first edition Cloth Clamshell Box
1977 · New York
by WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd
New York: Horizon Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Cloth Clamshell Box. Near Fine/Cardboard Box Fine. Large folio (16" x 21.5"). Introduction by the architect's widow, Olgivanna Wright. Fifty color plates, loose as issued, in original black cloth clamshell box with bone clasps. Housed in original numbered cardboard box. The title block on the cloth box is rubbed through in one spot (please see photo), else Fine. Of an edition limited to 500 copies, this is numbered A407. The significance of Wright's architectural theory is dramatically illustrated by the portfolio, underscoring a drift to technology tempered by his organic and humane tendencies. "Wright (truncated)