Description:
Boston, printed by the Merrymount Press, [1923], First edition. . original cloth back pictorial boards, gilt spine title lettering, corner wear, bookplate on endpaper, interior clean and fine in very good cover. . 8vo [20 x 14 cm]; xi, 97 pp, photogravure frontis and many photo illustrations on plates, from author's photos. . Based on the author's travels, he states that the work was a limited edition but does not give the number printed. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
The Evolving House, Volume III Rational Design by Bemis, Albert Farwell - 1936
by Bemis, Albert Farwell
The Evolving House, Volume III Rational Design
by Bemis, Albert Farwell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
Cambridge, MA: Technology Press / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1936 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition / 1st Printing. Octavo. xxxvi + 625 pp, posthumous frontispiece photo of Bemis, foreword to all volumes, Preface to vol III, list of 110 b&w illustrations (mostly freehand line drawings & blueprints), introduction (Prefabrication & Architecture by A. Lawrence Kocher), XI chapters w/ Case Histories. etc. Appendices A. Rectangularity of Housing B. Comparative Cost of Inclined and Flat Roofs; C. Multiple Openings of Various Sizes and their Relations to Symmetry in Modular Walls; D. Modular Patents; Supplement: Survey of Efforts to Modernize housing Structure by John Burchard, 2nd.. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, Spine lettering faded but legible, cover cloth shows no threadwear; text block slightly tanned with age, Endpapers intact. 6.5" x 9.4" gray cloth boards.
- Bookseller West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition First Edition / 1st Printing
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Technology Press / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Place of Publication Cambridge, MA
- Date Published 1936
- Keywords V. 3 of 3 - Human Shelter - Housing Industry Construction
- Size Octavo