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Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color pictures of vintage christmas postcards. Clean, tight copy with no wear to covers.

Softcover. Lockport NY, Niagara County Historical Society, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 377 pages, black & white line drawings. Minor wear to covers, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, inside and out. Tight binding, sharp corners, illustrations in bw, a nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 210 pages. Provides an account of politics in New York City between the election of Andrew Jackson and the outbreak of the Civil War. Parts of this story are familiar: the Workingmen's Parties and the "Jacksonian revolution," the "ferment of reform" of the 1840s, mass immigration and the Know-Nothing movement, the collapse of the second American party system and the birth of the Republican Party. As in cities and states across the union, local politics in New York bore the imprint of national events. At the same time, New York and other antebellum cities witnessed a distinctively urban political reordering that involved changes in party, government, and ideology. Some pencil marking to about 30 pages at front. Name on front fly leaf.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages. This is an indispensable companion to Part One of Volume Two, containing detailed historical background from the earliest Dutch and English settlement to the pre-Civil War years. Also included are transcriptions of the minutes of the Village Board Meetings, 1857-1860, which document the struggles of the board members as they wrestled with issues presented to the growing village, such as street construction, the running loose of cattle and hogs, and the problem of people bathing naked in the Hudson River. These minutes also contain the names of all the board members and many of the village residents. Light fade to spine otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Harrison NY, Harbor Hill Books, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two hardcover volumes in lightly worn dust jackets. Alfred Donaldson's History of the Adirondacks is recognized as the major work about the entire region and as such remains unsurpassed. Originally published in 1921, this reprint has a brief biographical sketch of the author by John Duquette. As Donaldson pointed out in the preface, "The previously recorded history of the Adirondacks lies scattered in the most meager parts of old country histories, in a score of early books on travel, in a few guide-books and pamphlets, in many detached magazine and newspaper articles, and in a long series of rather dry and often technical State Reports." His task was, therefore, to sift and sort this material and to bring it together into a comprehensive and cohesive history, while adding much information from "untapped sources" and a copious index. Vol. 1: 383 pages, b&w illustrations, light edgewear to dj. Volume 2: 383 pages, b&w plates. Clean set.

Hardcover. Hoboken NJ, Wiley, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 508 pages.Take a dazzling journey through the Gilded Age, the period from roughly the 1870s to 1914, when bluebloods from older, established families met the nouveau riche headlong-railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators-and forged an uneasy and glittering new society in New York City. The best of the best were Caroline Astor's 400 families, and she shaped and ruled this high society with steel. A Season of Splendor is a panoramic sweep across this sumptuous landscape, presenting the families, the wealth, the balls, the clothing, and the mansions in vivid detail-as well as the shocking end of the era with the sinking of the Titanic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, stated First Edition, 210 pages. Clean copy. A study of the religious revival that found it's most spectacular expression i Rochester, New York. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, J. Disturnell, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A Trip Through the Lakes of North America: Embracing a full description of the St. Lawrence River, together with all the principal places on its banks, from its source to its mouth (1857). Hardcover, original blind-stamped tan cloth, 364 pages + ads. 2 maps, one large fold-out in rear of the Valley of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Country, b&w engravings. Binding worn, clean, overall Good+.

Softcover. East Hampton CT, Podskoch Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, History, Memories & Legacy of the CCC. Softcover, 347 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. This book is full of Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) history, memories and the legacy left by them. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public works program that operated from 1933 to 1942, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees signed up for 6 months and worked a 40-hour week for $30/mo. The government sent $25 to the enrollees, family and the enrollee received $5. Clean copy.

Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Snowy Owl Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Ice has determined the course of Adirondack history in many surprising ways: from landscape to wildlife, harvesting to logging, barrel jumping to ice climbing and hail damage to ice storms. These accounts trace the history of that influence. The 360 page, soft cover book of personal stories, observations and over 200 photos, is the author's tribute to a fast disappearing era. Cover wrappers with mild wear, corner creases. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Softcover. Newsgraphics Printers,, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macy-Masius Publishers, 3rd pr., 1927, Hardcover in gray cloth covers with gold paper label on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Tipped-in b&w frontispiece of Smith's portrait by Wilfred Jones. Biography of four time Governor of New York and 1928 Democratic Presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , The Museum of Modern Art, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. 109 illustrations (64 tritones, 45 duotones). Oversized red cloth cover with light wear to edges. Dust jacket has minor bumping to some edges, otherwise clean. Inside is bright and neat. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages in a dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 90 color portraits and landscapes celebrate the people and buildings of a struggling yet dynamic community. Sometimes haunting, sometimes ironic, always striking, these images form an eloquent visual testament to the Harlem we can see and remember.

Hardcover. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A few black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 344 pages. Almost Yankees is a poignant and nostalgic narrative of the lives and travails of Minor League Baseball, focusing on the 1981 championship season of the New York Yankees' Triple-A farm club, the Columbus Clippers. That year was especially notable in the annals of baseball history as the year Major League Baseball went on strike in midseason. When that happened, the Clippers were suddenly the best team in baseball and found themselves the focus of national media attention. Many of these Minor Leaguers sensed this was their last, best chance to make an impression and fulfill their dreams to one day reach the majors. The Clippers' raw recruits, prospects, and Minor League veterans responded to this opportunity by playing the greatest baseball of their lives on the greatest team most of them would ever belong to. Then the strike ended, leaving them to return to their ordinary aspirational lives and to be just as quickly forgotten.

Softcover. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Gray pictorial paper covers. Very light wear to corners, otherwise like new.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Konigsburg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, 436 and 485 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine. Top edges gilt. Both volumes illustrated with photographs, portraits, and maps. Name on front fly leaf of both volumes, mild cover soil, otherwise a clean, bright set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Photographs by Andre Kertesz; edited by Nicolas Ducrot. 192 pages; 184 full-page, gravure-printed b&w plates; 9 x 11.25 inches. A lovely collection of Kertesz's photographs of New York City, most published here for the first time.

Hardcover. Interlaken NY, Heart of the Lakes Publishing, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 464 pages An early history of New York's Staten Island includes numerous genealogies of "old families". Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Outing Publishing Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, 177 pages. Green cloth cover with black lettering and design. Corners and edges of spine are bumped. Some faint staining on back of cover. Previous owner's inscription and library date stamp on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 354 pages, b&w illustrations. Describing Washington Square, Henry James wrote that it was "as if the wine of life had been poured for you, in advance, into some pleasant old punch bowl." Created in 1826 through the visionary efforts of philanthropist and New York City mayor Philip Hone, the elegant and vibrant square anchors one of the world's most storied neighborhoods, Greenwich Village. Today, the quarter retains much of the charm it possessed in earlier eras when it served as a mecca for artists and activists, intellectuals and indigents, brahmins and bohemians. Yet its history has been clouded by half-truths and myths, while some of its most colorful and influential residents-and its role in the city's growth-lie undiscovered. Neighborhood historian and preservationist Luther S. Harris has spent twenty years researching the real story of New York's social and cultural hub, and in Around Washington Square he has produced the definitive history of Greenwich Village, illustrated with more than two hundred photographs and engravings, many from his private collection. Harris's prodigious research efforts among city council minutes, real-estate tax and conveyance ledgers, directories, family histories, architectural records, institutional and business inventories, newspapers, private collections, and public archives have uncovered surprising facts about the origins of Greenwich Village and its influence on the development of Fifth Avenue and upper Manhattan. Clean copy.