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Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island
by Harold Eberlein
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN. Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928. Tall, heavy octavo, limited edition of unspecified limit, pp. xi, 318, printed beige cloth boards, gravure frontispiece and 75 photos printed in so-called Doubletone, a halftone process that looks almost as good as a gravure. Author includes Brooklyn and Queens as part of Long Island. 33 Long Island houses discussed, with another 9 on Staten Island. Condition of this book: Bottom and top edges dust-darkened, clean inside, overall very good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Architecture; United States; 1920s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54406. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54406
- Title
- Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island
- Author
- Harold Eberlein
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Architecture; United States; 1920s; Art & Design. Harold Eberlein Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island
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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...
- Gravure
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- Octavo
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- Edges
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- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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