Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1952. 1st. Cloth. 1952 1st edition. VG+ in its elegant Oxford Navy-blue, with bright gilt-lettering along the spine. And in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ pictorial dustjacket. Very light, inoffensive foxing along the book's front and rear endsheets and to the jacket's panels. Still..... More
New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952. 1st. Decorative Cloth. 1952 1st edition, in the uncommon dustjacket. Solid and VG in a bright, price-intact, VG- dustjacket, with several chips to the front panel's top-edge and light chipping along the rear panel's bottom edge. Still though, a very presentable copy of this..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. Cloth. A solid copy of this 1973 American edition, publihed out of New York by Grossman. Tight and VG+ (small, old price sticker at the front pastedown) in a crisp, VG+ dustacket, with just a touch of rippling along the rear panel. Square octavo, "with..... More
New York: Frederick A Praeger Inc., 1957. Pictorial cloth. A solid copy of the 1957 1st American edition. Tight and VG+ (light offsetting at the pastedowns and the rear endsheet) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping and creasing --and several small closed tears-- along the top-edges and..... More
Paris: Fondation Le Corbusier (Editions Connivences), 1989. Cloth. Lovely 1989 reprint of Le Corbusier's epic 1955 poem, a signed/limited 1st edition of 250 copies which featured 155 lithographs, 19 of them in lavish color, all produced by Le Corbusier himself. Many consider the original 1955 printing to be the most..... More
Editions De L'Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui, 1946. Original wraps. A clean, very sharp copy of the 1946 1st edition, IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL GLASSINE DUSTJACKET. Crisp and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. And in a smooth, unchipped, Near Fine example of the unprinted glassine dustwrapper. Octavo, 184 pgs., including a number..... More
London: The Harvill Press, 1953. Cloth. An impressive copy of the 1953 1st English language edition, translated from its original French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, which shows very light soiling along the front panel. Quarto, crisp black-and-white reproductions thruout. More
Harvard University Press, 1958. Cloth. A very bright copy of the 1958 2nd American edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of light soiling to the front panel. Signed by and from the library of Sean Sculley (1939-2021), renowned architect..... More
London: The Architectural Press, 1960. Cloth. A handsome copy of the 1960 1st English language edition. Tight and Near Fine (small, neat "Whitney Library of Design" stamp on the title page) in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light soiling and creasing to the rear panel, 2 small closed..... More
New York: The Orion Press, 1968. Cloth. A solid copy of the 1968 1st American edition, translated from its original French by Eleanor Levieux. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with one tiny closed tear to the front panel's top-edge and just a touch of mild darkening..... More
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1937. Boards. WARMLY SIGNED BY LE CORBUSIER on the half-title. A clean, crisp copy to boot of the 1937 1st edition. Attractively re-bound in white boards (with gilt-titling along the spine) and new endsheets. Easily VG+ to Near Fine. Octavo, also includes an unprinted dustjacket (probably not..... More
New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927. Cloth. The presumed 1927 true 1st American edition, borrowing its sheets directly from the 1927 1st British edition ("translated from the thirtenth French edition and with an introduction by Frederick Etchells"). (Also, using "Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited..... More
New York: Rainhold Publishing Corporation, 1947. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1947 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 23 plates supplementing Le Corbusier's text. More
Paris: Les Editions G. Cres et Cie, 1924. Cloth. The November 1924 2nd edition, revised and enlarged ("nouvelle edition revue et augmentee"), bound in a printed gray cloth AND with its original pictorial front wrapper bound-in. The cloth spine tanned and lightly-chipped at its ends. Internally, clean and very sharp..... More
San Francisco: World Trade Center Authority, 1945. Pictorial boards. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY LELAND CUTLER, CHAIRMAN OF THE SAN FRANCISCO WORLD TRADE CENTER AUTHORITY, on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1945 1st edition. Tight and VG in its light-blue boards, with mild scuffing to the..... More
Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, 1944. 1st. Original Wraps. 1944 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in its decorative wrappers, limited to 350 copies. Original sketches (still with their tissue-guards) thruout by Robbert Sterkers. Folio, loosely-bound (as issued) and housed in its patterned, printed chemise and its matching slipcase. An attractive rendering of..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY LOUIS HOROWITZ on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1937 1st edition. Tight and VG to VG+ in its light-green cloth, with offsetting to the inner hinges. Octavo, lacking its original dustjacket. Inspiring memoirs of..... More
New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, Inc., 1924. Boards. The uncommon 1924 1st edition of this imposing architectural meditation by Louis Sullivan, comsidered by many to be the father of the modern skyscraper. Tight and VG+ in its linen-backed, light-green boards, with bright, completely unrubbed gilt-titling at..... More
Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552. Bernard Salomon. Full leather. Edited by Guillaume Philander. Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552. De Tournes's device on title, 83 woodcuts, one folding plate of a monumental inscription, head-pieces, initials, a second printer's device on verso of last leaf. First de Tournes edition of Vitruvius with..... More
Princeton University Press, 1996. 1st. Decorative Cloth. A beautiful copy of the 1996 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, 282 pgs., richly-illustrated thruout. Music analysis by Richard Feliciano. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Cloth. SIGNED SIMPLY BUT CLEARLY BY MARCEL BREUER on the front free endpaper. A bright, unusually clean copy to boot of the 1962 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of light..... More
Berlin: c. 1930. Marcel Breuer. A nice-sized pencil-on-trace by Marcel Breuer, the great Hungarian-born Modernist architect and furniture designer (1902-1981) who was a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar and who, at an early age, was handpicked by Walter Gropius to head the Bauhaus' Carpentry Shop. His "modular" sketch measues..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956. Cloth. The 1956 1st American edition. Solid and VG+ (very mild bowing to the front board) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with chipping and creasing --and several very small closed tears- along the panel edges. Light rubbing as well to the panels. Still though..... More
Fontaine Uitgevers, 2006. Hardcover. A crisp, very nice copy of the 2006 1st Dutch edition of this impressive Frank Loyd Wright imteractive portfolio. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial laminate boards. Square quarto, 92 pgs. Also includes a bright, Near Fine example of publisher's pictorial slipcase. More
Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1970. Cloth. The 1970 1st European edition, printed in Barcelona and with text in English, Spanish, French and German. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with several small closed tears along the top-edges. Square octavo, hundreds of crisp black-and-white photos. Part of the Coleccion..... More
