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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 1932 1933 1938 1943 1945 LONDON 1955 FRENCH 1955 ITALIAN 1977 HORIZON 1998
WRIGHT, HORIZON PRESS AND BEN RAEBURN COLLECTION
Duell, Sloan and PearcE:
ON ARCHITECTURE (1941) IN THE NATURE OF MATERIALS (1942) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1943)Date: 1932 First Edition Title: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover) (Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright divided his autobiography into four sections. Book One Family, Fellowship; Book Two Work; Book Three Freedom. The fourth section, Photographs, which includes 65 photographs. Wright designed the title page for each section. 500 copies were printed of this edition. (See Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America, Johnson, 1990, Page 37) (First Edition) (Sweeney 303) Two copies.
Size: 7.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 371
S#: 0303.00.0202, 0303.00.1217
An Autobiography is made up of three books and a section of photographs. Each book has a front and a back cover. When viewing it for the first time, it appears that the back cover of Book One is part of the cover for Book Two. They are printed on the same sheet, and glued to page 118. A little confusing at first, but when you see what Wright's intent was, it creates a beautiful deign.
Left: Back page Book One. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears after page 118.)
Right: Title page Book One Family, Fellowship. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears before page 1.)
Left: Back page Book Two. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears after page 296.)
Right: Title page Book Two Work. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears before page 119.)
Left: Back page Book Tthree. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears after page 372.)
Right: Title page Book Three Freedom. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears before page 297.)
Left: Back page for the fourth section. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears at the end of the book.)
Right: Title page for the fourth section: Photography. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Appears before page 372.)Date: 1933 Second Edition Title: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover) (Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: First published in 1932. This Autobiography is divided into four books. "Book One: Family, Fellowship." Back cover: "An Autobiography. From Generation To Generation." "Book Two: Work." Back cover: "From Generation To Generation. An Autobiography." "Book Three: Freedom." Back cover: "From Generation To Generation. An Autobiography." Book Four: "Photographs." Back cover: two horizontal lines. Photographs: includes 65 photographs. No more that 2,000 copies were reprinted of this second edition. (See Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America, Page 37) 7.25 x 9.25 Three copies. (Second Edition) (Sweeney 303)
Size: 7.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 371 plus 22 pages of photographs
S#: 0303.02.0603, 0303.04.0319, 0303.05.0420
Date: 1933
Title: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover) (Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: This volume was included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. First published in 1932. This Autobiography is divided into four books. “Book One: Family, Fellowship.” Back cover: “An Autobiography. From Generation To Generation.” “Book Two: Work.” Back cover: “From Generation To Generation. An Autobiography.” “Book Three: Freedom.” Back cover: “From Generation To Generation. An Autobiography.” Book Four: “Photographs.” Back cover: two horizontal lines. Photographs: includes 65 photographs. No more that 2,000 copies were reprinted of this second edition. (See Frank Lloyd Wright versus America, Page 37) (Second Edition) (Sweeney 303) See Wright & Horizon Press: The Ben Raeburn collection.
Size: 7.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 371 plus 22 pages of photographs
S#: 0303.06.0625Date: 1938 Third Edition DJ Title: An Autobiography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: First published in 1932. Second edition published in 1933. This Autobiography is divided into four sections. Book One: Family, Fellowship; Book Two: Work; Book Three: Freedom; Photographs, includes 65 photographs. No more that 2,000 copies were reprinted of this third edition. (See FLW versus America, Page 37). Original cover price $3.50. (Third Edition) (Sweeney 303)
Size: 7.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 371
S#: 0303.01.0900
Date: 1943
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: First published in 1932 by Longmans, Green and Company. Duell, Sloan and Pearce reprints An Autobiography to complete their trilogy. This Duell, Sloan and Pearce’s first edition divides Book One into Book One: Family and Book Two Fellowship. Book Three: Work, Book Four: Freedom. There is an addition to the version, Book Five: Form. All the original photographs were deleted and one new photograph added. 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition. By 1962, it had gone through an eighth printing. (See Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America, Page 37) Original HC List Price $4.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 595)
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 561
S#: 0595.00.1299Date: 1943
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: This volume was included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. Signed: "Ben Raeburn." First published in 1932 by Longmans, Green and Company. Duell, Sloan and Pearce reprints An Autobiography to complete their trilogy. This Duell, Sloan and Pearce’s first edition divides Book One into Book One: Family and Book Two Fellowship. Book Three: Work, Book Four: Freedom. There is an addition to the version, Book Five: Form. All the original photographs were deleted and one new photograph added. 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition. By 1962, it had gone through an eighth printing. (See Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America, Page 37) Stated “First Edition”, but dust jacket states “Fourth Large Printing, $6.00.Original HC List Price $6.00. (First Edition) (Sweeney 595) See Wright & Horizon Press: The Ben Raeburn collection.
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 561
S#: 0595.00.0625Date: 1943 Title: An Autobiography (Published by Taliesin)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Book Six: Broadacre City. According to Sweeney: "A chapter intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of Wright's 'An Autobiography' published in 1943." Summer 1943. (First Edition) (Sweeney 2048)
Size:
Pages: Pp 30
S#: 2048.00.0700
Date: 1944 Title: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright (Published by Taliesin)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Book Six: Broadacre City. A revised Printer's Proof of Sweeney 2048. A chapter intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of Wright's "An Autobiography" published in 1943. Spring 1944. (First Edition) (Sweeney 2049)
Size:
Pages: Pp 32
S#: 2049.00.0403
Date: America is West (1945) Title: America is West (Hard Cover) (Published by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: A compilation of many writers. Section Ten, Chapter nine: "Young Architect in Chicago". A reprint from "An Autobiography", 1932 and 1943 Editions page 63-71. (First Edition)
Size:
Pages: Pp 481-490
S#: 0609.01.1099
Date: 1945 London Edition DJ Title: An Autobiography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Faber & Faber Limited and The Hyperion Press Limited, London)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition. In 1946 a second edition was printed, and in a third of 2,000 copies was printed in 1947. Original HC List Price Ā£35.00 (App $52.50) (First Edition) (Sweeney 606)
Size:
Pages: Pp 486
S#: 0606.00.0205
Date: 1945 London Edition Title: An Autobiography (Hard Cover) (Published by Faber & Faber Limited and The Hyperion Press Limited, London)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition. In 1946 a second edition was printed, and in a third of 2,000 copies was printed in 1947. Second Copy. Original HC List Price Ā£35.00 (App $52.50) (First Edition) (Sweeney 606)
Size:
Pages: Pp 486
S#: 0606.01.0301
Date: 1955 French Edition DJ Title: Mon Autobiographie (Soft Cover with DJ) (Published by Librairie Plon, Paris)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: French Version. Original SC List Price 2.400 fr. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1059)
Size:
Pages: Pp 294
S#: 1059.00.0404
Date: 1955 French Edition Title: Mon Autobiographie (Soft Cover and Hard Cover: Ex Library copy) (Published by Librairie Plon, Paris)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd, Translated by Castier, Jules
Description: French Version. Original SC List Price 2.400 fr. One copy bound by the City of Verdun Public Library, Quebec, Canada. French Version. Original SC List Price 2.400 fr. Includes 18 B&W photographs. Two copies. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1059)
Size:
Pages: Pp 294
S#: 1059.00.0699, 1059.00.0613
Date: 1955
Title: Io E L'Architettura, Frank Lloyd Wright, Volume I (An Autobiograpy) (Hard Cover DJ) (Published and edited by Arnoldo Mondadori, Milan, Italy)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited by Arnoldo Mondadori
Description: Volume One. Dust Jacket: "An autobiography, like this one by Wright, is not just a long story of things and people, but a significant movement of the spirit. His life is therefore the life of organic architecture, of which he was the founder and greatest exponent in opposition to the aestheticism which, summed up in abstract modules, circulated in Europe at the beginning of the century. From the gradual birth of the new theory we witness in these pages its evolution and then its materialization in forms that are now famous: from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, House on the waterfall, from the Guggenheim Museum in New York to Taliesin..."
