Under Frank Lloyd Wright (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1961. , First Edition, First Printing., EX-LIBRARY USUAL POCKET STAMPS Sticker, WEAR NOJACKET, OBLONGHardcover BACK CVR SMALL BLACK TISSUE RESIDUE, . Condition: Very Good. NO JACKET. . presented with double-page spreads in brown, slate and Chinese red, with very strong emphasis on design. ILLUSTRATED IN RED & Purple, Gray hardback ILLUSTRATED COVER SAYS HAPPY NEW YEAR, Binding IS tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Extremely rare children's book, Ex-library copy with library card and pocket to front paste-down as well as a couple of stamps to various pages, LITE FOX TO PAGES ,their Chinese New Year street festivals and parades, family ceremonies and a dazzling midnight firework display , Extremely rare children's book, It tells a story of a family getting ready for Chinese New Year celebrations and it features absolutely wonderful illustrations executed in a very distinctive style.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ , 1961, 1st BRITISH Edition, General Overall Condition: Very Good., Tiny DJ Extremities chips wear, VG/VG, Red Cloth gold gilt title on. SPINE CVR, LITE FOX PGS , In her childhood & youth she belonged to a way of life that had scarcely changed for centuries - a graceful, formalized way of life, in many respects full of charm; but full, too, of stiff tradition & & circumscribed barriers against the intrusion of things modern. The weight of the old ways was particularly heavy for the daughter of the house, for in her father's eyes. Yen's only value was as a marriageable pawn. Spirited & intelligent, she rebelled against this tyranny &, greatly daring, ran away to Shanghai to find her own way in life. At first she.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ , 1952 on TITLE & COPYRIGHT PG, 1ST EDITION, VG/VG-, EX CHURCH LIBRARY USUAL WEAR STAMP , SMALL HARDBACK ,double-page spreads , blue grey cloth red Lettering, STICKER ON DJ SPINE & wear & tiny Extrermities chips rub, small chips Spine dj Ends ,The Dust jacket has light fading and small tears chips along the edge & FRONT Dustjacket. The exterior has some rubbing of the edges and ends. The remainder of the exterior has minimum wear. Previous owners name inside the cover. AUTHOR an American architect born in China. Yen Liang (1908-2000), studied architecture at Yale and Cornell; he received a Taliesin Fellowship in 1932 to study with Frank Lloyd Wright and was one of Wright's first apprentices. A brief successful career in China was interrupted by the Japanese invasion. During the war, Liang served with the U.S. Army in Kunming. He returned to the U.S. after the war, serving as one of the principal designers for the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He eventually retired to California, where he began a second career as an esteemed ceramicist. Fine copy in Mylar protected slightly chipped jacket, designed by the artist, especially suitable for the collector of children's picture books and the scholar interested in the contributions of the Chinese-Americans to American culture. from auntie Yee-Ma & Brother Da-Gee & Fireworks & Kites to Fly & man with a Monkey. Gardener did wonderful Sword Dance & a Parad Thru the Gardens with Lighted Lanterns, Small DEE-DEE went to bed Tired but Happy. He was a good Boy. Now he must wait 365 days for his next Birthday.