George Loorz was construction engineer on many legendary building projects including Hearst Castle in San Simeon. Building for Hearst and Morgan draws on his extensive writings, as well as contemporary published sources, to give an inside look at two of the most fascinating and influential figures of 20th-century America. The beautifully illustrated book captures the people and places of their world from the early 1930s through the outbreak of World War II. Including a trove of rare, previously unpublished photos, Building ...
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George Loorz was construction engineer on many legendary building projects including Hearst Castle in San Simeon. Building for Hearst and Morgan draws on his extensive writings, as well as contemporary published sources, to give an inside look at two of the most fascinating and influential figures of 20th-century America. The beautifully illustrated book captures the people and places of their world from the early 1930s through the outbreak of World War II. Including a trove of rare, previously unpublished photos, Building for Hearst and Morgan takes the reader behind the scenes at such magical locales as the medieval chateau Wyntoon and the famed lodge created by the newspaper magnate and his architect at the Grand Canyon.
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Fine in fine jacket. Voices from the George Loorz Papers. Foreword by Kevin Starr. Sm 4to. Cream cloth, with black spine lettering. Black top stain. 581 pages, with Appendices, Bibliography, and Index. With maps and b/w photographic images. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "To Bill-This is one of the very first copies, 'hot off the press. ' It goes forth this day, December 10, 2002, to the best patron and supporter a guy like me could ever hope to have. With more thanks than I can possibly covey [sic], Taylor". In illustrated dust-jacket (with "$40.00" price intact). A crisp, as new copy, in dust-jacket, here signed and inscribed. Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.
