Hard covered book titled HOUSTON ARCHITECTURAL BALLADE  by Valentin L. Gertsman, First Edition, Limited Copies, 2000, with glossy dust jacket, 127 pages, black cloth bound with silver lettering. SIGNED by author.

This book contains 104 photographs based on contemporary architecture and outdoor sculptures of Houston. The composite photographs in Chapter Three are abstract and symbolize some of the most important aspects of the city's life as capital of the international oil industry and center of medicine, space exploration, and cultures.

Topics include:
 

• TRIBUTE TO OLD IMAGE
• ONE AFTERNOON
• MODERN IMAGE
• GERTSMAN'S ARCHITECTURE
• AN ARCHITECTURAL BALLAD
• IMAGINARY HOUSTON
• SYMBOLS
• IN CONCLUSION

This elegant book is in VG+ condition, pages are clean and intact, and the binding is tight.