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The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast: Revised and Expanded
by Monica Randall
from Rizzoli

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Excellent!
  This was a great book. The pictures and written information were even better than I expected.

• Unique pictures of a lost world
  This book presents a unique photographic material of some still existing as well as buildings that has now been torn down. As other has written before me the printing quality in this book is not what it could have been. The colors in some images are really bad. The artistic value of the photographs could also be questioned (most of the images are not taken by a professional photographer). In spite of all this the book succeds in describing "a lost world" and leaves the reader with a feeling of emptiness and... more info

• Printed in China
  It is a shame that the publisher decided to save some money and have this book printed in China. The quality of the photos is horrible. Some are blurred, some are dark. It makes the book cheap and cheesy. Anything to save a buck. When will American businessmen learn ? We get tainted food from China, shoes and clothes that don't fit and fall apart, and now badly produced books. Once again, Americans have lowered their standards just to make a buck.........go figure....

• Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast: An intimate portrait of America's wealthiest neighborhood
  This is an intimate and thorough glimpse into the mansions of America's Gold Coast, a region of Long Island where such wealth and extravaganze accumulated in the late 1800's-mid 1900s as to boggle the modern mind. In an era before government taxes became a hindrance to such spending by the wealthy, the Gold Coast mansions rival even the most exquisite mansions, chateaux, castles and estates of Europe.
  I purchased this book because I had just finshed reading "Gold Coast" by Nelson Demille, a modern day... more info

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