Work by Corbusier, First Edition (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition. Unpaginated. This is an ex-Library book. White pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photos and illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Dust jacket attached to boards and protected by plastic wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1960. Still firmly bound and inside has been carefully read & the pges are clean. The hardcover has some discoloration to the edges& the front cover does not lie quite flat. Gift inscription on the front endpaper. No torn, Loose or missing pages. The jacket is worn with several tears & some loss (see photos). Illustrated mainly in b/w with photos & drawings. A large & heavy book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Black and White photographs. Very Good (-), without dust jacket. Includes four photos laid in, perhaps for publicity - and perhaps not related to this book?

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first English-language edition. 4to. 308pp. Maroon cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With four colour plates, and hundreds of photographs, plus many drawings and designs by the author. A slight ridge to the backstrip, a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and the cloth just fractionally marked in one or two places. Top edge and endpapers very slightly spotted. A very good copy in quite lightly rubbed, nicked and soiled price-clipped dust wrapper, with three or four tiny fractions of edge-loss. A splendid Le Corbusier monograph, written and designed by the author who also selected all of the illustrations and supervised the page layouts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first English-language edition. 4to. 308pp. Two-tone cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With four colour plates, and hundreds of photographs, plus many drawings and designs by the author. Cloth very lightly toned at the backstrip, and with a little light marking to the head of the upper board. A very good copy in lightly rubbed and soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A splendid Le Corbusier monograph, written and designed by the author who also selected all of the illustrations and supervised the page layouts.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 22 x 29cm 356pp fair hardback in dust jacket, small sections of paper missing from the right-hand corner, top left close to spine, around the rear head of spine with chipping along top and lower edge of the jacket. Contributions by Rudolph Arnheim and Barbara Norfleet. The book is a critical biography of a building, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. The book is composed of the main biographical section and three supplementary essays, each treating a different aspect of the project or its designer, Le Corbusier. With black and white reproductions of the building and plans. Signed on the title page by William Curtis.