Item #010427 Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition and the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition. Architectural League of New York.
Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition and the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition
Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition and the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition

Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition and the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition

New York: Architectural League of New York, 1926. Paperback. 396 p., color frontispiece of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Va.: extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings; 32 cm. Original grey cloth spine; grey paper covers printed in black and gilt. Cover title and gilt emblem of the Architectural League; back cover has ad for Babcock & Wilcox Co. steam boilers. Inside back cover has ad for cast ferrocraft grilles by Tuttle & Bailey Mfg. Co. Features the work of many architects, designers, artists, and landscape architects including: Ivan Mestrovic; Malvina Hoffmann; Cass Gilbert; Hildreth Meière; Alfred C. Bossom ("Restoration of the Great Pyramid at Tikal, Guatemala"); Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue; Holabird and Roche (interior view of the Apollo Theatre, Chicago -- demolished in 1989); Albert Kahn (Ford Motor Co. engineering laboratories, Dearborn, Mich.); Clara Fargo Thomas; Reginald Marsh; Lauren Ford; George Harding (decoration, Earle Theatre, Philadelphia); Samuel Yellin (screens for Federal Reserve Bank, N.Y.); Stepan de Kosenko; Georg Jensen (silver bowl); Janet Scudder; Harriet W. Frishmuth; Brenda Putnam; Evelyn B. Longman Batchelder; the Architects Small House Service Bureau of the U.S.; Marian Coffin; Mellor, Meigs and Howe; and McKim, Mead and White. Many advertisements, of which two are in color: Cardiff Green Marble Co. and U.S. Tile Flooring. Includes index to advertisements. Scarce. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Good+ Condition: light stain along lower edge of front cover; minor loss at ends of spine; cloth is starting to separate along joints; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge of front cover and first 5 leaves; "1290" stamped on first (blank) leaf; otherwise, pages are clean and tight. Good +. Item #010427

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