Harry Seckel (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Architectural survey of Honolulu. Oblong 8vo, 67 pages, pictorial wrappers with plastic comb binding, black-and-white images throughout. A brief historical recap, but mostly focused on modernist architecture, landscapes, and interiors. Includes residential and commercial projects--most completed between 1950 and 1955--by Richard Dennis, Alfred Preis, Harry Seckel, Vladimir Ossipoff, Kenji Onodera, Haydn Phillips, Albert Ely Ives, Johnson & Perkings, Philip Clark Fisk, Clifford Young, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Gardner Dailey, Edwin Bauer, and Hart Wood. Features a wrap-around bird's eye panorama of Honolulu set in a Mondrian-like grid. A handsome and well- designed, albeit fragile, document. Closed tear to top of front joint, open tear to bottom. Moderate creasing down the length of front wrappers, with half inch open tear to fore edge. Light soiling to wrappers. Open tear to bottom of first leaf at hinge. Content clean and bright. Uncommon.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo; 17 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Light rubbing to front wrapper; else a very good copy in original printed wrappers. Recent (1954) residential work in Hawaii by Seckel and others.