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When Democracy Builds by Wright, Frank Lloyd - 1945

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When Democracy Builds by Wright, Frank Lloyd - 1945

When Democracy Builds

by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Hardcover. VG/Good; VG, clean, tight contents with no extraneous marks, but the copy is art school ex-lib. with 3 stamps and a bookplate on front end papers and card pocket in back; sticker to lower spine. The DJ is very good, but its protectove cover has been glued to the end papers.. Brown cloth/boards; black lettering. Terracotta dust jacket with beige/black lettering; bw photo on back cover. Protective clear cover on dj. x, 131 pp. with a few bw illustrations. Wright on building a real democracy, beginning with the individual "home and its acre."
  • Seller Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - VG/Good; VG, clean, tight contents with no extraneous marks, but the copy is art school ex-lib. with 3 stamps and a bookplate on
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Place of Publication Chicago
  • Date Published 1945
  • Keywords American Architecture; Frank Lloyd Wright; Architecture and Democracy ; Architecture and Democracy ; ;

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When democracy builds

by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Second impression, 4to, pp. x, 130, [2]; 11 illustrations on rectos and versos of 4 plates; very good and sound in original brown cloth.
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When Democracy Builds [Revised Edition]

by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Brown cloth, spine panel lettered in black. Revised edition. Two small areas of dye lightening along front joint (likely from moisture contact), slight flecking to back cover. Firm binding. Former owner's signature/date inked on upper front flyleaf. Scattered underlining in red pencil and a few penciled notations, four pages tanned from news clippings (now removed). xii,140 pp., illus. w/ b&w photos..
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When democracy builds

by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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University of Chicago press, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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When Democracy Builds

by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Chicago, IL: Univ. Of Chicago Press. Hardcover. 1947. Revised Ed. Large 8vo 139pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Slight wear to bottom corner tips and spine tips. DJ moderately soiled and edgeworn . Wright examines the absurdities of centralization and its feudal economy .
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When democracy builds.

by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. University of Chicago, 1945, 131 pages, hardcover, no jacket, no owner's mark or underlining, very light wear
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When democracy builds

by Frank Lloyd Wright

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University of Chicago press, January 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. used hardcover in dust jacket. Brown buckram, 1945 date inside. Paper quality indicates age of printing. jacket is particularly worn about the edges, with a number of large chips and tears at the extremeties, though still largely intact. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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When Democracy Builds

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Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1945. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. H.K. Browne. America's famous architect strikes at absurdities of centralization and its feudal economy. With persuasive brilliance he shows how we can build a real democracy which begins with the individual home and its acre." Second edition, second impression. Minor wear to dust jacket top edge. Price clipped. Brown cloth with lettering in black on spine. Name of previous owner on bottom left front pastedown. Very good condition.
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When Democracy Builds

by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Used - Original brown cloth, headcap chipped and faint wear to extremities, else fine
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Second edition, revised
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Second edition, revised. Illustrated. 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, headcap chipped and faint wear to extremities, else fine. Second edition, revised. Illustrated. 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The edition was entirely rewritten seven months after the first, in response to critical commentary. An expanded version of The Disappearing City, it reflects Wright's dissatisfaction with both centralization and the economic basis of U.S. society, themes which he would pursue throughout his writings and his life. Sweeny 609
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WHEN DEMOCRACY BUILDS

WHEN DEMOCRACY BUILDS

by WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd

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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Quarto. Cloth. Plates. Bookplate to front pastedown, else a very good or better copy in a largely intact dust jacket with some loss at the margins of the rear panel. First edition thus, being a considerably revised and expanded version of THE DISAPPEARING CITY, as Wright states in his Afterword in this remarkable edition. SWEENEY 609.
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When Democracy Builds

When Democracy Builds

by Frank Lloyd Wright

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University of Chicago Press, 1945. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A crisp, very solid copy of the 1945 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact ($4.00), VG+ dustjacket, with just a bit of light soiling and 2 very small closed tears along the rear panel's bottom and top-edges respectively. Quarto, "America's famous architect strikes at absurdities of centralization and its feudal economy. With persuasive brilliance he shows how we can build a real democracy which begins with the individual home and its acre." (from the front cover).
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