May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 1,216
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ARCHITECTURE.) Wright, Frank Lloyd. Genius and the Mobocracy. 39 plates of previously unpublished drawings given to Wright by Louis Sullivan prior to his death in 1924. 4to, cream cloth stamped in red and black, moderate soiling, spine ends frayed; lacks the scarce dust jacket. New York, 1949

Additional Details

first edition. signed by wright and dated on his 80th birthday, june 8, 1949 and likely the date of publication. Wright's biography of his teacher, Louis H. Sullivan, along with Wright's views on the evolution of modern architecture.