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.....
Vintage, 1975. Trade Paperback. 1246 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Later printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The.....
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.....
Printed at Office of the N. Y. Daily Globe, 1850. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. Speech from Dickinson on the issue of slavery, pages 6-12, with tributes to him before and after. First edition (first printing). Very good copy.
Congressional Globe Office, 1847. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet folded to create 8 pages, printed on 7 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Pages are uncut.
New York State National Guard, 1878. First Edition. Comic Book. Single sheet folded, 8.5 x 5.0 inches when folded, printed in black inside a black border on one side only. Death notice with details of the planned funeral ceremony. First edition (first printing). Very good copy.
Dover Publications, 1976. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. First edition thus. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Watch New York change before your eyes: 83 early Manhattan sites are set against 83 modern photos taken from same position: Times Square, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, many more. Early photographs from.....
The Seabury Press: A Continuum Book, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 238 pages. First edition (first printing). Gold lettering on spine a bit tarnished and spine pushed else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. 'A grass roots race for the New York mayoralty' -- from the cover. A collection of articles and speeches from the Norman Mailer / Jimmy Breslin campaign for the Democratic mayoral primary. With contributions from Gloria Steinem, Peter Maas and.....
Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 313 pages. ' A grass roots race for the New York mayoralty' -- from the cover. A collection of articles and speeches from the Norman Mailer / Jimmy Breslin campaign for the Democratic mayoral primary. With contributions from Gloria Steinem, Peter.....
New York Historical Society, 1857. Print. One sheet, 17 x 14 inches. First edition (first printing). Very good copy on blue laid paper signed by multple officers and with seal of the society. Document has been folded and has long split along the center fold. There is fading along folds.....
Random House, 1939. Hardcover. 680 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of maps, drawings and photographs. Later issue, without the supplementary index to the 1939 World's Fair. A near fine copy in a blue dust jacket with spine lightly faded and chipped at the ends, and other short tears to the.....
Cornell University; Studies in History No. 15-18, 1953. First Edition. Trade Paperback. I: 31 page; II: 59 pages; III: 7 pages; IV: 24 pages. First editions (first printings). Near fine copies in wrappers (paperback).
The University Club, 1991. Hardcover. 293 pages.
The University Club, 1999. Hardcover.
Mohonk Mountain House, January 1980. Trade Paperback.
Pocket Books, November 1999. Trade Paperback. In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer -- homeless and drug-addicted over the course of eleven years -- found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day, he used it to write. Soon, writing became a habit that won.....
Ecco Press, January 2013. Trade Paperback.
St. Martin's Press, October 2015. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times Bestseller! With over 500 vibrant, full-color photos, Humans of New York: Stories is an insightful and inspiring collection of portraits of the lives of New Yorkers. Humans of New York: Stories is the culmination of five years of innovative.....
Avon A, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Do you remember the best summer of your life? New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top.....