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FLWStudyArchCnt-Smith 1.jpg (30977 bytes) Date: 1968

Publication: People of Destiny, Frank Lloyd Wright  (Hard Cover - Library Binding)  (Published by Childrens Press, Chicago)

Author: Richards, Kenneth G.

Description: Original HC Library Binding List Price $5.25.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 1730)

Size: 8.75 x 11.25

Pages: 96

1730.00.0301

   
Date: 1968

Publication: Wisconsin Men (Hard Cover) (Published by Franklin Publishing, Milwaukee)

Author: Georgiady, Nicholas; Louis Romano

Description: Library binding. Biography for children. Six stories. Chapter five: Frank Lloyd Wright, Pp 23-26.  (First Edition)

Size: 6.5 x 8.75

Pages: 32

1732.04.0506
   
Date: 1971

Publication: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architectural Genius of the Twentieth Century (Published by SamHar Press, Charlotteville, NY)  (Soft Cover - Laminated)

Author: Salsini, Paul

Description: Original HC List Price $4.95, SC List Price $?.  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 1848)

Size:

Pages: 32

1848.00.0401

   
Date: 1989

Publication: Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio for Children (Published by the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation)

Author: Marohn, Ann; Illustrated by Sanford, John

Description: Children’s coloring book.  Includes 25 illustrations of the exterior and interior of the Home and Studio. (First Edition)

Size: 8.5 x 11

Pages: 24

1989.49.0507

   
Date: 1990

Publication: The Wisconsin Story  (First Published in 1987 by Apple Corps Publishing, Oklahoma City, OK)  (Hard Cover, Library Binding)

Author: English, Billie Joan; Calhoun, Sharon Cooper

Description: Children's Book.  Chapter 25: “A Wisconsin Profile: Frank Lloyd Wright”.  Profile on Wright page 161.  Includes one photograph. Library binding. (First published in 1987, Second Edition)

Size: 8 x 10.25. 

Pages: 202

1990.57.0307

   
Date: 1994

Publication: Frank Lloyd Wright For Kids: His Life and Ideas  (Soft Cover)

Author: Thorne-Thomsen, Kathleen

Description: Original SC List Price $14.95.  (Third Edition)

Size:

Pages: 138

1994.18.0102

   
Date: 1995

Publication: Architecture and Construction  (Hard Cover, Library Binding)  (Published by Scholastic Voyages of Discovery, New York, Toronto, London, Auckland, Sydney)

Author: Scholastic Voyages of Discovery

Description: First published in France in1994 under the title “L’art de construire” by Editions Gallimard Jeunesse. This is excellent for children to learn the different works of architecture around the world. It also shows how the structures were made and stories about famous architects.  Chapter 13: The House on the Waterfall.  Includes six photographs related to Fallingwater.  Original cover price $19.95. (First Edition)

Size: 8 x 9

Pages: 26, 26a&b, 27

1995.47.0707

   
East-Heinz 1.jpg (31723 bytes) Date: 1996

Publication: Famous Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright  (Soft Cover)

Author: LaFontaine, Bruce

Description: Original SC List Price $5.00. (Coloring Book) (First Edition)

Size:

Pages: 47

1996.14.0601

   
Date: 1998

Publication: Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect (Soft Cover)  (Published by Gallopade International)

Author: Marsh, Carole

Description: Children’s activity booklet. Original SC List Price $2.99. (First Edition)

Size: 5.5 x 8.5

Pages: 12

1998.31.0105

   
Date: 2002

Title: Creative Lives: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover, Library Binding) (Published by Heinemann Library, an imprint of Reed Education & Professional Publishing, Chicago)

Author: Middleton, Haydn

Description: Frank Lloyd Wright changed architecture by developing an American style that matched buildings to their settings. His ideas traveled through his writing, his talks, and his hundreds of students, and influenced architecture all over the world. Covers Wright life from his childhood to his death with a focus on his career. Wright spent a lifetime developing and implementing his creations, many of which still stand. Text boxes further explain a specific event in the life of the artist, or inform readers about influences on him. For Grades 5-8. (Second Edition)

