1001 Facts About the World's Fair and New York (1939)
New York: Dreier Hotels, (1939). Wraps. Wraps, 7 x 4" very good, illustrated including pull-out bird's eye view & map, 96 pp. Uncommon!
New York: Dreier Hotels, (1939). Wraps. Wraps, 7 x 4" very good, illustrated including pull-out bird's eye view & map, 96 pp. Uncommon!
Group of 15 responses to requests for information from a Pittsburgh woman planning on going to the New York World's Fair in 1939, almost all from August 1939. It was like she was auditioning them! All in their original envelopes, enclosing brochures touting their hotels and other information. In no.....
Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1856. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, very good, foxing throughout, minor spottiness to front board of binding. 228 (1) pp.
NY: Committee on Publicity, NYSE, 1932. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, stapled wraps, very good, 22 pp, illustrated. Not the best year to be working on the NYSE's publicity committee!
Albany: The Argus Company, 1877. Hardcover. Large 8vo, full gilt decorated red leather, good with general light rubbing around edges of boards and spine ends, but still solidly bound, quite handsome. Gilt stamped on front cover: M. A. Shaver, compliments of Ald. R. K. Oliver. 670 pp.
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo, publisher's medium brown cloth, gilt spine, very good, light wear and discoloration to binding, spine a little mellowed and spotty, contents good to very good, some toning and foxing, flyleaves more so, 1847 inscription on flyleaf. 144 pp, illustrated with woodcuts.....
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1981, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 424pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with.....
Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1937. Paperback. Paperback, 1937, octavo, 412pp., illustrated in b&w + folding map in pocket at rear. Book VG with some toning and edgewear to wrap, glue starting to unstick at front inner hinge, text clean and unmarked. No DJ...
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1984. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 485pp., one b&w map, otherwise not illustrated. Book has sun to spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Baltimore: Norman T. A. Munder, 1922. Paperback. Quarto, pictorial wraps, approximately 60 pp, filled with photos, reproductions of prints, etc., some in color, very good, light wear and soil, bit of spottiness to outermost pages. The editor, Brown, was also the editor of the Valentine's Manuals of NY.
[American: early 1800s]. Watercolor on paper. Image, including manuscript caption, approximately 9 1/2 x 5 inches on a 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 - inch sheet. In a modern metal frame, approximately 17 1/2 x 13 inches, with archivally correct matting. Some evidence of early paste on the verso showing.....
New York: Atlas Steamship Company, Limited, 1878. Sailing schedule, fare rates, and other information for Atlas Steamship Company ships from New York to Kingston, Jamaica, and Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, 1878. Printed wraps, measures 4 by 6 inches. 2p. Good. Stain to upper right corner, tape repair to front wrap, glue stain.....
New York: Rizzoli, 1997. First printing. Orange cloth boards in dust jacket,
New York: Grolier Club, 1963. Hardcover. 1963, Edition not stated. Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition, with light edge wear. There is a Previous owner notation to the end paper. The Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition, with light edge wear.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards in dust jacket, square quarto [10.25" x 10.25"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book has edgewear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild edgewear, rubbing, creasing to bottom front panel.....
New York: The Hundred Year Association of New York, 1997. Hardcover. Inscribed by Barry! Gilt stamped maroon cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book as new, feels unread. DJ fine.
New York: The Marine Society of the City of New York, 1995. Hardcover. Inscribed by Barry! Gilt stamped blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book as new with tight binding. DJ fine.
Albany: W. & A. White & J. Visscher, 1842. First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, 11.75 x 9.5 inches, publisher's black cloth gilt, fair to good with quite a bit of rubbing and wear to binding, especially to edges, corners, joints and spine ends, contents very good. With 8 lithograph plates.....
Cambridge: Harvard, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 1955. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 310pp. Good in good dust jacket. Dj spine toned, dj soiled on rear panel else clean and unclipped. Ownership signature on title page, underlining and marginalia to contents. a good reading copy.
New York: Columbia Univ. Pr. 1997. First edition. Paperback. 1997. First edition. Paperback, 249 pp. Illustrated with 17 color plates; 154 b&w figures and 30 b&w photographs. Near fine. Sunning to spine. Related item laid in.
New York: C. A. Alvord, 1867. `. Hardcover. 1867, 8vo, half calf and marbled boards, 95 pp. Very good, light rubbing. RARE, only one copy in OCLC, at NYPL, although we assume Columbia probably has a copy too!
New York: Cortland County Historical Society, 1975. First printing. Trade paperback, 355 pp.
Cortland, NY: Cortland County Historical Society, 1952. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards, octavo, 307pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text has a few neat marginal notes scattered throughout. No DJ.
Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Volume four only! Hardcover with brown buckram boards, 1854, quarto, 1192pp., not illustrated. Book ex-library with plates stamps and numbers; otherwise binding tight, text has some foxing throughout. No DJ.
New York: Sub-Committee On Black Contributions, Historical Committee of the New York City Bicentennial, 1976. First edition. Paperback. 1976. First edition. Paperback, 4to. 18pp. illustrated. Very good. Light edge wear to wraps. Contents unmarked.