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Chinese Houses and Gardens
by Inn, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-/VG- (light age toning to block and page edges, overall wear and tears to dust jacket)
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Hastings House, 1950. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (light age toning to block and page edges, overall wear and tears to dust jacket). Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, pale green dust jacket with black illustrations and lettering, decorative end pages, xii, 148 pages, black and white illustrations. Contents include: Preface. -- Introduction, by E.C. Scheneck. -- Chinese houses and gardens in retrospect, by Ch'en Shou-yi, -- Foreign influence in Chinese architecture, by Chuin Tung. -- Chinese gardens: contrasts; designs, by Chuin Tung. -- Man and nature in the Chinese garden, by Wing-tsit Chan. -- The Chinese love of home and symbolism, by Shao Chang Lee. -- Photographic illustrations and drawings, by Henry Inn. Added title page in Chinese and English: "A choice collection of garden and house pictures", by Henry Inn; edited by Shao Chang Lee, characters by Ch'en Shou-yi.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 176895
- Title
- Chinese Houses and Gardens
- Author
- Inn, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-/VG- (light age toning to block and page edges, overall wear and tears to dust jacket)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hastings House
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Asian Architecture ; Chinese Architecture ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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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...
- Gilt
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- VG-/VG-
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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