(SIGNED) Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage
by Lewis F. Fisher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0896723720
- ISBN 13
- 9780896723726
- Seller
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San Antonio, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 552 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. First edition First printing 1996 with corresponding number line. Handsome, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Minor signs of wear and/or age. An unclipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Flatsigned on first title page
Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, plus a host of additional landmarks and folkways surviving over the course of nearly three centuries, still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness."
Adding to the charm of the nation's ninth largest city is a bend in the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective.
Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures.
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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656992
- Title
- (SIGNED) Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage
- Author
- Lewis F. Fisher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0896723720
- ISBN 13
- 9780896723726
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Place of Publication
- Lubbock, Texas, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 552
- Size
- octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Texana; Signed books; First Editions;
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