Volume One. Frank Lloyd Wright's An Autobiography, in three volumes, published in Italian. In 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright published An Autobiography. He divided the sections into three books, with chapters in each book. They included Book One: Family, Fellowship; Book Two: Work; Book Three: Freedom. In 1943, Wright revised, expanded and republished An Autobiography and divided the sections into five books. The Duell Edition divided Book One into two books. Book One: Family and Book Two: Fellowship. Book Three: Work; Book Four: Freedom; and the addition of Book Five: Form.
This three volume Italian edition follows the 1943 edition. Volume Primo (Volume One) includes: Libro Primo: La Famiglia (Book One: The Family); and Libro Secondo: La Comunita (Book Two: The Community). With 32 illustrations. Original three volume set price 800. (First Edition)
Size: 4.5 x 7.25
Pages: Pp 1-276
S#: 1059.01.0721Date: 1955
Title: Io E L'Architettura, Frank Lloyd Wright, Volume II (An Autobiograpy) (Hard Cover DJ) (Published and edited by Arnoldo Mondadori, Milan, Italy)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited by Arnoldo Mondadori
Description: Volume Two. Dust Jacket: "An autobiography, like this one by Wright, is not just a long story of things and people, but a significant movement of the spirit. His life is therefore the life of organic architecture, of which he was the founder and greatest exponent in opposition to the aestheticism which, summed up in abstract modules, circulated in Europe at the beginning of the century. From the gradual birth of the new theory we witness in these pages its evolution and then its materialization in forms that are now famous: from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, House on the waterfall, from the Guggenheim Museum in New York to Taliesin..."
Volume Two. Frank Lloyd Wright's An Autobiography, in three volumes, published in Italian. In 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright published An Autobiography. He divided the sections into three books, with chapters in each book. They included Book One: Family, Fellowship; Book Two: Work; Book Three: Freedom. In 1943, Wright revised, expanded and republished An Autobiography and divided the sections into five books. The Duell Edition divided Book One into two books. Book One: Family and Book Two: Fellowship. Book Three: Work; Book Four: Freedom; and the addition of Book Five: Form.
This three volume Italian edition follows the 1943 edition. Volume Secondo (Volume Two) includes: Libro Terzo: Il Lavoro (Book Three: The Work); and Libro Quarto: Liberta (Book Four: Freedom). With 32 illustrations. Original three volume set price 800. (First Edition)
Size: 4.5 x 7.25
Pages: Pp 277-586
S#: 1059.02.0721Date: 1955
Title: Io E L'Architettura, Frank Lloyd Wright, Volume III (An Autobiograpy) (Hard Cover DJ) (Published and edited by Arnoldo Mondadori, Milan, Italy)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited by Arnoldo Mondadori
Description: Volume Three. Dust Jacket: "An autobiography, like this one by Wright, is not just a long story of things and people, but a significant movement of the spirit. His life is therefore the life of organic architecture, of which he was the founder and greatest exponent in opposition to the aestheticism which, summed up in abstract modules, circulated in Europe at the beginning of the century. From the gradual birth of the new theory we witness in these pages its evolution and then its materialization in forms that are now famous: from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, House on the waterfall, from the Guggenheim Museum in New York to Taliesin..."
Volume Three. Frank Lloyd Wright's An Autobiography, in three volumes, published in Italian. In 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright published An Autobiography. He divided the sections into three books, with chapters in each book. They included Book One: Family, Fellowship; Book Two: Work; Book Three: Freedom. In 1943, Wright revised, expanded and republished An Autobiography and divided the sections into five books. The Duell Edition divided Book One into two books. Book One: Family and Book Two: Fellowship. Book Three: Work; Book Four: Freedom; and the addition of Book Five: Form.
This three volume Italian edition follows the 1943 edition. Volume Terzo (Volume Three) includes: Libro Quinto: La Forma (Book Five: The Form). With 32 illustrations. Original three volume set price 800. (First Edition)
Size: 4.5 x 7.25
Pages: Pp 587-854
S#: 1059.03.0721Date: 1958 The College Years Title: The College Years (Hard Cover - with and without DJ) (Published by Hawthorn Books, Inc. Publishers, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited by Spectorsky, A. C.
Description: A compilation of many writers. Section Five, Chapter Three: "Budding Architect". Reprinted from An Autobiography, 1932, page 49-58. "Frank Lloyd Wright's name is almost synonymous with revolutionary architectural design. His "organic architecture" fuses house and terrain into a functional, harmonious unit and has set the character for much of modern building." Original list price $7.95. Two copies. (First Edition)
Size: 7 x 10
Pages: Pp 442-449
S#: 1221.04.0711, 1221.02.0402
Date: 1976
Title: An Index and Guide to An Autobiography, The 1943 Edition By Frank Lloyd Wright (Published by Greenwich Design Publications, Hopkins, Minnesota, Spiral Bound, Pages printed singled side.)
Author: Cowles, Linn Ann
Description: "This Index and Guide to An Autobiography was prepared in an attempt to contribute to the reader's understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright. I consider An Autobiography to be the architect's most important written work. It was begun at the suggestion of his wife, and portions were completed in 1926 when the family was staying in Minnesota at Wildhurst on Lake Minnetonka. First published in 1932, the work was revised and its last section added in 1943.
Mr. Wright purposely concentrated on the inspirational message he wished to convey, and not on rational exactitude and accuracy. He therefore allowed the reader to know him very well as a creative and crusading architect. The Index and Guide is intended to assist the scholar in tracking down some of Mr. Wright's references, the identity of people mentioned, and dates and locations where they are of interest. For the latter, I have made use in particular of Henry-Russell Hitchcock's In the Nature of Materials 1887-1941: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1942). The entry under 'Wright, Frank Lloyd' carries an outline of the events treated of in the book, thus providing a synopsis of Mr. Wright's life to 1942. The chronology shown in this entry is the contribution of Edgar Kaufmann jr., who presented it in his Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings (New York, Horizon 1960). I am especially indebted to Mr. Kaufmann for his encouragement as well, and for sharing with me his great knowledge and intuitive understanding of Mr. Wright and his work."Ā¯ (First Edition)
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 112 (Printed one side only.)
