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Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, Published 1977. Paperback, 283 pp.; 24 cm (square); tenth printing (1994); illustrated with black-and-white photographs, architectural drawings and floor plans. With new photographs by Marvin Rand and an introduction by Reyner Banham. Volume one only; the companion volume, Furniture and Related Designs, is not included.
In Very Good condition. Glossy black-and-white pictorial paper covers (Greene and Greene armchair on front, Gamble House porte-cochere on rear); light bumping, increasing to edges and corners, mild shelf and edge wear, hint of toning along edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Chronological survey of the architectural careers of Charles and Henry Greene, from their Ohio and St. Louis childhoods and training at Calvin Woodward's Manual Training School to the Pasadena masterworks of 1907-1909 and Henry Greene's last commission, the 1929 Richardson ranch in Porterville. Makinson, longtime director of The Gamble House and the leading authority on the Greenes, drew on the Greene and Greene Library, the Avery Architectural Library and the Environmental Design Library at Berkeley. Illustrated throughout with period photographs, the Greenes' own drawings and plans, and Marvin Rand's photographs, covering the Bandini, Camp, Halsted, Neill, Ford, Bentz and Gamble houses among many others. Banham's introduction places the Greenes within the international Arts and Crafts movement. Designed by Adrian Wilson. Contents: Preface by Randell Makinson; Introduction by Reyner Banham; The Forming Years 1868-1893; The Early Work, A Decade in Search 1893-1903; A Style Emerging 1903-1907; The Ultimate Bungalows 1907-1909; Convictions in Conflict with Change 1910-1922; Separate Work, Retirement and Recognition 1923-1968; Selected Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgements.