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New York: Horizon Press, 1963. Limited edition. Portfolio. Very Good. 65 x 40 cm. Massive elephant folio portfolio. Includes the 32pp introductory pamphlet as well as all 100 architectural plates, some in color, on thick high quality paper. Housed in 1/2 cloth tie-string portfolio. Limited to 2600 copies of which this is copy 460c. Bit of edgewear to the portfolio itself and fading. American edition of the work "Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright", printed by Wasmuth of Berlin in 1910, this being a near facsimile. The original is considered Wright's most influencial work with entire schools of architectural design and thought having been founded on individual buildings and ideas presented in the portfolio. The vast majority of the original 1910 American edition were lost to fire. Large work, shipping outself the US will require substantial additional shipping charges.

New York: Horizon, 1963. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and board portfolio. Very good. Elephant folio, 30 pages in text, 100 mounted plates printed on heavy card stock. Foreword by William Wesley Peters. Limited edition copy 445E of 2600. 32 page booklet enclosed. Plates bright, clean and fresh. KARPEL B1332." A near but not exact facsimile of the Wasmuth `Ausgefuhrte Bauten,' published in Berlin in 1910. H. Allen Brooks, the distinguished Wright scholar calls the Wasmuth original the `most influential book ever published by Wright , and probably the most influential book on architecture published during our century.' The Horizon facsimile is very well done and essential to the student of Wright..............." SWEENEY 1534. Repair to first cover sheet: Guide To Terms Used In The Plans and black chemise holding the individual pages. Wear to board portfolio, cloth ties lacking.

New York: Horizon Press, 1963. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine. Elephant folio (25-1/2" x 16"). With the (32)pp. Text booklet (17" x 11"), and the portfolio of 100 drawings and plans of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Half black cloth over printed boards with mounted red & white label on front board. Included in the portfolio are loosely housed plates (reproduced from the original transparencies) with designs for 70 buildings and projects created by Wright between 1893 and 1909. Edition limited to 2,600 numbered copies (this is # 317-D). The text booklet, in printed wrappers stapled at inner margin, contains the foreword by Peters and a description of the plates. A fine, as new copy still in its original shipping box. This portfolio of architectural drawings from the first period of Wright's career was originally published in Germany by Wasmuth in 1910, under the title "Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe." It was virtually unknown in America because a fire at Taliesin in 1914… Read More