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Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy
by Makinson, Randell L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine -
- ISBN 10
- 0879058471
- ISBN 13
- 9780879058470
- Seller
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About This Item
Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publisher, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine -. Folio. xiv, 231 (1)pp. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and vignette on cover, gilt lettering and publisher's device on spine, in original color photo-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Stiff tan endpapers. Color frontispiece. Beautifully illustrated with striking color and b/w photographs of interiors and exteriors of Greene architecture, and architectural drawings and plans. Credits for photographs, drawings, archival and other sources, and index at rear. A near fine copy.
"Culminating twenty years of new research on California's most famous architects of the Craftsman style. This comprehensive overview of the architectural careers of Charles and Henry Greene culminates twenty years of new research by Randell Makinson, the foremost authority on their works... Their projects here are organized into recognizable periods and styles, beginning in 1894 in Pasadena, rising to their masterworks created from 1907 to 1909, and culminating in their separate but cooperative careers in the teens, with Charles practicing in Carmel and Henry remaining in Pasadena." (Publishers).
"Culminating twenty years of new research on California's most famous architects of the Craftsman style. This comprehensive overview of the architectural careers of Charles and Henry Greene culminates twenty years of new research by Randell Makinson, the foremost authority on their works... Their projects here are organized into recognizable periods and styles, beginning in 1894 in Pasadena, rising to their masterworks created from 1907 to 1909, and culminating in their separate but cooperative careers in the teens, with Charles practicing in Carmel and Henry remaining in Pasadena." (Publishers).
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47086
- Title
- Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy
- Author
- Makinson, Randell L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0879058471
- ISBN 13
- 9780879058470
- Publisher
- Gibbs-Smith Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- color photography, b/w photography, architectural photography, architectural drawing, architectural plans, craftsman style, early 29th century American architecture
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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