Little Bookroom, December 1999. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York.....
Union Square Theatre, 1892. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 16 pages. Extracted from volume with paper remnants on front cover left margin and chips missing from bound edge.
Dover Publications, June 1973. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements laced with laundry, Wall Street, Flatiron Building, waterfront, and many.....
Simon & Schuster, March 2022. Trade Paperback. A "captivating portrait" (The Wall Street Journal), both "poignant and intriguing" (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York's most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan.....
Cort Theatre, 1914. Ephemera. Theatre Program, 6 x 16 inches, printed in black on white. The Cort Theatre, now named the James Earl Jones Theatre, opened in 1912 at 138 West 48th St., between 7th and 6th Ave. Very good copy with wear at top and bottom edges. Small chip.....
1835. Ephemera. Single sheet. 8 x 13 inches, trifolded, written in ink on recto, with summary of sale on verso. Signed by Claudius Herald with his seal at bottom. Further signed by Town Clerk. Sale of 'white cow' for $5.52, 27th day of June, 1835. Page is stained and worn.....
Guido Bruno, 1920. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. 6 short stories of life in New York City. Guido Bruno (1884-1942) was a Greenwich Village character, writer, small press publisher and editor. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Guido Bruno, 1920. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. 6 short stories of life in New York City. Guido Bruno (1884-1942) was a Greenwich Village character, writer, small press publisher and editor. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Louis Holtz & Sons, 1896. Ephemera. Receipt, 3.5 x 7.75 inches, in pale green and red on blue. Very good copy. With blue ink stamped date of May 27, 1896 and stamped company name on signature line. Received from 'Larkin Sparks' written in black ink.
Austin Nichols & Co., 1898. Ephemera. Billhead, 8.25 x 13.75 inches. Engraved vignette in black on white of the Austin, Nichols & Co. building upper left. Company located at Hudson, Jay and Staple Streets. Very good copy. Previously folded. Some staining on bottom right.
James P. Smith & Company, 1898. Trade Paperback. Billhead, 8.5 x 8.6 inches, printed in black on white. 'Table Luxuries' and 'Fancy Groceries' noted on billhead. Very good copy.
Gould Storage Battery Co., n.d., ca. 1900. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. 6 figures. B/W illustrations. After a fire in 1895 Gould Storage Battery Company built a new town, named Depew, around the factory on 1300 acres outside Buffalo. Image of factory on rear of pamphlet cover. First edition (first printing).....
Barnes & Noble, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). THERE is another line not always so readily drawn in the tenements, yet the real boundary line of the Other Half: the one that defines the "flat." The law does not draw it at all, accounting all flats.....
Trotter Refrigerator Co, n.d., ca. 1890. Trade Paperback. Small promotional booklet of lined blank pages. 2.2 x 5.4 inches. Trotter Refrigerator Co. manufactured Trotter's patent cold dry air refrigerators in Newark, New York, from 1889 to 1894. Very good in printed green wrappers (paperback). This brochure distributed by Frank Diel.....
City of Hope, County of Saratoga, New York, 1832. Print. Single sheet, oblong format, 14 x 16.5 inches. 'This Indenture, Made the tenth day of July...(1832) Between John Bennet and Pauline his wife of the Town of Hope in the county of Montgomery of the first part, and Robert Power.....
Tower Manufacturing & Novelty Co., 1895. Ephemera. Billhead, 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in black, red and blue on cream. Very good copy.
Klee & Company, 1898. Ephemera. 2 Billheads, oblong format, 4.6 x 8.5 inches, printed in black and red on cream. Very good copies. Bills for goods sold to Messrs. Larkin & Sparks. Previously folded. Pin holes on upper left.
G. E. Curtis & Co., n.d., ca. 1900. Photograph. B/W photograph, oblong format, 8 x 10 inches, mounted to bevelled board. all edges gilt. Decorated logo of G. E. Curtis & Co. on rear. Photo of raging river with bridge spanning the upper portion. A near fine copy.
1848. Ephemera. Autograph blue sheet folded, 8.75 x 11 inches when folded, with detailed description of the 29.24 acre plot of land. 'Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Richmond avenue which it intersects the westerly line of land now or late belonging to ____ Livingston, therein along.....
Tredwell & Jarmans, 1868. Ephemera. Billhead, 5.7 x 7 inches, printed in black on ruled white paper. Alanson Tredwell and Zadok H. Jarman operated a clothier store in New York for many years. Very good copy. Receipt for purchase of coat and pants for $42.00, purchased August 12, 1867,dated Jan.....
Norwalk Lock Company, 1867-1868. Ephemera. 3 billheads, 4.8 x 8 inches, printed in black on white. The Norwalk Lock Company was founded in 1856 in Norwalk, Connecticut. Very good copies. Each a receipt for payment on account. Each with 2 cent U.S. Inter. Rev. stamp on lower left. All signed.....
New York. Printed by Bell & Gould, n.d., ca. 1850. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Indenture printed form, single sheet folded to create 4 pages, 10.25 x 16.5 inches when folded. Printed on leaves 1 and 2. Blanks filled-in by hand. Unsigned, undated. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.....
1836. Ephemera. ALS, dated Novr. 27, 1836, addressed 'Brother George' Cover: 'Capt. George Pipey / Dover / Mr. I. M Knight New Hampshire. Letter discusses business matters in New York and difficulties he is having with banks, and a mutual friend who is having mental problems. Signed 'Truly Yr. Brother.....
The Farmers' Bank of the City of Troy, 1864. Ephemera. The Farmers' Bank of the City of Troy operated from 1811-1865 when it changed its name. Check, dated July 20, 1864 for Fifty Dollars ($50), signed by Geo. M. Tibbets.
Dover Publications, June 1971. Trade Paperback. Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy.....