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The Central Park Under Ring-Leader Rule

By: N/A

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Edward I. Sears: 1871

Seller ID: 000141

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Third Edition. Early booklet on Central Park, established 1859 and designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. Tammany Hall era. 24 pp., original tan wraps. Lightly soiled, very minor chipping at extremities, quite decently preserved. Off-print, reprinted from the National Quarterly Review, No. XLIV (March 1871), ed. by Edw. I Sears, LL.D. Original edition, not a modern-era reprint or POD.
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Manhattan Gold Book

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Slesinger Communications: 1987

Seller ID: 000149

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1987 edition. Slightly soiled covers, fingerprints evident on gold endpapers. Interior otherwise clean. Gilt edges, color photos throughout.
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Saint Patrick's Cathedral [St. Patrick's Cathedral]

By: N/A

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Archbishopric of New York: 1942

Seller ID: 000699

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Published on occasion of consecration of High Altar, 9 May 1942. Illustrated history of St. Patrick's Cathedral, midtown Manhattan. Very slight wear to edges. Green stiff paper wraps. 169 pp., illus.
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Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers and First Hands in All Lines: The Buyers' Guide 1905-1906

By: N/A

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Thomas Publishing Co.: 1985

Seller ID: 002585

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Green cloth, gilt lettering, 1,228 pp. + front advertisements on yellow paper, with 98,240 names. As issued except for foxing on text block edges. Facsimile reprint edition of the first Thomas Register of American Manufacturers guide, issued in 1905-06, to commemorate the company's 75th edition (rather than its 75th anniversary, which occurred five years earlier, in 1980). Limited edition, this being copy No. 5416. Includes cover letter laid in. Published at $35. Quite scarce.
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New York State Bar Association Proceedings of the Fifty-First [51st] Annual Meeting [Volume LI (1928)] [Report of New York State Bar Association]

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Albany, NY, Argus Company for New York State Bar Association: 1928

Seller ID: 015748

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

Olive cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. Charter, constitution, by-laws, lists of members, officers, committees. 618 pp., b&w frontis. portrait of President William C. Breed. Slight shelf wear. Both hinges starting, but binding remains firm. Former owner signature on front flyleaf.
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Souvenir of Chinatown, New York City [Vintage Felt Pennant]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 015759

Condition: Near Fine

Felt pennant. White printing on blue ground, white tassles (all 4 present). Approx. 8 3/4" long, 3 3/4" at widest. Tip fully intact. Circa 1940s.
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Society of American Wars, Commandery of the State of New York: Second Book of the Society, May 1917 [Vol. II (1917)]

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Society of American Wars, Commandery of State of New York: 1917

Seller ID: 015957

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Royal blue 1/4 cloth, dark red cloth, lettered in gilt. Both covers moderately soiled, mildly rubbed at spine extremities and corners. Approx. 3/4" abrasion on rear cover with puncturing to cloth, neatly repaired. Foxed text block edges, interior clean. 103 pp. Firm binding. One leaf (pp. 3-4) creased at bottom corner. The second volume published by the SAW (Com. of S. of NY), relatively scarce.
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Unveiling of the Bust and Tablet of Stephen Collins Foster [Hall of Fame for Great Americans on the Campus of New York University]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, NY, New York University: 1941

Seller ID: 020719

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: VG+

Pictorial wraps. Booklet. Program, 27 May 1941. Lightly soiled/toned, slightly thumbed. 12 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs.
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Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Archbishopric of New York: 1942

Seller ID: 021765

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Dark green stiff paper wraps, perfect bound, lettered in gilt. Tiny nick at bottom of front joint, otherwise an essentially flawless copy, with square, uncreased binding, clean interior. 179 pp., illus. in b&w. Final page displays reprint notice -- the only indication of this being a facsimile reprint.
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150 Years Service to American Health: Schieffelin

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Schieffelin and Co.: 1944

Seller ID: 022050

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Brown 1/4 cloth, tan paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt. Moderate shelf wear, covers mildly soiled with a few surface marks, mildly spotted/dampstained (cosmetic only). Binding lean, minor exposure at corners. Light scattered foxing to interior. Fomer owner's name stamp on front pastedown. 73 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Scarce.
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Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Public Offices and Departments of the City of New York and of the Counties Therein Included [Volume II]

By: N/A

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Albany, NY, James B. Lyon, State Printer: 1900

Seller ID: 022080

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Original brown cloth, bordered in blind, lettered in gilt on spine panel. Minor shelf wear, slight exposure at corners, text block edges a bit toned. Clean interior, firm binding. [ii],1217-2432 pp. Vol. II only (of 2?). Exceptionally scarce.
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Going to the Fair: A Preview of the New York World's Fair 1939 Together with What You Should Look for and What You Should See in the City of New York

By: N/A

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Sun Dial Press w/ New York World's Fair: 1939

Seller ID: 024693

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG-

Blue cloth, lettered in orange. Both covers show mildew soiling (not active!) on lower portions and along fore-edges, else only mild shelf wear. 96 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. Endpapers a bit toned, interior otherwise clean. Color pictorial dust jacket (blue and orange) shows rubbed edges with some chipping, minor loss, toning due to age, discoloraton spot on lower front panel, now in archival mylar. Some cosmetic issues, but essentially intact, still acceptable as reference copy.
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Manna-hatin: The Story of New York

