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TALIESIN. Vol. 1, No. 1 October 1940 [with] Vol. 1, No. 2 February 1941.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Spring Green, WI: Taliesin Fellowship, 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (8vo). Very good+ condition. Item #020175

Volumes 1 and 2 are all that were published. Vol. 1: 40 pages (including covers). Subtitled: The New Frontier. Broadacre City. Chapters include "Mr. Wright talks to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" and "A way to beat Hitler." Vol. 2: 36 pages (including covers). Contributors include Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, William Wesley Peters, Eugene Masselink, Robert Carroll May, Burton J. Goodrich, Stanley C. Nott and Robert Mosher. Both issues have previous owner's names written on them (see below), are soiled and slightly worn, with a heavy bump to the bottom edge of Vol. 1 causing creasing and a tear to the final half of the text. Includes a two-sheet prospectus, printed on one side only, one on yellow in brown ink, and the other a mimeograph on white paper, advertising Parkwyn Village Association and the Galesburg Country Homes Association developments near Lorenz Lake in SW Kalamazoo, Michigan. Includes "A Taliesin Square-Paper" No. 4. These publications were previously owned by Milton Horn (1906-1995), a Jewish sculptor born in Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). In 1943-44, Horn collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright on a wood relief mural for the Carlton D. Wall House in Plymouth, Michigan. First editions.

Price: $1,500.00