Gregori mina

1966 · 584133 — São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by P. M. Bardi. Quarto. 277pp. Heavily illustrated in black and white and with a facsimile of a 1930 pamphlet titled "Exposicao de uma casa modernista por Gregori Warchavchik" tipped-in as issued. Majority of the text is in Portuguese; a few facsimiles of letters are in different languages mostly French; and an overview of Warchavchik's introduction of Modernist architecture to Brazil is printed in both French and English. Binding cocked boards with some edgewear including a few nicks and one corner worn through binding with some tanning and soil very good and sound lacking the presumed dust jacket. Inscribed by Ferraz to a longtime U.S. foreign service worker on the title page. Publisher's complimentary copy with a slip which appears to be Signed by director P. M. Bardi laid in as well as one of Warchavchik's calling cards with his name only printed on coated card stock. Warchavchik was an important Jewish-Brazilian Modernist architect. The author also known as Benedito Geraldo Ferraz Gonçalves was a Brazilian Modernist author journalist and literary critic. Uncommon. Museu de Arte de São Paulo hardcover