DREAM CASTLES
by Mary Cable
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670284424
- ISBN 13
- 9780670284429
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Viking Press/Studio Book, 1966. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/Trace soiling to pgs 10 & 13, else Bright, Clean as New. Orange linen boards/VG w/edge rubs. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/rubs to edges & surface. PO sticker to front cover verso. 128 pgs, illustrated with archival photos. Recounts of visits to castles, not homes, through Eurupe, Africa and the Near East from Mary Cable (1904 -). Artcles first published in Horizon Magazine. 128 pgs. The 8 travel narratives are: 1, Ludwig's Dream Castles; 2, A Habitable Monument (Bleneheim Palace); 3, "A Cluster of Soap Bubbles" (The Alhambra); 4, The Emperorer's Folly (Hadrian.s Villa); 5, Palace in the Sun (The Grand Palace, Bangkok); 6, "The Very Pearl of the Realm" (Nonsuch Palace); 7, The Marble Cottages (Vanderbillt, Newport Houses); and, The Grand Seraglio (Topkapi Seray, Istanbul).
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018683
- Title
- DREAM CASTLES
- Author
- Mary Cable
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0670284424
- ISBN 13
- 9780670284429
- Publisher
- Viking Press/Studio Book
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- History/Travel/Castles/Anthology/Narratives
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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