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100 Christmas Wishes: Vintage Holiday Cards from the New York Public Libraryby: Cash (EDITOR), Rosanne

100 Christmas Wishes: Vintage Holiday Cards from the New York Public Library
by: Cash (EDITOR), Rosanne

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.

Record # 369009

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100 Years Ago Today: Niagara County in the Civil War As Reported in the Pages of the Niagara Falls Gazetteby: Reed, Richard

100 Years Ago Today: Niagara County in the Civil War As Reported in the Pages of the Niagara Falls Gazette
by: Reed, Richard

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.

Record # 378339

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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenementby: Ziegelman, Jane

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
by: Ziegelman, Jane

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.

Record # 2233158

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A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York, Vol. 2 Part 2: The Dutch the English and an Incorporated American Village 1609-1860 by: Joseph P. Madden

A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York, Vol. 2 Part 2: The Dutch the English and an Incorporated American Village 1609-1860
by: Joseph P. Madden

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.

Record # 386886

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A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New Yorkby: King, Greg

A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
by: King, Greg

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.

Record # 386775

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Adirondack Ice: a Cultural and Natural History (SIGNED COPY)by: Caperton Tissot

Adirondack Ice: a Cultural and Natural History (SIGNED COPY)
by: Caperton Tissot

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.

Record # 374305

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Albany's First Church and It's Role in the Growth of the City,  1642-1942. With an introduction by Dr. Howard Hagemanby: Alexander, Robert S.

Albany's First Church and It's Role in the Growth of the City, 1642-1942. With an introduction by Dr. Howard Hageman
by: Alexander, Robert S.

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

Record # 386427

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Alfred E. Smith: A Critical Study by: Henry F. Pringle

Alfred E. Smith: A Critical Study
by: Henry F. Pringle

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.

Record # 396401

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Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George.by: Szarkowski, John

Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George.
by: Szarkowski, John

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.

Record # 852915

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Alice Attie: Harlem On the Vergeby: Attie, Alice (Photographer)

Alice Attie: Harlem On the Verge
by: Attie, Alice (Photographer)

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.

Record # 352587

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Allegany To Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteersby: Dunham, Valgene

Allegany To Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers
by: Dunham, Valgene

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.

Record # 470410

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Almost Yankees: The Summer of '81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You

Almost Yankees: The Summer of '81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You

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.

Record # 374154

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Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's by: Konigsburg, E. L.

Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's
by: Konigsburg, E. L.

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.

Record # 302121

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Andre Kertesz: Of New Yorkby: Kertesz, Andre; Ducrot, Nicolas (Ed.)

Andre Kertesz: Of New York
by: Kertesz, Andre; Ducrot, Nicolas (Ed.)

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.

Record # 353163

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Annals of Staten Island, From its Discovery to the Present Time by: J. J. Clute

Annals of Staten Island, From its Discovery to the Present Time
by: J. J. Clute

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.

Record # 386802

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Apple Growingby: Burritt, M. C.

Apple Growing
by: Burritt, M. C.

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.

Record # 852707

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Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861by: Voorsanger, Catherine, and John Howat

Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861
by: Voorsanger, Catherine, and John Howat

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This gorgeous volume was published in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861." Its 636 pages include a stunning array of prints and photographs. A painted overlook of New York City wraps around the front and back cover. The front cover has a small crease at the top left edge. On page 240, type is slightly out of register but remains readable.

Record # 806452

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Art and the Empire Cityby: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover and John Howat (Editor)

Art and the Empire City
by: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover and John Howat (Editor)

Hardcover. New York/New Haven, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 636 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, illustrated end papers. A very clean, tight copy. Between the completion of the Erie Canal and the outbreak of the Civil War, New York City grew to become an economic and cultural center of international importance. This magnificent book discusses the proliferation of the visual arts during this exciting era as well as the development of an increasingly sophisticated New York audience for these arts. The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds reproductions of works from the period. This book accompanies an exhibition that opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 11 September 2000.

