This elegant volume, a guide to the Library of Congress's massive collection of architectural drawings, offers a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. Each of its "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of the building's creators and sponsors. 55 color illustrations. 123 halftones.
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This elegant volume, a guide to the Library of Congress's massive collection of architectural drawings, offers a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. Each of its "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of the building's creators and sponsors. 55 color illustrations. 123 halftones.
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Like New. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Like New. Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by editor on title page. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Hardbound in dust jacket. Previous owner's name & embossed stamp to the front free end page. Minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. [Heavy. Contact for overseas shipping quote. ]
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VG-(Slight edge wear and soiling to dj; endpaper has a price sticker from a previous store; page edges are tanning lightly; otherwise clean. ) Black cloth, white & pictorial dust jacket, 254 pp., many BW & color illus. A guide to the Library of Congress collection of "more than forty-thousand drawings, prints, and photographs that capture important developments in the growth of Washngton, D.C., and its greater metropolitan area, including Virginia and Maryland....Features some of Washington's most important buildings, monuments, and memorials--the United State Capitol, the White House, and the Vietnam Memorial--as well as anonymous structures of everyday life and ambitious projects that were never built." (dj) A browser's delight.
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Like New. Size: 9x1x12; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Related ephemera included. x, 253 pages: illustrations (some color); 31 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Hbk 4to 253pp color and b/w illus dj shelfworn with a closed tear now in protective sleeve internally the text is excellent as new.
