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1965 OFFICIAL GUIDE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR All New for 1965

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc. : 1965

Seller ID: 19984

Condition: Very Good+

A very lovely copy with very minor rubbing to extremities; The program for the 2nd year of the fair. This was newly laid out with different ads (but same advertisers) and with the text edited; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 280 pages
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52D ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REGENTS 1898 Volume 2, 18th Report of the State Geologist and Paleontologist and Field Assistants

By: [New York State Museum]

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Albany, University of the State of New York : 1900

Seller ID: 6186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Geologic map of Rockland county in lightly torn front pocket; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF NEW-YORK, 1670

By: Denton, Daniel

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Westvaco Corporation : 1973

Seller ID: 18261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited reprint edition. In VG+ slipcase with slight browning. Includes facsimile pages of the original edition, one of the earliest books about New York ; 8vo; 88 pages
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A CHRONICLE OF ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY YEARS The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York 1768-1918

By: Bishop, Joseph Bucklin

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1918

Seller ID: 2951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Boards with minor rubbing to extremities. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded ; Dark red boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages
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A CITY SET ON A HILL The Significance of the Health Demonstration At Syracuse, New York

By: Winslow, C. -E. A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc. : 1934

Seller ID: 9697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A report on a project undertaken by the city of Syracuse, New York, in the 1920s, seeking improved public health after a major investment in same; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages
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A FEAST OF WORDS The Triumph of Edith Wharton

By: Wolff, Cynthia Griffin

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1977

Seller ID: 16219

ISBN-13: 9780195021172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight wear & chipping to price clipped DJ; The long journey from child of New York society in a society that took for granted the role of women into a renowned novelist ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 453 pages
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A GUIDE TO THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK Eleventh Edition

By: Hall, Edward Hagaman

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Laymen's Club of the Cathedral : 1950

Seller ID: 20569

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Slight browning of cover and with one very light dampstain. ; A profusely illustrated guide of the church. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages
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A HISTORY OF NEW YORK From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty

By: Knickerbocker, Diedrich [Irving, Washington]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Lovell, Coryell & Company

Seller ID: 18254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Hinges professionally repaired. Former owner's notes on front free endapaper. Pages darkened; Washington Irving's whimsical account of the early history of New York, told by the third party "Dietrich Knickerbocker". Nice, early edition. ND [1880]? ; 12mo; 307 pages
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A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK Including a Guide to Comemorative Sites and Monuments

By: Ulmann, Albert

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century : 1939

Seller ID: 20683

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Wear & small open tears to DJ. Binding not tight; Really a history of New York landmarks, such as Peter Stuyvesant's resting place and the site where George Washington rallied his troops by reading the Declaration of Independence. Most of these Landmarks and their details are not found in a conventional travel guide. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xviii, 440 pages
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A MARITIME HISTORY OF NEW YORK

By: Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc. : 1941

Seller ID: 17186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

DJ price clipped, tape repaired, and with open tears. Usual browning to endpapers. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; Introduction by Mayor LaGuardia. Stated first edition; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages
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A ROMANCE OF PROVIDENCE Being a History of the Church of the Strangers, in the City of New York

By: Taylor, Joseph S. [editor]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Wilbur B. Ketcham : 1887

Seller ID: 9770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

History of the old church, once located on Mercer Street; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages
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A SESQUICENTENNIAL REVIEW OF THE PARK AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NEW YORK CITY

By: Starratt, Rose M.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: St. Louis, Bethany Press : 1963

Seller ID: 6915

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Boards with light wear to extremities. Previous owners name in front free endpaper ; The history of the church and its neighborhood, starting way back in 1809; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages
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A STUDY OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK AUTHORITY

By: Bird, Frederick L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. : 1949

Seller ID: 14757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelfwear to boards and with two very light dampstains on rear boards; Stats, analysis, and som b&w pictures covering the history and then-current operations of the Port Authority; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 191 pages
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A TALE OF THE GREAT SEA A Narrative of a Luxury Cruise of 1925 Into the Mediterranean by One Who Took it Personalitites and Persiflage

By: Mac Lennan, Frank P.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Topeka, KS, : 1925

Seller ID: 19140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

De Luxe Edition # 2 of 500, nicely SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper. A detailed description by the editor and Publisher of the Topeka State Journal of the Holland-America Line luxury cruise around the Mediterranean, which was escorted by a 10+ American Express crew. On board were mostly tourists from Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The cruise brings the steamship trip to mind, that Mark Twain took almost 60 years earlier and that ended up in his book "An Innocent Abroad". This description is embellished with many illustrations by Carl Bolmar; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 280 pa...
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A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK AND MY SUMMER ACRE Being the Creations of Mr. Felix Oldboy

