical Library, New York)
Author: Einbinder, Harvey
Description: Original HC List Price $17.95. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 435
ST#: 1986.17.0105
Date: 1987 Title: Many Masks, A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York)
Author: Gill, Brendan
Description: Gill, architectural critic for the New Yorker, was friends with Wright and his third wife. Debunking yet sympathetic, this biography separates the man from the self-made myths. Wright portrays himself as innocent hero-victim of a corrupt society, but here we see an artful dodger molded by a boyhood filled with shame and anguish. Gill evaluates which of Wright's projects failed by the architect's own standards, and which ones succeeded. Two copies. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 544
ST#: 1987.06.0399, 1987.43.0507
Date: 1988 Title: Many Masks, A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Ballantine Books, New York)
Author: Gill, Brendan
Description: Gill, architectural critic for the New Yorker, was friends with Wright and his third wife. Debunking yet sympathetic, this biography separates the man from the self-made myths. Wright portrays himself as innocent hero-victim of a corrupt society, but here we see an artful dodger molded by a boyhood filled with shame and anguish. Gill evaluates which of Wright's projects failed by the architect's own standards, and which ones succeeded. Copyright 1987. Original SC List Price $12.95. (First Ballantine Edition November 1988)
Size:
Pages: Pp 544
ST#: 1987.07.1100
Date: 1998 Title: Many Masks, A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Da Capo Press, New York)
Author: Gill, Brendan
Description: Gill, architectural critic for the New Yorker, was friends with Wright and his third wife. Debunking yet sympathetic, this biography separates the man from the self-made myths. Wright portrays himself as innocent hero-victim of a corrupt society, but here we see an artful dodger molded by a boyhood filled with shame and anguish. Gill evaluates which of Wright's projects failed by the architect's own standards, and which ones succeeded. Original SC List Price $17.95. (First Da Capo Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 544
ST#: 1998.40.0305
Date: 1990 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: Genius! The Artist & the Process (Hard Cover, Library Binding)
Author: Murphy, Wendy Buehr
Description: Original HC Library Binding List Price $42.95. (First Edition)
Size:
Pages: Pp 128
ST#: 1990.13.0102
Date: 1992 HC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - Library Binding)
Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
Description: Original HC List Price $14.35, Library Binding $19.95. (Chelsea House Library of Biography) (First Edition)
Size: 7.5 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 112
ST#: 1992.42.0804
Date: 1992 SC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover)
Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
Description: Original SC List Price $7.95. (Chelsea House Library of Biography) (Third Edition)
Size: 7 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 112
ST#: 1992.05.0101
Date: 1992 HC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Alfred A. Knopf)
Author: Secrest, Meryle
Description: Wright remains for many historians America's preeminent architect, the force of his personality and the strength of his reputation endure untarnished. Drawing on the massive archives of the Wright Memorial Foundation, Secrest writes with authority and compassion about Wright's long and turbulent career. Her exhaustive scholarship provides fresh insights into Wright's personality, making this biography essential reading for anyone with an interest in American architecture. Original HC List Price $30.00. (First Edition)
Size: 6.5 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 634
ST#: 1992.06.0599
Date: 1992 SC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Soft Cover) (Published by Alfred A. Knopt, Inc., New York)
Author: Secrest, Meryle
Description: Wright remains for many historians America's preeminent architect, the force of his personality and the strength of his reputation endure untarnished. Drawing on the massive archives of the Wright Memorial Foundation, Secrest writes with authority and compassion about Wright's long and turbulent career. Her exhaustive scholarship provides fresh insights into Wright's personality, making this biography essential reading for anyone with an interest in American architecture. (First Edition)
Size: 6.1 x 9.2
Pages: Pp 634
ST#: 1992.60.0607
Date: 1998 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Soft Cover) (Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London)
Author: Secrest, Meryle
Description: Meryle Secrest is the first biographer to have full access to the Wright Archives. Her study of the architect, more than five years' work and illustrated with 121 photographs, is a stunning feat of biographical narrative, sustained analysis and compassionate insight. Original SC List Price $20.00. (Second Edition)
Size: 5.25 x 8
Pages: Pp 634
ST#: 1998.28.0904
Date: 1993 Title: About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by John Wiley & Sons)
Author: Tafel, Edgar
Description: In this nostalgic scrapbook, associates of Frank Lloyd Wright describe the architect as a constant stream of energy, a virtuoso draftsman, a man of theatrical presence and hubris with a supreme belief in the importance of his own work. Tafel, an architect and author of Apprentice to Genius, supervised the construction of several of Wright's most famous buildings. Here he stitches together letters, photos, news clips and interviews with Wright's apprentices, clients, contractors, friends, acquaintances, his third wife Olgivanna, their daughter Iovanna, his sons David and Lloyd, plus comments by notables such as Arthur Miller, Robert Moses, Philip Johnson and Andy Rooney. We eavesdrop on ego clashes among apprentices and come to appreciate how Wright's rapport with clients translated into the grammar of the houses he designed for them. This is an intimate, humanizing portrait of a towering figure. (Publisher’s Weekly) Original HC list price $34.95. (Second Edition)
Size: 8.5 x 9.
