Accent On America (Inscribed To Edmund R. Purvis), This Copy With Inserted Leaf At End With 1968 Updated Autobiographical Information, Signed By Armitage)

New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 404 Pp. Black Cloth, First Printing, One Of 1675 Copies, This One Inscribed To Architect Edmund R. Purvis, Aia, With A Unique Typewritten Sheet Tipped On To P. 401 Updating Armitage's Autobio (In Brief) To 1958, Also Signed By Armitage. Near Fine, Bump To Lower Front Tip; Dj Clean And Unfaded, Small Edge Tears, A Few Minute Losses. Edmund R. Purves (1897-1964) Was Born In Philadelphia And Graduated From The Germantown Friends School In 1914. His Career At The Univeristy Of Pennsylvania, Which He Entered In 1914, Was Interrupted By World War I; But He Received Is B.S. In Architecture In 1920. After Graduation Purves Returned To France, Where He Attended The Atelier Gromort From 1920 To 1921. Upon His Return To Philadelphia, Purves Joined The Firm Of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, Where He Remained Through 1927, Only Spending 1925 With Willing, Sims & Talbutt. In 1927 Purves And Another University Of Pennsylvania Graduate, Kenneth M. Day, Set Up Their Own Firm Of Purves & Day. Edmund R. Purves Joined The Aia In 1930 And Became A Fellow In 1944. In 1932, Purves Began To Work Independently. In 1937 Purves, Thomas Pym Cope, And Harry Stewart Established Purves, Cope & Stewart, Which Endured Until 1941. Again A War Intervened, And Purves Moved To Washington, Dc, Where He Served As The Aia's Representative. He Volunteered For War Action Again, However, And By 1942 Was With The U.S. Air Force In The Pacific Theatre. In 1945 He Returned To Washington, Dc, And Resumed Work With The Aia As Director Of Public And Professional Relations, And In 1949 He Was Promoted To Executive Director For The Institute, A Position In Which He Remained Until 1960. For The Last Four Years Of His Life Purves Acted As Consulting Architect For The Dc Firm Of Chatelain, Gauger & Nolan, Architects And Engineers.