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Lot 361
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$219
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Lot Description
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Modern Architecture. Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930. Princeton: University Press, 1931.
Square 4to. Photographic illustrations. Original pictorial boards (slightly bowed and toned). Provenance: Templeton Crocker (1884-1948), President of the California Historical Society (neat pencil note on dedication leaf recording the sale of the book by John Howell on 22 January 1966).
FIRST EDITION, including the following lectures: "Machinery, Materials and Men," "Style in Industry," "The Passing of the Cornice," "The Cardboard House," "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper," and "The City."