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CHAPTERS ON & BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
 
Date: 1902

Title: The New Industrialism  (Hard Cover)  (Published by National League of Industrial Art, Chicago)

Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Description: Part III of 3 parts.  Chapter by Wright.  "The Art and craft of the Machine." Text of a speech by the same title, given to the Daughters of the Revolution, Illinois on March 14, 1902. The original speech by the same title was first given at the Hull House on March 28, 1901 (S.43).  Published by National League of Industrial Art for the Daughters of the Revolution. (Limited to 500 Copies, of which this Copy is Number 51.)  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 50)

Size: 6.3 x 9.75

Pages: Pp 79-111

0050.00.0602

   
Date: 1913

Title: Modern American Homes (Published by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago)

Author: Prepared by von Holst, H. V., A. B., S. B.

Description: Begins with a Preface by H. V. von Holst, Table of Contents and Acknowledgment, then includes 108 Plates printed on one side only. Examples of many architects including the work of Walter Burley Griffin, Tallmadge & Watson, Von Holst & Frye, Robert C. Spencer, Charles E. White and George W. Maher. Frank Lloyd Wright, Plate 90, includes four photographs of Wright’s work. "Examples of a New Style of Domestic Architecture in and about Chicago. 1) Warren Hickox Exterior, 1900, S.056. 2) Ward W. Willits Living Room, 1901, S.054. 3) Isabel Roberts Living Room, 1908, S.150. 4) Charles A. Brown Exterior, 1905, S.110.  (First Edition)

Size: 9.6 x 13.1

Pages: Plates 108

0120.11.0411

   
   
Date: 1916

Title: City Residential Land Development: Studies In Planning  (Hard Cover)  (Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago)

Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Description: Publication of the City Club of Chicago. Chapter IV: Non-competitive:  "Plan By Frank Lloyd Wright". Only Non-competitive plan in book.  Includes text and 7 colored illustrations.  Original HC List Price $1.00?. (First Edition)  (Sweeney 132)

Size: 9.25 x 12.25

Pages: Pp 95-102

0132.00.0602

   
Date: 1923

Title: Successful Houses and How to Build Them (First published in September, 1912 by Norwood Press. J.S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass, U.S.A. This edition published in 1923 by The MacMillan Company, New York)

Author: White, Charles E. Jr.

Description: Charles E. White, Jr. was an architect in Chicago, and worked in Wright’s Oak Park studio from 1903 to 1905. White, along with Vernon S. Watson worked with Wright on the River Forest Tennis Club (S.119). The Walter Gerts Residence was designed by White and built in 1905. Wright remodeled it in 1911 (S.177). In this volume, many of Wright’s home were included, but only a few were identified. Images of Wright’s homes included: Moore Residence (First) p 8 (1895 s.034); Dana-Thomas pp 41, 51 (Interior), 216 (1902 S.072), Hill p 66 (2), 425 (1900 S.051); Heurtley, p 217 (1902 S.074); Beachy p 220 (1906 S.117); Winslow p 225 (1894 S.024); Coonley p 284 (1907 S.135); Roberts interior p350 (1908 S.150); Martin interior p 397 (1904 S.100); Winslow Stable p 498 (1894 S.025). These images document the homes prior to 1912. (Second Edition)

Size: 5.5 x 7.6

Pages: Pp 520

0156.06.1009

   
Date: 1928

Title: New Dimensions: The Decorative Arts of Today in Words & Pictures  (Published by Payson & Clarke LTD, New York) (Hard Cover)

Author: Frankl, Paul T.