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Port Washington, NY, Ira J. Friedman: 1968

Seller ID: 029356

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Orange cloth, lettered in black. Re-issue; first published in 1929. Ex-library, or more likely prepped for library use but never actually circulated, minimally marked/stamped and virtually unworn. Clear laminate applied over covers. Ink notations and surface paper loss on front flyleaf, otherwise clean. xviii,270 pp., illus.
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The New York Cabinetmaker and His Use of Space

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New-York Historical Society: 1976

Seller ID: 030321

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

Booklet, 8-panel foldout, illus. Modest handling wear, lightly foxed upper front cover. Accompaniment to 1976 NYHS exhibition. Scarce.
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Wall & Nassau: An Account of the Inauguration of George Washington in Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, April 30, 1789

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bankers Trust Co.: 1939

Seller ID: 036985

Binding: Pictorial Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Color printed cloth. Modest shelf wear with light rubbing to cover cloth, with two years of minor loss/exposure along top front joint and top front edge, with associated soil mark. Former owner's address stamp on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. 81,[31] pp., illus. in b&w, with color plates, captioned illus. at rear printed on rectos only. Firm binding, clean interior.
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African American Artists of the Harlem Renaissance Period and later . . .

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Sacks Fine Art, Inc.: 1991

Seller ID: 042648

ISBN: B01HU357RK

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff color illus. wraps. [20] pp., illus. w/ 27 b&w plates. Slight handling wear, nearly as issued. Scarce.
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Fifty Years on Fifth, 1907-1957

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Fifth Avenue Association [Printed by International Press]: 1957

Seller ID: 045764

ISBN: B0056K841G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black and gold paper-covered boards, lettered in white. Very slightly rubbed extremities, virtually as issued. 162,[46] pp., illus.
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Bronxville: Views and Vignettes Eighteen Ninety-Eight to Nineteen Seventy-Three [1898 to 1973]

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Bronxville, NY, Bronxville Diamond Jubilee Committee: 1974

Seller ID: 046306

ISBN: B000HZ1QHY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Royal blue cloth, lettered in gold foil, oblong format. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, virtually as issued. No. 321 of an edition limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered on front colophon and signed by Mayor C. Paul Slater, with the city's embossed seal. Pictorial dust jacket mildly rubbed along edges, now in mylar. 120 pp., illus. w/ photographs.
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Proceedings at the Unveiling of a Memorial to Horace Greeley at Chappaqua, N.Y., February 3, 1914, with Reports of Other Greeley Celebrations Related to the Centennial of his Birth, February 3, 1911

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Albany, NY, University of the State of New York, Division of Archives and History: 1915

Seller ID: 047324

ISBN: B000MXKZDM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Burgundy-brown cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, a few light surface marks to covers, text block edges a bit dulled by age. Firm binding, clean interior. 263 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates (several folding).
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Wall & Nassau: An Account of the Inauguration of George Washington in Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, April 30, 1789

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Bankers Trust Co.: 1939

Seller ID: 047420

ISBN: B000KLTSZC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Color printed cloth. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, slight soiling to upper back cover. 78 pp., illus. w/ color, b&w plates. Tipped-in compliments card from the Bankers Trust Co. noting the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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Custom House Souvenir of The Port of New York [A Souvenir of the New York Custom House and Index of the Imports and Shipping Facilities of this Port]

By: N/A

Price: $195.00

Publisher: New York, Port of New York: 1893

Seller ID: 047860

ISBN: 0484145622

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

ORIGINAL 1893-94 EDITION. Dark blue and burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt with Statue of Liberty illus. in silver foil at top left corner of front cover, beveled edges. Minor shelf wear. Firm binding, intact hinges, clean interior. Nicely preserved copy, scarce. 169 pp., b&w plates, many ads.
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Treat's Illustrated New York, Philadelphia and Surroundings 1876

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, E. B. Treat: 1876

Seller ID: 049460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original copy, rebound in dark brown leatherette with new endsheets, lettered in gold foil on front cover and spine panel. [iv],100,[iv] pp., original back cover bound in, lacking original front cover, otherwise complete, pp. 55-56 misprinted resulting in p. 55 being 2/3 blank and a portion of the missing p. 55 text printed over the illustrations on p. 56, otherwise complete and intact, illus. w/ reproductions of period engravings. Very scarce.
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The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940

By: Albrecht, Donald

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York and Princeton, NJ, Museum of the City of New York/Princeton Architectural Press: 2005

Seller ID: 049257

ISBN: 1568985622

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Pictorial boards. A few very faint scratches to back cover, otherwise as issued. 224 pp., b&w photos. Stated 1st ed.
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Great Blizzards of New York City: A Photographic History of New York City's Most Memorable Winter Storms

By: Ambrose, Kevin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Merrifield, VA, Historical Enterprises: 1994

Seller ID: 038827

ISBN: 0963950215

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Burgundy leatherette, lettered in gold foil. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, slightly bumped top front corner. Dust jacket shows 1/2" closed tear along top front edge, otherwise nearly as issued, now in mylar. 123 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs.
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The Gangs of New York [Capricorn Giant 336 - 1970]

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Capricorn Books: 1970

Seller ID: 042366

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff color illus. wraps. CAP Giant 336. [x],400 pp., illus. Light creasing to lower front cover near binding. Square, uncreased binding, clean interior. A very scarce imprint of this title.
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Category: New York City