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Power in Buildings: An Artist's View of Contemporary Architecture
by Hugh Ferriss
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1953. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Hugh Ferriss. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HUGH FERRISS TO NEW YORK ARCHITECT HERBERT LIPPMANN on the half-title. A sharp, well-preserved copy to boot of the 1953 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with light rubbing to the front panel and very minor creasing along the edges. Quarto, "sixty impressive drawings and a non-technical, explanatory text by one of America's great architectural draftsmen" (from the front flap).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21776
- Title
- Power in Buildings: An Artist's View of Contemporary Architecture
- Author
- Hugh Ferriss
- Illustrator
- Hugh Ferriss
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- rare architecture, rare Hugh Ferriss, signed Hugh Ferriss, rare architectural drafting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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- Quarto
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- Cloth
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