Description: Dedicated “To a Great American Architect and Creative Artist Frank Lloyd Wright.” Forward by Frank Lloyd Wright.  Includes 80 pages of text and 124 images, of which three relate to Wright.  Original cover price possibly $6.00.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 200)

Size: 9.25 x 12.25

Pages: Pp 168

0200.00.0407

   
Date: 1928

Title: Cyclopedia of Drawing, Vol. I (Leather Bound Stiff Cover)  (Published by American Technical Society, Chicago)

Author: American Technical Society

Description: Illustration of Unity Temple (Fifth Edition)

Size:

Pages: P 1

0187.01.0504

   
Date: 1928

Title: Cyclopedia of Drawing, Vol. III  (Leather Bound Stiff Cover)  (Published by American Technical Society, Chicago)

Author: American Technical Society

Description: Illustration of Dining Room and floor plan of H.J. Ullman House, Oak Park (Fifth Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 72

0187.02.0504

   
RevoltinArts 1.jpg (14347 bytes) Date: 1930

Title: Revolt in the Arts  (Hard Cover)  (Published by Brentano's, New York)

Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Description: Architecture - "In Between".  Chapter by Frank Lloyd Wright, (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 123-4, 322, 327-9

0228.01.1101

   
AmArch.jpg (85938 bytes) Date: 1934

Title: Modern Art: The Men, the Movement, the Meaning  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Simon and Schuster, New York)

Author: Craven, Thomas

Description: Chapter 14 - An American Architect  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 371)

Size:

Pages: Pp 273-289

0371.00.0401

   
ArtInAmericaI 1.jpg (27073 bytes) Date: 1935

Title: Art In America  (Hard Cover)  (Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York)

Author: Hitchcock, Henry Russell Jr

Description: Chapter VI. III. Wright and the International Style (Third Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 128-130

0377.01.0401

   
Date: 1936

Title: Understanding Modern Art  (Hard Cover)  (Published by The Delphian Society)

Author: Katz, Leo; Webster, James Carson

Description: Chapter on Wright. Chapter LIII. Frank Lloyd Wright and the International Style. (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 775 - 788

0404.01.0403

   
SmallHouses1940 1.jpg (41019 bytes) Date: 1938

Title: The 1940 Book of Small Houses  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York)

Author: By Editors of Arch Forum

Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect, Houses for $5,000-$6,000 Income, To the Blackbourns"  (Fourth Edition, Related article: Life Magazine - Sept 1938.  Original HC List Price $1.96.

Size:

Pages: Pp 141-5

0430.01.0201

   
Date: 1939

Title: A Goodly Fellowship (Published in November by The MacMillan Company, New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco)

Author: Chase, Mary Ellen

Description: Chapter 5. “The Hillside Home School”.  Pp 85-121. Describes the school run by Wright’s aunts. She writes about her three year experience of living and teaching there. (First Edition)  (Sweeney 461)

Size: 5.5 x 8.25

Pages: Pp 305

0461.00.0306

   
`AmArch.jpg (85938 bytes) Date: 1945

Title: Tomorrow’s House  (Hard Cover)  (Published by Simon and Schuster, New York)

Author: Nelson, George; Wright, Henry

Description: Original HC List Price $3.00.  Text & Photos  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 208-213

0624.01.0401

   
FacesDestiny 1.jpg (31922 bytes) Date: 1946

Title: Faces of Destiny  (Hard Cover)  (Published simultaneously by Ziff-Davis Publishing Co, Chicago, New York and George G. Harrap Co. LTD., London)

Author: Karsh, Yousuf

Description: Short Biography and portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (Second Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 158-9

0648.01.1101

   
ElementsInterior 1.jpg (42829 bytes) Date: 1951

Title: Elements of Interior Design and Decoration  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York)

Author: Whiton, Sherrill

Description: Influences of Wright and Sullivan.  Includes references on Wright and one photograph of the living room at Taliesin by Stoller.  Original HC List Price $7.50.  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 335,386-8

0834.01.0201

   
BuiltInUSA 1.jpg (16466 bytes) Date: 1952

Title: Built in USA: Post war Architecture  (Hard Cover)  (Published by The Museum of Modern Art, Distributed by Simon & Schuster, New York)

Author: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell & Drexler, Arthur

Description: Three Chapters on Frank Lloyd Wright  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 1-2, 17, 27-30,114-123

0869.01.1201

   
Date: 1952

Title: Roots of Contemporary American Architecture  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York)