Pages: Pp 326
ST#: 1993.18.0302
Date: 2001 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Recollections by Those Who Knew Him (Soft Cover) (Published by Dover Publications, Inc. Mineola, New York)
Author: Tafel, Edgar
Description: First published in 1993 under the title "About Wright, An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright", published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. "Multifaceted view of Wright compiled by an accomplished architect, a former Wright apprentice, includes candid comments from apprentices and draftsmen, friends, clients, Wright’s children, and well-known figures such as Philip Johnson, Robert Moses, Arthur Miller, and Anne Baxter. ‘An intimate, humanizing portrait of a towering figure.’ — Publishers Weekly." (Publisher’s description.) Original list price $16.95. 8.3 x 9.2. (First Dover Edition)
Size: 8.3 x 9.2
Pages: Pp 326
ST#: 2001.51.0511
Date: 1996 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: Maverick Architect (Hard Cover - DJ)
Author: Davis, Frances A.
Description: DJ: Davis tells the story of a brilliant architect - sometimes difficult, sometimes controversial, but always dedicated to finding new ways to share his vision with the world. Original HC List Price $25.26. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 128
ST#: 1996.24.0602
Date: 2004 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Lipper / Viking Book)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: Advance Uncorrected Proofs - Not For Sale. On Sale September 13, 2004 $19.95.
Size: 5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 223
ST#: 2004.15.0305
Date: 2004 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright. (Hard Cover) (Published by Viking Penguin, New York, New York)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: Fascinated by Wright's supreme confidence, fiscal recklessness, con-man charm, and phoenix like resurrections, Huxtable tells the still shocking stories of his abandonment of his first wife and six children; the gruesome murders at Taliesin. But she is no less compelling in her chronicling of Wright's ever-evolving vision of "organic architecture". Original HC List Price $19.95. (First Edition)
Size: 5.5 x 8
Pages: Pp 251
ST#: 2004.18.0405
Date: 2004 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Book on tape) (Published by Books on Tape by arrangements with Lipper Publications LLC and Viking Penguin, Santa Ana, CA)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The New York Times comes an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Huxtable looks at the architect and the man, exploring the sources of his tumultuous and troubled life and his long career as a master builder, as well as his search for lasting, true love. Huxtable discusses Wright's masterpieces, including Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder; the Imperial Hotel, one of the few structures that survived the catastrophic 1923 Japanese earthquake; and the tranquil Fallingwater visited by millions each year. (Publishers description.) Unabridged audio-book. 5 cassettes. Read by Carrington MacDuffie. Packaged in a hard vinyl shell.
Size: 6.6 x 9.25
Pages: 6 Hours, 45 Minutes
ST#: 2004.52.0209
Date: 2008 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, A Life (Soft Cover) (Published by Penguin Group, New York. First published in 2004 by Viking Penguin, New York)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: From the way we build to the way we live. Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence on American architecture is visible all around us. Huxtable offers an outstanding look at the architect and the man - his tumultuous and troubled life, his long career as a master builder., and his painful search for love. Along the way she introduces Wright’s masterpieces – from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder -- not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever. (Publisher’s description.) Original list price $14.00. (Second Edition)
Size: 5 x 7
Pages: Pp 251
ST#: 2008.12.0511
Date: 2007 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York. The Plaza Years, 1954-1959 (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Layton, Utah)
Author: Hession, Jane King; Pickrel, Debra; Forward by Mile Wallace
Description: Examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities dynamically coexisted. From his suite, or "Taliesin East," as it became known, Wright negotiated-with varying measures of creativity, cooperation, and combat - an astonishing array of exchanges with the city's architects, artists, journalists, editors, publishers, designers, celebrities, power brokers, and bureaucrats. Most significantly, he shepherded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1943-1959), his New York masterwork, to near completion from these sumptuous quarters. Explore the sophistication and vigor of Wright's final years, a time when he was an architect of legend and a bona fide celebrity, and New York was basking in postwar prosperity. (Publisher’s description.) Original cover price $29.95. (First Edition)
Size: 8.9 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 159
ST#: 2007.54.0909
