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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by KOOLHAAS, Rem
- Used
- first
- Condition
- A near fine copy in pink boards with black lettering. Illustrated jacket with minor rubbing and short edge-tears, else also near
- Seller
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East Hampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. A near fine copy in pink boards with black lettering. Illustrated jacket with minor rubbing and short edge-tears, else also near fine. A pleasing copy.. First Edition. Quarto. Koolhaas's immensely influential "retroactive manifesto" for Manhattan architecture. The dust jacket image derives from a painting by Madelon Vriesendorp, Koolhaas's wife. In it the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, their forms softened like a pair of Dalí watches, lie together in bed in apparent post-coital exhaustion while Rockerfeller Center, playing the jealous husband in this surreal architectural drama, emerges from a doorway at stage left and shines his spotlight onto the guilty pair.
Synopsis
Rem Koolhaas is the internationally known architect, a founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) in Rotterdam, and author of the critically acclaimed S,M,L,XL .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harper's Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28347
- Title
- Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
- Author
- KOOLHAAS, Rem
- Book Condition
- Used - A near fine copy in pink boards with black lettering. Illustrated jacket with minor rubbing and short edge-tears, else also near
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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Books may be returned for any reason within two weeks provided they are received in the same condition as they were sent.
About the Seller
Harper's Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2009
East Hampton, New York
About Harper's Books, Inc.
Harper's Books, founded in 1997, is a bookshop and photography gallery located in East Hampton, New York. We are one of the world's leading dealers in photographic literature, with particular emphasis placed on association copies and landmark books presented in exceptional condition. In addition to our book business, we maintain a gallery space where photographs are exhibited in concert with books. Harper's Books is a member of the ABAA, and the only American rare book dealer chosen to exhibit yearly at Paris Photo.
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