Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED on title page by photojournalist Ken Heyman. B&w photographs throughout. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. This collection of innovative b&w photos provides an intimate view of a summer urban landscape (NYC).

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 608 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out map in front. Includes Preface; Counties, Townships, Villages; and Index. Illustrated with 230 engravings, double-page map of New York, and engraved frontispiece portraits. "This wonderful volume belongs in the bookcase of all New York historians. More than 150 years old, this ancient text is rich in historical perspective and information that is no longer available to the modern researcher. The work begins with a general outline of New York history. Thereafter, the book is arranged alphabetically by county. Dictionary-like entries for each town are listed alphabetically within each county section. The entries give the location and history of each town, including date of settlement, famous and notable residents, important events, population statistics, number of dwellings, churches and schools, local Indians, and so on. Comprehensively annotated and profusely illustrated with engravings of towns, historic structures and distinctive natural features. Contains an index of counties, townships and villages plus a separate index of subjects and full names. Facsimile reprint of the 1842 edition. Clean, like new.

Softcover. Alexandria, Eyrie Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in blue wrappers, 82 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature on top right corner of front cover. Minor rubbing to cover edges. SIGNED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LAID IN. A nice, clean copy.

Albany NY, Joel Munsell, 1st, 1854, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Contemporary blind-stamped dark brown cloth. Frontispiece and full page plates with tissue guards plus text illustrations. 601 pages. Mild to moderate foxing thoughout. Binding sound, top of spine worn with chipping to cloth. A few dog-eared/creased pages.

Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt stamping, 333 pages with index. Front and rear hinges cracked, ownership signature on front fly leaf, b&w illustrations, 2 related postcards laid in. Interior clean.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Munsell & Co., 1st, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 577 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles and decoration on brown cloth covers and leather spine. Illustrated with tissue guarded black & white portraits of prominent figures, residences, institutions, etc. Features full color fold-out map of Long Island. All edges gilt. Spine leather is dry, with moderate surface scuffs/rubbing. Clean, tight. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Regional Publishing Co., Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 719 pages. Black & white illustrations. Includes fold-out maps. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Erie PA, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt lettering. Frontis. Illustrated w/ b/w photos. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Interior leaves are clean and tight. A memoir of Commodore Perry's victory of the battle of Lake Erie against a British squadron, September 1813. Includes period correspondence and memoranda of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins. Second edition of this history first published in 1876. Standard account by this captain (1800-76) whose "father. was a pioneer in the construction of the squadron, and served actively upon the upper lakes during the war" -- which inspired and informed this chronicle of the pivotal War of 1812 battle off the coast of Ohio in which the American fleet gained control and turned the tides against the British.

