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Private Palaces:  Life in the Great London Houses.  By Christopher Simon Sykes.  NY:  Viking, 1986.  1st American edition.  Tall 8vo.  Maps in b/w, 352pp., profusely illustrated both in color & b/w, extensive notes, index.  Brown cloth over bds., illustrated endpapers, VG in like color illustrated DJ.