Add this copy of Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages to cart. $49.00, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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VG-(ex-library w/ stamps textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings ect. pgs clean. dustjacket taped to cover edges, ID label to lower spine) Rust paper boards, color illus. and olive dust jacket and mylar cover; 247 pp., BW and color illus. From college library. Due date slip has no removal stamps. A nice copy. Photo is of a previous copy from our collection. Considers the work of the Boston-based architectural firm of Peabody & Stearns. "Although overshadowed in the architectural canon by some of its more celebrated contemporaries--such as H. H. Richardson; McKim, Mead & White; Bruce Price; and John Calvin Stevens--Peabody & Stearns was a major player, for both the number and the quality of its designs and also for its role as training ground for young architects. Reaching its pinnacle at the turn of the nineteenth century, the firm also had great success in designing some of the Northeast's most noteworthy country homes and seaside cottages so emblematic of the Gilded Age." (dj) Addresses individual properties geographically and in detail. Fun for architextural browsing.
Add this copy of Peabody & Stearns Country Houses and Seaside Cottages to cart. $51.95, like new condition, Sold by Nilbog Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, ME, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by W W Norton & Co Inc..
Add this copy of Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages to cart. $52.58, new condition, Sold by indoo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Avenel, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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New in New jacket. Quarto. 247 pp; 8 pp of color photographs, over 200 illustrations, archival photographs, plans, and drawings; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unused copy. Robert Swain Peabody and John Goddard Stearns Jr. led one of the most prolific architectural design firms in the Northeast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book focuses on the firm's country house commissions, as well as other leisure-time buildings such as casinos, boathouses, stables, gentlemen's farms, and cottages. It showcases more than 80 of the firm's designs, from The Breakers in Newport, RI to Charles William Eliot's house in Northeast Harbor, ME.
Add this copy of Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages to cart. $77.36, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Add this copy of Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages to cart. $113.29, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company.
For it's specificity of subject this book is a worthwhile addition to one's architectural reading, BU,BUT, BUT..............
While the text is good [if not architecturally detailed enough], the pictures, for the most part are only adequate and somewhat limited for a number of these houses.
However the strongest overall impression that this book leaves is the shoddiness of the volume's production values. Paper over less than substantial boards, sub-standard paper stock, et al.
The careless approach to this work is exemplafied by the cover design; a wrap-around photo of Elm Court [showig mostly the servants' wing] that in no ways indicates the size of the structure which was the largest private residence ever built in America, until the appearance of the owner's uncle's Biltmore.
Sixty dollars, indeed! Beware of other high priced books from Norton until you have had a chance to inspect them.
