Wallace Neff: Architect of California's Golden Age (with Letter Laid in About This Book About His father)
Santa Monica, CA: Hennessy and Ingalls, 2000. Quarto. Item #031831
Portrait frontispiece, 232 pages. For almost five decades, beginning in the 1920's, Wallace Neff designed Spanish Colonial style homes for the Hollywood set. This book shows several of the homes he designed along with a few of their floor plans. A letter is laid in to Dr. Bucklew: "Thought you might get a bang out of this book I did on my father--I hope to do a much more comprehensive book in a few years. I was limited to too few pages. Thanks so much for taking care of me, I feel back to normal now- everything is working well!! Book is further inscribed by Neff to Dr. Bucklew on the half title…. thanking him for the good medical care he gave to him while in Santa Barbara, Best Wishes, Wally Neff. A very good copy bound in blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, in a very good pictorial dust jacket with a closed tear to head and tiny nick to foot.
Price: $115.00