About this title: A compelling biography of the iconic Tower of Pisa. In this unconventional biography, Nicholas Shrady recounts the rich history of the Tower of Pisa, a structure internationally recognized as both an architectural improbability and a cultural icon. Shrady traces the seminal events in Pisa that prompted the building of the leaning tower, the circumstances and progress of the tower's curse-ridden construction that began in 1173 but stopped for one hundred years after the first four stories were built - its stabilization still continues today - and its eventual conversion into an architectural ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780743231695ISBN:0743231694
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Binding: Cloth (Hardcover)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780743231695ISBN:0743231694
Description: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good. 8vo. 161pp. Covers designed skewed in sympathy with the predicament of the tower. A very clean copy free of inscriptions looking little used in an unclipped dust jacket. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, London
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780743231695ISBN:0743231694
Description: NEW in NEW jacket. Hardback 1st Edition. 8vo in non-rectangular boards as issued. 161pp, illustrations in text...............[ CONDITION DETAILS: VERY FINE, as new in VERY FINE, as new Dust Jacket ].......Unless otherwise noted: 1st Edition means First Printing; books are in the original publishers binding; wrappers (present only if mentioned above) are complete, un-clipped and provided with transparent protectors. read more
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