Record # 452560

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Art of the New Yorker: 1925-1995, Theby: Lorenz, Lee

Art of the New Yorker: 1925-1995, The
by: Lorenz, Lee

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 4th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Color and black and white illustrations. Orange and blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466612

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Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New Yorkby: Bernays, Anne; /Kaplan, Justin

Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York
by: Bernays, Anne; /Kaplan, Justin

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow,, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan -- both native New Yorkers -- came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Written in two separate voices, Back Then is the candid, anecdotal account of these two children of privilege -- one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side -- pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books. Infused with intelligence and charm, Back Then is an elegant reflection on the transformative years in the lives of two young people and New York City. Marked by their youthful passions, this double memoir marries the authors' distinct literary styles with a riveting narrative that captures the density and texture of private, social, and working life in the 1950s. Clean copy.

Record # 387279

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Barns of the North Forkby: Spencer, Mary Ann

Barns of the North Fork
by: Spencer, Mary Ann

Hardcover. New York , Quantuck Lane, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, color photographs. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The North Fork is the roughly sixty-mile-long spit of New York's Long Island that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point. With the fairly well protected Long Island Sound on the North and Peconic Bay on the South, it was a logical place for some of the earliest English immigrants to settle and build barns. It is still home to more working farms than any other part of the island. And from the timber-frame barns of the British farmers of the seventeenth century to the pole barns of the twentieth, the variety is stunning. In a survey sponsored by the Old House Society in Cutchogue, Mary Ann Spencer spent the last few years making a comprehensive inventory and photographing more than six hundred barns on the North Fork. Two hundred of them are still in use, although their fate is by no means certain. Here in their glory (and sometimes less than that) are the most interesting barns,which reveal, among other things, their functional development, their often haphazard fenestration, their soft patina of age, and their fit in the landscape. Spencer's complete survey forms a second part of this book, which provokes feelings of nostalgia and raises our fears for the future of these wonderful structures. More than 150 color photographs.

Record # 352589

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Battle New York: Mural of the Metropolisby: Conrad, Earl

Battle New York: Mural of the Metropolis
by: Conrad, Earl

San Francisco, West-Lewis Publishing, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The author's lyrical tribute to New York City in free verse. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on front fly leaf to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife.

Record # 382369

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Battles of Saratoga, Theby: Elting, John R.

Battles of Saratoga, The
by: Elting, John R.

Hardcover. Monmouth Beach, Philip Freneau Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white maps and diagrams showing battle strategies. Blue cloth with degree of fading to front and back covers. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Scarce.

Record # 608191

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Ben Shahn's New York - The Photography of Modern Timesby: Kao, Deborah Martin and others

Ben Shahn's New York - The Photography of Modern Times
by: Kao, Deborah Martin and others

Hardcover. New Haven, CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos by Shahn, 340 pgs. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 125447

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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by: Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
by: Heather Ann Thompson

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 6th pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 724 pages. On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed thirty-nine men hostages as well as prisoners and severely wounded more than one hundred others. In the ensuing hours, weeks, and months, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners. And, ultimately, New York State authorities prosecuted only the prisoners, never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Clean copy.

Record # 397353

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Blueprints for America's Past (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 11) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Blueprints for America's Past (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 11)
by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 11 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 224 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397371

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Bob Colacello's Outby: Colacello, Bob

Bob Colacello's Out
by: Colacello, Bob

Softcover. NY, Edition 7L, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible vinyl covers, 232 pages. Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record this life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best of them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann gave Colacello one of the first miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, and Colacello began snapping photographs too. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, "an accidental photographer" more akin to a secret agent than any typical paparazzo. With their skewed angles, multilayered compositions, and moody lighting, his images have an immediacy and grit not often found in the work of professional party photographers. And what subjects! Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher, Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before.

Record # 361811

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Bob Colacello's Outby: Colacello, Bob

Bob Colacello's Out
by: Colacello, Bob

Softcover. NY, Edition 7L, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible vinyl covers, 232 pages. Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record this life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best of them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann gave Colacello one of the first miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, and Colacello began snapping photographs too. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, "an accidental photographer" more akin to a secret agent than any typical paparazzo. With their skewed angles, multilayered compositions, and moody lighting, his images have an immediacy and grit not often found in the work of professional party photographers. And what subjects! Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher, Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before.

Record # 361812

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Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, Aby: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, A
by: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 190 pages, b&w illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile, genealogical tables. Internally very good, clean, but the rear cover has some of the top edge chewed away. Dust jacket present in name only with major loss to rear panel.

