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American Shelter : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
by Lester R. Walker
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0879518715
- ISBN 13
- 9780879518714
- Seller
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About This Item
Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Revised and Updated Edition. First Overlook Press edition (so stated) and first printing with complete number line - in clean dust jacket. Clean blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with fine drawings covering more than 100 styles of home architecture--from Victorian and Bungalow styles to Steamboat Gothics, Quonset huts, straw bale houses, and Art Moderne. Preface by Charles Moore. 334 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, one tiny puncture wound near front fold edge; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The classic reference to American housing styles..
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033355
- Title
- American Shelter : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
- Author
- Lester R. Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0879518715
- ISBN 13
- 9780879518714
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock, New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- AMERICAN HOUSING STYLES, ARCHITECTURE, LESTER WALKER, REVISED EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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