S#: 2020.50.0423Date: 1977
Title: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Horizon Press, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: First published in 1932 by Longmans, Green. and Company. Published again in 1943 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
From the dust jacket: “...Mrs. Wright urged him (Wright) to begin work on his life-story and encouraged him through the years to complete it; and it is to her that he dedicated this final, definitive edition.
“Shortly after the preceding version of his autobiography appeared thirty-five years ago (1943 edition), Frank Lloyd Wright began to revise it, adding material over a period of sixteen years. This is the first edition of the corrected manuscript.
“Besides all his revisions of the earlier (and unillustrated) version, this new edition includes eighty-two illustrations, photographs of his family and of the people involved in his life, as well as his architectural masterpieces produced over a span of seventy years (including houses built as recently as 1976).
“This volume consists of six books, of which Book Six, titled Broadacre City, comprises one of the most important additions to this comprehensive edition: the master's concepts of the future city and government—a major presentation of his ideas, prophecies being increasingly borne out in our time and destined to have an enduring influence in the future...”
Includes 82 illustrations. (First Horizon Edition) (Sweeney 2022) See Wright & Horizon Press: The Ben Raeburn collection.
Size: 6.5 x 9.5.
Pages: Pp 620
S#: 2022.00.0699Date: 1937 Title: Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright for cover of Time Magazine.
Description: Wright is wearing a dark jacket, dark suit and tie. He is facing slightly to the right, but looking toward the upper right corner. There is an illustration of Fallingwater behind him. There is also a small Asian figurine behind him on the left. This might indicate that it was photographed at Taliesin, Spring Green. This photograph was published on the cover of Time Magazine, January 17, 1938, which would indicate that the photograph would have been taken in the later part of 1937, so they would have it in time for the January 1938 issue. This photograph was also used on the cover of the 1977 edition of "An Autobiography," Wright, Horizon Press. Text on face: "Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Valentino Sarra. From: An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright. Publication date: May 12, 1977. $17.50." Stamped on verso: "Jun 21 1977." Photograph by Valentino Sarra.
Size: Original 5 x 7.25 B&W photograph.
S#: 0429.27.1015
Date: 1998 Edition Title: An Autobiography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Barnes & Noble)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: (First Edition)
Size:
Pages: Pp 561
ST#: 1998.03.0899
Date: 1995 Title: Geniuses of the Mighty Wisconsin River. Zona Gale, August Derleth, Frank Lloyd Wright. (Published by the August Derleth Society)
Author: Price, Kay
Description: Wright wrote, "I occasionally drove up the river to Portage... to see Zona... While in Japan I read "Lulu Bett." Straightway I made up my mind to know Zona gale better when I got home... Of course, I hated her environment as utterly unworthy of her (she was an exquisite thing, Wisconsin's Zona Gale.) I hadn't met Olgivanna and I thought Taliesin would be a much more appropriate place for the author of "Lulu Bett." ...But she was always glad to see us, asking me to come, although she said she valued her Regency at the University of Wisconsin too much ever to be seen with me in public..." "An Autobiography", 1943. (First Edition)
Size: 16 x 11.5
ST#: 1995.65.0713
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1943 - 1977).
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND HORIZON PRESS:
THE BEN RAEBURN COLLECTION
CHRONOLOGY RAEBURN & HORIZON PRESS RAEBURN COLLECTION An Autobiography (1943 - 1977). Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. Volumes, Folios and Manuscripts from the estate of Horizon Press Publisher Ben Raeburn.
Chronology of An Autobiography:
1932: First Edition: Longmans, Green. An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright. Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto.
Frank Lloyd Wright divided his autobiography into four sections. Book One Family, Fellowship; Book Two Work; Book Three Freedom. The fourth section: Photographs, included 65 photographs.
1933: Second Edition: Longmans, Green. 1938: Third Edition. An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright. Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto.
Frank Lloyd Wright divided this volume into four sections. Book One: Family, Fellowship; Book Two: Work; Book Three: Freedom. The fourth section: Photographs, includes 65 photographs.1943: First Edition: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Frank Lloyd Wright. An Autobiography. Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York.
This Duell First Edition divides Book One into Book One and Book Two. Book Three: Work, Book Four: Freedom. There is an addition to this edition, Book Five: Form. All the original photographs were deleted in this edition and one new photograph added at the end of the volume.
1945: Faber & Faber published An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, London.
1955: Librairie Plon published Frank Lloyd Wright Mon Autobiographie, a French edition.
1955: Arnoldo Mondadori published Io E L'Architettura, Frank Lloyd Wright, an Italian set in three volume.
It would not be until 1977, eighteen years after Frank Lloyd Wright’s death that the final edition, with Wright’s revisions, would be published by Horizon Press, An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Horizon Press Edition includes six books. Book One: Faith. Book Two: Fellowship. Book Three: Work. Book Four: Freedom. Book Five: Form. There is an addition to this edition, Book Six: Broadacre City. Eighty-two illustrations were included.Ben Raeburn and Horizon Press. Ben Raeburn was closely associated with Frank Lloyd Wright, Olgivanna, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. They published many volumes before and after Wright’s death:
The Future of Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1953)
The Natural House (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954)
An American Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright, Edited by Edgar Kaufmann, 1955)
The Story of the Tower (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1956)
A Testament (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1957)
The Living City (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958)
Drawings for a Living Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1959)
Our House (Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, 1959)
Writings & Buildings (1960) (Frank Lloyd Wright, Edited by Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Frank Lloyd Wright, Harry F. Guggenheim, 1960)The Shining Brow (Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, 1960)
The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright, Edited by Arthur Drexer, 1962)
Buildings, Plans and Designs (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1963)
Roots of Life (Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, 1963)
The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (H. Th. Wijeveld, 1965)
Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words (Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, 1966)
The Japanese Print (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1967)
The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1968)
The Industrial Revolution Runs Away (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1969)
Genius and the Mobocracy (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1971)
An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1977)
Frank Lloyd Wright Selected Drawings Portfolio Volume II (Frank Lloyd Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, 1980)
Frank Lloyd Wright: Three Quarters of a Century of Drawings (English Version: 1981)The Ben Raeburn Collection is comprised of:
1) An Autobiography Frank Lloyd Wright, 1933, Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto (Cloth Soft Cover) (Second Edition, Reprinted February 1933).
2) Frank Lloyd Wright An Autobiography, 1943, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York (First Edition) (Hard Cover DJ). Signed: Ben Raeburn.
3) Two Unbound Folio Covers (1955), used to contain typed drafts from Wright's autobiography. Two folios are unbound covers of Frank Lloyd Wright, An American Architect, Horizon Press, 1955.
4) Handwritten edits and notes, 1943-1959. An envelope with a Taliesin, Scottsdale, Arizona label, addressed to Horizon Press editor, Mr. Ben Raeburn. Provenance: The estate of Patricia (Pat) Percy Amarantides (1934-2023), an artist closely associated with Frank Lloyd Wright and publisher Ben Raeburn (1911-1997).
4A) Taliesin Envelope, Scottsdale to Ben Raeburn, Horizon Press.4B) The Purpose of Broadacre City - Frank Lloyd Wright, March 1943.
