About this title: To mark Central Park's 150th anniversary, this is a history of America's first urban park, a masterpiece of 19th-century landscape design. Sara Cedar Miller, official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Period photographs, plans and drawings combine with an authoritative text and contemporary photographs, ...
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: hardbound
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, no place given
Date Published: (2003)
ISBN-13:9780810939462ISBN:0810939460
Description: Many Photographs. Good plus or better, bottom corners lightly bumped. Clean, tight and bright otherwise, light shelfwear, near very good. Very lightly edgeworn jacket. This oversize book may require extra shipping for priority and international orders. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Bx328
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780810939462ISBN:0810939460
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0810939460. Hardcover. 4to. Abrams. 2003. 240 pgs. DJ in VG shape with light rub to the glossiness of the DJ present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Bx328; 1.4 x 10.2 x 9.2 Inches; 240 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
Date Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN-13:9780810939462ISBN:0810939460
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780810939462ISBN:0810939460
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HARRY N ABRAMS INC
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780810939462ISBN:0810939460
Description: New. Marking the park's 150th anniversary, this first definitive history celebrates the splendor and significance of this national treasure. 316 illustrations, 200 in color. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrahms, Inc., New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780810939462ISBN:0810939460
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0810939460. Marfree, acidfree F/Fine 1stEd; not written-in, underlined, clearance or discard. Usually mails within 12 hours.; 1.31 x 10.33 x 9.39; 240 pages; A hundred and fifty years ago, the mere idea of Central Park was derided as a boondoggle. Through the civic leadership of William Cullen Bryant and Andrew Jackson Downing, and Olmsted and Vaux's holistic vision, Central Park became one of the most renowned urban parks in the world. Central Park inspired the ... read more
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"This is one of the few books I've read that manages to do double-duty as both a coffee-table book--Miller's photographs are great--and as a compact, useful history. Indeed, this is probably the best introduction to the park ever written. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in New York or the park. It's a great read."
"This book sits on my coffee table and represents my New York upbringing -- I originally bought it so I could gaze at the photographs and reminisce of my lunches in the park. It turned out to be a beautifully written history of the park as well. This should be required reading for any New Yorker (past and present) who has a soft spot for this piece of green in Manhattan's urban jungle."
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