Resultados de búsqueda: New York City from Carnegie Hill Books

Stamford, CT: Corsair Publications, 1990. Octavo. 414 pp; illustrated throughout in b/w; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. The walking tours include historic Trinity Church, the New York Federal Reserve, Brooklyn Heights, Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum, Grand Central Terminal, Gracie Mansion, Grant's Tomb, Morris-Jumel Mansion, the Cloisters, and others.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1944. First edition. Octavo. 285 pp. Original blue cloth, no jacket. VG, former owner name on front free endpaper, spine lightly faded, front pastedown tanned. Simeon Strunsky (1879-1948), a Russian-born essayist, was on the staff of the New York Evening Post and then the New York Times. His most notable contributions to the Times were his editorial-page essays titled "Topics of the Times." His columns also appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Bookman, Collier's, and Harper's Weekly.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Dial Press, 1964. First printing. Octavo. 190 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on cover & spine, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, light wear to joints at top & bottom of spine. A collection of essays about New York City in the 1960's.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Scala Publishers, 2000. First edition. Octavo. 144 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations. Glossy paperback. Near Fine, a long gift inscription of front free endpaper, else an unmarked copy. A richly illustrated history of the New York Public Library, founded in 1895.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1949. First edition. Octavo. 337 pp; index. Blue cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, light wear to corners, small chip at top of jacket spine & top rear corner.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First edition. Octavo. 251 pp; 48 b/w illustrations. Publisher's burgundy cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, small erasure spot on front flyleaf, else a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket lightly chipped at top & bottom of spine, short edge tear, light soil on back panel. Autobiography of Marya Mannes (1904-1990) American writer and critic, known for her insightful observations of American life. Marya describes her childhood in an uncommon family - her parents, Clara Damrosch & David Mannes founded the Mannes College of Music, and her musician brother co-invented the Kodachrome process - and her uncommon education.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: The Players, 1968. Octavo. 267 pp; color frontispiece, b/w photos of club interior, drawings by Marshall Goodman; list of officers, list of players. Maroon cloth with gilt spine label. VG, minor rubbing to corners of spine. This seventy-fifth anniversary book of Gramercy Park's Players Club presents the nature and composition of the Club from 1938 to 1963 is full of reminiscences from members.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Fred L. Lavanburg Foundation, 1937. Second edition. Octavo. 16 pp; b/w photos, floorplan. Printed stiff card covers. VG, an unmarked copy except for library pocket (Regional Plan Association Library) on inside back cover; shallow chip to top edge of back cover, light soil. First published in 1934. The Fred L. Lavanburg Foundation was established in 1927 as a low-income, non-profit housing corporation for families with children who were unable to find housing elsewhere. The Lavanburg Homes opened at 124-142 Goerck St (renamed Baruch Place) on the Lower East Side in December 1927, a six-story building containing 113 apartments; it had a large screened playground on the roof. OCLC locates several copies of this edition.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First edition. Octavo. xvii, 617 pp; 24 pages of b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards wirh dj. Near fine/Near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934. First edition. Octavo. 302 pp; illustrated by the author. Original blue cloth, maps on endpapers. No jacket. VG, spine lightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy. Helen Worden Erskine, 1896-1984, journalist and author of The Real New York, Here is New York, and Out of this World (about the Collyer Brothers and other hermits).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Clarkson Potter, 1995. First edition. Octavo. xii, 532 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs; notes; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, light waterstain at top corner of last 200 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: The New York Trust Company, 1943. Octavo. 40 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs in the text. Blue boards with, illustrated endpapers, gilt titles, and illustration pasted on front board. VG, small scuff to cover illustration. Published during WW II, the story of the statue and bank logo for New York Trust was issued when 'The forces of liberty are struggling once more against the forces of oppression'. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Bruna/Deutsch, 1961. First edition. 7" x 4.5". 121 b/w photogravure plates. Original stiff photographic wrappers. VG, laminate over spine is lifting but intact, binding tight and clean, light edge wear, preliminary pages moderately spotted with very fine pin-point spots but not affecting any of the photographs. Photos of by renowned Dutch photographer Kees Scherer, who was one of the Netherlands' most popular and respected photographers. This distinctive photobook looks at early 1960s New York City with European eyes and fully conveys Scherer's fascination with the dynamics of light. With text in English by Dutch journalist Max Tak, featuring 121 captioned b/w photographs. Preceded by a 1960 Dutch edition.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Carlton Press, 1965. Octavo. 447 pp; numerous b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, top of dj spine lightly chipped. A well-illustrated history of Old New York in the gaslight era.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Viking Press, 1983. Octavo. 100 pp; illustrated with the author's pen and ink drawings. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG. A clean, unmarked copy; small chip at top of unclipped jacket spine. Author is a New Yorker writer and illustrator.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First printing. Octavo. 45 pp; illustrated by Lady McCrady. Green cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly soiled. A Chinese paper umbrella, lost on the upper west side of New York City, passes through the hands of many people, including a cleaning matron, street gang, alcoholic vagrant, and piano teacher, before it gets home to its loving little mistress again.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Lady McCrady.