4C) Biographical Sketch: Frank Lloyd Wright, Circa 1951.
4D) Frank Lloyd Wright. Address At The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1957.
4E) To London: Frank Lloyd Wright’s original handwritten edits to An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1943 - 1959.
4F) Manuscript Outline: Book Six: Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography.
4G) Sartor Resartus Manuscript for An Autobiography, Book Six, 380B, 1957.
4H) Preface Manuscript for An Autobiography, Book Six. Preface and additional chapters, 380K, 1943 - 1959.
4I) Critic Definitions Manuscript for An Autobiography, Book Six, 382, 1943 - 1959.1) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1933 2) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1943 3) TWO UNBOUND FOLIO COVERS (1955)
4A) TALIESIN ENVELOPE TO BEN RAEBURN (1970) 4B) THE PURPOSE OF BRADACRE CITY (1943) 4C) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (1951)
4D) UNIVERCITY OF NEW MEXICO ADDRESS (1957) 4E) TO LONDON: EDITS TO BOOK 5 (1943-1959)
4F) MANUSCRIPT OUTLINE FOR BOOK SIX: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 4G) SARTOR RESARTUS MANUSCRIPT FOR BOOK SIX
4H) PREFACE MANUSCRIPT FOR BOOK SIX 4I) CRITIC DEFINITIONS MANUSCRIPT FOR BOOK SIX
1) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1933) Date: 1933
Title: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover) (Published by Longmans, Green and Company, London, New York, Toronto)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: This volume was included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. First published in 1932. This Autobiography is divided into four books. “Book One: Family, Fellowship.” Back cover: “An Autobiography. From Generation To Generation.” “Book Two: Work.” Back cover: “From Generation To Generation. An Autobiography.” “Book Three: Freedom.” Back cover: “From Generation To Generation. An Autobiography.” Book Four: “Photographs.” Back cover: two horizontal lines. Photographs: includes 65 photographs. No more that 2,000 copies were reprinted of this second edition. (See Frank Lloyd Wright versus America, Page 37) (Second Edition) (Sweeney 303)
Size: 7.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 371 plus 22 pages of photographs
S#: 0303.06.0625
2) FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1943) Date: 1943
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: This volume was included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. Signed: "Ben Raeburn." First published in 1932 by Longmans, Green and Company. Duell, Sloan and Pearce reprints An Autobiography to complete their trilogy. This Duell, Sloan and Pearce’s first edition divides Book One into Book One: Family and Book Two Fellowship. Book Three: Work, Book Four: Freedom. There is an addition to the version, Book Five: Form. All the original photographs were deleted and one new photograph added. 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition. By 1962, it had gone through an eighth printing. (See Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America, Page 37) Stated “First Edition”, but dust jacket states “Fourth Large Printing, $6.00.Original HC List Price $6.00. (First Edition) (Sweeney 595)
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 561
S#: 0595.00.0625
3) TWO UNBOUND FOLIO COVERS (1955) Date: 1955
Title: An American Architecture (Two Folio Covers Only) (Published by Horizon Press, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Two Unbound Folio Covers (1955), used to contain typed drafts from Wright's autobiography. These two covers were included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. The Ben Raeburn collection is comprised of: Two folios containing typed drafts from Frank Lloyd Wright's An Autobiography. Two folios are unbound covers of Frank Lloyd Wright, An American Architect, Horizon Press, 1955.
Size: 9x12
Pages: Pp x
S#: 1050.06.0625, 1050.07.0625
4A) TALIESIN ENVELOPE TO BEN RAEBURN (CIRCA 1970) Date: 1970
Title: Envelope from Taliesin, Scottsdale to Ben Raeburn, Horizon Press, Circa 1970 (faded date).
Description: Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. A 9 x 12 tan envelope from Taliesin West, Scottsdale to Ben Raeburn, Horizon Press. Label: “Taliesin. Scottsdale, Arizona. Mr. Ben Raeburn. Horizon Press, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010.” Postmark faded, “May 15'70 or 73. Scottsdale, Ariz.”
“Mrs. Wright urged him to begin work on his life-story and encouraged him through the years to complete it... Shortly after the preceding version of his autobiography appeared thirty-five years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright began to revise it, adding material over a period of sixteen years...” An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977, Dust Jacket.
Many of Frank Lloyd Wright’s original edited manuscripts were mailed to Ben Raeburn for the 1977 edition of An Autobiography.
Size: 9 x 12
S#: 1846.149.0625
4B) THE PURPOSE OF BROADACRE CITY (1943)
Date: 1943
Title: The Purpose of Broadacre City - Frank Lloyd Wright, March 1943. Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection.
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright An Autobiography, was published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, in 1943. This was possibly a chapter intended for the 1943 edition, but not included. Or, possibly sent to Ben Raeburn as a chapter intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977.
John Lloyd Wright wrote: “Appreciation of Frank Lloyd Wright... For more than sixty years my father has been a Mecca for writers. Vast admiration for his work has been repeatedly published throughout the world. He himself has left no stone unturned in his voluminous writings to include his own monumental tribute to himself...” Architectural Design, January 1960.
This was in the possession of Ben Raeburn, so it was possibly one of the many “voluminous writings” that did not make the final cut in the 1977 edition, Horizon Press.
Eight page manuscript. Revisions by Frank Lloyd Wright are written in pencil. Note on file reads: “FLLW Edits.”
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The Purpose of Broadacre City: To Increase the Harmonious Association of Our People with Greater Independence, Quality and Equality.
. . . . . . .
As one result of my own life-experience in organic architecture the preliminary modeling of Broadacre City was undertaken as early as 1932. These three-dimensional models now represent my life-long search for the actual planning and building which would present Democratic Principles, in such over-industrialized machine-age life if creative new forms proceed sensibly in short, if the planning and building were organic in character. The models we made, though not lacking in vision, are no long-range planning of a new era but instead they are the natural integration of forces and trends existing today in America going wild or going to waste.
Our Broadacres search for actual organic form is based upon what is now actually taking place but as the matter now goes is blindly proceeding as a series of destructive reactions.
Our institutions seem but dimly aware of the evil consequences of industrial mechanization as it works upon the old ways of life and as the old building forms become obsolescent. We see all around us in these habituated handovers from feudal times which are still the villages, towns and great cities of our increasingly mechanized United States popular prejudice, sentimentality and economic disorder. Meanwhile the extensive bureaucratic governments within...
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The Purpose of Broadacre City: Page Two.
...the government of one and all the villages, towns and cities that compose our nation are increasingly complicated by the general confusion of ideal that results in the multiplying of meaningless detail and the waste of manhood in a general devastating economic insecurity. For one motive, Broadacres is designed to take this heavy burden of waste off the backs of the people.
