The Architectural Character of Glebe, Sydney.
by Smith, Bernard; Smith, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0424001551
- ISBN 13
- 9780424001555
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney / Melbourne: Sydney University Press / Oxford University Press (OUP), 1989. Hardback large quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, endpaper maps, spine faded jacket as usual, top edge foxed (fore-edge slightly), toned strip reverse side free flyleaves, minor edgewear. 126 pp. Bernard and Kate Smith describe the architecture of one of Australia's older suburbs, Glebe, in Inner Western Sydney. An account of the building types and styles that reasonably represent the Australian social scene of the time, and what people looked for as the environment for their buildings. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of architecture, as well as anyone interested to know more about the built environment in colonial Australia. (Originally published, 1973. This book is the corrected new edition, 1989.).
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18236
- Title
- The Architectural Character of Glebe, Sydney.
- Author
- Smith, Bernard; Smith, Kate
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0424001551
- ISBN 13
- 9780424001555
- Publisher
- Sydney University Press / Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Place of Publication
- Sydney / Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- homes, architecture, australian history, new south wales (ww2), sydney, glebe
- Bookseller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE & HOMES;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
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