Author: VANDERBILT, Cornelius, Jr.
Title: The Living Past of America: A Pictorial Treasury of Our Historic Houses and Villages That Have Been Preserved and Restored
Description: New York, Crown Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. 4to. Tan cloth spine and lavender paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 234pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with loss of upper third of rear flap extending into chip at upper left of rear panel. First edition, tight and nice, of this popular survey and tour of historic American homes -- signed large and bold by Vanderbilt in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf. Vanderbilt (1898-1974), actually Vanderbilt IV, was a newspaper journalist and author of several volumes. .

Keywords: Americana Antiques & Collecting Architecture


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