Pictorial Forest Lawn
by Forest Lawn Memorial Park Advisory Board and Directors
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Glendale, CA: Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association, 1944 Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association, Glendale, CA. 1944. Softcover/Flexible leatherette wraps. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; small stain on front wrap; light edge bumping to flexible wraps. No DJ. Heavy flexible vinyl wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is secure in sewn spine binding; text is secure in binding. Color and B&W illustrations. Yapped Edges. 80 pp Folio. Beautiful endpapers of "Song of the Angels" stained glass window. Forest Lawn is a private cemetery that is very unlike any other ans this evolved from the memorial park idea, Instead of grotesque tombstones, it provides suitable memorials in the form on inspiring marble statuary and distinctive memorial tablets set level with the lawn. Forest Lawn is also an art center that contains hundreds of art treasures and architectural masterpieces. The spirit of Forest Lawn is to create a place where people come when they are heavy laden ans where they find comfort courage and strength. Parents and school teachers and their students come to study things they read about in books concerning literature, art, architecture, engineering and construction. A true place of marvel and beauty. A clean very presentable copy. No International Sales. Priority mailing will require additional postage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015451
- Title
- Pictorial Forest Lawn
- Author
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park Advisory Board and Directors
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association
- Place of Publication
- Glendale, CA
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association, cemetery, chapels, Babyland, Hall of American Sculpture, stained glass windows, churches, Forest Lawn marbles, columbarium, gardens of memory, Glendale California
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture/Design;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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