The Lengthening of Niagara Falls
Buffalo: Companies Associated wth Buffalo, Niagara and Eastern Power Corporation, n.d. [circa 1930]. 8vo. 32 pages. Color and black-and-white plates. Brown paper over boards.
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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. 8vo. 464, [3]pp. Original red cloth; dust jacket designed by Katie Messborn. A fine copy. FIRST AMERICAN COLLECTED EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 copies signed by Auster; designed by Guy Bennett. These important meta-detective novels were originally published in 1985 and.....
Skyscrapers of New York
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Folio (42 x 27 cm; 16½ x 10¾ inches). 5 pages text, 24 full-page plates including frontispiece. Original quarter white patterned muslin, blue boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; portions of dust jacket preserved. Provenance: Charles R. Lamb (1860-1942), American sculptor and architect.....
Richfield Springs Illustrated. Historical and Descriptive
Richmond Springs NY: Mercury Office, F. E. Mungor, proprietor, 1886. 8vo. 106 pp. 12 plates, illustrations in text, map at end. Original cloth-backed decorated pebbled boards. Binding worn, laks front free endpaper; one plate sprung loose and chipped at edges. FIRST EDITION of this guide to the Richfield Springs in.....
Municipal Government of the City of New York
Boston: Ginn & Company, 1906. 8vo. 350 pages. Double-page bird's-eye view of the five boroughs and illustrations in text, all in duotone. Original decorated cloth, the front cover blocked with a panel centering a silhouette of the Brooklyn Bridge. Early owner's name on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. The text.....
Map of New York and Vicinity
New York: Beers, Ellis & Soule, [1867]. Hand-colored engraved map by Worley & Bracher, printed by James McGuigan, 30 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches. Mounted on linen. Two small separations along joints, generally a fine and attractive example. A fine map showing New York City at center, extending east to.....
Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the Branch Building The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park The Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. May Tenth 1938
New York: The Spiral Press for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938. 8vo. 27pp. Original vellum-backed boards. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. Contains four addresses given at the occasion of the opening of the Cloisters by George Blumenthal, President of the Museum; Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of.....
Quantitative Vectorelectrocardiography
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., [1960]. First edition. 8vo. Photographic illustrations, diagrams in text. Original black cloth; original printed dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: "To Roy with best wishes from Louis Brinberg". Brinberg was a cardiologist and researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in.....
A Few Words of Warning to New Yorkers on the Consequences of a Railroad in Fifth Avenue with Remarks on City Railroads Generally, and Reflections Suggested by the Passage of the Broadway Railroad Bill
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co, 1863. 8vo. 33 pages. Original printed wrappers; blue cloth portfolio. FIRST EDITION. Bristed writes vehemently against the prospect of a railroad along Fifth Avenue: "the mischiefs which a railroad on the Fifth avenue would inflict on the residents there as householders, are so.....
Annals of Tryon County; or, the Border Warfare of New York During the Revolution
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Gazette Print, 1880. 8vo. 312 pages. Original brown blind-panelled cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; blue quarter morocco slipcase. Third edition, preserving the text of the first edition of both the Annals, and the Border Warfare that was published 18 years later. Scarce in this original condition.....
Spring in this World of Poor Mutts
New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1968. 8vo. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket. Small tear to upper front joint of jacket, a few small areas of rubbing, otherwise fresh and clean. FIRST EDITION. This was a Frank O'Hara Award winner, and was the first book granted that prestigious.....
Greenwich Village
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917 [1920 added to title in type]. 8vo. 301 pages. Folding map; frontispiece and 15 plates by Allan Gilbert Cram. Original decorated cloth, the front cover blocked with an image of Washington Square Arch. FIRST EDITION, inscribed by the dedicatee on the dedication leaf.....
Gazetteer & Business Directory of Madison County, NY for 1868-9
Syracuse, NY: The Journal Office, 1868. 8vo. 235 pages. Folding map (with stitched repair to tear). Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Contains a long business directory of the communities of Madison County, New York, an index to advertisements, a history of the county including a section on.....
