Washington and Its Romance
by Page, Thomas Nelson
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Fair. Walter O. Reese and Emily Shaw Reese. xxxi, 196, [4] pages. Color Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Footnotes. Cover illustration is worn and chipped. Some page soiling. Minor damp staining at places in the bottom edge. Thomas Nelson Page (April 23, 1853 - November 1, 1922) was a lawyer and American writer. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy from 1913 to 1919 under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Page popularized the Southern tradition of the plantation genre as based on his own experience living in a plantation. Page first got the public's attention with his story "Marse Chan" which was published in the Century Illustrated Magazine. One of Page's most notable works include The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia. The capitals of most countries are the especial pride of their people. It is not so with us-at least, it has not been so in the past. Happily, it appears as though this condition were changing. It has, indeed, ever appeared to me strange that Americans know so little of and care so little for the capital of their own country. Nature, prodigal of gracious slope and curve and tone, has endowed it with, perhaps, more charm than any other national capital-at least, than any large European capital-and its founders laid it off on a generous plan which has left the opportunity of furthering what Nature presented, in a way to appeal to the pride of our people. Yet how large a proportion of Americans turn their eyes and their steps, not toward its majestic buildings, but to some foreign capital with its gaudy shops and commercial allurements, returning with an alien's ideas on many subjects and boasting of beauties which are not comparable to those of our own capital city.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81192
- Title
- Washington and Its Romance
- Author
- Page, Thomas Nelson
- Illustrator
- Walter O. Reese and Emily Shaw Reese
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Washington, District of Columbia, Rock Creek, National Capital, White House, Capitol, Land Survey, City Planning, Government, Planning, Social Life, Speculators, Walter Reese, Emily Shaw Reese
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