KOOLHAAS, Rem. New York Delire: Un Manifeste Retroactif pour Manhattan.

(Paris): Ste Nile des Editions du Chene, 1978. First French edition. Quarto. 263 pages. An influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York. Koolhaas’ polemical investigation of Manhattan as “a mystical laboratory for the invention and testing of a revolutionary lifestyle” has gained almost mythical status. A very good plus dust jacket in very good plus dust jacket.