9780964103306 - Mount Hope, Rochester, New York: America's first municipal Victorian cemetery di Reisem, Richard O (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. No marks in text. Not a library book. Ships in a cardboard enclosure. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, buyers and sellers of good books at fair prices since 1991. Come visit! Please contact us if downsizing your library; we travel worldwide to buy good collections.

Large Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 3rd Printing. 3rd printing. Light wear along jacket edges and on rear jacket panel, ink name and date on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1994 Large Hardcover. 128 pp. "There's scarcely a dull moment in the 156-year history as presented here with revelations of embezzlement, heroism, tragedy, romance, torture, brilliant achievement, suicide, adventure, pageantry, intrigue, weird happenings, fame, even cannibalism. Handsomely set forth on the following pages are 81 duotone, black-and-white photographs with 10 double-page spreads that evoke the character of this stunning place." "Richard Reisem is a Rochester resident and the cemetery's unofficial historian. He has written two books about the history of the cemetery. The photographs in both books were taken by the late Frank Gillespie. Reisem has written more than a dozen other books covering Rochester and New York state history and architecture. He is a trustee of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery and sometimes provides guided tours." "Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal rural cemetery. Situated on 196 acres (793,000 m²) (0.3 square miles) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people. The annual growth rate of this cemetery is 500-600 burials per year.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Gillespie, Frank A. (photoghraphs) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs and a map of cemetery. Clean, bright, and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Both the author and the photographer signed this volume on the title page of this 128 page volume. The boards are covered in gray cloth and have gilt lettering on the front board and spine. The book measures approximately 9 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches and has multiple black-and-white images internally. The interior of the book is clean, bright, without rips tears, marks, or writhing and solidly bound. The dust wrapper has some color/paper loss, wrinkles and crease along the edges and color loss at the folds from the front panel to the spine cover, as well as, at the back panel to the spine cover.The dust wrapper is currently protected by a clear removable cover. Signed by Author(s).

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