Author: Mumford, Lewis; Wright, Frank Lloyd

Description: 1) Ch. 16: "Nature as Architecture, The Bad Lands." Reprinted from Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, 1941, pages 191-199.  2) Ch. 20: "The Art and Craft of the Machine." Reprinted from Modern Architecture, 1931, pages 7-23. Originally delivered at Hull House, Chicago, in 1901.  3) Biographical Sketches: Frank Lloyd Wright.  Original HC List Price $7.00.  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 132-140, 169-185, 435-6

0869.03.0804

   
Date: 1972

Title: Roots of Contemporary American Architecture. 37 Essays from the Mid-Century to the Present (Published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York)

Author: Collected and Edited By: Mumford, Lewis

Description: First published in 1952 by Reinhold publishing. This Dover edition replaced the original "Prefatory Note" with the "Preface to the Second Edition" which was published in 1959 by Grove Press, Inc. 1) Ch. 16: "Nature as Architecture, The Bad Lands." Reprinted from Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, 1941, pages 191-199. 2) Ch. 20: "The Art and Craft of the Machine." Reprinted from Modern Architecture, 1931, pages 7-23. Originally delivered at Hull House, Chicago, in 1901. 3) Biographical Sketches: Frank Lloyd Wright. Original list price $6.00. (First Dover Edition)

Size: 5.25 x 8.4

Pages: Pp Cover, 132-140, 169-185, 435-437

1909.10.0810

   
ShingleStyle 1.jpg (31255 bytes) Date: 1955

Title: The Shingle Style and the Stick Style  (Soft Cover)  (Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London)

Author: Scully, Vincent J.

Description: Many references to Wright including Chapter nine on Wright’s early career. Original SC List Price $8.95.  (Fourth Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 184

1047.02.0501

   
Date: 1958

Title: Masters of Modern Architecture  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Bonanza Books, New York)

Author: Peter, John

Description:

Size:

Pages: Pp 21,26, 41-61, 201-2, 222

1221.01.1201

   
WordsToLiveBy 1.jpg (43847 bytes) Date: 1959

Title: Words to Live By (Hard Cover) (Published by Simon and Schuster, Inc. New York)

Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited By William Nichols

Description: Comprised of over ninety essays previously published in "This Week Magazine" from 1947 to 1959. Wright’s essay "Beauty" was published in the January 27, 1957 issue. Each essay is proceeded by a quote or poem. Of interest, is the quote by John Keats proceeding Wright’s essay. Wright’s essay pages 147-148. Includes 4 x 6 four page descriptive Presentation Card listing Frank Lloyd Wright on the cover, as one of authors. Stamped on back cover: Compliments of Broce Construction Co. "Beauty" was originally an address to the Taliesin Fellowship following a Sunday Breakfast, June 11, 1950. (First Edition)

Size: 6 x 9.1

Pages: Pg 242

S#: 1274.01.0101

   
Date: 1959

Title: The House Beautiful Treasury of Contemporary American Homes  (Hard Cover - DJ)  (Published by Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York)

Author: Barry, Joseph

Description: Of the 32 homes featured in this book, nine were designed by Wright. The first three chapters are dedicated to Frank Lloyd Wright.  Original HC List Price $12.95.  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp10-21

1275.02.0402

   
Date: 1960

Title: A History of Modern Architecture  (Published in the U.S. by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., Publishers, New York)

Author: Joedicke, Jurgen

Description: First published in 1959.  Translated from German by James C. Palmes.  Chapter three: “Frank Lloyd Wright.”  Describes Wright’s connection with the School of Chicago, the idea of organic, relationship with nature, Wright’s early houses, his influence on Europe and Wright’s later work.  Includes thirteen photographs and two illustrations of Wright’s buildings.  (Second Edition)

Size: 7.5 x 10.25

Pages: Pp 30-37

1407.03.0607

   
Date: 1962

Title: The Intellectual Versus The City. From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright. (Hard Cover, DJ) (Published by Harvard University Press and The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.)

