Roberto Burle Marx: The Lyrical Landscape
by Montero, Mi
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0520232909
- ISBN 13
- 9780520232907
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. U.S.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2008* Publisher: University of California Press.* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight bumps to lower corners, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to jacket. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tannning, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 181 pp. text. xxvii pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: One of the most influential landscape and garden designers of the twentieth century, Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1993) has inspired generations of gardens around the world. His sweeping forms and painterly approach to planting were revolutionary when they first came to public attention in the 1930s, and many contemporary designs today owe his vision a great debt.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./ 1st. with minimal faults to boards & dust jacket reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2769
- Title
- Roberto Burle Marx: The Lyrical Landscape
- Author
- Montero, Mi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0520232909
- ISBN 13
- 9780520232907
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley Ca. USA 208
- Date Published
- 2011-01-17
- Size
- 29.7 x 23.9 x 2.5 cm
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