How They Built Our National Monuments

Ditzel, Paul C.

ISBN 10: 0672521245 / ISBN 13: 9780672521249

Published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1976

About this Item

Silver letters on rust/brown cloth. Brown endpapers. 198 pages. Contents: Liberty Bell, White House, Capitol Building, Washington Monument, Old Ironsides, Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore Faces, Hoover Dam, Golden Gate Bridge, Gateway Arch; b & w illustrations; bib.; index. The cloth's sheen is dulled along the bottom end of the cover, probably from having been damp. About a fourth of the back board is lightly mottled with dulled spots. A 3/4 in. sq. area of the back board is lightly mottled with white spots. DJ: two 1/2 in. and a 1 1/2 in. closed tear; top edge of spine panel is softened. 2 pages each have two stains in the margins.

Seller Inventory # 006458

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How They Built Our National Monuments
• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0672521245
• ISBN 13: 9780672521249
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Americana
  • Technology

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Synopsis

Stories behind the construction of ten famous United States landmarks including the White House, Liberty Bell, Washington Monument, Golden Gate Bridge, the Mt. Rushmore faces, Statute of Liberty, and Boulder Dam.