Record # 412407

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Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, Aby: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, A
by: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 190 pages, b&w illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile, genealogical tables. Internally very good, clean, but the rear cover has some of the top edge chewed away. Dust jacket present in name only with major loss to rear panel.

Record # 412406

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Broadway: The American Musicalby: Kantor, Michael and Laurence Maslon

Broadway: The American Musical
by: Kantor, Michael and Laurence Maslon

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 470 pages, illustrated with over 500 color and b&w images including posters, programs, maps and other archival material. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351111

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Brooklyn Storefrontsby: Lacy, Paul

Brooklyn Storefronts
by: Lacy, Paul

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Color photos throughout. What do the Bari Pork Store (King of the Sausage), the Los Doctores Tires Shop, the Great Eagle Photo Company, and the St. Jude Religious Articles shops have in common? If you were Paul Lacy, they would be among the hundreds of storefronts you photographed on bicycle trips throughout Brooklyn. Over the years Lacy has managed to capture every conceivable type of shop, decorated with spectacular and wildly varied signs and displays and representing countless ethnic groups. A more colorful array of graphics, both amateur and professional, is unimaginable. Brooklyn's storefronts are a vibrant canvas that reflects the changing trends and distinct character of this dynamic community. You don't have to be from Brooklyn to enjoy this book-playful while documenting a fast-changing scene, it transcends geography to speak to anyone with an interest in urban culture. Clean copy.

Record # 385398

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Brooklynites, Theby: Seth Kushner, Anthony LaSala

Brooklynites, The
by: Seth Kushner, Anthony LaSala

Hardcover. New York, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 160 pages. For over three years, writer Anthony LaSala and photographer Seth Kushner trekked tirelessly across the borough, documenting these charismatic characters in 'The Brooklynites,' a collection of images, interviews, and essays. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 412436

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Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930by: Bender, Thomas, Schorske, Carle E. (Ed.)

Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930
by: Bender, Thomas, Schorske, Carle E. (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Russell Sage Foundation, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. Little over a century ago, New York and Budapest were both flourishing cities engaging in spectacular modernization. By 1930, New York had emerged as an innovating cosmopolitan metropolis, while Budapest languished under the conditions that would foster fascism. Budapest and New York explores the increasingly divergent trajectories of these once-similar cities through the perspectives of both Hungarian and American experts in the fields of political, cultural, social and art history. Their original essays illuminate key aspects of urban life that most reveal the turn-of-the-century evolution of New York and Budapest: democratic participation, use of public space, neighborhood ethnicity, and culture high and low. What comes across most strikingly in these essays is New York's cultivation of social and political pluralism, a trend not found in Budapest. Nationalist ideology exerted tremendous pressure on Budapest's ethnic groups to assimilate to a single Hungarian language and culture. In contrast, New York's ethnic diversity was transmitted through a mass culture that celebrated ethnicity while muting distinct ethnic traditions, making them accessible to a national audience. Mild fade to spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Record # 385935

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Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People by: Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson

Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People
by: Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages, b&w illustrations. The personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary interracial New York City night clubs Cafe Society Downtown and Cafe Society Uptown and their successor, The Cookery. Famously known as 'the wrong place for the Right people', Cafe Society featured the cream of jazz and blues performers--among whom were Billie Holiday, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Big Sid Catlett, and Mary Lou Williams--as well as comedy stars Imogene Coca, Zero Mostel, and Jack Gilford, the boogie-woogie pianists, and legendary gospel and folk artists. Spanning half a century from the 1930s to the 1980s, Josephson's narrative depicts both the business and the artistic sides of Cafe Society while exposing the tensions between the club's own progressive interracial openness and the more restrictive social and political climate in which it evolved. Publisher's stamp on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Record # 381504

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Camp Fires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of the Camp Life Marches, and Battles of the 23rd Regiment, NY During the term of two years on the Service of the United States...by:

Camp Fires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of the Camp Life Marches, and Battles of the 23rd Regiment, NY During the term of two years on the Service of the United States...
by:

Hardcover. New York, Davies and Kent, 1st, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine heavily speckled. Blind stamped on front and rear covers. Previous owner's markings on a few pages, and front fly leaf. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 354207

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Catalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES)by: N/A

Catalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES)
by: N/A

Hardcover. New Haven, New York Historical Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 964 pages. 2 Volumes. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Light rubbing to edges on dust jackets. Clean, tight copies with color pictures throughout.

