Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD. Modern Architecture Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930. Photographic frontispiece portrait and numerous black-and-white illustrations. 4to, original pictorial boards, soiled, spine rubbed with some surface loss. Part of the Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology series. Princeton, 1931

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inscribed and signed by wright to his sister, the illustrator maginel wright enright barney: "To `Sis' in all affection from Frank." Barney was the illustrator of several children's books, including those of L. Frank Baum, and cover designs and illustrations for numerous magazines from the 1920s-40s. Encouraged by her older brother, she was successful and creative from an early age.