BERNARD MAYBECK:
Artisan, Architect, Artist
by Kenneth H. Cardwell Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1977. First edition, first printing, Illustrated on almost every page with plans, blueprints, interior and exterior house and building photographs, sketches and paintings by Maybeck, etc. Cardwell, a professor of architecture and a twenty-year friend of Maybeck, presents and informative work on Maybeck's career and accomplishments, with insightful commentary about each of his creations. Former owner's boldly signed name--James M. Bachman--to the title page, light soiling to the outer upper page edges, else near fine in cream-tweed linen with brown embossed design to the front cover and with brown embossed titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $24.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Oblong octavo; 254 pages; Maybeck's works chronology; index. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |