FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

RARE COLLECTION FOR SALE!


Listed below is a unique collection of over 40 used books and/or items by or about Frank Lloyd Wright, including many unusual, rare, and/or first-edition books. 


These items have been preserved in safe storage for over 25 years.  Items are listed alphabetically.  The best possible description of condition and features is given.  Prices are research-based and represent fair value.


Total weight (less packing materials) is approximately 100 pounds.  Items will be professionally packed, shipped, and tracked.  If sold as a collection, they will be shipped in several lots due to weight.


The purchaser will pay shipping and handling of an additional 17% within USA only, which includes insurance and tracking.  All sales are final.  All items are sold as is.  No refunds or returns.


Serious inquiries only, please.  The seller hopes that the items in this collection go to discerning aficionados of Wright memorabilia – maybe YOU!


Quinn Schipper

(A Former Taliesin Apprentice, 1975-1979)

Stillwater, Oklahoma

wright.aficionado@gmail.com

 


Purchase price includes 17% shipping, handling, insurance, and tracking


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Item 001  A Testament 

By Frank Lloyd Wright.  Slipcover is in good condition, the book is in excellent condition.  With 210 illustrations.  12 ¼”x9 ¼” ©1957

$45 + 17% shipping/handling = $52.65 


Item 002 An American Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright

Edited by Edgar Kaufman.  With 250 illustrations.  Excellent Condition.  12 ¼”x9 ¼”  ©1955

$50 + 17% shipping/handling = $58.50


Item 003 An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright

©1977; with Wright’s editions and revisions, 82 illustrations.  Good slipcover.

$25 + 17% shipping/handling = $29.25


SOLD       Item 004 Buildings Plans and Designs

By Frank Lloyd Wright  © 1976 by ADA Edita Tokyo; Impeccable Condition;  Perfect slipcover; In original sleeve box;  Intro and notes by Wright.  English and Japanese text.  15”x10 ½”

$75 + 17% shipping/handling = $87.75


Item 005 Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Man In Possession of His Earth

The book is in excellent condition.  The slipcover is brittle. With 303 illustrations. In the magnificent drawings from his own hand – many never published before. With a biography by Iovanna Lloyd Wright.  12 ¾”x9 ¾”  ©1962

$40 + 17% shipping/handling = $46.80


Item 007 Frank Lloyd Wright Letters to Apprentices

PB Selected and with commentary by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.  The letters in this volume are the first published collection of the correspondence of Frank Lloyd Wright concerning the Taliesin Fellowship from 1932-1959.  Excellent Condition.  ©1982

$20 + 17% shipping/handling = $23.40


Item 008 Frank Lloyd Wright The Future of Architecture

By Frank Lloyd Wright.  Slipcover is yellowed and brittle, the book is in excellent condition.  ©1953  First Edition.

$40 + 17% shipping/handling = $46.80


Item 009 Frank Lloyd Wright The Future of Architecture

Excellent Condition.  ©1953

$45 + 17% shipping/handling = $52.65


SOLD       Item 010 Frank Lloyd Wright The Living City

Slipcover is slightly worn.  The book is in excellent condition.  With 57 Illustrations and a foldout of Broadacre City in full color.  ©1958

$50 + 17% shipping/handling = $58.50


Item 011 Genius And The Mobocracy

By Frank Lloyd Wright.  Slipcover is brittle, damaged, and yellowed but the book is in very good condition.  This is a First Edition.  ©1949

$100 + 17% shipping/handling = $117.00


Item 012 Genius And The Mobocracy Frank Lloyd Wright

The book is in excellent condition.  The slipcover is slightly worn.  With 117 drawings, sketches and photographs.  10 ¼”x10 ¼”  Enlarged Edition ©1971

$25 + 17% shipping/handling = $29.25


Item 013 Global Architecture #2

PB Kaufmann House, Fallingwater.  ADA Edita.  Tokyo  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1970       

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


Item 014 Global Architecture #2

PB Kaufmann House, Fallingwater.  ADA Edita.  Tokyo  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1970       

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


SOLD       Global Architecture #15

PB Taliesin East, Taliesin West.  ADA Edita, Tokyo.  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1972

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


Item 016 Global Architecture #15

PB Taliesin East, Taliesin West.  ADA Edita, Tokyo.  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1972

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


SOLD       Item 017 Global Architecture #25

PB Houses in Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois 1889-1913.  ADA Edita, Tokyo.  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1973 

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


Item 018 Global Architecture #25

PB Houses in Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois 1889-1913.  ADA Edita, Tokyo.  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1973

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


Item 019 Global Architecture #36

PB Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Marin County Civic Center.  ADA Edita, Tokyo.  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1975

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


Item 020 Global Architecture #36

PB Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Marin County Civic Center.  ADA Edita, Tokyo.  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1975

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


Item 021 Global Architecture #40

PB Pfeiffer Chapel, Beth Sholom Synagogue.  ADA Edita, Tokyo.  Excellent Condition.  10 ¼”x14 ¼”  ©1976

$60 + 17% shipping/handling = $70.20


Item 022 Global Interior #9

PB; Excellent Condition –Cover is a little aged in spots.  ©1975 by ADA Edita Tokyo

