The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast : Revised and Expanded

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Summary: Classic book of this genre
Review: Good grief, these reviewers are harsh about this edition, I mean sure the former edition did have more vivid pics, but this book is not a disaster, it's still the wonderful book Ms. Randall wrote years ago. I have that edition, but I also enjoyed this edition, I really appreciated the updates and the additional homes. Ms. Randall cares about these homes and the history of the Gold Coast. This book is well researched and the photos are quite interesting. I realize that the criticism by the other amazon critics are not a criticism of this book, just the editor for the quality, but one star really gives people the wrong immpression of this classic book. Honestly the quality of this book is not that bad and the book itself is a classic of its genre. Give it a try or at least buy a pre owned older copy, you won't be disappointed.

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Summary: The digital age
Review: I appreciate the warning about the photographs in this book. Why else would someone buy a book such as this other than to look at the beautiful homes in all of their splendor? I blame the digital age and bad scanning/reproducing/printing and I agree, some things are better off left alone and out of print.

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Summary: What happened to this edition???
Review: The previous edition of this book is *far* superior to this edition. In this version it appears that all of the photos were digitally scanned (and some altered) with absolutely HORRIBLE results. Some are actually blurry!! All the photos are *extremely* darkened, the cover included. It's shown here on Amazon with the grass being 2 different shades of green due to the sunlight, but on the actual book the grass is only a single shade of dark green, with no sun lightening half of it. I thought I had a bad copy from Amazon so I checked out 3 different bookstores and found the same thing. This is really absurd that a publishing company could let these go out this way. Or do they not consider this a defect because it was intentionally "cheapened" this way? What a disgrace to a book that was truly a work of art. I suggest obtaining the previous out-of-print edition and leaving this one alone.