London:: Chatto & Windus, 1988. Oblong. 10.5" wide by 8.75" tall. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny, with just a touch of rubbing. No fading. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with full-color photographs throughout. Bibliography. Bound in the original blue boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Few people know England as well as Lucinda Lambton; few have the inquisitiveness and stamina to search out and follow up the clues which lead her to curiosities and glories hidden down country lanes, in unremarkable city streets, behind garden walls and unwelcoming facades. In her ALBUM OF CURIOUS HOUSES she has described and photographed some of these extraordinary finds: an underwater smoking room in Surrey; an eighteenth-century 'cottage ornée' in Devon, walls decorated with shells, fossils and painted birds with real feathers; a 1908 Yorkshire house all but covered in ceramic tiles; a Cornish vicarage with six chimneys, each the replica of a church tower; twentieth-century London flats disguised as castles. Houses in churches, in medieval castles, in trees; triangular houses, circular houses, stately and unpretentious, old and new -- Lucinda Lambton has visited them all and writes about them with great humour and wit." . First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine DJ (price clipped).. Illus. by Lambton, Lucinda (photographs). 160pp..

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Bookseller: About Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 007141
Title: An Album of Curious Houses
Author: Lambton, Lucinda
Illustrator: Lambton, Lucinda (photographs)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine condition.
Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ (price clipped).
Edition: First Edition.
ISBN 10: 0701131195
ISBN 13: 9780701131197
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Place of Publication: London:
Date Published: 1988
Bookseller catalogs: Architecture;
Size: 160pp.

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