Delirious New York / A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Koolhaas, Rem

n.p: The Monacelli Press, 1994. softcover. 317 pp. references. -(some linings in pencil, sticker remains on p. 14, otherwise in good condition).

E-145: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Oxford University Press. 1978. 263 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Signed by Rem Koolhaas on the FFEP. DJ has some light chipping to the top of the DJ spine and near the corners. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a… Read More