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The Dwelling Houses of Charleston, South Carolina [A Facsimile of The 1917 Edition]
by Smith, Alice R Huger; Smith, D.E Huger
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 159629261X
- ISBN 13
- 9781596292611
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Diadem Books. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Smith, Alice R Huger; Simons, Albert. A Facsimile of the 1917 Edition. Can find no date of publication of this edition. World Cat shows editions were published by Diadem in New York in 1967 and 1974. Hard cover with deep maroon boards and gold gilt spine lettering in fine condition. Overall mellow age toning the papers and to the dust jacket. Interior text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains 128 illustrations from drawings by Alice R. Huger Smith. Photographs, and architectural drawings by Albert Simons. 387 numbered pages. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition with, as stated above, mellow age toning; no price present on flaps or rear panel. * From the front flap, ""This is the biography of a great city, done in the grand stately manner of the city itself. . . . not a guide book though it leads us enthusiastically through the Charleston streets . . . the authors contend that more historical tradition has gathered about Charleston than any place in the country. . . . Here are maps and Great Seals, photographs of ironwork, windows, balconies, steeples, gateways, plans, arches, carriage houses, servants' houses, staircases, lower halls, upper halls, libraries, piazzas and every other vanishing relic of southern elegance and style.""
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- Elk Creek Heritage Books
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- M001469
- Title
- The Dwelling Houses of Charleston, South Carolina [A Facsimile of The 1917 Edition]
- Author
- Smith, Alice R Huger; Smith, D.E Huger
- Illustrator
- Smith, Alice R Huger; Simons, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 159629261X
- ISBN 13
- 9781596292611
- Publisher
- Diadem Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2007-08
- Keywords
- Architecture, Historic buildings - South Carolina - Carleston, Domestic Architecture - south Carolina - Charleston, Charleston South Carolina - Description and travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
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