About this title: This facsimile edition of a classic architecture manual from the 1920s includes reproductions of the original drawings and commentary by Hugh Ferriss, a master architectural artist who rendered now-legendary charcoal drawings of skyscrapers and other urban structures. With a biographical essay.
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Binding: 4to
Publisher: Ives Washburn, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very good, no dust jacket. (4to) 140, [4]pp. Black cloth with silver lettering. 60 full page architectural illustrations by the author. The endpapers have minor spotting a previous owner's inscription in pencil which has been erased. (Architecture, Architecture, Cities) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DOVER PUBN INC
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780486437279ISBN:0486437272
Description: New. The metropolis of the future--as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929--was both generous and prophetic in vision. Largely an illustrated essay on the modern city and its future, Ferriss' book incorporated his philosophy of architecture. read more
Description: Very Good. 199 pages. Black and white illustrations. Glue has dried at front and rear inner gutters, but has not seperated from spine. Small tear at bottom edge of spine. read more
Edition: 1st Ed
Binding: Softbound
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780910413244ISBN:091041324X
Description: Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 199pp., light rubbing to black wraps with 3 light stains on back, minor shelfwear, else NF; numerous illustrations on clean pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Date Published: 1998-05-01
ISBN-13:9780910413114ISBN:0910413118
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. DJ is under a new mylar cover, there is a 6 inch closed and repaired tear along the spine, 2nd printing. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Ives Washburn, 1929
Description: First edition. 4to; 144 pp.; sixty monochrome illustrations after drawings by the author. Some spotting to endpapers, else a very good copy in original silver-stamped black cloth, in the scarce, fragile dust jacket which is chipped to top edge, soiled and discolored and missing large parts of the spine. read more
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