Publisher:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1971]. First Edition.
Seller ID: 00230s
Quarto, red illus. cloth (hardcover), xviii p. 205 plates. 29 cm. Fine, in Very Good dust jacket with several small tears and chips. ÒIn this delightful book, which proves the saying that one picture is worth a thousand words, Harold Peterson has assembled over 200 pictures illustrating American indoor life, a wonderfully diverse selection from a wide variety of sources. He begins with the earliest useful picture of an American interior, dated 1659, and continues for more than two centuries, using 1876, the date of the Philadelphia Centennial, as a convenient stopping point. The majority a... View More...
Publisher:
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881. First Edition.
Seller ID: 2890qs
Octavo, illustrated brown cloth (hardcover), illus. paper label to upper cover, XXXV Plates + 202 pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed edges and hinges starting. View More...
Quarto, paperbound (stif, b&w photo illus., stapled wrappers), [26] pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed covers. Photo illus. guide to the New York city building. View More...
Publisher:
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1936).
Seller ID: 51680bd
Octavo, khaki cloth (hardcover), 332 pp. Good+, with darkened spine and light soiling to covers. Illustrated. Contents: Amende Honorable; Foreword; Introductory; The Colonial, 1630 - 1800; The Post Colonial, 1790 - 1820; The Greek Revival, 1820 - 1860; Spanish and Creole Architecture; The Parvenu PEriod, 1860 - 1880; The Romanesque Revival, 1876 - 1893; The World's Fair, 1893; Louis Sullivan, Parent and Prophet; Eclecticism, 1893 - 1917; Today and Tomorrow, Index. View More...
Publisher:
Chicago, Illinois: Home Owners' Catalogs, The Merchandise Mart, F. W. Dodge Corporation, (1939).
Seller ID: 1693gls
With Window Shade Samples. Royal octavo, green fabricoid, gilt letters and decorations to upper cover (hardcover), unpaginated. Near-Fine. Building a home is a skillful blending of romantic and practical considerations. Were it not for the romance involved, individual home ownership would not be the almost universal goal toward which all families aspire. Yet ownership for its own sake without the most exacting regard for its practical aspects would end only in dissatisfaction and disillusionment. To bring these practical aspects to your attention, at the time when their consideration wil... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1978].
Seller ID: 4718sa
Quarto, blue cloth & green boards, 245 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear, in an edgeworn dustjacket. ÔA fascinating photographic tribute to the great outdoor museum and the magnificent indoor museum, this combined edition...tells the detailed story of three and a half centuries of American life, as shown in a preserved American village and the vast collections of the Ôgreatest collector of them all,' Henry Ford. View More...
Publisher:
Chicago: Valerio Dewalt Train, (2007). First Edition.
Seller ID: 3296qls
Signed by Joe Valerio, the principal author/architect. Folio, illustrated green boards (hardcover), [22] leaves. Color photos., illus., plastic screens, plans. Near-Fine. View More...
