L'Enfant and Washington 1791-1972: Published and Unpublished Documents Now Brought Together for the First Time
by Kite, Elizabeth S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1929. Scarce first edition. Tight, unmarked copy. Quarter cloth binding with spine title label; blue paper over boards, sunned and just rubbed through at tips. xi, 182pp. One fold-out reproduction of letter from Major L'Enfant to Thomas Jefferson. Introduction by J. J. Jusserand. Foreword by Charles Moore.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 055881
- Title
- L'Enfant and Washington 1791-1972: Published and Unpublished Documents Now Brought Together for the First Time
- Author
- Kite, Elizabeth S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 4to - over 9" - 12" Ta
- Keywords
- United States History Washington D.C. Architect Architecture City Planning Design Jeffereson
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...