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The Tasteful Interlude: American Interiors through the Camera's Eye, 1860-1917
by Seale, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG (book shows light scuffing - dust jacket shows light shelf wear and has price clipped front flap)
- ISBN 10
- 0275438406
- ISBN 13
- 9780275438401
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1975. first edition. Hardcover. VG/VG (book shows light scuffing - dust jacket shows light shelf wear and has price clipped front flap). Red cloth boards with gold gilt spine lettering, black pictorial dust jacketwith yellow and orange lettering, 256 pp. over 226 bw plates. This is the first edition of an excellent examination of American interiors. Well-illustrated, with ample annotation of the pictures. A tremendous reference. "The historian's dilemma is illustrated in these photographs of interiors. As complete room settings, most of them are quite foreign to us; we identify only with their parts--a familiar type of chair or table or vase. Household things are common fragments of history; their individual meanings and purposes are redefined rapidly, and their contexts are subject to alteration. Some objects survive many years because they are adaptable. Others grown obsolete and are discarded. The thousands of household things that appear in these pictures are seen as they were in actual daily use in the past. It is probable that the rooms did not remain as we see them for very long, for small revisions take place endlessly in any house. Were it not for the cameras of some six dozen photographers, these few scenes would have passed away quietly." -- Pg. 10.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34180
- Title
- The Tasteful Interlude: American Interiors through the Camera's Eye, 1860-1917
- Author
- Seale, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG (book shows light scuffing - dust jacket shows light shelf wear and has price clipped front flap)
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0275438406
- ISBN 13
- 9780275438401
- Publisher
- Praeger Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- 20th Century; Art; American Art; Interiors; Decorative Arts ; Interior Decorating ; Art ; American Art
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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