California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century
by Kirker, Harold
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1960. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, Very Good copy with some light shelf edge wear and some fraying to the cloth at the spine crown. Very Good mylar-protected scarce pictorial dust jacket has some rubbing and edge wear. 224 pp., list of 64 b&w plates, end notes, biographical sources for more than 100 California architects who practiced in the nineteenth century, and index. Rendering of the 1885 Carson House in Eureka designed by Samuel and Joseph Newsom on the front cover. 9 x 6 inches. Designed, composed, and printed by Grant Dahlstrom, The Castle Press. Text: 9, 11, and 12pt. Eldorado, Linotype. Display: 8, 10 and 14 pt. ATF Craw Clarendon. Paper: Suede Book, 70lb. Illustrations: offset lithographs, made and printed by Grant Dahlstrom/The Castle Press. Binding designed by Grant Dahlstrom and executed by The Bookbinders Company.
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- modern-ISM
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010901
- Title
- California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Kirker, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Huntington Library
- Place of Publication
- San Marino, CA
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; California History;
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