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Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1917-1918 (New Series No. 2)
de Brown, Henry Collins (Editor)
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Librería
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, New York: Valentine's Manual, Inc., 1920. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First published 1841-1870 as the Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, commonly known as Valentine's Manual, this is one of the New Series revived by editor Henry Collins Brown, published 1916-1928. Each book is full of vintage photos, prints, maps, engravings, & colored lithographs & contains fascinating statistics & vignettes about the city, its buildings, residences, & colorful local personalities. Offered here is the 1917/18 book (No. 2), which contains a frontispiece + over 100 illustrations. Hardcover 12mo is bound in deep blue cloth stamped with a gilt design of a ship to front cover inside a gilt border, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt to top page edges. 448 pp, including Index. Condition is Fine: just slightly less brilliant than when first published! Completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with a whisper of tanning around all edges & to endpapers. Internal illustrations & 2 foldout cityscapes are virtually flawless, with crisp colors & white margins. The second, an 8-panel foldout from a photo by the Brown Bros, shows" Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge South" in 1876 & 1917. One lower corner very slightly bumped. No DJ, as issued. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays(PST); weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021633
- Título
- Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1917-1918 (New Series No. 2)
- Autor
- Brown, Henry Collins (Editor)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition First Printing
- Editorial
- Valentine's Manual, Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1920
- Palabras clave
- NEW YORK CITY MAPS 1900S TWENTIETH CENTURY GUIDEBOOK PHOTOS VINTAGE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Illustrated Books/Illustrators; Americana-Regional History; Urban/Rural/Regional Studies;
Términos de venta
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
