House Beautiful: The Dramatic Story of Frank Lloyd Wright (November 1955).
New York: Hearst Corporation, 1955. Hardcover. First Edition. 384 pp. Folio. Red cloth boards with gold embossed tilting to cover and spine, scuffing and wear to covers, bumping to corners. Previous owner's small address label pasted to upper right corner of first free endpaper. Clean and tight within.
Special edition with pages 233-380 devoted to Wright but also a specially bound issue in red cloth. Filled with color photographs, plans, interiors, and furniture. An important issue in House Beautiful's promotion of Wright's work under the editorial leadership of Elizabeth Gordon; John deKoven Hill, Architectural Editor; and Robert Mosher, Buildings Editor. deKoven Hill and Mosher were former Taliesin Apprentices. [Sweeney 1066] Also significant is that two separate bibliographies are laid in, both by Bernard Karpel, librarian..... More