London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., Publishers, (1930).
Price: $350.00
Hardcover. First edition. First issue in gray cloth stamped in green lettering. 128 illustrations. Quarto. Faint offsetting on endpapers from the jacket flaps as is typical, spine and edges of cloth lightly soiled and toned, else a very good or better copy being American actress Marian Seldes' copy with her name Signed in pencil on front fly, in the original and Scarce albeit tattered dust jacket with some loss along the extremities. Containing over a hundred reproductions showing the interior and exterior works of the post-war style in France, Germany, England, Scandinavia, Italy, America, and more by architects such as Margold, Oskar Kaufmann, Charles Siclis, Walter Gropius, Freidrich Lipp, Basil Ionides, Sauvage, Louis de Soissons, Fritz Wilms, and Erich Mendelsohn. Additionally, laid in is the publisher's advertisement, a tall broadsheet folded in half to make 8-pages with sewn binding entitle "A selected List of Standard Illustrated Books Relating to I: Decoration - Decorative And Fine Art; II: Architecture Of All Styles And Periods, Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd."
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