Five California Architects
by McCoy, Esther
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1960. Study of the work of Bernard Maybeck, Irving Gill, Charles & Henry Greene, and R. M. Schindler. McCoy once worked in Schindler's office, interviewed Maybeck, knew Gill's nephew, and collected material on the Greene brothers. Incudes many plans, drawings, b/w photos. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. First edition (first printing) with no later printings listed. Light wear to book, corners bumped, minor spine lean; jacket shows several tears & creases, rubbing & foxing, light chipping, internal mends with non-archival but non-yellowing tape; seal of Wisconsin architect Mark T. Purcell & pencil name & note of architectural historian Narciso Menocal on free endsheet, minor tanning to endsheets. Text clean; [viii], 200 pages; index, drawings, plans, many b/w photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0381
- Title
- Five California Architects
- Author
- McCoy, Esther
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Reinhold Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- Quarto
- Keywords
- Architecture, Modern Architecture, Mid-Century Modern
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Interior Decoration;
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Quarto
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- Rubbing
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- 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....