first edition
1995 · New York
by KOOLHAAS, Rem and Bruce Mau
New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo (24cm); silver leatherette boards, with titles stamped in black and yellow on spine and covers; pictorial endpapers; xxxii,1344pp; illus. Crown very gently nudged, else a very Near Fine copy, without dustjacket, as issued. "This massive book is a novel about architecture...The book combines essays, manifestoes, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city, with work produced by Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years" (from rear cover). Edited by Jennifer Sigler, with photographs by Hans Werlemann. (truncated)