Mystery and realities of the site

Scarsdale, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, 1951. Hardcover. Good-/None. 1951 Orange cloth boards with white titling on the spine, moderately rubbed at extremities. Front hinge is shaky, but binding holds. Former owner's bookplate and penned name/address over adhesive stain on front pastedown. Interior is otherwised unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. Oblong quarto, 10.5 x 8 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: The first book to be published in the U.S. on Richard Neutra's work. See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography, many full-bleed. 'In building a house the first step is always to find a site--a piece of ground to which the house will forever after be happily, or perhaps unhappily, wed. In this pioneering little book, a sensitive architect prescribes the conditions of bliss in this all-important marriage between the house and the land, between the builder's domain and the encompassing domain of Nature.... In this book, Richard Neutra takes us out of ourselves and releases our imaginative powers. Though he digs deep into those secret desires that can be reached by no real estate prospectus, he comes up with realistic advice to those who wish a share for themselves of this kind of beauty. This is the only book of its kind that I know of in our recent architectural literature. Power to it!'\n (-from the Introduction by Douglas Haskell). 64 p. : ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.