Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A thoughtful history of the legendary New York City neighborhood chronicles the Village's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of such individuals as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emma Goldman, Eugene O'Neill, Margaret Sanger, and Thomas Wolfe, who came to the neighborhood to pursue individual artistic, personal, and political dreams. Clean copy.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 425 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1904 edition. Volume 1 ONLY. The present-day New York City neighborhood of Harlem was founded in the mid-17th century by Dutch Protestants, whose numbers included Huguenots (or their descendants) who had fled the counter-Reformation in France and the Walloon provinces of Artois, Cambresis, and Hainalt. Riker's Harlem is an extremely detailed historical and genealogical account of Harlem from its establishment by Kuyter and Stuyvesant between 1656 and 1660 to the end of the 17th century. Following several preliminary chapters on the Dutch and French context for the settlement of "New Haerlem," the author treats us to what seem like minute-by-minute accounts of its colonial development, including early efforts to settle the territory that became Harlem, the original land patents and their subsequent rearrangement, Indian wars, displacement of Dutch rule by the British in 1663 (and the brief reoccupation by Dutch forces in 1673), 17th-century village life, migrations to New Jersey, influx of Swedes, difficulties in assimilating English ways, and much, much more.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pages 426-908 . A facsimile reprint of the 1904 edition. Volume 2 ONLY. The present-day New York City neighborhood of Harlem was founded in the mid-17th century by Dutch Protestants, whose numbers included Huguenots (or their descendants) who had fled the counter-Reformation in France and the Walloon provinces of Artois, Cambresis, and Hainalt. Riker's Harlem is an extremely detailed historical and genealogical account of Harlem from its establishment by Kuyter and Stuyvesant between 1656 and 1660 to the end of the 17th century. Following several preliminary chapters on the Dutch and French context for the settlement of "New Haerlem," the author treats us to what seem like minute-by-minute accounts of its colonial development, including early efforts to settle the territory that became Harlem, the original land patents and their subsequent rearrangement, Indian wars, displacement of Dutch rule by the British in 1663 (and the brief reoccupation by Dutch forces in 1673), 17th-century village life, migrations to New Jersey, influx of Swedes, difficulties in assimilating English ways, and much, much more.

Hardcover. NY, Mockingbird & Maiden Lane Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. Terrific color images of the city streets of Manhattan. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 373 pages. A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride. When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Hohne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. Hohne argues that underground transportation--which early passengers found both exhilarating and distressing--changed perceptions, interactions, and the organization of everyday life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages, with illustrations and gilt titles. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Manchester , George C. Gilmore, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt title on cover. Ex-library copy with stamp on inside front cover, at some point an attempt to remove envelope on rear endpaper caused some limited tearing to textless page. Library number written in white at bottom of spine. Body, text of book is clean, tight.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 2nd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan boards with white cloth spine, no dust jacket, 257 pages with index. Story of British intelligence operations in NY, and espionage deterrence during WW 2. Foreword by Ian Fleming.

Softcover. UK, Dodo Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages. Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (1813- 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She was the daughter of the well known novelist James Fenimore Cooper. Her most famous work is Rural Hours (1850), a nature diary of Cooperstown, New York. Amongst her works are Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America, The Lumley Autograph, and Elinor Wyllys; or, The Young Folk of Longbridge (1846), a novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with cover pastedown, gilt lettering. The amiably spontaneous pictures taken by Sam Shaw (1912-1999) are well known: the native and life-long New Yorker shot countless cover photographs for Life and Look in the fifties and sixties, and later also took the still images for the films he produced himself. Shaw and Marilyn Monroe were friends, and he captured her unique aura in countless unpretentious portraits. During the filming of The Seven Year Itch, he staged his probably best known picture with her: Marilyn standing over a subway grate, a waft of air blowing the skirt of her white dress above her knees. Sam Shaw also portrayed almost every major Hollywood star of his day, consistently capturing the moment in his quest for truthfulness, with enthusiasm and from a new perspective, just as if he were selecting the camera angle for a film sequence. The researcher and author Lorie Karnath, the book's editor, enhances the publication with very personal memories of her long-time friend.

Softcover. Saratoga Springs NY, Lyrical Ballad Book Store, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages. Conceiving of the City of Saratoga Springs as a museum in which the exteriors of buildings are the works of art, many key examples of architecture are carefully placed within the context of local and national history and of architectural style. Illustrated with many black and white photos. Clean copy

Softcover. Youngstown NY, Old Fort Niagra Association, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Few events in the long and complex history of Fort Niagara occupy so prominent a niche as the Seven Years War and the dramatic nineteen-day siege of 1759. The North American conflict of 1754-1760 resulted in the expulsion of French colonial power from the Great Lakes and Canada, and the siege of Fort Niagara was the climax of a century-long struggle for the northern gateway to the heart of the continent. Clean copy.

