The Architecture of America: A Social and Cultural History
by Burchard, John; Bush-Brown, Albert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston and Toronto: Little Brown and Co., 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 595 pages, indexed. Hardcover in a white and grey pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. The DJ is foxed, has chipping and wrinkling/bumping. Front cover has a one inch wide hole at the lower fore-edge. Prior owner's name written in ink on the front flyleaf. Text is clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047849
- Title
- The Architecture of America: A Social and Cultural History
- Author
- Burchard, John; Bush-Brown, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1961; John Burchard; Albert Bush-Brown; Architecture; America; Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...