First Edition. Good. Folio. 175pp., extensively illustrated with photographs and diagrams in black-and-white throughout, four leaves of color illustrations; creases to the lower corner of the first few leaves, lightly toned, a few tiny closed marginal tears. Original pictorial brown card wrappers lettered in black; a few stray spots and stains to wrapper, lightly rubbed at extremities, some creasing at corners, slight loss to foot of spine.""An attractive and important study of vernacular architecture around the world; a part of the 1960s counter-cultural movement to re-embrace the human scale of building and architecture.  A first edition of this “classic celebrating the imagination, resourcefulness, and exuberance of human habitat.”