Le Corbusier: Oeuvre Complete 1938-1946

Artist: Le Corbusier 
Author: Le Corbusier 
Publisher: Les Editions d'Architecture / Willy Boesiger, Zurich 
Date: 1946
Condition: The first edition of the fourth volume in the series, this example lacks the original dust wrapper over the ivory linen and green embossed boards. The boards show a little staining and foxing to the top edges front and back. Internally apparently complete, clean and tidy. Inside front cover bears the bookseller's label for John Tiranti Ltd. Text in English and French. Loosely inserted is a double page errata notice with amendments to some faulty translations into English of certain passages. 

Part of the exhaustive series of eight volumes covering the works and career of one of the architectural titans of the c20th, this book looks at the 1938-1946 period and and thus a time when actual building projects were pretty rare, but the ideas still flowed. Well illustrated with copious plans and photographs as well as extensive notes and quotes from Le Corbusier making this a very valuable document for the student of this period of architecture.