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Leighton to front free endpaper. Light rubbing along joints, contents slightly browned, leaf A4 with slight loss at foot not affecting text. A very good copy. ¶ ESTC R25449; Wing L730. £2,500 [152946] 118 LE CORBUSIER. Manière de penser l’urbanisme. [Boulogne:] Éditions de L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, [1946] Inscribed by Le Corbusier and strikingly bound First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “pour Maximilien Gauthier, avec mon amitié, Le Corbusier”. Gauthier (1893–1977), a prominent journalist and art historian, was the author of one of the
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earliest studies of the great architect, Le Corbusier: ou, l’Architecture au service de l’homme (1944), which offered “the most comprehensive biographical information on the architect’s youth, based upon the architect’s own recollections” (von Moos, p. 322). Octavo (233 × 151 mm). Finely bound in near-contemporary black quarter calf, spine lettered in silver, silver and black boards, geometrically echoing the design of the wrappers, black endpapers. With 32 pp. (p. 81–112) printed on coated paper with 12 colour illustrations, illustrations in black and white throughout. Spine sunned, ends a little rubbed, else square and firm, trivial gum residue to free endpapers, short closed tear to rear wrapper and 4 cm tear to pp. 19–20, not affecting text, book block and wrappers a little toned. A very good copy indeed, in a bright and handsome binding. ¶ Stanislaus von Moos, Le Corbusier: Elements of a Synthesis, 2009. £2,250 [153127] 119 LE GUIN, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore. Berkeley, CA & New York: Parnassus Press & Atheneum, 1968–71–72 First editions of the novels comprising the Earthsea trilogy, one of the most beloved fantasy series of the 20th century. This set is in notably attractive condition.
Le Guin first explored the world of Earthsea in her 1964 short story “The World of Unbinding”. Two other Earthsea novels, Tehanu and The Other Wind , followed in 1990 and 2001, but it is the original three that established Le Guin as one of America’s foremost fantasy authors. Currey notes that “although 6,800 copies of the first printing of A Wizard of Earthsea were produced, most copies were sold to public and secondary school libraries, and fine unmarked copies have therefore proved to be quite elusive” (Currey, vol. II, p. 326). The Tombs of Atuan is in the second state, with the silver Newbery Honor stamp to the jacket, awarded in 1972. 3 volumes, octavo. Original blue-green, black, and blue cloth; spines lettered in black, metallic purple, and silver; pictorial designs to front in same colours; green, purple, and red endpapers. With dust jackets. A near-fine set, spine ends a touch bumped, trivial rubbing to extremities and the occasional mark, spine of Wizard a little sunned, lower tips of Shore lightly bumped, trivial glue marks to edges of endpaper of Atuan . Else sharp, bright copies, in price-clipped jackets, a few nicks and occasional rubbing, a little red ink to verso of Atuan . ¶ Currey vol. II, 3392; 3421. £3,750 [152155]
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