ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS
by WHARTON, Edith
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- Seller
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY: Century, 1910. Parrish, Maxfield. Large 8vo, pp. xii, 270. Index. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, and with photographs. Several of the Parris illustrations in color. Dark green cloth, stamped in gilt, white, light blue red and green. TEG. Cover little worn at corners and ends of spine, one hinge tender. Two plates missing. O/w VG.
Synopsis
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Dixon Hunt is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) was a renowned American painter and illustrator.
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42635
- Title
- ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS
- Author
- WHARTON, Edith
- Illustrator
- Parrish, Maxfield
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Century
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1910
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts
About Second Life Books Inc
Established on 1972, we sell used and rare books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc. of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Booksellers .
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- VG
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- O/W
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- Gilt
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