Art Deco Architecture, Patricia Bayer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1992, HC, Near Fine

Bayer, Patricia. New York. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. 1992.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 10” x 11 ¾,” 224 pp.

ISBN: 0810919230

Black woven cloth over boards, gilt stamped titling to spine, blue endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s black dust jacket with full-color photographs to front, spine, and back, white text to front and spine, black text to white inside gate flaps. Minor pressure indentation to front, very mild edgewear, otherwise clean throughout, tightly bound, and excellent. In a Very Good dust jacket now protected in a paper-backed Mylar Sleeve. Very mild edgewear, mild shelfwear to Mylar sleeve, otherwise excellent. 224 pp. Replete with full-color and black-and-white images. Bayer looks at the international impact of the Art Deco movement, with wonderful photographs of buildings from throughout the world. From the dust jacket: “Bayer’s cogent and informative text shows how Art Deco’s sheer decorative exuberance and adaptation to diverse situations has ensured its lasting popularity…this unrivaled volume provides a comprehensive guide to this best-loved of all twentieth-century architectural styles.”