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IN THE GOLDEN NINETIES. (Valentine's Manual Number Twelve, 1928).
by Brown, Henry Collins
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fairly worn pictorial jacket - complete but with chips and closed tears
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About This Item
Hastings-on-Hudson: Valentine's Manual, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fairly worn pictorial jacket - complete but with chips and closed tears. 422 pp., profusely illustrated from engravings, halftones, line drawings, etc, many are full-page and 8 in color; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title.
"A vivid picture of life as it was lived [in New York] before the close of the century illustrated with over a hundred contemporaneous pictures in black and white and eight full pages in color." Scarce in jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21649
- Title
- IN THE GOLDEN NINETIES. (Valentine's Manual Number Twelve, 1928).
- Author
- Brown, Henry Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fairly worn pictorial jacket - complete but with chips and closed tears
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Valentine's Manual
- Place of Publication
- Hastings-on-Hudson
- Date Published
- 1928
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