Great Houses of New York: 1880-1930 Tapa dura - 2005

Acanthus Press, 2015. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some creasing and light tearing. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Acanthus Press, 2015-01-15. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap.

New York: Acanthus Press, 2005. Hardcover. VG+ (Extremely light edgewear to boards; interior is very clean; binding is solid.)/VG (Light edgewear). Chocolate brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, brown & illus. dust jacket, maps on flyleaves, 382 pp., 300+ BW illus.; weighs 4.5 lbs. "Presents the stories of the grandest houses and the social lives of their residents. With over 300 archival photographs and floor plans, Michael Kathrens brings to life rarely seen interiors ... to evoke the elegant private life that remains a trademark of the wealthy New Yorker." (dj) The end papers list both the 43 houses (owners and addresses) and their locations in Manhattan. Works by the great architects of the time: Richard Morris Hunt, C.P.H. Gilbert, Horace Trumbauer, and Walker and Gillette. Includes architectural plans and archival bw photos. A wonderful volume about these historic houses, the architects who envisioned this scale of grandeur, and the historic owners. Excellent, thorough text.

New York: Acanthus Press. 1st ed. 383pp. VG/VG copy, small closed nick to jacket rear bottom edge, now preserved in mylar jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2005.

[New York]: Acanthus Press, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 4to. 384 pp. Bound in full brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations, including floor plans, throughout. Includes architect biographies, bibliography, and index. Very Good+, a few faint spots to top edge of text block, faint age-toning to pages, otherwise bright, solid copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with minor scuffing.

New York: Acanthus Press, 2005. Hardcover. VG+ (Extremely light edgewear to boards; interior is very clean; binding is solid.)/VG (Light edgewear). Chocolate brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, brown & illus. dust jacket, maps on flyleaves, 382 pp., 300+ BW illus.; weighs 4.5 lbs. "Presents the stories of the grandest houses and the social lives of their residents. With over 300 archival photographs and floor plans, Michael Kathrens brings to life rarely seen interiors ... to evoke the elegant private life that remains a trademark of the wealthy New Yorker." (dj) The end papers list both the 43 houses (owners and addresses) and their locations in Manhattan. Works by the great architects of the time: Richard Morris Hunt, C.P.H. Gilbert, Horace Trumbauer, and Walker and Gillette. Includes architectural plans and archival bw photos. A wonderful volume about these historic houses, the architects who envisioned this scale of grandeur, and the historic owners. Excellent, thorough text.