Pleasure of Ruins (Photographs of Beny, Roloff.)
by MacAulay, Rose (Edited by Constance Babington Smith.)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0030210917
- ISBN 13
- 9780030210914
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston [0-03-021091-7] 1977. (Small 4to) 240pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Photographic endpapers, black and white and color photographs, plans, diagrams, illustrations, index. Worn. "Angkor, Crac des Chevaliers, Tintern Abbey, Persepolis, Copan, Troy... Magical ruins, which have cast their spell over some of the greatest writers in the English language. In our time, Rose MacAulay, the sensitive, witty, and astringest English novelist, was possessed by them and impelled to record their mysterious attraction in the evocative, romantic, yet precisely informed prose of Pleasure of Ruins". Edited by Constance Babington Smith. Photographs of Beny, Roloff. (Photography, Antiquities, Archaeology, Photography, Ruins).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154624
- Title
- Pleasure of Ruins (Photographs of Beny, Roloff.)
- Author
- MacAulay, Rose (Edited by Constance Babington Smith.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0030210917
- ISBN 13
- 9780030210914
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Photography, Antiquities, Archaeology, Photography, Ruins
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART And Architecture;
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