Hardcover. Troy NY, William H. Young, 1st, 1876, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Features black & white illustrations and fold-out maps. Short tear and wrinkle along bottom of fold-out map ('View from corner of Second & Congress Streets 1824') between pages 144-145. Leather covers with rubbing and peeling along edges. Bit of chipping to title label on spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Rhiinebeck, N.Y., Frank D. Blanchard, 1st Edition, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Hardcover. Scarce. Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Pages and edges have some tanning from age, unmarked. Spine straight. Binding good. History of the church, from the eighteenth century through 1931. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 5 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. 254 page book with black and white photos of the finer houses in New York and Connecticut.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2000-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout with photos in color and b&w. Minor shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 304 pages. Illustrated with b&w plates (drawings and photographs). Later printing, originally printed in 1890. Bound in 1/4 blue cloth and decorated beige paper covered boards, with bright gilt titles on the spine. Boards have wear, chipping to paper. extremities of the boards. Riis's famous muck raking work exposing the despair and harsh conditions of life among the poor in NYC. Includes chapters on Jew Town, The Color Line, the Italians and other groups. Led to major reforms includes floor plans for tenements to improve the lot of the immigrants. Monumental work in the reform movement. Previous owner's small oval sticker on front cover and on inside front cover, light pencil notes to front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean interior.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. From the late 1950s until her death in 1971, renowned photographer Diane Arbus took pictures of oddball performers at the now-forgotten Hubert's Museum, a typical freak show in New York City's seedy Times Square. One frequent subject was Charlie Lucas, first a freak himself, later an inside talker. In 2003, Bob Langmuir, an anxiety-ridden, pill-popping, obsessive antiquarian book dealer from Philadelphia, unearthed a collection of photographs and memorabilia, including Lucas's journals and what he thought were Arbus's photos. This trove of genuine American kookiness came to dominate his life. Following Langmuir's quest--from the slums of Philadelphia to the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art--as he gathered, priced and ultimately came to understand this collection, author Gibson (Gone Boy: A Walkabout), himself an antiquarian book dealer, effortlessly twists these strands together with an emotional wallop. His toil in Hubert's vineyard, Gibson writes of Langmuir, amounted to no more or less than the continuing archaeology of the old, weird America. Gibson's laser focus on Langmuir's shifting state of mind as he struggles to master his personal demons and navigate the pitfalls of his own obsession gives this story its heart and opens a window onto a lost part of the American soul. 21 b&w photos.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. An evocative portrait of mid-century New York City by master documentary photographer. It focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics-from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb's work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. An evocative portrait of mid-century New York City by master documentary photographer. It focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics-from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb's work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st pbk, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 399 pages plus index. This book offers a powerful new perspective on a much photographed subject: New York City, Veteran news photographer Ralph Ginzburg assigned himself the daunting task of photographing a different news event in The Big Apple on 365 consecutive days. The result is a year-long, 510-image extravaganza of the high drama and grandeur that are the everyday life of Gotham. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover without dust jacket, 98 pages. Blue cloth covers very good. Gilt text to spine. Clean and tight copy, containing digitized publications of the Kings County Genealogical Club from 1882-1894. Clean copy.

Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Italian-American theatre sprang to life in New York City shortly after waves of Italian immigrants poured into this country in the 1870's. The mass migration brought both the performers and the audiences necessary for theatrical entertainment. Hungry for recognition, support, and social exchange, the men and women from Italy formed amateur theatrical clubs as one way of satisfying emotional needs. By 1900, the community had produced the major forces that created the Italian-American theatre of the ensuing decades. In The Italian-American Immigrant Theatre of New York City, author Emelise Aleandri regenerates the excitement of the stage through striking photographs, programs, and other memorabilia generously loaned by families of the theatre community. She follows the fortunes of the earliest nineteenth-century companies and introduces those that arose in the twentieth-century. Within these pages are scenes of comedy, tragedy, vaudeville, and radio, featuring stars such as Mimi Cecchini, Guglielmo Ricciardi, Concetta Arcamone, Antonio Maiori, Rita Berti, Farfariello, and Olga Barbato. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. "The period from Andrew Jackson's presidency to the Civil War has traditionally been considered the age of democracy triumphant in the United States. This book sharply contradicts that assumption, contending that while democracy advanced substantially in the political sense, social and economic distinctions became, if anything, more marked. Powerful forces, especially in the economic field, were working toward the stratification of society." Name on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 336 pages. 25 color, 375 duotone + 210 b/w illustrations. This important publication is the first comprehensive study and complete catalogue of Riis's world-famous images, and places him at the forefront of early-20th-century social reform photography. It is the culmination of more than two decades of research on Riis, assembling materials from five repositories (the Riis Collection at the Museum of the City of New York, the Library of Congress, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of South West Jutland, Denmark) as well as previously unpublished photographs and notes. In this handsome volume, Bonnie Yochelson proposes a novel thesis--that Riis was a radical publicist who utilized photographs to enhance his arguments, but had no great skill or ambition as a photographer. She also provides important context for understanding how Riis's work would be viewed in turn-of-the-century New York, whether presented in lantern slide lectures or newspapers. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The definitive study of the images made by a pioneer journalist and photographer who passionately advocated for America's urban poor. 336 pages, 25 color, 375 duotone + 210 b/w illustrations.

Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 86 plates in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.