1980s Illustrated Quarto Book, Julia Morgan Architect by Sara Holmes Boutelle (Signed)

Description

Title: Julia Morgan: Architect.
Author: Sara Holmes Boutelle (1909-1999).
Photographer: Richard Barnes.
Publisher: Abbeville Press Publishers.
Place: New York, NY. … more Title: Julia Morgan: Architect.
Author: Sara Holmes Boutelle (1909-1999).
Photographer: Richard Barnes.
Publisher: Abbeville Press Publishers.
Place: New York, NY.
Publication date: Copyright 1988.
Edition: 1st edition.
Special characteristics: Signed by the author.

Description: 271 p. 4to. Publisher's turquoise cloth hardcover, gilt and blind stamped title on spine and front board, full and partial page illustrations throughout text - drawings, black/white & color photography, semi-gloss color photo illustrated dust jacket. Copy autographed by author on title page, in blue ink.

Measurements: 1.25 W x 10.5 D x 11.25 H inches.

Notes: Boutelle's book received generally favorable reviews.

Thomas Hines in the LA Times, called it "a seminal study [that] will provide the essential base for all future work on Morgan and her world."

A Smith College art professor who knew Boutelle said her book was indispensable because before that [Morgan] was virtually an unknown to all but a handfull of architectural historians."

Boutelle's book was awarded the California Book Award Silver Medal in 1989.

"To people who ask me about 'Julia,' I say they may first-name her only if they refer to Frank Lloyd Wright as 'Frank,' " Boutelle wrote with an indignant sniff. less