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The English Country House A Tapestry of Ages
by Maroon, Fred J
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0934738254
- ISBN 13
- 9780934738255
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson-Grant, 1987. Large quarto hardcover in original glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 144pp., Introduction by Mark Girouard. Profusely illustrated with magnificent color photographs of interior rooms which best exemplify the evolution and development of changing decorative and societal styles. Accompanying the photographs are nine essays based on interviews with individuals who either live or work at the various properties highlighted. First edition thus with no printing history evidenced on copyright page. A clean, square, tight copy with no faults in a complete dust-jacket which shows minor soiling on rear panel. A fine copy in a very good or better dust-jacket.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005923
- Title
- The English Country House A Tapestry of Ages
- Author
- Maroon, Fred J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0934738254
- ISBN 13
- 9780934738255
- Publisher
- Thomasson-Grant
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville, VA
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- England, Architecture. Decoration and Design
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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