Charles Keeler The Simple Home Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket - 1979 Edition by Peregrine Smith Inc. | Vintage Home Design & Architecture Reading for Collectors

Keeler, Charles. Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1979.

English, Near Fine, HC, 12mo, 8 3/4" x 5 3/4", 55 pp.

ISBN: 0879050578

Hardcover in green paper with a brown cloth spine. Very Good white parchment dust jacket, some small tears to head and tail, minor wear. 55 pp. Includes black-and-white images. Written by American author, poet, and ornithologist, Charles Keeler: "This book, dedicated to the architect Bernard Maybeck, was largely a polemic against the architectural shams and gingerbread of the Victorian age, and a paean to 'a simpler, a truer, a more vital art expression' then taking place in California" (from the Introduction). This book was first published in 1904, when Keeler was president of the Hillside club, a social club in Berkeley, California.