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Ante-Bellum Mansions of Alabama. (SIGNED)
by Hammond, Ralph
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Poor
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/Poor. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Edwin B. Lancaster, A.I.A.. Quarto. 196 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in red cloth and with the remains of a green and white dust jacket. The jacket is extremely worn with half of the spine missing and with several large tears and chips; some tears repaired with old tape). Front panel of the jacket is stamped at the lower fore edge, and this affects the first pages of the book. The book is sound with secure inner hinges. Endpapers toned and foxed, and the text is toned. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf, "This book is inscribed for Mrs. A. S. Mitchell whose superb mansion featured on pages 167-8 is one of the most magnificent Ante-Bellum Show-Places of the entire South. / Warmest personal greetings of the author, / Ralph Hammond.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049320
- Title
- Ante-Bellum Mansions of Alabama. (SIGNED)
- Author
- Hammond, Ralph
- Illustrator
- Edwin B. Lancaster, A.I.A.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 3.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1951; Ralph Hammond; Edwin B. Lancaster; Ante-Bellum Mansions; Alabama; The South; Southern; History; Historic; Historical; Architecture.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana--The South; Architecture;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Foxed
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- Jacket
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