LE CORBUSIER, pseud. (i.e. Charles Édouard JEANNERET, 1887-1965). Vers une architecture. Paris: G.Cris et Cie., [n.d. but 1923]. 8° (245 x 158mm). Illustrations. (P.XI misbound at front.) Contemporary decorative cloth by Bain of London (spine soiled and chipped at head and foot). Provenance : NOEL CARRINGTON (1894-1989, signature, youngest brother of Dora Carrington ; Panos Gratsos (book-label). FIRST EDITION, with an interesting provenance. "Its publication marks a milestone in the development of the modern movement... [It] is a passionate work, written with emotion and rhetoric... it expresses, with prophetic fervour, a poetic vision of a new architecture in a new society": Printing and the Mind of Man 413. LE CORBUSIER, pseud. Oeuvre plastique peintures et dessins architecture. Paris: Albert Morancé, [1938]. 2 volumes (including plate volume), 4° in 2's (270 x 205mm). 44 plates, 8 coloured (including 4 lithographs), illustrations, all after Le Corbusier. Original stiff card wrappers, 40 of the plates unbound as issued (small repairs to upper covers), both volumes within a single cloth-backed board portfolio (slightly scuffed). FIRST EDITION. (3)
LE CORBUSIER, pseud. (i.e. Charles Édouard JEANNERET, 1887-1965). Vers une architecture. Paris: G.Cris et Cie., [n.d. but 1923]. 8° (245 x 158mm). Illustrations. (P.XI misbound at front.) Contemporary decorative cloth by Bain of London (spine soiled and chipped at head and foot). Provenance : NOEL CARRINGTON (1894-1989, signature, youngest brother of Dora Carrington ; Panos Gratsos (book-label). FIRST EDITION, with an interesting provenance. "Its publication marks a milestone in the development of the modern movement... [It] is a passionate work, written with emotion and rhetoric... it expresses, with prophetic fervour, a poetic vision of a new architecture in a new society": Printing and the Mind of Man 413. LE CORBUSIER, pseud. Oeuvre plastique peintures et dessins architecture. Paris: Albert Morancé, [1938]. 2 volumes (including plate volume), 4° in 2's (270 x 205mm). 44 plates, 8 coloured (including 4 lithographs), illustrations, all after Le Corbusier. Original stiff card wrappers, 40 of the plates unbound as issued (small repairs to upper covers), both volumes within a single cloth-backed board portfolio (slightly scuffed). FIRST EDITION. (3)
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