[Archive] What men have written about Frank Lloyd Wright: a bibliography arranged by decades from 1900 to 1955. Compiled and annotated by Bernard Karpel for House Beautiful Magazine.
[Wright, Frank Lloyd] Karpel, Bernard.
Price: $150.00
Book Id: 67501
Description
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Selections from Karpel's bibliography of 330 items appeared in the November 1955 issue of House Beautiful, with a notice: "The complete bibliography, from which these selections have been made, may be had at cost (50 cents) while they last…" (Sweeney 1046). Karpel also did a 10-page supplement covering the years 1955-1959 (79 citations; Sweeney 1264) for the October 1959 issue (see below). **This archive consists of 2 large folders, as follows: 1) The printed bibliography offered by House Beautiful was printed directly from Karpel's typewritten copy prepared on 31 wide-margined sheets 35.6 x 26.6 cm (14 x 19.5 inches; published size 11 x 8.5 inches). The sheets are numbered by hand: cover, 3-32; various other technical markings. Corrections were attached from the back with transparent tape, and most of these have fallen off, though some are still present loose in the folder. There also are 2 pages of index on 8.5 x 12-inch paper and a draft version of both pages. Folder 2a) 3 copies of the published, 36-page booklet with Karpel's notes on the covers. One of them has a 5-page addendum by Bill Schmidt of Fremont, California, that contains 47 other Wright items in Schmidt's collection not cited by Karpel. 2b) an annotated, corrected carbon copy of the manuscript for the 1959 addendum with a cover letter (carbon) dated Oct. 6, 1959, to Miss Wentworth at House Beautiful. Since this typescript (not photo-ready copy) contains 120 citations, the published version must have been pared down, despite Miss Wentworth's apparent assurance that the manuscript would be published as submitted. 2c) Photocopies on chemically treated, legal-size paper of both bibliographies. 2d) A negative photostat of the New York Public Library's copy of "An Annotated Bibliography of Frank Lloyd Wright," by Gertrude Cousens (School of Library Service, Columbia University, New York; 1938 written in). This consists of a cover + iv + 21 pp., 29.2 x 24 cm (11.5 x 9.5 inches). It does not appear in Sweeney or in OCLC (the World Catalogue). 2e) Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. "Frank Lloyd Wright and the 'academic tradition' of the early eighteen-nineties." Extracted from The Journal of the Warburg Institute, nos. 1-2, 1944 (Sweeney 597, Karpel 173). Pp. 46-63, plus 19 illustrations on plates 12-17. 2f) A copy of the November 1955 House Beautiful accompanies the archive; condition of the magazine is exceptionally good, apart from possible scuffing or scraping of the backstrip. 2g) A couple of other pieces of minor ephemera are included.
