Description
First edition of In The Nature Of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Square octavo, xxxv, 143pp. Maroon cloth, title in silver gilt on title page and front cover. Stated “third printing” on copyright page. Complete with 413 illustrations. Color half title and title page. In publishers very good dust jacket, $6.00 retail price on rear flap, stated “Third Large Printing” on front flap, chipping to top edge of spine, no loss of text, tape repair to verso of back panel, light toning to spine. (Sweeney, 573).
Comments: This work was produced under the supervision of Frank Lloyd Wright. It was intended as a replacement to the never-published catalogue of the exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1940.