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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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Evening Post Steam Presses, 1868. 8vo. 267 pages with 8 mounted albumen photographs, 3 illustrations and 4 folding maps (of which 3 in color). Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. Includes reports from the heads of departments; correspondence relating to the Bronze Tigress; discussion of the animals living in the.....
New York: Wm C Bryant & Co, 1864. 8vo. 72 pages.14 illustrations and maps. Contemporary cloth. FIRST EDITION. Includes a description of the park and references to the map; a report on the progress of the work; statement on drainage. The illustrations include the bridge for the carriage-drive; the iron.....
New York: Evening Post Steam Presses, 1870. 8vo. 187 pages with 10 tipped in photographs, 3 illustrations and 2 large color folding maps. Contemporary dark brown half calf. FIRST EDITION. Includes a topographical description of the park; references to the park guide map; reports from various departments; correspondence relating to.....
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.....
New York: John Disturnell, 1858. Long decorative original color map of the Hudson River and adjacent countryside, from Jessop's Landing to the Atlantic Ocean, with accompanying text. 28 x 14 inches. The towns are described in detail in two columns on either side of the map, including descriptions of cities.....
Two pages, 4to. On Dreiser's letterhead. Small stain on verso, otherwise in fine condition. Dreiser writes in to Geoffrey Parsons, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune from 1924-1952, describing a writing submission that he has attached with the letter: “Your general and varied courtesies to me, but more.....
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.....
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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 8vo. Original green cloth, titled-in blind on front, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing, with all first printing points: "chatter" on p. 60, line 16; "northern" on p. 119, line 22; "it's" on p. 165, line 16; "away" on p. 165, line 29;.....
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...
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 8vo. xviii, 222 pp. Profusely illustrated. Original quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in a fresh and bright jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "For Bob with thanks Philip." A review copy, with the publisher's slip and errata slip.....
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.
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.....
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.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. Oblong 8vo. 78pp., includes 50 black-and-white images. Original cloth, lettered in white; pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with a few chips at ends of spines, several short tears along top edge of front and rear panels, internally clean and fresh. FIRST EDITION, a review copy.....
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New York: Townsend MacCoun, 1909. Portfolio containing five loose folding color maps printed by L. L. Poates Engineering Co., NY: 1. 1609. The Island of Manhattan (Mannahtin) at the Time of Its Discovery. 410 x 132 cm. Based on the early colonial surveys of Ratzer, Montresor, Knypthausen, Bradford, Duyckinck and.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. 8vo. 176 pages.; 12, [2] pages. advertisements at end. Wood-engraved title, illustrations in text, large folding map of the New York and Erie Rail Road by J. M. Atwood after J. Disturnell, 10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches. Original printed wrappers. Spine worn, wrappers.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. 8vo. 48 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original cloth; dust jacket. A fine copy, the ends of jacket spine panel just slightly touched. FIRST EDITION, first printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. 8vo. 283pp. Original two-toned cloth. A near-fine copy with slightest shelfwear. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Moses on the front free endpaper: "To Florence Blum who, I hope, has engaged these shenanigans and antics as a bystander and a loyal friend / R......