NewYork

Softcover. NY, New York Telephone Company, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray-green covers. a good- copy of this scarce Manhattan phone book, 1072 pages. Spine cocked, rear cover soiled. Ads scattered throughout and on inside covers. (Russian Tea Room: CO lumbus 5-0947, Sardi's: LA cawana 4-5785). Solid copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue grey pictorial slipcase with ink smudging on bottom, with fold-out illustrations accordion style from west side to east side and folds out the other side for eastside to westside view of city. Light wear to slipcase, otherwise very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Joseph Shannon, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 912 pages, rebound in green cloth with original leather cover affixed to front with a special presentation in gilt to Dr. C. Brailey/ compliments of Matthew T. Brennan (former NY State Assembly member who became city Police Commissioner in 1868). Valentine Manuals are considered the best source material on New York City History. They are abundantly illustrated with color plates maps and documents. First published by David Valentine in 1841, he continued to be the editor until 1867, when Joseph Shannon took over the job. This volume contains some great material and plates (27 plates, maps and related matter) including four color views of Central Park. Additionally, the large folding map of the city is present, as is the second large folding map of upper Manhattan. There is also a folding plate illustrating a birds eye view of New York. All edges gilt, light foxing, the cover pastedown shows rubbing, Overall clean.

Hardcover. New York, Joseph Shannon, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 896 pages, rebound in green cloth with original leather cover affixed to front with a special presentation in gilt to Dr. C. Brailey/ compliments of Matthew T. Brennan (former NY State Assembly member who became city Police Commissioner in 1868). This 1869 edition the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York" was one of the two manuals published by the New York City Common Council to be issued by Joseph Shannon, clerk of the council in 1868 and 1869. The "Manuals of the Corporation" were directories of extensive historical and contemporary records of New York first compiled by D.T. Valentine. These books include detailed information on the meetings of the Aldermen Council, ordinances passed, public officials, the city"s debts, directories of hospitals, alms houses and schools, ferry schedules, lists of public porters, demographics and census information, and descriptions of historic buildings and streets. Folding maps are present. There is a folding color map frontispiece of the plan of the city of New York 1869, also there are color folding illustrations of the city of Harlem, Central Park, the Battery and Merchants Exchange and other fold out plates. The Harlem plate is damaged by paper sticking to the folding plate, resulting in some loss to image. All edges gilt, light foxing, the cover pastedown with light rubbing, Overall clean.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans. Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat--the lens peeking through a buttonhole--he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans's subway portraits.

NY, New York Central Lines, 1915, Book: Good, Softcover brochure that folds out to approx. 30 X 27" with a color map on one side. Rand McNally did the map as a promotional piece for the New York Central Railroad Lines. The opposite side features a wealth of tourist information: lists of hotels, boarding houses, camps, steamer lines, rates and fares, train schedules, etc. Clean with little to no paper loss or any repairs.

Hardcover. NY, Peder Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The biography of an immigrant girl from Fubine, a small village in Northern Italy, who makes a life for herself in the Bronx. A rambling account but very interesting with many b&w personal photos. Privately printed. Much on NY city life in the 20s and 30s in the Italian immigrant community. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages, 75 color plates. Hardcover. To accompany exhibit at Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Color illustrations throughout. In great shape, clean inside and out.

Softcover. US, Revolver, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (approx 120 pages), b&w photographs. Like new softcover in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Italian photographer Maurizio Galimberti works exclusively in Polariod. His mosaics of square, white-bordered frames have captured personalities including Andres Serrano, Wim Wenders, Monica Bellucci and Sting, among many others, piece by piece. When he doesn't scratch designs onto the developing pictures with a stick or even a toothbrush, preemptively disrupting any sense that his work directly reflects the real, he takes hundreds of shots of the same subject and eventually assembles up to 140 in a single finished grid. His patrons have included Conde Nast, Rizzoli and Time, and, in advertising, Cartier, Rolex, Nokia, Fiat and Veuve Cliquot. This personal portfolio of the city of New York is full of clean-edged skyscrapers and bridges, limitless streets, multicolored signs, vivid people and limpid skies. Galimberti's Big Apple is thoroughly deconstructed and reconstructed, and the resulting unreal city corresponds perfectly with the soul of New York.

Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Mahlon Day, reprint , 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Compilation of three separate volumes published in different times. Rear fly leaf creased. Foxing throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white photographs by Lewis W. Hine. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper; handwritten poem on rear endpaper. Green cloth covers with light rubbing to corners. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Hardcover with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf and signature. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York, Monacelli Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages, illustrated in color and b&w.Since 1988, New York-based architect Michael Bell has created a series of projects and essays that explore architectural and urban design for California, New York, and Texas -- the three most populous regions of the United States and, coincidentally, the three states in which he has lived and practiced. The first monograph on the architect, Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us; Essays and Projects on the City, includes both design work and writings.Bell has organized and designed two important installations, both of which include his work: "Endspace: Michael Bell and Hans Hofmann," at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, and "16 Houses: Owning a House in the City," at DiverseWorks in Houston, which featured his seminal Glass House @ 2 Degrees. Other projects included are an urban renewal scheme for a huge site in Far Rockaway, New York, and a series of residential projects, including the Ghent House, a modernist glass house currently under construction in upstate New York. Complementing the design projects are three major essays: "Having Heard Mathematics: The Topologies of Boxing," "Eyes in the Heat: RSE," and "New York City."

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Color plates throughout. All photographs have been made in NYC from the same apartment window which gives a large view on Central Park and on the street. Ruth Orkin gathers photographs around the Sheep Meadow area of Central Park in New York, and includes shots of parades, rallies, and the Manhattan skyline. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, National Arts Club, 1st wraps, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, tan paper wraps with brown decoration. 72 pages. 7 tipped-in B&W plates. The past year, rules and membership list of the private New York artist's club. Members included famous artists like George Bellow. Scarce. Paperback.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 3 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. 248 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, 424 pages. 98 Black & white and 25 color illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Color illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guard. Light edgewear to covers. Rear and front hinge cracked.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages. b&w photos throughout. During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) covered the city's downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah frequented the bars, cafes, and galleries where writers, artists, and musicians gathered, and he was welcome in the apartments and lofts of the city's avant-garde cultural aristocracy. He captured every vital moment, from Jack Kerouac reading poetry, to Bob Dylan hanging out in Sheridan Square, to Andy Warhol filming in the Factory, to the Stonewall Riots. Through his lens, we see the legendary birth of ideas and attitudes that continue to shape the character and allure of New York today.

Hardcover. New York, Powerhouse books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in slip case. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Showcases images of New York City's legendary nightlife by the leading photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Joseph Byron and James Van Der Zee to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Elliott Erwitt, Larry Fink, and more. As diverse and complicated as the city itself, New York's nightlife is glamorous and grungy, lonely and dangerous, highbrow and lowbrow. These images are complimented by writing from some of New York's most respected contemporary authors, adding depth, context, and personal stories of their own experiences to those presented by the photographers. This engaging book captures the energy of the New York night and the city's evolving hotspots, building a history of how New Yorkers play after dark and how that helps make this city a cultural and entertainment powerhouse. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. US, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Roy Kemp's previously unpublished burlesque portfolio presents thirty-nine dancers performing in authentic clubs and backstage settings in 1950s New York. This nostalgic collection includes nearly 250 never-before-seen black and white and color photographs of well-known dancers, including Tempest Storm, Liz O'Leyar, Murine, Rita Gable, and Princess Domay, as well as other sultry performers, quite famous in their heyday. Kemp's talents as a photojournalist provide a fresh perspective on the lives of burlesque performers in this golden era. An artist as well as an investigator, Kemp created striptease photo montages and composed biographies for several dancers, giving the reader an intimate feel for the campy burlesque culture. This time capsule depicts live performances and peeps into club dressing rooms, and offers unedited material from pin-up photo sessions. It is a must-have for aspiring dancers, aficionados, or any modern-day guy or gal who appreciates the style and grit of this fabulous art form.

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.