Author: PATTISON, HARRIET
Title: Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300223129. A first printing of Harriet Pattison's memoir, which tells of her relationship with "the love of her life," Louis Kahn (1901-1974). The Estonian-born Kahn was a world-renowned architect, based in Philadelphia. He often traveled the world on various projects and made a habit of sending letters (often with his drawings) to Harriet, dozens of which are reproduced in this volume. Though Kahn was married to another, he and Harriet had a son together, Nathaniel Kahn. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with cover titling in blind; gilt-stamped spine titling. The dust jacket features a black & white photographic portrait of the couple, taken by their son. --- A bright, tightly-bound, unmarked copy though with slight soiling to cloth and a slightly cocked spine. Unclipped, unpriced jacket in great shape; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; x, 438 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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