This paperback reissue of Randy Leffingwell's popular The American Barn presents a colorful look at this classic American structure and its evolution through the years. Readers will travel from the East Coast to the American West, from the 1600s to modern times, and will relish the stunning photography that depicts everything the stone barns of hard-scrabble Maine to thoroughbred barns of lush bluegrass regions to traditional gambrel-roofed red barns of the Midwest. The detailed text examines how styles developed out of ...
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This paperback reissue of Randy Leffingwell's popular The American Barn presents a colorful look at this classic American structure and its evolution through the years. Readers will travel from the East Coast to the American West, from the 1600s to modern times, and will relish the stunning photography that depicts everything the stone barns of hard-scrabble Maine to thoroughbred barns of lush bluegrass regions to traditional gambrel-roofed red barns of the Midwest. The detailed text examines how styles developed out of necessity and how the American barn contributed to the efficiencies and functionality of the farm. The American Barn is a trip back in time that give readers a fond look at an American icon.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized. PAPERBACK.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Randy Leffingwell (Photographer) Good. The format is approximately 10 inches by 10 inches. 192 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Index. Some cover wear and bumped corners. No dust jacket present. This beautiful and nostalgic history of the barn in America features over 200 color photos chronicling "working" barns--those still being used daily on working farms from all regions of the U.S. and Canada. Highlights include blueprints and some of the oldest barns in the country. 240 photos, 200 in color. Discusses An Amish Barn Raising, The English Barn, Dutch, German, and Swiss Heritage, Innovation, New England Connected Barns, Round Barns, Barns on the Range, High-Drive Barns, Barn Renaissance--From Frank Lloyd Wright to Sears, and Preserving Traditions. Photographer and writer, Randy Leffingwell, has more than 30 books in print, primarily on Americana subjects. These cover areas as diverse as the American barn and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, California's wine country and John Deere farm tractors. Throughout all this time, however, he imagined himself becoming an architect. While in undergraduate in the architectural engineering sequence, he discovered photography and shifted his major studies from architecture to the William Allen White school of Journalism for a BS. Randy began a successful career as a photojournalist first at the Kansas City TIMES, then joining the staff of the Chicago SUN-TIMES. He was later hired by the Los Angeles TIMES as a writer/photographer. He worked for the TIMES for 11 years, He has logged more than 600, 000 miles on photographic road trips throughout the United States. The American Barn presents a colorful look at this classic American structure and its evolution through the years. Readers will travel from the East Coast to the American West, from the 1600s to modern times, and will relish the stunning photography that depicts everything the stone barns of hard-scrabble Maine to thoroughbred barns of lush bluegrass regions to traditional gambrel-roofed red barns of the Midwest. The detailed text examines how styles developed out of necessity and how the American barn contributed to the efficiencies and functionality of the farm. The American Barn is a trip back in time that give readers a fond look at an American icon.
