Houston's Forgotten Heritage: Landscape, Houses, Interiors, 1824-1914
by Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton, Barrie M. Scardino, Sadie Gwin Blackburn, Katherine S. Howe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine Condition/No Jacket, As Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0892633115
- ISBN 13
- 9780892633111
- Seller
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Houston, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Rice University Press, Houston, 1991. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth with Slipcase. 387 pages. Hardcover deluxe limited edition, signed by each of the authors on the limitation page. Faint, nearly imperceptible bump to the lower right corner of the front cover. Else, the binding is tight, the edges and corners otherwise sharp, and the interior is clean and free of markings. 134 in the limited edition of 300 copies. Text in English. Beautifully illustrated. A handsome presentation of a wildly popular history of genteel living in Houston, Texas..
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- Bookseller
- Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020810
- Title
- Houston's Forgotten Heritage: Landscape, Houses, Interiors, 1824-1914
- Author
- Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton, Barrie M. Scardino, Sadie Gwin Blackburn, Katherine S. Howe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0892633115
- ISBN 13
- 9780892633111
- Publisher
- Rice University Press, Houston
- Place of Publication
- Houston
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative Arts; Texana; Gardening;
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- Fine
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