By: Mines, John Flavel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1893

Seller ID: 17897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Some of the pages unopened ; Top edge gilt. Decorative blue boards with gilt lettering and black pictorial design. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 518 pages
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A WIDER WORLD Portraits in an Adolescence

By: Simon, Kate

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1988

Seller ID: 15777

ISBN-13: 9780060155261

Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light wear to DJ; A sequel to Bronx Primitive, covering the author's adolescent years growing up in the New York of the 1930s; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages
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AMERICA SOUTH

By: Beals, Carleton

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott : 1937

Seller ID: 10839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

DJ spine sunned and with small chips. Price clipped. Endpapers browned ; The New York Times: "Anything that Carleton Beals writes about our neighbors to the south is bound to be worth attention"; 8vo; 559 pages
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AMERICAN WILD LIFE ILLUSTRATED Compiled by the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the City of New York

By: Wpa [Work Progress Administration]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Wise & Co. Inc. : 1965

Seller ID: 20456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Light rubbing to boards ; Profusely illustrated with color photographs. This is the later edition of a book that was originally published in 1940 by the City of New York under Mayor LaGuardia. The first edition states: Compiled by the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the City of New York. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 749 pages
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AN EVENT ON MERCER STREET A Brief History of the YMCA of the City of New York

By: Donoghue, Terry

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Private Printing

Seller ID: 2690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Nd [1950s] ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 83 pages
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AN EVENT ON MERCER STREET A Brief History of the YMCA of the City of New York

By: Donoghue, Terry

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Private Printing

Seller ID: 13148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

No date, circa 1950s ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 83 pages
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ART AND THE EMPIRE CITY New York, 1825 - 1861

By: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art : 2000

Seller ID: 17495

ISBN-13: 9780870999581

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Boards very lightly dog eared; Profusely illustrated ; 4to; 620 pages
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AUSTRIA. TOP TOURIST ATTRACTIONS Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna

By: [New York World's Fair]

Price: $9.00

Publisher: : 1964

Seller ID: 19527

Binding: Fold out

Condition: Very Good

Fold out, given to visitors at the Austria Pavilion at the New York World's Fair 1964-65 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1 pages
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BAEDEKER'S NEW YORK Excursions in and around New York At the Turn of the Century, Including Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington

By: Baedeker, Karl

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, Hippocrene Books Inc. : 1985

Seller ID: 20229

ISBN-13: 9780882548593

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Karl Baedeker never published a title "New York" (only much later). This facsimile are parts from "Baedeker United States" 2nd Edition 1899. A nicely produced facsimile from a publisher just one block from our former Madison Avenue store. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 289 pages
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BECH IS BACK

By: Updike, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1982

Seller ID: 7531

ISBN-13: 9780394528069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

3" closed tear to DJ front. Spine a bit slanted; The second in the Bech series covers the period from the Vietnam era through the end of the seventies. Stated first edition. Review from the New York Times Book Review of October 17, 1982 laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195 pages
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BORN TO COACH A Season with the New York Knicks

By: Pitino, Rick & Reynolds, Rick

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, New American Library : 1988

Seller ID: 6020

ISBN-13: 9780453006200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light shelf wear to DJ; Lured to the NBA from the college ranks, Coach Pitino has a roller-coaster ride in his first season with the New York Knicks ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages
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CALEB HEATHCOATE Gentleman Colonist. the Story of a Career in the Province of New York 1692-1721

By: Fox, Dixon Ryan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Cooper Square : 1971

Seller ID: 2853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages
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CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN & AMERICAN PAINTINGS 1500-1900 New York World's Fair 1940, Masterpieces of Art

By: Pach, Walter

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Art Aid Corporation : 1940

Seller ID: 2659

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor rubbing to extremities and with boards a bit darkened and detaching; Official illustrated guide ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages
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CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN & AMERICAN PAINTINGS 1500-1900 New York World's Fair 1940, Masterpieces of Art

By: Pach, Walter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Art Aid Corporation : 1940

Seller ID: 2657

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Boards with light chipping and light discoloration. ; "Official illustrated catalogue" ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages
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CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN & AMERICAN PAINTINGS 1500-1900 New York World's Fair 1940, Masterpieces of Art

By: Pach, Walter

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Art Aid Corporation : 1940

Seller ID: 2658

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor rubbing to extremities and with boards a bit darkened. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; "Official illustrated catalogue" ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages
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CHARTER, CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS, OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, ROLL OF MEMBERS & C, OF THE Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York

By: [Society Of The Friendly Sons Of St. Patrick In The City Of New York]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York : 1899

Seller ID: 20522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Instituted March 17th, 1784 - incorporated February 13th, 1827. A handsome and tight copy! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 79 pages
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