CITIES AND PEOPLE: A Social and Architectural History
by Girouard, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0300035020
- ISBN 13
- 9780300035025
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. 0300035020 . FIRST EDITION. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bound in publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Printed endpapers. Illustrated with over 300 Color and B&W photographs. A social and architectural history of western cities from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, exemplified by Constantinople, Florence, Siena, Ghent, Bruges, Venice, Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, Manchester, London, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In this lively, sumptuously illustrated book, the author of the best-selling Life In The English Country House takes us on a tour of cities and their people through the centuries. Focusing on carefully selected cities at crucial periods in their history, Mark Girouard looks at their architecture and design in the light of the needs of the men and women who lived in them. Splendidly illustrated in the "patented" Girouard way. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean, except for small bookseller's label on dust jacket. AS NEW/FINE+.. Color and B&W Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. vii, (iii) 397 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2521
- Title
- CITIES AND PEOPLE: A Social and Architectural History
- Author
- Girouard, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300035020
- ISBN 13
- 9780300035025
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 0300035020, Art:, Architecture:, Sociology:, Urban Planning:, Art History;, Painting;, Urban Development;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy & Social Sciences; Architecture;
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