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Yale University Press, Date: 2005. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. Yale University Press ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [US]

Yale University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Yale University Press ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [US]

Near Fine. Softcover. ...; ...; Trade Paperback. Light wear to covers with a light bump to upper spine. Clean and tight. Yale University Press, 2005. A Near Fine Softcover. Packed carefully and shipped promptly. . ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [US]

Fine. Softcover. ...; ...; Trade Paperback. . Clean and tight.. Yale University Press, 2005. A Fine Softcover. Packed carefully and shipped promptly. . ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [US]

Yale University Press 2005 Trade Paperback Used-Very Good From the Vanderbilts' stupendous Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a bygone world of wealth and privilege. This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. Written by Clive Aslet, author of a widely acclaimed study of English country houses of this period, 'The American Country House' draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as the architectural shapes that they took. According to Aslet, the American country house was in part an attempt to import aristocratic ways from Europe, but it became far more than this, and took specifically American forms to serve specific American needs. More opulent than their European prototypes and technologically more advanced, American country houses exhibited a surprising variety of style and purpose. Aslet notes that many of these houses were inspired by a desire to escape the congested and disease-ridden cities. But life in the country was a daunting prospect for many owners, who therefore chose to establish themselves within striking distance of others of their kind--along the Hudson Valley, on the Philadelphia Main Line, in the Berkshires or the Adirondacks, on Long Island, in Lake Forest, ...

Yale University Press, Date: 2004. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. paperback, pictorial gloss card covers, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, Illustrated throughout, xii + 302pp. 2004. Yale University Press ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [GB]

Yale University Press. Very Good-. Date: 2005. Paperback. 0300105053 . - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No major blemishes. No writing. . 2005. Yale University Press ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [US]

Yale University Press, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. 2005. Yale University Press ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [US]

[ Edition: Reprint ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: ýYale University Press Pub Date: 5/11/2005 Binding: paperback Pages: 320 ISBN 0300105053 9780300105056 [US]

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