$125 + 17% shipping/handling = $146.25


Item 023 Global Interior #10

PB; Excellent condition  ©1976 by ADA Edita Tokyo     

$125 + 17% shipping/handling = $146.25


Item 024 House Beautiful Magazine

©October 1959  Your Heritage from Frank Lloyd Wright. Good Condition.  Very Rare.  9 ¼”x13 ¾”

$100 + 17% shipping/handling = $117.00


Item 025 In The Cause of Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright

Wright’s historic essays for Architectural Record 1908-1952 with a symposium on Wright and architecture.  Edited by Frederick Gutheim.  ©1975

$55 + 17% shipping/handling = $64.35


Item 026 In the Nature of Materials

Impeccable condition.  ©1942; by Frank Lloyd Wright and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.  First Edition

$55 + 17% shipping/handling = $64.35


Item 027 In The Nature of Materials

PB By Henry-Russell Hitchcock.  Good Condition.  ©1976

$15 + 17% shipping/handling = $17.55


Item 028 Letters to Architects

PB; By Frank Lloyd Wright,  Excellent Condition  ©1984

$15 + 17% shipping/handling = $17.55


Item 029 My Father Who is on Earth

By John Lloyd Wright.  Book is in excellent condition.  Slipcover is brittle.  This is an unconventional portrait of an unconventional man. Frank Lloyd Wright.  ©1946

$75 + 17% shipping/handling = $87.75


Item 030 Our House

By Olgivanna Lloyd Wright – No slipcover, faded spine, Very good condition.  ©1959

$75 + 17% shipping/handling = $87.75


Item 031 Saturday Review

©October 4, 1975.  Article:  Frank Lloyd Wright, The Enduring Presence plus An Unpublished Portfolio.  In excellent condition.

$10 + 17% shipping/handling = $11.70


SOLD       Item 032 Saturday Review

©October 4, 1975.  Article:  Frank Lloyd Wright, The Enduring Presence plus An Unpublished Portfolio.  In excellent condition.

$10 + 17% shipping/handling = $11.70


Item 033 Saturday Review

©October 4, 1975.  Article:  Frank Lloyd Wright, The Enduring Presence plus An Unpublished Portfolio.  In excellent condition.

$10 + 17% shipping/handling = $11.70


Item 034 The Disappearing City

By Frank Lloyd Wright.  As new, never removed from the slipcover box and packing box.  This edition includes a facsimile of Frank Lloyd Wright’s copy of the original 1932 edition.  This edition is limited to twelve hundred and fifty copies of which two hundred and fifty are not for sale.  This copy is number 678.  ©1969

$500 + 17% shipping/handling = $585.00


Item 035 The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright

Excellent slipcover, slightly yellowed.  Book is in excellent condition.  With 303 illustrations. In the magnificent drawings from his own hand – many never published before and never seen outside the architect’s studios.  ©1962

$55 + 17% shipping/handling = $64.35


Item 036 The Early Work By Frank Lloyd Wright

The book is in excellent condition.  The slipcover has a few blemishes.  With 207 photographs and plans.  The famous Wasmuth edition of 1911 reissued.  13 ¼”x10 ¼”  © 1968

$75 + 17% shipping/handling = $87.75


Item 037 The Natural House

First Edition.  Good condition.  ©1954  By Frank Lloyd Wright

$80 + 17% shipping/handling = $93.60


Item 038 The Shining Brow Frank Lloyd Wright

By Olgivanna Lloyd Wright.  Slipcover is brittle.  Book is in good condition.  In this volume of biographical reminiscences, illustrated by unusual photographs, Mrs. Wright gives us an incomparable personal portrait of her husband, the master architect.  ©1960

$65 + 17% shipping/handling = $76.05


Item 039 The Struggle Within

By Olgivanna Lloyd Wright.  Book in excellent condition.  Slipcover brittle.  Mrs. Wright has written this inspiring book of personal philosophy of the struggle people have within in dealing with their inner struggles of life.  ©1955

$150 + 17% shipping/handling = $175.50


Item 040 The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright The Wendingen Edition

200 illustrations and historic writings by Frank Lloyd Wright.  Exceptional Condition 13”x12 ¼”  ©1965

$70 + 17% shipping/handling = $81.90


Item 041 The World of Frank Lloyd Wright

First Edition.  Published in Japan.  Exceptional Condition.  As new in slipcover box.  Still in original packing box.  10 ½”x13 ¼” © 1976

$400 + 17% shipping/handling = $468.00


SOLD       042 The Japanese Print: An Interpretation

© 1967; Excellent Condition.  In original sleeve box, which has minor blemishes.

In addition to The Japanese Print:  An Interpretation, this volume contains Frank Lloyd Wright’s other writings on the subject.  Texts were edited by Frank Lloyd Wright and are printed in full for the first time from the original versions revised in his own hand.  The prints are reproduced from his personal collection.  There are 32 plates by Eisho, Hiroshige, Hokusai, Toyonobu, Koryusai, Shansho, Masanobu, Toyoharu, and Utamaro.

Published by Horizon Press, New York

$300 + 17% shipping/handling = $351.00


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