The Story of the Tower: The Tree that Escaped the Crowded Forest. By Frank Lloyd Wright. First edition, signed by the architect. New York: Horizon Press, 1956. Signed by Frank Lloyd Wright on the front free endpaper within printed red square and dated 58. Ownership signature of Wright’s student, George Knowles in pencil above Wright’s signature. Bound in publisher’s black cloth boards lettered and stamped in red and gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light rubbing and fading to spine and edges, heaviest along top edge of upper board. Binding shaken with light toning to contents. A profusely illustrated monograph of the famous architect’s design and construction of The Price Tower in downtown Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The tower was built for Harold C. Price as a corporate headquarters for his pipeline construction company. The initial project was laid out for a cluster apartment complex in New York City in 1929, but was never realized due to the Great Depression.
