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.....
Harry N. Abrams, January 2013. Hardcover. Opened in February 1913, Grand Central Terminal--one of the country's great architectural monuments--helped create Midtown Manhattan. Over the next century, it evolved into an unofficial town square for New York. Today, it sits astride Park Avenue at 42nd Street in all its original splendor.....
Dover Publications, 1973. Trade Paperback. 228 pages. 12 x 9 inches. Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback). New York City as it was 1853-1901, through 196 wonderful photographs: great blizzard, Lincoln's funeral procession, great buildings, much more.
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New Yorkers for Mailer-Breslin, 1969. Ephemera. Single sheet, 8-1/2 by 11, printed on both sides. Mailer and journalist Jimmy Breslin ran in tandem on an unsuccessful bid for New York Mayor and President of the New York City Council respectively. The ticked was dubbed 'Vote the Rascals In.' They advocated.....
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.....
Mariner Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Rare and vivid photographs recapture the beauty of old New York City buildings that have vanished forever, such as the original Madison Square Garden, landmarks from both World Fairs, the old Waldorf-Astoria, and others.
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.....
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(n.p.), (n.d. but 1880s). Photograph. 7 by 3-1/2 inches. Curved top stereoview images, printed on a single sheet of photographic paper. Very good or better condition. Right image with lower contrast than left. Oranage mount; no photographer identified.
Houghton Mifflin, January 1959. Hardcover.
St. Martin's Press, October 2013. Hardcover. Based on the blog with more than four million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer.....