Das Wohnhaus von heute (Today's Residential House)
Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 190 (2)pp. Original yellow cloth with modern design and typography on cover and spine. Black top edges and tan endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Cover design by Walter Dexel. Second Prometheus book, a series edited by Ernst Mühlbach, providing a basic introduction to the theory of the new architecture and technical and practical details. With a chapter on "New Objectivity." Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of modern buildings, exterior and interior, and architectural plans and drawings. Contains list of architects included and bibliography at rear followed by one page of advertisements for books on new architecture and two pages of Prometheus Books. Text in German, Gothic script. Binding with light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Previous owner's name in blue pencil on inside front cover with underlining, markings in blue and regular pencil with some pencil notes in margins, mostly in first half of book. Good condition. Item #48358
Price: $225.00