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By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Edward I. Sears: 1871
Seller ID: 000141
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Slesinger Communications: 1987
Seller ID: 000149
1987 edition. Slightly soiled covers, fingerprints evident on gold endpapers. Interior otherwise clean. Gilt edges, color photos throughout. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $9.50
Publisher: New York, Archbishopric of New York: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000699
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $9.50
Publisher: New York, Thomas Publishing Co.: 1985
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 002585
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. Q... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Privately Printed by Kingsport Press: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003712
Dark blue buckram. 30 pp., illus. Very slight shelf wear, nearly as issued. Tribute to a pioneer in aviation and later in broadcasting. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Albany, NY, Argus Company for New York State Bar Association: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015748
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Seller ID: 015759
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Society of American Wars, Commandery of State of New York: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015957
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, NY, New York University: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020719
Pictorial wraps. Booklet. Program, 27 May 1941. Lightly soiled/toned, slightly thumbed. 12 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Archbishopric of New York: 1942
Edition: Facsimile Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 021765
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Schieffelin and Co.: 1944
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022050
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Albany, NY, James B. Lyon, State Printer: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022080
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Sun Dial Press w/ New York World's Fair: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 024693
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, New York Edison Co.: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 028543
Tan cloth, putty paper covered boards, title label mounted on upper front cover. Some soiling evident along spine panel, rear cover lightly dampstained, mild exposure to corners with small abrasion along upper rear cover fore-edge. Upaginated, [100+] pp., illus. w/ full-page b&w photographs. Text block shows light dampstaining along bottom edges/lower margins, with several leaves showing minor adhesion defects, two showing repair of surface paper along lower margin wi... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Port Washington, NY, Ira J. Friedman: 1968
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 029356
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, New-York Historical Society: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030321
Booklet, 8-panel foldout, illus. Modest handling wear, lightly foxed upper front cover. Accompaniment to 1976 NYHS exhibition. Scarce. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Bankers Trust Co.: 1939
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 036985
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Sacks Fine Art, Inc.: 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 042648
Booklet, stiff color illus. wraps. [20] pp., illus. w/ 27 b&w plates. Slight handling wear, nearly as issued. Scarce. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Fifth Avenue Association [Printed by International Press]: 1957
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 045764
Black and gold paper-covered boards, lettered in white. Very slightly rubbed extremities, virtually as issued. 162,[46] pp., illus. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Bronxville, NY, Bronxville Diamond Jubilee Committee: 1974
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed Associational
Seller ID: 046306
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. View more info
Price: $10.95
Publisher: New York, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin: 2013
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 046106
Stiff pictorial wraps. Remainder dot on bottom text block edge, otherwise as issued. 1st thus, complete number line. xxi,298 pp., illus. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Aperture: 1974
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 022659
Preface by Ansel Adams. Very slight shelf wear, nearly as issued. Square, uncreased binding. 220 pp. PLEASE NOTE that this listing is for Alland's Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen, NOT Lane's Jacob A. Riis and the American City, evidently listed with the same ISBN. View more info
By: Ambrose, Kevin
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Merrifield, VA, Historical Enterprises: 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 038827
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. View more info
By: Asbury, Herbert
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Capricorn Books: 1970
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 042366
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. View more info
By: Auster, Paul; Wayne Wang (pref.)
Price: $4.50
Publisher: New York, NY, Miramax: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 028471
Stiff pictorial wraps. Very slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. viii,293 pp. View more info
