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Large-format volume, measuring approximately 10.5" x 12.5", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Binding is firm. Small red dot appears at bottom edge of text block. Interior is clean and bright. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, including many full-page photos. Illustrated dust jacket displays very light shelfwear, with minor wear at top/bottom of spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 272 pages.""Great Houses of Havana" celebrates one hundred years of creativity, design, and style that made the city "the Paris of the Caribbean." For four hundred years, Havana was the center of Spanish trade in the western hemisphere. With the expansion of the sugar industry, independence from Spain, and North American investment, Havana became a city of great wealth, great style, and great houses in a vocabulary that was a unique amalgam of European, American, and Caribbean elements. "Great Houses of Havana" traces the evolution of the Cuban…
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