Contemporary Babylon
by W.K. Oltar-Jevsky
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1933. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. W.K. Oltar-Jevsky. The 1933 1st edition of this uncommon Art Deco tribute to the New York skyscraper. 22 lovely, dreamlike illustrations --all tipped-in and full-page-- by the Russian architect W.K. Oltar-Jevsky (1880-1966). A very presentable copy: solid and VG+ in its dark cloth, with a tiny bit of chipping at the foot of the spine and light offsetting to the inner gutters. Folio, Introduction by American architect Harvey Wiley Corbett (1873-1954), one of the great early champions of the skyscraper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21392
- Title
- Contemporary Babylon
- Author
- W.K. Oltar-Jevsky
- Illustrator
- W.K. Oltar-Jevsky
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Architectural Book Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- rare architecture, rare utopian architecture, rare New York, rare New York architecture, Modernism in architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
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Waccabuc, New York
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...