Polk Willis (7 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Light shelf wear to cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition of 450 copies, "designed and produced by Adrien Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco with the assistance of Peter Koch". Slight wear to extremities of cloth covers, with bumping to lower right corner. Spots of foxing to endpapers and top edge. 77, [3]pp. 8.75 x 22". An early publication by the architectural historian Richard Longstreth, drawing on the research for his doctoral dissertation, awarded two years earlier.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original pictorial cloth. Limited to 450 copies. Slight shelf rubbing to board edges, minor dealer penciling to ffep else fine condition.; quarto; 77 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Original pictorial cloth. Limited to 450 copies. Fine condition. The plain paper DJ is mildly toned with slight shelf soil.; quarto; 77 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very fine. 1st Edition. First edition. One 450 copies designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Edited and with an introduction by Richard W. Longstreth. Quarto. 77pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs; drawings by Polk. Rust cloth lettered and decorated in white. A very fine copy. Most of Polk's office records and personal papers were destroyed. Thus, one of the most valuable records of his attitude towards design can be found in this edited series of short articles and letters written for the Wave, a weekly review which specialized in impressionistic sketches of regional life and events, published from 1891-1901. Original announcement laid in. Book.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1892 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 62 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 62 Language: English.…

Condition: Good. 8.5" x 14" 3 pp. Prints of Typed Pages, Very Good with toning, creasing.Willis Polk was an American architect most known for his work in San Francisco, including the Palace of Fine Arts, Pacific Union Club, Hobart Building and oversaw the architectural committee for the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition.Provenance: O'Day, Edward F. 1883-1959, was the editor and publisher of The Town Talk in San Francisco (ca. 1915 - 1930).…