Newport Pleasures and Palaces

By Nancy Sirkis

Introduction by Louis Auchincloss

Published by The Viking Press     NY, NY      1963

B/W Photographs

Hardcover book in very good condition, light wear along edges of boards and ends of spine.

Dust jacket in acceptable condition, discoloration, chips and tears at corners and especially at spine. See photo.

From the flap: “Newport, with its legends of Viking landings, its seventeenth and eighteenth-century houses, and the great palaces of the Gilded Age, is an architectural handbook of much of New England history and of the changing social season in America…..Miss Sirkis discusses the background of Newport as a colonial port and its place as the summer home of society in her text”.

Numerous black and white photographs of houses, the local landscape, and residents.