Record # 368974

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Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Moviesby: Sanders, James

Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
by: Sanders, James

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 498 pages, index, B&W photos and illustrations culled from studio archives and privste collections, show the image of New York city in the world of film. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Record # 456479

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Central Park : A Photographic Excursionby: Freund, James

Central Park : A Photographic Excursion
by: Freund, James

Hardcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With more than 250 photographs, in color as well as black and white, this attractive book captures the diversity of today's Park against the kaleidoscopic background of the changing seasons.

Record # 385885

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Childe Hassam's New Yorkby: Fort, Ilene Susan

Childe Hassam's New York
by: Fort, Ilene Susan

Hardcover. San Francisco , Pomegrante Artbooks, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, XV pages + 36 plates in full color. Light blue cloth, blue pictorial dust jacket. Light edgewear to jacket, else like new

Record # 401384

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Christmastime in New York Cityby: Munro, Roxie

Christmastime in New York City
by: Munro, Roxie

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Minor wear to cover and dust jacket edges. A very nice, clean copy.

Record # 851851

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Chronicles of Lake Champlain: Journeys in War in Peace (SIGNED)by: Bellico, Russell P.

Chronicles of Lake Champlain: Journeys in War in Peace (SIGNED)
by: Bellico, Russell P.

Hardcover. Fleischmanns, NY, Purple Mountain Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on front and back covers. Black and white illustrations throughout. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE, numbered 10/60.

Record # 369291

Price: $70.00 
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920by: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.

City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
by: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 380921

Price: $12.00 
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Cobblestone Landmarks of New York Stateby: Shelgren, Jr., Olaf William & Cary Lattin & Rovert W. Frasch

Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State
by: Shelgren, Jr., Olaf William & Cary Lattin & Rovert W. Frasch

Softcover. New York, Syracuse University Press, 3rd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 163 pages. Black and white photographs.

Record # 510738

Price: $12.00 
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Col. Bill's Talesby: Leora Wilson Drake

Col. Bill's Tales
by: Leora Wilson Drake

Softcover. Hartsville NY, Hartsville Historical Socirty, 1st thus, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers with title and author's picture on cover. A collection of stories about the town of Canisteo, New York that originally ran in the local newspaper in 1949 & 1950. With index of names in front, 160 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 382330

Price: $30.00 
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Coney Island: 40 Yearsby: Stein, Harvey

Coney Island: 40 Years
by: Stein, Harvey

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 353531

Price: $40.00 
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Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008by: Frank, Robin Jaffee

Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008
by: Frank, Robin Jaffee

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with still in publishers shrink wrap. Visions of an American Dreamland highlights more than 200 images from Coney Island's history, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, film stills, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals.

Record # 353026

Price: $35.00 
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Cultivator, The: A Monthly Publication devoted to Agricultureby: New York State Agricultural Society

Cultivator, The: A Monthly Publication devoted to Agriculture
by: New York State Agricultural Society

Hardcover. Albany NY, New York Agricultural Society, 1st, 1834, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, the first 12 issues of this early farming periodical, each 16 pages. Issues start with March 1834 and continue through February 1835. Bound in linen covered boards with a calf spine. Nice condition, minor foxing.

Record # 402699

Price: $100.00 
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Don't Look Back: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: O'Connor, Patrick

Don't Look Back: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: O'Connor, Patrick

Hardcover. Wakefield RI, Moyer Bell, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY O'CONNOR on the half-title page. O'Connor, who has had a career as an editor at Washington Square Press, Pinnacle and Popular Library, and as a cultural critic for Variety and on radio and TV (he's now a ski instructor in Vermont), originally broadcast these essays on WBAI Radio in New York City.

Record # 383930

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Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture by:

Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
by:

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The 1960s to early '70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown Pop Underground takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each other. Author Kembrew McLeod links the artists, writers, and performers who created change, and while some of them didn't become everyday names, others, like Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry, did become icons. Ambitious in scope and scale, the book is fueled by the actual voices of many of the key characters who broke down the entrenched divisions between high and low, gay and straight, and art and commerce--and changed the cultural landscape of not just the city but the world.

Record # 359191

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