Author: White, Morton & Lucia

Description: Chapter 12: "Architecture against the City: Frank Lloyd Wright. ...A powerful artist, a dramatic personality and lively writer, he dominates twentieth-century American architecture in a way that makes him an inevitable representative of his discipline in a study like the present one." (First Edition) (Sweeney 1487)

Size: 6.25 x 9.5

Pages: Pp 189-99

1487.00.1102

   
Date: 1966

Title: Men of Modern Architecture  (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Macrae Smith Company Philadelphia)

Author: Forsee, Aylesa

Description: Chapter Two: Frank Lloyd Wright: Uncommon Architect, Uncommon Man.  Original HC List Price $4.75  (Second Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 35-64

1652.01.0102

   
AmericanArt 1.jpg (47841 bytes) Date: 1967

Title: American Art Since 1900, A Critical History  (Soft Cover)  (Published by Frederick A. Praeger, New York, Washington)

Author: Rose, Barbara

Description: Includes references on Wright and seven  photograph.  Original SC List Price $3.95  (Second Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 320

1686.01.0301

   
Date: 1968

Title: Great Modern Architecture (Published by Studio Vista Limited, London and E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc, New York)

Author: Cantacuzino, Sherban

Description: First three chapters in the book pertain to Wright.  1: Unity Temple;   2: Taliesin West;   3: S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building.  Includes 15 photographs and four illustrations.  First published in 1966.  Original Soft Cover price $1.95. (Second Edition)

Size: 5 x 7.25

Pages: Pp 8 -27

1732.05.1006

   
Date: 1971

Title: History of Notable American Houses, The American Heritage (Hard Cover - DJ)

Author: Davidson, Marshall B.

Description: Original HC List Price $19.95.  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 239 72, 306-10 13 19-24 26 30-31 34 39 46-7 49 50-51 55

1850.01.0301

   
Date: 1982

Title: The Innovators: 16 Portraits of the Famous and the Infamous  (Hard Cover - DJ)

Author: Nash, Jay Robert

Description: Chapter 14: Frank Lloyd Wright, The Grand Architect of the Earth. (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 240

1982.07.0401

   
Date: 1986

Title: American Buildings and Their Architects, Volume 5. The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Soft Cover) (Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Toronto, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Karachi, Petaling Jaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Cape Town, Melbourne, Auckland)

Author: Jordy, William H.

Description: Six chapters. Chapter V: The Encompassing Environment of Free-Form Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Whatever its faults - and who can unreservedly praise it? - the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a liberating building. It is liberating, first, in the simple sense of being the worthy, unusual scheme that would ‘never be built’ but was. As such it encourages audacity in the Future." First published in 1972 by Doubleday & Co., Inc, Garden City, New York. First issued in paperback in 1976 by Anchor Books, Garden City, New York. Includes over forty photographs and illustration related to Wright. Original cover price $16.95. (Third Edition) (Sweeney 1877)

Size: 6 x 9.25

Pages: Pp 279-359

1877.03.1010

   
East-Heinz 1.jpg (31723 bytes) Date: 1991

Title: The Preservationist’s Progress (Hard Cover - DJ)

Author: Howard, Hugh

Description: Chapter 7: The Artist’s Collector - Chapter on Wright.  Original HC List Price $22.95.  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 272

1991.16.0901

   
Date: 1996

Title: Great People of the 20th Century  (Hard Cover)

Author: Time Editors

Description: Chapter on Wright.  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 159, 180

1996.16.0801

   
Date: 1997

Title: Architecture Source Book  (Hard Cover - DJ)

Author: Gibberd, Vernon

Description: References to Wright.  (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: Pp 192

1997.01.0399

   
Date: 1997

Title: Chicago Days. 150 Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City (Soft Cover) (Published by Cantigny First Division Foundation, Wheaton, Illinois.)

Author: Staff of the Chicago Tribune, Edited by Swanson, Stevenson

Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright’s First House. With a loan from ‘Lieber Meister,’ the young architect begins his search for new style. August 19, 1889, The Chicago Tribune. His employer had just given him a five-year contract and yet, already supremely self-confident at the age of twenty-two, Frank Lloyd Wright wanted more. ‘Mr. Sullivan,’ he said, ‘if you want me to work for you as long as five years, couldn’t you lend me enough money to build a little house?’... In November 1909 the Tribune carried a story with the headline: Leave Families, Elope to Europe." Pp 54-55. Includes four photographs related to Wright. Original Soft Cover list price $19.95. (Fourth Edition)

Size: 8.5 x 11

Pages: Pp 276

1997.48.0510

   
Date: 1998

Title: Rendering Real and Imagined Buildings. The Art of Computer Modeling (Hard Cover - DJ) (Includes CD) (Published by Rockport Publishers, Inc.)

