Learning From Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour - 1972

The MIT Press, 1972. 1. Hardcover. Good. Good+; Hardcover; First Edition; Clean covers with minor shelfwear and edgewear; Minor soiling to the right textblock, otherwise unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 14" - 16" tall); 3.9 lbs; Extra-Large Format; Dark gray cloth covers with photo plate and title in gold lettering; 1972, The MIT Press; 208 pages; "Learning from Las Vegas," by Robert Venturi, et al.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 189 pages, Folio. No DJ. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, a few scratch marks on rear cover, light tanning along page edges. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition..

MIT, 1972. Hardcover. Very good/Poor. First edition. Small folio-size volume, with crumpled and torn dust jacket. Covers are mildly stained along bottom edge.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972. FIRST EDITION. Numerous b/w and full color photographs and illustrations. xvi, 189 pp. Hardcover. Large 4to. Grey cloth. Full color photographic label to front board. Head, heel and corners bumped and rubbed; boards lightly rubbed; very light foxing to endpapers. Very good/No dust jacket. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply) (Insurance required to ship this item).

The MIT Press. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. 0262220156 . Gift inscription. ; Gilt lettering; paste-down illus. Front cover. 188 paginated pages ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages .

The MIT Press. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. 0262220156 . Gift inscription. ; Gilt lettering; paste-down illus. Front cover. 188 paginated pages ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages .

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The MIT Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition, first printing with the errata slip laid in. Inscribed by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour on the front flyleaf, alongside two post-it notes inscribed by Venturi. Folio: xvi, [2], 189 p. with numerous photographs, architectural plans, etc. Original gray cloth binding, lettered in gilt, with a color photograph mounted on the front panel. In the original printed glassine dust jacket, which is a bit edgeworn with a few unobtrusive tape mends. Learning from Las Vegas caused a stir in the architectural world upon its publication, as it was hailed by progressive critics for its bold indictment of Modernism, and by the status quo as blasphemous. A split among young American architects occurred during the 1970s, with Izenour, Venturi, Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Moore, and Allan Greenberg defending the book as "The Greys", and Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman,… Read More

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Robert Venturi to previous owners "A graphics monstrosity for Tom and Marjorie with our thanks for a heavenly day / Bob and Denise / April '81" with Denise Scott Brown's signature ("and Denise") added to Venturi's inscription. Errata slip laid in. About Fine, with bottom rear corner and bottom edge of front board bumped, light shelf wear, light toning to pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning, shallow chipping at the head, several tears and chips to the edges with very little loss, but still quite a remarkable survival of the notoriously fragile dust jacket.