Ideas precede, and prefigure facts, to a great extent. But to grasp what is actually happening to us today owing to tremendous, inordinate mechenical and chemical forces now out of hand and either beneficent or destructive to us as we must soon decide, was first essential to any comprehension on my part that could be called an Idea of Form. It is easier, even so, to grasp an idea of form then to actually embody ideas in appropriate Form. But that embodiment is the office of the creative Architect which has so far been lacking in our society. But for many years past, throughout our country, I have made these scientific observations of fact and have remade them. The modeling of the varied interpretations I have made is still going on. At Taliesin, gradually, our way of life in America will be completely embodied in appropriate architectural plan-formation belonging to the greater concept of social form which we call democracy, so that the various establishments and the work with which we are involved in them would not only be vastly simplified and greatly improved in quality if we had these now forms, but we would have a civilization that would embody the principles of Democracy as a great new life-giving National- integrity. We are so aiming these representations that a general sense of direction may be visible and clearly given not only to thought in the minds of our people but especially a new hope to our returning eleven million of draftees. All of the changes in our present establishments which Broadacres proposes are feasible interpretations of what is already inevitable because of insatiable mechanization. All such changes as Broadacres proposes may be gradual.
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Frank Lloyd Wright.
Taliesin : Spring Green : Wisconsin : March First, Nineteen Forty Three.
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4C) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1951)
Date: 1951
Title: Biographical Sketch: Frank Lloyd Wright, Circa 1951.
Description: Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. A nine page biographical sketch most likely written by Frank Lloyd Wright. Included in the Ben Raeburn, Horizon Press Collection. Possibly a chapter intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977.
John Lloyd Wright wrote: “Appreciation of Frank Lloyd Wright... For more than sixty years my father has been a Mecca for writers. Vast admiration for his work has been repeatedly published throughout the world. He himself has left no stone unturned in his voluminous writings to include his own monumental tribute to himself...” Architectural Design, January 1960.
This was one of the many “voluminous writings” that did not make the final cut in the 1977 edition, Horizon Press.
Vernon Swaback wrote: His son, John Lloyd Wright, said that his father "left no stone unturned in his voluminous writings to include his own monumental tribute to himself." A biographical sketch bearing the handwritten notation "O.K., FLIW" starts out, "No living architect today nor probably any who ever lived at any time has attained so high a degree of fame or gained such international renown as ... Frank Lloyd Wright." Arizona Highways, November 1988, p.40.
In the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Avery Library, Columbia University is a: “Biographical Sketch: Frank Lloyd Wright, [undated]. Item 2405.001, Item F. Scope and content: Typescript: pp. (1p.), 2-9.” We have not yet verifies that these are the same documents.
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No living architect today, nor probably any who ever lived at any time, has attained so high a degree of fame or gained such international renown as has this native son of Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright.
He is now living and working on a country estate, farming and directing a college for young Architects in Iowa County, southern Wisconsin, Born at Richland Center, Wisconsin, June 9th, 1869, he was the son of William Russell Carey and Anna Lloyd (Jones) Wright, His mother was fourth child of Wisconsin pioneer Richard Lloyd and Mary Lloyd Jones, His grandfather, former hatter and preacher (Unitarian) minister of Wales, came to America in the year 1848, Landing at New York, the Welsh pioneer traveled westward by way of the Lakes and canal routes to Milwaukee. From there he proceeded with his family to Ixonia, Wisconsin where he remained for a time as preacher. He then moved to the Wisconsin River Valley soon settling - while Indians were still in the neighborhood - on what has now become the site of the estate of his grandson, Frank Lloyd Wright. There Richard Lloyd Jones with his five sons and four daughters broke the sod and converted wild forest-lands into fertile fields. At the same time he continued to preach as a Unitarian minister in a chapel of his own in Ioa County as he had done in Wales and Ixonia. His daughter Anna became a teacher in the schools of the towns near her home; the teachers- colleges of Platteville and Albion...
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....Academy, where at the ago of twenty-nine she met and was married to WillIam Russell Cary Wright, who was himself a circuit rider preacher and music teacher, the son of a preacher in Hartford, Connecticut. His second marriage. The father possessed considerable musical talent and went about the countryside near Lone Rock, Wisconsin teaching people to play and sing as he did, later, in Madison and surrounding towns. He was member of a family of intellectuals that Included such names as the poets James Russell Lowell, Alice and Phoebe Cary. He entered Amherst College for the purpose of preparing for the practice of medicine but later turned to legal work. Soon afterward he gave this up and, a graduate of Girard College, devoted his time and efforts to preaching the gospel and practicing the teaching of his music.
Pre-natal influence was potent factor in shaping the career of Frank Lloyd Wright. His mother (believing she would have a son) planned before his birth that he should be an Architect. When three years of age he was taken by his parents to Weymouth, Massachusetts, near Boston, where his father engaged in the ministry and the young son was entered as a student in a fashionable private school conducted by a Miss Williams: his mother meantime teaching him the Froebel Kindergarten, at home. He was learning to play the piano and violin under his father's instructions. In 1878 the family upon returning to Madison Wisconsin in the Middle West, his mother besought her brother, his uncle James Lloyd Jones (an Iowa County farmer) to begin teaching him the value, necessity and beauty of work on the ground. His father by now had established a Conservatory of Music in Madison and later the son became office-boy for Allan D. Conover, Dean of Engineering at...
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"...The Foundation is now nineteen years old..." The Taliesin Fellowship was formed in 1932. 1932 + 19 = 1951. The Foundation was established in 1940. 1940 + 19 = 1959. We lean toward the date of 1951 for the Biographical Sketch. Nine pages/
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4D) ADDRESS: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO (1957)
Date: 1957
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright. Address At The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1957.
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright’s original handwritten changes to the nine page manuscript: Frank Lloyd Wright. Address At The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1957. Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. Possibly a chapter intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977.
John Lloyd Wright wrote: “Appreciation of Frank Lloyd Wright... For more than sixty years my father has been a Mecca for writers. Vast admiration for his work has been repeatedly published throughout the world. He himself has left no stone unturned in his voluminous writings to include his own monumental tribute to himself...” Architectural Design. January 1960.
This was one of the many “voluminous writings” that did not make the final cut in the 1977 edition, Horizon Press.
Nine manuscript pages. Revisions are in ink and pencil. Handwritten in pencil at the top of the page: “For Book 6. To Youth.” The date of the Address, 1957, is handwritten in pencil. Nine pages.
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For Book 6. To Youth.
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Address At The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1957.
...To help our listeners to a broader concept of the meaning of architecture as a part of our American heritage and Iiving experience, I wonder if you would tell us "what is your basic concept of architecture?”
Well, son, rather a large order you're asking for. But Architecture is to me the structure of whatever is. If you are interested in Form, you are interested in Architecture. And the structure of that Form is always Nature. So, go to Nature if you want to understand the character of architecture: the study of nature is the only way you get into it.
By Nature, what do you mean - the structure of nature?
By Nature I mean the, character of things; the essence of things. Nature is intrinsic to form and form is intrinsic to nature. Therefore Farm in Architecture is Nature intrinsic. And you get...
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to it by looking into things, not at things.
Inside of Nature is what you are expressing?
Nature ... the character of it, its characteristics, its qualities, and the way it acts.
Recently, Mr. Wright, you had published in several leading architectural magazines a 5,000 foot high office tower in Chicago. I wonder if you could tell us exactly how you applied this natural aspect of architecture to this building.
