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Hardcover. NY, Scheidegger and Spiess, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 560 pages. New York is a global icon--the quintessential metropolis. Over three centuries it has morphed from the colonial fur trading hub of New Amsterdam into one of the most vibrant and exciting cities on earth. The history of the Big Apple has been documented many times over in many diverse ways, including books, photographs, and songs. But in this lavish, beautiful volume, Thomas Kramer offers a new perspective, telling the story of New York through Andreas Adam's vast collection of rare picture postcards that recount the city's changing identity and culture over the last century.

Hardcover. Albany, J.B. Lyon Co., 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcover volumes. Vol. 1: 534 pages w/ index. Brown cloth w/ color decorative soldier design on front cover. Front and rear interior hinges cracked, but holding. Spine cloth chipped and missing 1/2" at top and bottom of spine. Cloth along spine with tears and some separations. Beginning of Separation at 2nd signature. Cover corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Gilt top edge. Interior clean,and unmarked. Vol. 2: 336 pages w/ index. Brown cloth w/ gilt lettering. Front interior hinge cracked, but holding. Rear interior hinge loose, but holding. Spine cloth chipped and missing 1/2" at top and bottom of spine. Cloth along spine with tears and some separations and narrow strips of cloth missing. Cover corners rubbed and bumped. Interior clean, and unmarked.

Softcover. Amon Carter Museum, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Struss (1886-1981) was that rara avis who mastered both still photography and cinematography. Best known for his stunning camera work on F.W. Murnau's Sunrise--for which he shared the first Academy Award for cinematography in 1927--Struss was a member of Photo-Secession, an organization co-founded by Alfred Stieglitz devoted to the promotion of photography as a fine art. While Koszarski discusses Struss' contributions to the cinema, the focus of this retrospective is the artist's earlier New York pictorial work; the book is handsomely illustrated with black and white images from Struss' oeuvre, as well as his striking 1910-17 experiments in color.

Hardcover. NY, Parkstone Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 256 pages. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap. Spotless copy. A collection of black and white images from New York's disco era. In the late 1970s, with only her Hasselblad and a telephoto lens, Veretta visited many of New York City's infamous nightclubs and captured the erotic energy of the peak disco era. Culled from over one thousand images, this collection of black and white photos is an entertaining, often breathtaking documentary of a unique moment in our history.

Hardcover. New York, NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, September 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. What Pennsylvania Station was, is, and might be in the future, through knowledgeable text and excellent pictures and drawings. A good read for those who want a detailed look at one of New York City's most famous architectural treasures, how it was lost, and how it might be reborn once again. The section on its rebirth in the Farley Post Office building was written before work was delayed on the project. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of the City of New York, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 327 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Distributed by E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large format hardcover, 423 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket. Light staining to end papers from red flaps, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. Illustrated throughout by black and white photographs, including frontispiece, title and contents pages. decorated by half title vignette. An early 1960s portrait of New York City and some of its inhabitants going about their daily business in words and evocative photographs. By journalist, Gilbert Millstein and photojournalist and street photographer, Austrian born Sam Falk (1901-91).

Newport RI, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. No. 65 of 500 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a tipped in subscriber page. 510 pages, illustrated in color and black & white throughout; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Ribbon marker. Enclosed in a blue cloth slipcase with a pictorial label. All clean, very good plus.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY STANLEY BURNS on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop and reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities.

Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop abd reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities.

Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop abd reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 375 pages. This collection of articles from thirty-four different newspapers begins with the "alarming intelligence" of the shots fired at Lexington and Concord, followed by the Battle of Bunker Hill and other skirmishes, military affairs and the siege of St. John's. The source of these articles include letters smuggled out of Boston by terrified colonists, proclamations, speeches, affidavts as well as unconfirmed reports and fabrications. Clean copy.

Globe Pequot Press , 1ST, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. In a series of colorful vignettes, a veteran newspaperman recreates a madcap era during which more than a dozen newspapers lived and died in 'the Row' on Boston's Washington Street. This is a story of fierce circulation competition and the often-outrageous journalism it inspired. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages with index. At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business and publishers were soon reeling off as many copies as Americans could be convinced to buy. Newspapers quickly saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen daily papers apiece. Using New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago as case studies, Julia Guarneri shows how city dailies became active agents in creating metropolitan spaces and distinctive urban cultures. Newsprint Metropolis offers a vivid tour of these papers, from the front to the back pages. Paying attention to much-loved features, including comic strips, sports pages, advice columns, and Sunday magazines, she tells the linked histories of newspapers and the cities they served. Themed sections for women, businessmen, sports fans, and suburbanites illustrated entire ways of life built around consumer products. Guarneri also argues that while papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility. Charity campaigns and metropolitan sections painted portraits of distinctive, cohesive urban communities. Real estate sections and classified ads boosted the profile of the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. Clean, like new.

Niagarail Publications, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. INSCRIBED by both authors and stamped "Author's Proof Copy" on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Cororan Gallery of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A pictorial history of Niagara Falls. Three essays on the iconic landmark. Front bottom corner with a light dog-ear crease, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1st, 1878/1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four volume set complete, 3/4 calf dyed blue with blue cloth bindings. Spines stamped in gilt with ornate decorations, raised bands, top edge gilt. Translated by Linda Villari. 353, 389, 424, 445 pages, marbled endpapers. Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1878, volumes 3 and 4 were published in 1883, but it is a matching set. Bright, unmarked set with tight bindings. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941`, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Black & white drawings by Armstrong Sperry. Bright dust jacket with closed tears to top and bottom edges, spine edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This pioneering study documents the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It shows for the first time how these ideas, unacknowledged and reworked, entered and shaped that culture and stimulated the imagination of both supporters and detractors of the regime. 421 pages, a bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Chjcago, University of Chicago Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Nietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines--philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology--and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors--Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselves--take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought. Clean copy.

Softcover. Amherst MA, White River Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the impact and consequences caused by the use of inflammatory racially-related language during a police investigation conducted by the Vermont State Police. Beginning in 1968 with the Irasburg Affair when a White man fired shotgun blasts into a home occupied by a Black family, the story describes in detail the course of the investigation. Adverse publicity about the Vermont State Police's work alleging racism within its ranks ensued resulting in its managers withdrawing from public view and refusing to work with the legislature in the next years causing significant internal problems.They finally came to the forefront in 1979 when a despondent trooper committed suicide at the state house in Montpelier in an event called the Router Bit Affair that led to significant reforms beginning in1980. Includes bibliographical references and an index. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Denniston and Cheetham, 1803, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages, original softcover pamphlet here bound in archival cardboard folder with cloth spine minus outer wrappers. Some small ink numbers on title page, small stickers on spine and front of folder. Gutter cracked between pages 64 and 65, otherwise very good. No foxing.