ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS 1938.

11.75" x 9". (vi),116 pages; profusely illustrated with hundreds of finely-printed b/w photographs and b/w line drawings, plans, and elevations. Original brown burlap-covered boards, wire spiral binging, onlaid rice-paper cover title, rice-paper endpapers, copyright page and initial text pages, Very Good+ (ink gift inscription to front pastedown endpaper, dime-sized brown stain to upper outer corners of the intial rice-paper pages, otherwise internally clean, unmarked and Fine), in rarely-found, but Poor (chipped, torn, and stained) printed cardboard slipcase.Very nice copy, well-preserved thanks to the slipcase in which it has been stored. Sharp p.106. The Czech-born Raymond studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesen and was his chief assistant on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. He spent most of his professional life in Japan, where he practiced independently as "American Architect-Engineers." He left Japan in 1937, opened a New York office the next year, and returned permanently to Tokyo to reopen his office there in 1948. The AIA awarded him their Medal of Honor in 1956.…