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World Architecture: An Illustrated History
by Introduction by H. R. Hitchcock; Trewin Copplestone (General Editor); Contributors: Seton Lloyd, David Talbot Rice, Norbert Lynton, Andrew Boyd, Andrew Carden, Philip Rawson, John Jacobus
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++
- ISBN 10
- 0600039544
- ISBN 13
- 9780600039549
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1963. OVERSIZED hardcover without dust jacket, sixth (1972) impression of this First Edition, 348 pages including 1026 black-and-white illustrations, photographs and partially coloured site and floor plans, and 57 full colour photographs; very gently used, tight in binding, only light shelf wear to spine ends and cover corner tips, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] For something completely different, see also our listings for Richard Schulman's Portraits of the New Architecture, and for Kathryn Hiesinger's Out of the Ordinary: Architecture, Urbanism, Design: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 043307
- Title
- World Architecture: An Illustrated History
- Author
- Introduction by H. R. Hitchcock; Trewin Copplestone (General Editor); Contributors: Seton Lloyd, David Talbot Rice, Norbert Lynton, Andrew Boyd, Andrew Carden, Philip Rawson, John Jacobus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0600039544
- ISBN 13
- 9780600039549
- Publisher
- Paul Hamlyn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING BUILDING GLOBAL SURVEY HISTORY URBAN PLANNING MODERN URBAN RENEWAL POLICY CITY PLANNING MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL SCIENCE HISTORIC DISTRICTS CONSERVATION PRESERVATION RESTORATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Architecture/Engineering; Archaeology;
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