Moderne Amerikanische Landhauser [American Country Houses of Today: 1927]
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.-G., 1927. First German edition. 4to; pp. vii; 158 plates hors texte, with illustrations from photographs and plans. A very good copy or better in gilt-stamped blue cloth. Including the work of Forster, Alfred Hopkins, Mellor, Meigs and Howe, Staub, others. The German edition with Hopkins' brief introduction translated into German; plate titles and captions in English. One of the series of eight volumes with this title published between 1912 and 1935; this volume being the last published before the Depression. "One finds a rich and evocative documentary history of the culture of the country estate in these sources." (Mark Alan Hewitt). Item #005830
Price: $150.00