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Arcades: The History of a Building Type
by Geist, Johann Friedrich
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0262070820
- ISBN 13
- 9780262070829
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About This Item
Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. 4to. viii,596pp. Black/grayish cloth with white lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Classic reference work on the arcades, passages, and galleries of late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and America. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and architectural plans. Minor shelf wear on bottom edges, tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor sunning, creasing and few closed tears on dj. Dated signature of previous owner on free front endpaper. Tight copy with dust jacket and binding in good, interior in near fine condition.
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- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29545
- Title
- Arcades: The History of a Building Type
- Author
- Geist, Johann Friedrich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0262070820
- ISBN 13
- 9780262070829
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- 18th century architecture, 18th century american architecture, 19th century architecture, 19th century american architecture, american arcades, commercial architecture, american galleries, movie arcades, thater arcades
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We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Tail
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- Shelf Wear
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