Three Lectures Architecture by Mendelsohn Eric (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original crimson cloth. 48 pp. Ex-library with label, university and withdrawn stamps, cardholder, etc., slight chipping at head and foot of spine, edge wear, internals nice, Good Plus. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good(+). First edition (unstated). Quarto in light orange DJ, vi pages, 2 blank leaves, 3-48 pages, 1 b&w leaf illus; 27 cm. Architecture. Contents: Architecture in a world crisis -- Architecture today -- Architecture in a rebuilt world. DJ taped to boards, gently bumped corners, very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, light soiling to DJ, faint soiling to front pastedown and front free endpaper, ink single ownership signature to front endpaper, else Very Good(+) in Very Good DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by Eric Mendelsohn on first end paper, dated 1944, DJ spine toned, minor soiling and marks, small areas of loss at extremities, book is clean, binding tight. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in dark chocolate brown cloth stamped in gilt at spine and on front cover. Lacking the original, fragile paper dustwrapper, now in a protective supplied acetate wrapper. 48pp. with many small black and white photographic illustrations. Presentation copy, from the Author-Architect Eric Mendelsohn, to Karl von Hacht, a Bay Area lighting designer, at the request of Henry Hill, architect who designed von Hacht's residence in the Berkeley Hills in 1952; with a pencil sketch of a building, in Mendelsohn's characteristic "heroic" style, annotated "A quick sketch for a quick recovery, 7/18/47 Eric Mendelsohn." Laid in is the original note from Henry Hill, gifting the book to von Hacht "Hope you enjoy these lectures, there's a lot in them!" Original drawings by Mendelsohn, a high Modernist, are coveted; his early architectural fantasies, done in the trenches during World War One, have been the subject of separate exhibitions. His work includes the Einstein Tower, and many other notable commissions. Offline images available on request. Q13277.

First edition. Preface by William C. Hayes. Small quarto. pp viii, 48, [1]. Numerous small illustrations from photographs. The lectures, delivered at the School of Architecture at the University of California, are ''Architecture in a World Crisis'', ''Architecture Today'' and Architecture in a Rebuilt World''.Small ownership signature from 1946 on front free endpaper. Fine. No dustwrapper.