Landscape: A Magazine of Human Geography. Vol 2, No. 3, Spring 1953

Early edition (Volume 2, No. 3, Spring 1953) of J.B. Jackson’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary journal of cultural and human geography, featuring the first appearance of Jackson’s seminal essay “The Westward-Moving House.” Also includes the essay “Space and the Modern Highway” by Austrian architect and designer Roland Rainer, along with a review of Garret Eckbo’s pivotal book Landscape for Living. Jackson (1909-1996), a writer, publisher, and instructor whose books include American Space: The Centennial Years, 1865-1876 and The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics, founded Landscape Magazine in 1951, serving as publisher, editor, and chief contributor for almost two decades. Over his long career, Jackson fostered and advanced the study of the American vernacular landscape, with architectural critic Herbert Muschamp calling him “America’s greatest…writer on the forces that have shaped the land this nation occupies.” An important edition of what is a surprisingly uncommon publication. Light rubbing to extremities.