Ghosts Along the Mississippi : an Essay in the Poetic Interpretation of Louisiana's Plantation Architecture [with] One Hundred Photographs by the Author
by Laughlin, Clarence John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +/very good
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Large quarto (13-1/2" x 10-1/2"). Unpaginated. (22)pp. of text, plus 100 black & white photographic plates, each with a facing page of descriptive text. Photographic dust jacket, spine lettered in white, over black cloth lettered in white. Photographic endpapers of the bayou. Dust jacket has minor rubbing at tips, and bottom edge of cloth binding has a hint of shelf wear. Front free endpaper with an old dog-ear crease, but still a very nice copy.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50952
- Title
- Ghosts Along the Mississippi : an Essay in the Poetic Interpretation of Louisiana's Plantation Architecture [with] One Hundred Photographs by the Author
- Author
- Laughlin, Clarence John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Louisiana historic buildings, plantations, 19th c. domestic architecture, travel
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
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