Author: Novitski, B.J.; Forward: Mitchell, William J.

Description: It has been nearly fifty years since anyone has walked through Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building... explores the world of buildings that were, that could have been or that are yet to be. The book presents 27 buildings from an ancient temple to a house by Frank Lloyd Wright to an airport for the future. (Publisher’s description.) Chapters, information and illustrations concerning the Pauson Residence (17), the Larkin Building: A Lost Monument to Modernism, (62-69), the Banff Park Pavilion: Lost Gem of the Rockies (72-75), the Trinity Chapel project (76-77) and the Illinois Building, Wright’s Mile-High Fantasy (98-105). Includes interactive CD. Original cover price $50.00. (First Edition)

Size: 8.75 x 11.25

Pages: Pp 175

ST#: 1998.66.0811

   
Date: 2002

Title: Art & Architecture on 1001 Afternoons in Chicago.  Essays and tall tales of artists and the cityscape of the 1920's. (Published by Snickersnee Press, Washington DC)  (Hard Cover)

Author: Hecht, Ben; Commentary and book by Kovan, Florice Whyte

Description: Ben Hecht wrote for the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Literary Times between 1921-25 before he became Hollywood’s highest paid writer.  Not really related to Wright other than a photograph of Wright in 1956.  “Decades before Frank Lloyd Wright showed his mile high building idea to Chicago, Ben Hecht did the send-up, Peer Gynt’s Panhandle.  Page 90.”  “In 1956 Frank Lloyd Wright presents his conception of a 528 foot Illinois Building in Chicago.”  Includes one photograph related to Wright.  Original cover price $23.95. (First Edition)

Size: 10.75 x 8.5

Pages: Pp 114

2002.75.0307

   
   
Date: 2003

Title: Architecture in Detail: New York  (Library Binding DJ)  (Published by PRC Publishing Ltd, London)

Author: Reiss, Marcia

Description: Twenty of New York’s most impressive, buildings receive detailed attention, including Wright’s Guggenheim Museum.  Traces 16 year battle from concept to conception, “...the most controversial building ever to rise in New York.  ...When a ten-story addition was proposed in 1985, the museum was once again the center of controversy... because it might have altered a recognized work of art.”  Includes four photographs. Original list price $12.95. (First Edition)

Size: 6.3 x 8.25

Pages: Pp 96

2003.25.0607

   
Date: 2003

Title: Modern Architecture and Other Essays (Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey and in the United Kingdom, Woodstock, Oxfordshire)

Author: Scully. Vincent; Levine, Neil

Description: This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi. (Publisher’s description.) Of the 20 essays Wright is included in all but six, three being devoted to Wright. Ch. 2 "Wright vs. the International Style" was first published in Art News, March 1954. Ch. 6 "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Twentieth-Century Style" was published in 1963. Ch. 11 "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Stuff of Dreams" was published in 1980. Includes 28 photographs and illustrations of Wright’s work. Also includes a biography of Vincent Scully’s Writings. Original SC list price $39.95. HC list price $60.00. (First Edition)

Size: 8.4 x 10.25

Pages: Pp 400

2003.35.1009

   
Date: 2007

Title: Makers of Modern Architecture, From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry (Hard Cover, DJ) (Published by The New York Review of Books, New York)

Author: Filler, Martin

Description: Filler's articles on architectural history in The New York Review of Books were the first to which architecture buffs turned. Through him they began to understand what happened to make modern architecture modern, who caused it to happen, and why. Filler concentrates on the "who" and rightly so as he traces the personalities of everyone from Louis Sullivan, the largely unsung father of the skyscraper, to Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Ventura and Frank Gehry, revealing both their aesthetics and construction innovations. (Publisher’s description.) Extensive references to Wright. Original list price $29.75. (First Edition)

Size: 5.5 x 8.5

Pages: Pp 323

ST#: 2007.63.0811

   
   
   

 

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