Size: 6.5 x 9.5

Pages: Pp 64

ST#: 2002.00.0811

   
Date: 2002

Publication: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Beginner’s Guide (Soft Cover) (Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London)

Author: Nicholson, Geoff

Description: Original SC List Price £5.99 ($9.00).  (First Edition)

Size: 5 x 7.75

Pages: 88

2002.54.0105

   
Date: 2003

Publication: Frank Lloyd Wright  (Library Binding)  (Published by Raintree, a Division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. Planned and produced by Discovery Books)

Author: Ingram, Scott

Description: Children’s book.  Part of the Raintree Biography series.  A biography of the innovative American architect whose ideas influenced the direction of design in the twentieth century. Original cover price $26.79.  (First Edition)

Size: 8.5 x 11

Pages: 32

2003.24.0607

   
Date: 2004

Publication: Simply Wright.  A journey into the ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture  (Soft Cover, Spiral Bound)  (Published by Castleconal Press, Madison, WI)

Author: Fleming, Diane Bresnan

Description: Children’s book.  Fleming has created an illustrative journey through Wright's architectural ideas such as light, harmony, beauty, space, nature, shapes, creativity, and materials.  Each idea is presented on a spread with a verbal explanation, a number of pictorial representations, and a puzzle for readers to solve.  Profusely illustrated with four-color photographs.  Original cover price $17.95. (First Edition)

Size: 9.25 x 9

Pages: 33

2004.41.0607

   
Date: 2005

Publication: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: Understanding the Concepts of Parallel and Perpendicular.  (Library Binding)  (Published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., New York)

Author: Levy, Janey

Description: Children’s book that summarizes Wright life.  Original cover price $22.50. (First Edition)

Size: 7.4 x 8.75

Pages: 32

2005.11.0607

   
Date: 2006

Publication: The Wright 3  (Hard Cover DJ)  (Published by Scholastic Press, New York)

Author: Balliett, Blue

Description: Illustrated by Brett Helquist.  In this architectural mystery, destruction threatens Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and the Wright 3, as the protagonists call themselves, piece together the puzzle that will lead to the building's rescue.  Original list price $16.66. (First Edition)

Size: 5.6 x 8.5

Pages: 318

2006.18.0707

   
Date: 2008

Publication: Up close: Frank Lloyd Wright, a twentieth-century life (Soft Cover) (First published in the United States by Viking, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2007) (Published by Puffin Books, a division of the Penguin Group, New York, Toronto, London)

Author: Adkins, Jan

Description: "Wright changes the way we live. As a one-man force for a native American style, he swept away dark, Victorian clutter and opened up living spaces to air and movement. His professional life was a torrent of invention, from his earliest homes of the late 1800s to the bold spiral of the Guggenheim Museum in 1959. More fascinating and colorful than his own designs, Frank Lloyd Wright was consistently controversial, a towering figure in our culture who deserved his status as an American icon. Original Soft Cover list price $6.99. (First Edition)

Size: 5 x 7

Pages: 301

2008.07.1010

 
 
POSTERS
     
Date: 1973

Publication: Great Americans of the Twentieth Century  (Published by The Instructo Corp., Paoli, Pennsylvania. Subsidiary of McGraw-Hill)

Author: Anonymous

Description: “Frank Lloyd Wright”. From set of 10 posters.  Set also includes booklet and 9.5 x 4 informational card.

Size: 17 x 22

Pages: 1

1940.03.0906

   
Date: 1973

Publication: Great Americans of the Twentieth Century, No. 708.  (Published by The Instructo Corp., Paoli, Pennsylvania. Subsidiary of McGraw-Hill)

Author: Anonymous

Description: Instruction booklet that accompanies set of 10 Posters. Set also includes 9.5 x 4 informational card.  Page 11 concerns Wright. (First Edition

Size: 5.5 x 8.5

Pages: 11

1940.04.0906

 

Card (1973)

 

 

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