The Nether Side of New York: Or, the Vice, Crime and Poverty of the Great Metropolis
New York: Sheldon & Co, 1872. 8vo. Original plum cloth. Spine and board edges sunned, light wear at extremities; incomplete at end, lacking pp. 177-184. FIRST EDITION. Contains sections on professional criminals, casual criminals, harbor thieves, private detectives, "skinners," "fences", faro and lottery gamblers, tenement life, outcast children, pauperism, prostitution.....
A Hundred Years of Joint Stock Banking
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. Royal 8vo (254 x 158 mm, 10 x 6 1/4 in.). 464 pp. Portrait frontispiece, folding diagram at end, numerous full-page illustrations to the text. Original deluxe binding of blue levant morocco by Leighton-Straker, stamp signed on rear turn-in, red morocco letteringpiece, spine and sides.....
Views in New-York and its Environs from Accurate, Characteristic & Picturesque Drawings, Taken on the Spot, expressly for this work, by Dakin, Architect; with Historical, Topographical and Critical Illustrations, by Theodore S. Fay, assisted by several Distinguished Literary Gentlemen
New York; London: Peabody & Co; O. Rich, 1831. 4to (26.5 x 21 cm). Text paginated 1-50 consecutively. Engraved title with vignette, marked "proof," three full-page engravings of St. Paul's Broadway, Trinity Church, and City Hall, printed by William D. Smith, folding map colored in outline (mounted on linen); and.....
Flatbush Past & Present
Brooklyn: Flatbush Trust Company, 1901. 8vo. 90, [5] pages. Illustrated with photographs, and with illustrations by Allen B. Doggett. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION. A promotional piece by the Flatbush Trust Company containing histories of Flatbush, its residents and businesses.
New York Essays
New York: William Edwin Ridge, 1927. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed orange boards; dust jacket (present but worn, chipped and separated along all joints). One of 750 copies, INSCRIBED by Ford on the half-title to Jane Dransfield "for Xmas 1927." Dransfield (1875-1957) was a playwright, poet, and lecturer on theater...
The Block
New York: Vintage, 1970. 10 x 7 inches. 182, [12] pages. Original printed wrappers. First trade paperback edition of Goro's haunting account in pictures in text of the social disaster that destroyed a New York City slum.
The Description of the City of New York
New York: Samuel Marks, 1827. 8vo. 360 pages. Hand-colored engraved folding map. Contemporary sheep, gilt decorated on spine. Provenance: contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. Church 1336; Howes H-184. Sabin 30319.
A Mole's-Eye View of New York
Boston: Charles T. Branford Company, 1941. 8vo. 340 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this classic of New York City life, scarcely found with its dust jacket. "The New York that only Gothamites know is here revealed in a different kind of guidebook. An intimate uncovering of the.....
Hudson River and the Hudson River Railroad: with a complete map and wood cut views of the principal objects of interest upon the line
New York: Wm. C. Locke & Co., 1851. 8vo. 50 pages. Large folding map on three joined sheets (21 x 1788 cm; 8.25 x 61.75 inches). 11 woodblock illustrations in text (and with 2 more not recorded in the index but always present). Original printed wrappers with woodblock vignette. SCARCE.....
History of Glens Falls, New York and its Settlement
Glens Falls, NY: Privately Printed, 1936. 8vo. 347 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author, plates. Brown cloth. FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies. The first substantial history of Glens Falls since Austin W. Holden's 'History of the Town of Queensbury' (Albany: Munsell, 1874).
Natural History of New York City; A Personal Report after Fifty Years of Study & Enjoyment of Wildlife within the Boundaries of Greater New York
New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1959. First. 8vo. Original cloth (spine lightly sunned); original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, soft crease to inner flap). First edition, first printing.
Journey to the Cape
New York: Grove Press, 1959. 4to. [50] pp.; 39 ill. (2 color). Original pictorial wrappers. Rear wrapper slightly soiled, light wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION. Grossman was a member of the Photo League and founder of the Provincetown School of Photography.