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Lot 399

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 - 400
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$250
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[FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. Ausgeführte Bauten. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911. 


4to (302 x 215 mm). Photogravure frontispiece of Coonley House in River Forest, Illinois, two illustrated plates of Unity Temple, numerous black and white photographic illustrations and floorplans; text in German. (Lacking printed "Frank Lloyd Wright, a Study and an Appreciation" by C. R. Ashbee, some minor staining.) Original drab wrappers (spine perished, becoming disbound). 

Small format edition, often referred to as the "Little Wasmuth," published after the Wasmuth portfolios of 1910-1911, whose photographic illustrations were originally intended to accompany the Wasmuth portfolio. 


Property of the Caraway Family

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