Quite simple. When Nature builds tall, she builds from the inside out; she does not build from the outside in. So, the Illinois is built from the inside out, built on the spine as you were built yourself. And the floors are like your arms extended from your body, and the shell — the exterior - is pendant from the spine, the structure of the center of the building, the core, leaving the exterior entirely free.
It is a perfectly scientific, simple way of going very, very tall. It is the way Nature herself, if she were on the job, would probably perform. And does.
There exist today many well known architects who evidently have a different idea of architecture because their designs... Nine pages.
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4E) LONDON: EDITS TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BOOK FIVE (1943-59)
Date: 1943-1959
Title: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edits to Book Five, London. 1943 - 1959.
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright’s original handwritten edits from 1943 - 1959 for An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1977, Book Five: To London (p.561); Honor (p.562); Audience (p.564); Moscow (p.567); To Russia (p.571); The Address to the Architects’ World Congress - Soviet Russia 1937 (p.572); Architecture and Life in the U.S.S.R. (p.577); An Open Letter To Frank Lloyd Wright (p.586); To You, American Communists (p.587); Safety of the Soul Depends on Courage (p.588). Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection.
These edits appear to be the final revisions for this portion of 1977 edition. Revisions were made between 1943 and 1959. Revisions are in ink and pencil. Forty-nine manuscript pages. Pages 414-498 are changed in pencil to 456-540. Manuscript pages 529-531 are missing. These represent pages 561-589 in the Horizon Press 1977 edition.
“Mrs. Wright urged him to begin work on his life-story and encouraged him through the years to complete it... Shortly after the preceding version of his autobiography appeared thirty-five years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright began to revise it, adding material over a period of sixteen years...” An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977, Dust Jacket.
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Book Five.
To London.
Invitation came to me at Taliesin-April, 1939, from the Sulgrave Manor Board by way of the British ambassador to the United States to take the Sir George Watson Chair for that year and deliver the lectures that a bequest from Sir George made possible. These lectures were to alternate, one year by an Englishman, the next an American. All were intended to serve better acquaintance of British and American Culture. Lord Bryce, Woodrow Wilson, Hadley of Yale, Theodore Roosevelt, the Governor of Canada and many others, had already delivered them.
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Book Five
The Sulgrave Manor Board, as you may know, took over the old family estate of George Washington in England to make sure good care of it would be taken. Common ground in American and English history. The chosen lecturer was free to deliver these famous lectures in any one of the English universities he might choose, and as many or as few lectures as he chose. The honorarium of twenty-five hundred dollars, and expenses, might be for but one lecture if the recipient of the honor so decided. The rights of publication went with acceptance by the lec-turer. I accepted the honor, for so it was. I decided to give four evenings at London University. But the Royal Institute of British Architects, upon learning that I was to give the lectures, proposed to join in sponsoring them, asking that they be given in the new hall of the new building of the Royal Institute, Portland Place. As a preliminary attention, the Institute made me honorary member of their body so that I might not set foot on England's soil a stranger. At least I like to think...
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4F) MANUSCRIPT OUTLINE: BOOK SIX: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Date: 1943-1959
Title: Manuscript Outlines for Book Six: An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1977.
Description: Manuscript Outlines for An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sixth Book. Sequence of MSS. (Includes manuscript notes for 380B (C), 380K (D) and 382 (E).) Two pages. Two copies of an outline of manuscripts for Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography, Sixth Book, 1977. Sequence of MSS. Includes manuscript notes for 380B (C), 380K (D) and 382 (E). Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection.
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Handwritten in ink: “Ben, And sending #380B - Sartor Resartus. #380K - To You & Sartor Resartus. #382 - Preface “To You”. ” Note: Inked “X” in front of: 380B, 380K and 382. These three notes are also underlined in pencil.
Mss# 380B typed, edited, marked FINAL, FLLW December 26, 1957 [OLLW edited also] (no further copy of this) “Sartor Resartus”, 30 pages.
380 K typed, edited, contains both TO YOU and SATOR (sic) RESARTUS. (See 382 of 380BO.
382 382 typed, edited, from 380G ( 380H is carbon, clean copy, of this)
Preface: Teenagers Of All Ages.
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Typed at the top of second copy: “Dear Ben, from this “map”, you will see why I have sent you mss #380B, 380K and 382. They all seem to be final, to some degree, but certainly more than any others. Also, from this map, you will see why I am quite insane ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
bruce (bruce is marked out in pencil. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer?)
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4G) SARTOR RESARTUS MANUSCRIPT: BOOK SIX
Date: 1957
Title: Sartor Resartus Manuscript for An Autobiography, Book Six, 380B, 1957.
Description: Copy of an edited manuscript, Sartor Resartus, 380B. From Sixth Book, An Autobiography. Sartor Resartus. Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection. This appears to be a chapter intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977.
A copy of an edited manuscript. Handwritten in pencil: “This seems the revised final. (Part 2) See p.13 H of 380K.” Handwritten in copy, top right: “380B. Final Dec 26 / 57... FLW.” Pages: 30.
“Mrs. Wright urged him to begin work on his life-story and encouraged him through the years to complete it... Shortly after the preceding version of his autobiography appeared thirty-five years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright began to revise it, adding material over a period of sixteen years...” An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977, Dust Jacket.
“Appreciation of Frank Lloyd Wright... For more than sixty years my father has been a Mecca for writers. Vast admiration for his work has been repeatedly published throughout the world. He himself has left no stone unturned in his voluminous writings to include his own monumental tribute to himself...” John Lloyd Wright, Architectural Design, January 1960.
This was one of the many “voluminous writings” that did not make the final cut in the 1977 edition, Horizon Press.
Text Page One: From Sixth Book, An Autobiography. Sartor Resartus.
Owing to the prominence to which my own work has now reached, relationship to that of Lieber-Meister (Louis H. Sullivan) becomes a critic's diversion if not device. In various ways (for as various reasons) some warm, some hectic (change), brittle or hostile, all see what they want to see but with perspective only fron the rear. (change)
I am puzzled, sometimes angered, often amused where such criticism -- no true analysis involved – comes out into print. What I have myself said about the subject seems not applicable. I am pretty clear in my own head, as well as heart, about what I owe to Lieber Meister. But I have not been concerned (until much wrong assumption has formed around our work together) about what he owes to me. Regardless of reality (my own testimony) I imagine unwise speculation just around the corner not far away will continue to get into current literature.
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Together.
Therefore and, well, Lieber Meister and I came into this world together along the centerline of Architecture but along vastly different roads, from sources totally diverse in character. I do not know of the Sullivan family beyond the Sullivan father who -- an Irishman - was a prosperous dancing-master in provincial Boston. Lieber Meister himself often declared he hated Boston. Louis’ beautiful mother was Spanish -- a dancer. So Urban life for all was what "Louis" as a youth really knew.
My father came down a long line of English clergy. My mother was the daughter of a Welsh emigrant, a Welsh hatter and Unitarian preacher. She became a teacher by instinct and choice. In America these Welsh pioneers settled down as farmers in a rural wisconsin River green-valley.
The Sullivan-family -- Bostonian -- was prosperous and Louis inherited some money -- about $75,000.00. I inherited nothing financial but the memory of an unsuccessful...
