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Gingerbread Houses, Haiti's Endangered Species
by Anghelen Phillips
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
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About This Item
self-published, Port-au-Prince, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Signed by Author. PHILLIPS, ANGHELEN ARRINGTON. Gingerbread Houses, Haiti's Endangered Species, Port-au-Prince: self-published, 1975. Tall quarto, first edition limited to 2000 copies, pp. 93, white cloth boards, drawings of buildings in Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitian and Jacmel, signed on the limitation page by the artist-publisher, with a foreword by her and Gloria Young. Text in English and French. Buildings shown: Port-au-Prince -- 102 Ave. Gregoire, 62 Bois Verna, 72 Rue Christoph, 117 Rue Capois, 58 Bois Verna, 28 Bois Verna, 13 Ave. M, 27 Rue Marcelin, 14 Rue Rigaud, 4 Ruelle Berne, 9 Rue Quatre, 8 Ave. du Chili, 69 Rue Roy, 9 Ave. N, 46 Ave. Lamartiniere, 17 Impasse Lavaud, 21 Ave. Rue Dr. Audain, 80 Ave. du Travail, 7 Ave. du Travail, 108 La Fleur du Chene, Villa Therese, 15 Bois Verna, 44 Turgeau, Le Manoir No. 146 Ave. John Brown, 7 Ave. Bellevue, 94 Bois Verna, Villa Miramar, College Fernand Prosper, Institution Frere Flavien, 7 Pacot, Excelsior Hotel, Grand Oloffson Hotel; Jacmel -- Pension Craft, 10 Grand Rue, unnamed building, 17 Grand Rue, Rue Seymour Pradel, Main Square Arcahaie; Cap-Haitian -- Corner 22 et D, Rue Oswald Durand, 51 Rue d'Anjou, 66 Rue Dauphine, 155 Rue Gouvernement. Condition of this book: Dust jacket chipping at edges, with a short tear at top front corner; boards soiled at edges; top edge foxed. Spine a bit slanted, all images fine. Size: Quarto. Text is in multiple languages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Architecture; Haiti; 1970s; Art & Design. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50997. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50997
- Title
- Gingerbread Houses, Haiti's Endangered Species
- Author
- Anghelen Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- self-published
- Place of Publication
- Port-au-Prince
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitian Jacmel architecture Architecture; Haiti; 1970s; Art & Design. Signed by Author Anghelen Phillips Gingerbread Houses, Haiti's Endangered Species
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