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Chicago Houses
by Bailey, Janet
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0312131798
- ISBN 13
- 9780312131791
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: St Martin's Press, 1981,. Very Good/No Jacket. Jonas Dovydenas. Quarto, hardcover, light marks on endpaper else near fine in navy blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. No dj. Contains hundreds of color and black-and-whilte photos, plus many floor plans reveal the spendor of twenty-six distinctive houses of Chicago residential architecture. Styles from 1840 to present, including Queen Anne, Georgian Classic, Revivalism, a replica of an Elizabethan manor (from 1911) and of course tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright. ext and floor plan for each of the 26 houses presented. Wherever restoration or remodeling has taken place author tells and shows what has been done. Preface by Stanley Tigerman. 221 pages.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47995
- Title
- Chicago Houses
- Author
- Bailey, Janet
- Illustrator
- Jonas Dovydenas
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312131798
- ISBN 13
- 9780312131791
- Publisher
- New York: St Martin's Press, 1981,
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1981
Terms of Sale
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