The Disappearing City

William Farquahar Payson, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. NOT price-clipped ($2.50 price intact). Published by William Farquahar Payson, 1932. Quarto. Green cloth boards stamped in black. Signed and inscribed on half-title page by Frank Lloyd Wright to Walter V. Davidson (who is mentioned twice in this book). Has a pencil notation on… Read more about this item

New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing in the second state blue cloth binding. This book measures approximately 8.5" x 8.25", with 90 numbered pages. Comes with its rare original dust jacket. This book is in very good condition Boards are sun-faded. Minor bumping to the corners and spine ends. Dust… Read more about this item

New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. A very solid copy of the 1932 1st edition, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Tight and VG (fading along the spine, light offsetting at the rear panel) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with several tiny chips and small closed tears along the panel edges. Still though,… Read more about this item

New York: William Farquahar Payson, 1932. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To ‘Dave’ one of the heroes of this book. Frank Lloyd Wright. Taliesen June 8.” The “Dave” to whom this is inscribed is apparently Walter V. Davidson of Buffalo, New York, a developer of co-op markets, for whom Wright built a house. Davidson, one… Read more about this item

New York: William Farquhar Payson, [1932].. Oblong quarto. Light sky blue cloth, with printed label (after a design by Wright). Photographs. Cloth faded through dust jacket around spine, thumb-tip size rust mark to top edge of rear cover, neat private bookplate on pastedown, a bit of the usual tanning to the endsheets, a couple of spots on fore-edge (one… Read more about this item

New York, 1932. Hardcover. Good. The green cover edition, the first (before the light blue with the illus.). Cover has some fading & water stain, but the title is most uncommon. Priced accordingly.

Signature of Warren Callister, bay area architect on front free flyleaf. He was a Taliesin apprentice in the 40's-50's. Wright design on the cover.