The Death and Life of Great American Cities
New York: Random House, 1961.
First edition, first printing stated. Signed by Jane Jacobs and inscribed to a former owner on fly-leaf with date Jan. 1962. [xii], 458 pp. Bound in publisher's black patterned cloth with spine lettered in gilt and red, red topstain. Very Good with faint lean to binding, chipping and fraying at tail of spine, light foxing to text block edges. Several rusted paperclip marks to rear pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and edgewear, toning to spine and edges, and a several splash-marks to spine. Vertical crease to front panel near spine. A seminal critique of mid-century "rationalist" planning by the writer and activist Jane Jacobs, who has come to be regarded as the patron saint of humanist urban planning and architectural preservation.
Price: $4,500