Boston Distinguished Buildings & Sites Within the City and its Orbits
by Walter Muir Whitehill
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0879231246
- ISBN 13
- 9780879231248
- Seller
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About This Item
D. R. Godine, 1975. D. R. Godine .Publisher, Boston, 1975. Peach Cloth over boards, with beautiful wood carving on front cover, gold lettering. Very Good/Very good. Rudolph Ruzicka. Boston, in so many ways the most civilized, colorful, and European of all American cities, has seldom had its unique flavor more successfully captured than in the twenty-nine colored wood engravings Rudolph Ruzicka cut for Daniel Berkleley Updike from 1911 to 1941. These charming and technically flawless engravings of scenes in and about Boston have been scrupulously reproduced in this volume and present landmarks which , through fortune and foresight , still happily survive and are universally beloved. Each engraving is accompanied by an informative text by the doyen of Boston historians, D. R. Godine .Publisher, Bost owners name front end paper. on, 1975 , First Edition. Illustrated by Rudolph Ruzicka , colored wood woodcuts Very Good, clean, bright, solid. Peach Cloth over boards, with beautiful wood carving on front cover, gold lettering. DJ Very Good. slight shelf wear at top and bottom of spine, not clipped, $12.50.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Boston Distinguished Buildings & Sites Within the City and its Orbits
- Author
- Walter Muir Whitehill
- Illustrator
- Rudolph Ruzicka
- Format/Binding
- Peach Cloth over boards, with beautiful wood carving on front cover, gold lettering
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- D. R. Godine .Publisher, Boston, 1975
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0879231246
- ISBN 13
- 9780879231248
- Publisher
- D. R. Godine
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- bib bc web #61 #biblio47 BX55
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