The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America
Language: English
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1992
Series: Book 47 of 75 - Creating the North American Landscape
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.Saucony Book Shop
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Two-tone brown cloth, lettered in black. As issued. Pictorial dust jacket Near Fine with 3/4" closed tear at head of front joint, 1/2" chip at head of rear joint, slight rubbig to rear panel, now in mylar. shows minor surface rubbing to rear panel, otherwise as issued and now in mylar. 1st ptg. xvii,238 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Title
- The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America
- Author
- Ensminger, Robert F.
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801843049
- ISBN 13
- 9780801843044
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Series
- Book 47 of 75: Creating the North American Landscape
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture & Urban Design, Pennsylvania German
In The Pennsylvania Barn Robert Ensminger provides the first comprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular architecture -- the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn. He offers a detailed examination of the Swiss prototype and the evolution, distribution, and future of this agricultural structure in North America.
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About the Author
Robert F. Ensminger is associate professor of geography, emeritus, at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
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Saucony Book Shop
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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. Hours by appointment or chance April through October, closed winters. Do drop by and browse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. If traveling from a distance, please call ahead to be sure that we're not off at another auction! Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel.…
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