Page 4: Mother. Page 5: Birth. Page 7: Criticism. Page 7: Neophyte. Page 8: The Firm. Page 11: Characteristics. Page 13: Expression. Page 15: Influences. Page 18: Mobacracy. Page 19: Technique. Page 19: Separation. Page 22: Decline. Page 24: Tragedy. Page 25: Louis H. Sullivan. Page 27: Retrospect.
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4H) PREFACE MANUSCRIPT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPY: BOOK SIX
Date: 1943-1959
Title: Preface Manuscript for An Autobiography, Book Six. Preface and additional chapters, 380K, 1943 - 1959.
Description: Copy of an edited manuscript, Preface and additional chapters, 380K. From Sixth Book, An Autobiography. Preface: “...So I will dedicate this sixth book of An Autobiography to Youth...” Page 2. This appears to be chapters, including the Preface, intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977. Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection.
A copy of an edited manuscript. Handwritten in pencil: “Compare this to 382 and 380B.” Handwritten in copy, top right: “380K.” Pages: 33.
“Appreciation of Frank Lloyd Wright... For more than sixty years my father has been a Mecca for writers. Vast admiration for his work has been repeatedly published throughout the world. He himself has left no stone unturned in his voluminous writings to include his own monumental tribute to himself...” John Lloyd Wright, Architectural Design, January 1960.
This was one of the many “voluminous writings” that did not make the final cut in the 1977 edition, Horizon Press.
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Preface: To You – my teenager whoever and wherever you are: and -- well, it seems to me the more I write the more I must write to clarify what I have written. How these big little men and little big cliches so use, and waste what they laughingly refer to as their minds, on facts. In pursuit of their own suspicion,without feeling or understanding --a kind of caricature arises or vicarious derivation of the true meaning of everything they see in pursuit of their literal "facts". Therefore we too often mistake their quest for the pursuit of Truth? Truth? "What is Truth?" said Pilate, hating his Roman office and hesitating to confirm the popular outcry for the murder of a serenely inspired Radical who, under Roman law, Pilate governor -- was compelled to destroy at the behest of the leading "scribes" of "subjugated" Jerusalem.
Well -- again -- I write this sixth book not for the scribes but I hope for our children -- for children...
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...(now teenagers) who do not quite know what the matter is with their parents so don't quite know themselves what to do with them. And, too those parents "grown up" who have only a legal right and title to their children.
Teenagers, too, so I fear, who tee often have not much (if any) right to their parents. My faith lies with Youth -- Youth old or new -- American Youth. So I, dedicate-this sixth book of AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY to Youth. If He and She a generation hence should fail, our country has failed. The design and intent of our main mission and wisdom, our vision of Democracy, fails. So I swear.
. . . . . . .
There fifteen years from now lies proof of our American tor Youth-whether in the old or youth in the young -- I mean the "young!! A wise "youth" once said, "Why waste so much of youth on the young?" Then to "Youth I write. But, again I swear, that young is but a...
Page 5: The Critic. Page 13: Sartar Resartus. Page 13: Reality. Page 14: Together. Page 23: Influences. Page 25: Mobacracy. Page 33: Finally.
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4I) CRITIC DEFINITIONS MANUSCRIPT: BOOK SIX
Date: 1943-1959
Title: Critic Definitions Manuscript for An Autobiography, Book Six, 382, 1943 - 1959.
Description: Copy of an edited manuscript, Definitions, Critic, 382. From Sixth Book, An Autobiography. This appears to be chapters intended for, but not used in the revised and expanded edition of An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horizon Press, 1977. Included in The Horizon Press and Publisher Ben Raeburn Collection.
A copy of an edited manuscript. Handwritten in pencil: “(Part 1.)” Handwritten in copy, top right: “382.” Pages: 14.
“Appreciation of Frank Lloyd Wright... For more than sixty years my father has been a Mecca for writers. Vast admiration for his work has been repeatedly published throughout the world. He himself has left no stone unturned in his voluminous writings to include his own monumental tribute to himself...” John Lloyd Wright, Architectural Design, January 1960.
This was one of the many “voluminous writings” that did not make the final cut in the 1977 edition, Horizon Press.
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Definitions, Critic. (Part 1) 382
1) A Scribe: with opinions that too often serve a mean purpose.
2) A coffin-worm whose facts are only the excrement of Truth;
3) Truth evades the fact-finder. The living-spirit escapes to a realm he does not inhabit because primarily he is a mechanic. So far so good but not far enough.
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Preface. 382
Teenagers of all ages! Whoever and wherever! It now so seems to me that the more I write the more I must write to explain what I have written. Big-little "meums" and little-big "tuums" are wasting what they must laughingly refer to as their minds! Without feeling or understanding findings are a kind of caricature or an oblique derivation of the true meaning of anything. In architecture especially is this pursuit of “facts” a prevarication of the spirit. Little "facts" are taken to be used not in pursuit of Truth but as Truth. Truth? Said Pilate, "What is Truth?" He was hating and challenging the scribes of Jerusalem: hesitating to confirm the popular outcry of the scribes for the murder of a serenely inspired Radical whom Pilate, under Roman law, was besieged to destroy at their behest.
Page 6: Faith. Page 7: The Critic. Page 9: The Qualified Critic. Page 10: Qualified Criticism. Page 12: Motive. Page 13: The Theme.
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DUELL, SLOAN AND PEARCE TRILOGY ON ARCHITECTURE (1941) IN THE NATURE OF MATERIALS (1942) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1943) FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, ON ARCHITECTURE (1941) Published as the initial volume by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in the Frank Lloyd Wright series. Selected writings on architecture
between 1894 and 1940.Date: 1941 First Edition Title: Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture: Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940. (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited Gutheim, Frederick
Description: Published as the initial volume by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in the Frank Lloyd Wright series. Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940. Original HC List Price $3.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 532)
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Pages: Pp 275
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Date: 1941 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Duell, Sloan and Pearce (Booklet) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Booklet for three Wright books published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture, 1894 - 1940; An Autobiography; In The Nature of Materials, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1887 - 1941. All three to be published in 1941-1942. "In this astonishing era of the salesman when everything, from a sausage to a candidate for President of the United States, merit or no merit, is expanded with glowing emotion, it may be proper, As Duell, Sloan and Pearce suggest, for an author to step forward and tell the gentle reader why he should buy and read what, gone beyond the author's recall, has been written. Well, Maybe so. But my proper medium is a hod of mortar and some bricks (or boards), the building unions, somebody's money - all the money somebody ought to get to have a better home or something in a better way. So it seems to me I write only as writing illustrates my buildings..." Of interest is the note for An Autobiography, "Four books in One, 1941," the second in the series of three. Wright's first autobiography was "three books in one." This Autobiography ended up not as four, but "five books in one, the third in the series, and published not in 1941, but 1943.