Paperback. Albany, NY, Education Department, Albany Institute of History and Art., revised, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages. Very little wear to cover. Inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-Mccann, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth, silver gilt title on spine, 256 pages B&w photos. endpaper map. Inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, James B. Lyon, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 531 pages, 166 illustrations, 21 beautiful full page color illustrations of fish, game birds and insects, folding maps. Front hinge cracking. Soiling to covers. Wear to corners and spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 403 pages. Edited by Ira Berlin, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Many Thousands Gone, and Leslie Harris, Slavery in New York brings together twelve new contributions by leading historians of slavery and African American life in New York. Published to accompany a major exhibit at the New York Historical Society, the book demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white, and how, as a way of doing business, it propelled New York to become the commercial and financial power it is today. Powerfully illustrated with images from the New York Historical Society exhibit, Slavery and the Making of New York will be the definitive account of New York's slave past.

Hardcover. Albany, Weed Parsons and Co., 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 305 pages, 9 folding maps, b&w plates. Rust color cloth with soil, spotting. Light scuffing to some parts of cloth edges. The top 1/2" of spine cloth is missing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Interior is very good, sound with all maps present and in very good condition.

Hardcover. US, Carpet Bombing Culture, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. If America is the Roman Empire of our time then New York City is Rome. The pulsating heart of the West pumps greenbacks through the veins of Manhattan, the richest place in the world. Power emanates from it's corporate brains and financial muscle across the whole surface of the globe. So how is it that even in the body of America, land of eternal youth, there is failure, death and decay hidden just beneath its glossy surfaces? A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's heavy industry, States of Decay brings you a glimpse of the broken, the doomed, the entropic dreamlands on the flipside of the silver dollar coin. A unique exploration of everything from abandoned power plants, hospitals, asylums, schools, theatres, steel mills, prisons, factories, hotels, cathedrals, blast furnaces, convents to a boat graveyard. This extended photo-essay functions as a visual poem allowing the reader to draw their own experiences and conclusions from the images themselves. No interpretation necessary. This book will ask disturbing questions and inspire unexpected answers from anyone with an imagination and a heart. Sit back and let us take you on a walk around the Bad Apple.

Hardcover. Buffalo , Oliver G. Steele, Revised Ed., 1847, Book: Good, Hardcover, embossed dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, Tenth Edition with a new series of maps and plates. 96 pages. Folding frontispiece with two maps, Niagara River and Parts Adjacent; and Niagara Falls and Vicinity. another folding plate with a view of Niagara Falls. Both in excellent condition. Six b&w plates. Spine cloth peeling away from spine, top third gone. Binding is still solid, clean inside.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Stunning black and white photos by award winning photographer of the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack on NYC. These images are accompanied by Janine Altongy's dramatic interviews with family members who lost loved ones, with survivors, rescue workers, firefighters, a police officer, a funeral director, and other witnesses to September 11th.

Hardcover. Canisteo NY, First Presbyterian Church, 3rd Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 261 pages. A reprint of a town history first published in 1935

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to upper edge of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong gray cloth covers with photographic label on front. gilt and black lettering. 120 pages with 110 black and white photographic images throughout featuring the NYC street photography of Boretz over the course of 30 years. First Edition (stated), second printing (with full number line ending in 2). No dust jacket issued. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli International, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, folio, 394 pages, 250 color and black and white Illustrations. Black cloth stamped in silver and gold gilt. There has never been--and will never be--another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with star-studded photographs and personal stories from the greatest party of all time. From the moment it opened in 1977, Studio 54 celebrated spectacle and promised a never-ending parade of anything goes. Although it existed for only three years, it served as a catalyst that brought together some of the most famous and creative people in the world. It quickly became known for its celebrity guest list and uniquely chic clientele. From the cutting-edge lighting displays to its elaborate sets, it was the beginning of nightclub as performance art. Now, Studio 54 explores this cultural zeitgeist and gives us Schrager's personal firsthand account of what it was like to create and run the most famous nightclub of our age. With hundreds of photographs, many of which have never been seen before, of the celebrities and beautiful people and engaging stories and quotes from such cultural luminaries as Liza Minelli, David Geffen, Brooke Shields, Pat Cleveland, and Diane von Furstenberg, this exciting volume depicts the wild energy and glittering creativity of the era. One of the most important cultural landmarks of the twentieth century, Studio 54 continues to inspire with its legendary glamour. This exhilarating volume is a must-have for style and fashion aficionados today. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.