OLD CHICAGO HOUSES
by DRURY, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ( 1941). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. photos. 8vo, 518pp., cloth
The focus is on the landmark houses of the 19th century, with a chapter on the places where the authors of the Chicago LIterary Renaissance grew up or lived. Photogravures. Note: in 1975, John Sifton, an architecture buff, visited all one hudred of the house sites listed by John Drury in this volume. He found that 34 houses had survived the intervening decades. A list of those appeared in edition of circa 1975 - with brief notes on alterations.
The focus is on the landmark houses of the 19th century, with a chapter on the places where the authors of the Chicago LIterary Renaissance grew up or lived. Photogravures. Note: in 1975, John Sifton, an architecture buff, visited all one hudred of the house sites listed by John Drury in this volume. He found that 34 houses had survived the intervening decades. A list of those appeared in edition of circa 1975 - with brief notes on alterations.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0005986
- Title
- OLD CHICAGO HOUSES
- Author
- DRURY, John
- Illustrator
- photos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- ( 1941)
- Keywords
- architecture, Carl Sandburg, chicago architecture, Prairie Avenue, Hyde Park,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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