Dream Castles Tapa dura - 1966

Viking Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. 0670284424 . Very good condition, dustjacket is good; Hardcover with illustrations; B000867; 128 pages; 128 pp;vg/g-dj;illus .

New York, NY: Viking Press/Studio Book, 1966. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/Trace soiling to pgs 10 & 13, else Bright, Clean as New. Orange linen boards/VG w/edge rubs. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/rubs to edges & surface. PO sticker to front cover verso. 128 pgs, illustrated with archival photos. Recounts of visits to castles, not homes, through Eurupe, Africa and the Near East from Mary Cable (1904 -). Artcles first published in Horizon Magazine. 128 pgs. The 8 travel narratives are: 1, Ludwig's Dream Castles; 2, A Habitable Monument (Bleneheim Palace); 3, "A Cluster of Soap Bubbles" (The Alhambra); 4, The Emperorer's Folly (Hadrian.s Villa); 5, Palace in the Sun (The Grand Palace, Bangkok); 6, "The Very Pearl of the Realm" (Nonsuch Palace); 7, The Marble Cottages (Vanderbillt, Newport Houses); and, The Grand Seraglio (Topkapi Seray, Istanbul).