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Date: 1941 Third Edition
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture. Selected Writings 1894 and 1940, Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim. (Hard Cover, Green Cloth Cover) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited Gutheim, Frederick
Description: "When I first considered the collection and arrangement of the selected writings of Frank Lloyd Wright in one volume I was aware of the existence of a great mass of published and unpublished material. As my work progressed I began to realize how much more extensive was this literature than I had originally supposed. While the selections printed here are but a small part of Wright's literally effort, a work which must be considered of increasing importance, I am confident that they are fully representative of the much larger body of material from which they have been drawn. Each selection has been carefully chosen to preserve the spirit of the original context. For the occasional student whose necessities dictate reference to the original, the reference in the head and the attached bibliography will be helpful..." Frederick Gutheim. (Third Edition) (Sweeney 532)
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S#: 0532.03.0816Date: 1941 Fourth Edition Title: Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture: Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940, Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim. (Hard Cover) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited Gutheim, Frederick
Description: Published as the initial volume by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in the Frank Lloyd Wright series. Selected writings on architecture between 1894 and 1940. Original HC List Price $3.50. (Fourth Edition) (Sweeney 532)
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Pages: Pp 275
S#: 0532.04.1299
Date: 1943 Title: This America (Hard Cover) (Published by The Macmillan Company, New York. First published in 1942.)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Edited by Kern, John D.; Griggs, Irwin
Description: Chapter 35: "Organic Architecture". Condensed and reprinted from "Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture", Wright, Edited by Gutheim, 1941, pages 177-191. First published in Architect's Journal, August, 1936. "In this paper Wright dealt with the period 1893-1920... At the risk of some repetition nearly all of this paper has been reprinted here because it summarizes a great deal of what has been said before in a new perspective." Gutheim, 1941. 6.25 x 9.5. (Second Edition)
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Date: 1960 Edition Title: Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture: Selected Writings (Soft Cover) (Published by Universal Library, Gosset & Dunlap, New York)
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright, Edited by Gutheim, Frederick
Description: First published in 1941 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, as the first volume in the Frank Lloyd Wright trilogy. Original SC List Price $1.65. (First University Library SC version) (Sweeney 532)
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THE KENYON REVIEW Date: 1942 Title: The Kenyon Review - Winter 1942 (Published by Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio)
Author: Goodman, Paul; Goodman, Percival
Description: (Book Review) "Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture." In depth analysis of Wright's latest book. Discusses "Organic Architecture", "Domestic Architecture", and "Organic Architecture and the International Style". "...Wright does not think as a great entrepreneur; he merely rather hopes that Broadacres is inevitable. (In fact it must be said of him that throughout his long career he has never mixed in the schemes nor compromised with the tastes of his wealthy clients. It is mysterious in these circumstances how he has managed to get along - except that God takes care of his saints.)" Includes 14 photographs and five illustrations. Original cover price 50c. (Sweeney 589)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 7 - 29
ST#: 0589.00.0310
Date: 1946 Title: Kenyon Review, The - Winter 1946 (Published by Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio)
Author: Bentley, Eric
Description: Book Review: "When Democracy Builds". "Frank Lloyd Wright's book is important as a symptom of current fallacies or, more precisely, of the classic and time-honored fallacies of philosophic anarchism which are the same yesterday today and forever. His assumption that politics can somehow be by-passed by the builders of the new world is reinforced by what one might call the Professional Illusion - the illusion each profession suffers from, that its methods and matters afford a general panacea..." Original cover price 75c. 6 x 9.
Size:
Pages: Pp 160-163
S#: 0624.02.0613
IN THE NATURE OF MATERIALS (1942) Published as the second volume by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in the Frank Lloyd Wright series. The buildings of Wright
between 1887 and 1941.Date: 1942 First Edition Title: In The Nature of Materials: 1887 - 1941, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Description: This is the second volume in the series of three published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce devoted to a complete presentation of the life, literature and work of Wright. This is the essential background book on the architect's work. Includes 414 photographs and illustrations. Original HC list price $3.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 573)
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 143
S#: 0573.00.0702
Date: 1942 Third Edition Title: In The Nature of Materials: 1887 - 1941, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Description: This is the second volume in the series of three published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce devoted to a complete presentation of the life, literature and work of Wright. This is the essential background book on the architect's work. Includes 414 photographs and illustrations. Original HC list price $6.00. (Third Edition) (Sweeney 573)
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 143
S#: 0573.00.0399
Date: 1958 Fifth Edition Title: The Nature of Materials: 1887 - 1941, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Description: First published in 1942. This is the second volume in the series of three published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce devoted to a complete presentation of the life, literature and work of Wright. This is the essential background book on the architect's work. Includes 414 photographs and illustrations. Original HC list price $12.00. (Fifth Edition) (Sweeney 573)
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 143
S#: 0573.00.0607
Date: `1973 Hard Cover Version Title: In The Nature of Materials, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by DeCapo)
Author: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Description: Original HC List Price $18.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1915)
Size:
Pages: Pp 143
S#: 1915.00.0703
Date: 1973 Soft Cover Version Title: In The Nature of Materials, The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by DeCapo)
Author: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Description: Original SC List Price $14.95. (Seventh Edition) (Sweeney 1915)
Size:
Pages: Pp 143
S#: 1915.00.0199
Date: Ad for 1938 Third Edition Title: Ad for: An Autobiography (Published Longmans, Green & Co., New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Now in a Popularly Priced Edition.Ā¯ Ad for: An Autobiography. Formerly $6.00, New Edition $3.50.Ā¯
Size: 3.5 x 3
Pages: Pp 1
S#: 0303.03.0808
Date: 1971 Title: Famous American Books (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York
Author: Downs, Robert B.
Description: Book Review of "An Autobiography", Frank Lloyd Wright, 1932. Chapter 39: "Master Builder, Frank Lloyd Wright's Autobiography, 1932. When Frank Lloyd Wright died at the age of ninety, he left as his monument 700 completed structures and plans for at least 300 more, including homes, hotels, factories, office buildings, museums, and churches. Wright had achieved fame beyond any American artist and was as renowned abroad as at home... Though a sharp critic of society and of his contemporaries in the architectural world, Wright won more official honors at home and abroad and erected more structure than any other individual architect of the twentieth century. His permanent impact on the history and development of architecture is conceded even by his sharpest critics. Original list price $8.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 314)
Size: 5.5 x 8.25
Pages: Pp 283-289
S#: 0314.00.1013
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1943) First published in 1932 by Longmans, Green and Company. Duell, Sloan and Pearce reprinted An Autobiography to complete their trilogy. Date: 1943 Edition Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: First published in 1932 by Longmans, Green and Company. Duell, Sloan and Pearce reprints An Autobiography to complete their trilogy. This Duell First Edition divides Book One into Book One and Book Two. Book Three: Work, Book Four: Freedom. There is an addition to the version, Book Five: Form. All the original photographs were deleted and one new photograph added. 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition. By 1962, it had gone through an eighth printing. (See FLW versus America, Page 37) Original HC List Price $4.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 595)
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 561
S#: 0595.00.1299
In 1943, when Frank Lloyd Wright revised An Autobiography, he also revised the illustrations.
Left and Right: Title page spread, Book One: Family. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Left and Right: Title page spread, Book Two: Fellowship. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Left and Right: Title page spread, Book Three: Work. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Left and Right: Title page spread, Book Four: Work. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Left: Title page, Book Five: Form. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Left and Right: Book Five: Work Song. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Additional Editions of "An Autobiography"
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