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CHRISTIANSEN, RUPERT: : CITY of LIGHT: The Reinvention of Paris

LONDON.HEAD of ZEUS.an Apollo Book,2018.

ISBN 9781786694546.

UK,small 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, colour painting [Place Saint Augustin,Misty Weather 1878 by Gustave Caillebotte] illustrated front panel of dw/dj with a mix of capitals and lower case black-lettered part-title and sub-title respectively and author's black-lettered name.Spine/backstrip with capitalised,white-lettered part-title,author's white-lettered name and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name in b/w illustrated colophon at foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with a full panel colour painting [Fete de nuit aux Tuileries le 10 juin,1867 by Tetar Van Elven,Carnavalet Museum Collection, Paris.] Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without ageing/toning or any foxing/spotting; contents pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemishedsharp-cornered,very pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked mauve metallic lettered spine,a light grey headband with sewn-in grey silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate repeated colour map of Paris,illustrated endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+ protected dw/dj, illustrated,1st edn,12-183pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,7 chapters and an Epilogue, profuse historic monochrome photographs,b/w illustration reproductions,some colour photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a double-page colour photograpgic frntis [foyer of Garnier's Opera as it is today],a Contents list/table and a double-page colour illustrated map of streets and avenues cut by Haussmann,individual chapter separator pages, Notes,Acknowledgements,Picture Credits and an Index.                                           Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for it’s brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of usage or age-acquired detracting faults. A sparkling account of 19thC rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world - a position that it has never relinquished since.  In 1853 the French emperor Napoleon III inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works,directed by Georges-Eugene Haussmann,the prefect of the Seine department. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' - characterized by wide boulevards,apartment blocks,parks,squares and monuments,new railway stations and department stores and a new system of public sanitation.                            'City of Light' charts a fifteen-year project of urban renewal which - despite the interruptions of war,revolution,corruption and bankruptcy - would set a template for nineteenth-and early twentieth-century urban planning and create the enduring and globally familiar layout of modern Paris.                  Rupert Christiansen is opera critic and arts columnist for The Daily Telegraph.Laid in loose,is a Telegraph newspaper cutting of the book's review. Please contact the seller,particularly ALL overseas buyers,for correct [insured,or uninsured at own risk] shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order, especially if ordering any multiples.    N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **                                                                                                                                                                                  

UK,small 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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