Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Signed)

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. 2nd Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Inscribed by the Author on the FFEP to fellow architect Kazuo Nakajima, (144)pp., 6.25 x 8.25 inches.  Very Good. Moderate rubbing with two small closed tears (0.5 cm and 2 cm) to the rear of the jacket with very faint water rippling and a small 0.5cm chip to the back flap. Original MoMA price sticker to the inside front flap. Grey cloth boards are sharp and unmarred with crisp, clean pages. From the introduction by Vincent Scully: “Probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture, of 1923.” Inscribed to Kazuo Nakajima on the Front Free Endpaper: “Best wishes to you in Italy,  Robert Venturi April 1975”   Includes a full letter addressed to “Bill” and written and signed in Venturi’s inimitable hand, on Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, INC. letterhead. The letter, married to this copy some years later, is dated April 22, ‘89 and addressed to “Bill”