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PLAYING SOLDIER: THE BOOKS AND TOYS THAT PREPARED CHILDREN FOR WAR, 1871-1918. Richard Cheek

PLAYING SOLDIER: THE BOOKS AND TOYS THAT PREPARED CHILDREN FOR WAR, 1871-1918.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2018. 10 x 12.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 471 (1) pages. "For anyone interested in how childrens book illustration served national destiny in the run-up to World War I, this is a must-see publication.... The quantity and quality of the illustrations for Playing Soldier make it an invaluable pictorial archive." - Andrea Immel, Curator, The Cotsen Children's Library "This book is the last word on the series of high Victorian... READ MORE about PLAYING SOLDIER: THE BOOKS AND TOYS THAT PREPARED CHILDREN FOR WAR, 1871-1918

Price: $60.00    Order nr. 133243

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SELLING THE DWELLING: THE BOOKS THAT BUILT AMERICA'S HOUSES, 1775-2000. Richard Cheek

SELLING THE DWELLING: THE BOOKS THAT BUILT AMERICA'S HOUSES, 1775-2000.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 288 pages. Published to accompany the exhibition "Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America's Houses, 1775-2000," on show at the Grolier Club December 11, 2013-February 7, 2014. The evolution of the house design book in the United States is a long and complicated story, filled with architectural creativity and banality, commercial genius and excess, egalitarian and humanitarian ideals, literary and social... READ MORE about SELLING THE DWELLING: THE BOOKS THAT BUILT AMERICA'S HOUSES, 1775-2000

Price: $50.00    Order nr. 119692

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