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The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
by Wurman, Richard Saul; and Eugene Feldman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Falcon Press, 1962. First edition, limited to 1,800 numbered copies. Number 612. Published NY: Falcon Press, 1962, first printing. Large folio, 11 1/4" x 15 1/2", 75 drawings including 42 full page plates, many double and four-fold plates. Cream linen cloth with gilt spine titles, gilt cover motif of trees after Kahn design, gray pictorial endpapers of movement pattern. Some wear at the spine ends and tips, closed tear at the lower front outer hinge cloth, mild edge darkening to the cloth. Binding strong, pages clean and bright. Very good. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008841
- Title
- The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
- Author
- Wurman, Richard Saul; and Eugene Feldman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Falcon Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- Folio
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Design;
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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