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Valentine's Manual of Old New York, 1919-1920 (No. 4, New Series)
by Brown, Henry Collins (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Valentine's Manual, Inc., 1919. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. First published 1841-1870 as the Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, commonly known as Valentine's Manual, this is one of the New Series revived by editor Henry Collins Brown, published 1916-1928. Each book is full of vintage photos, prints, engravings, maps, & colored lithographs & contains fascinating statistics & vignettes about the city, its buildings, residences, & colorful local personalities. Offered here is the 1919-1920 book (No. 4), which contains a frontispiece + 73 illustrations. Hardcover 12mo is bound in deep blue cloth stamped with a gilt design of a ship to front cover inside a gilt border, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt to top page edges. 463 pp, including Index. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding strong & straight but both hinges are cracked (exposing underlying webbing of front hinge). Rear free endpaper (to which a final foldout is attached) has come completely detached & has tiny tears along fore edge side. Pages creamy white with light tanning around all edges. Internal illustrations & 5 foldout cityscapes are virtually flawless, with crisp colors & white margins. One of the two depicting City Hall Park & the Post Office has a 1" tear to outer edge; others include separate scenes of both the West & East Sides of Fifth Avenue from 38th to 42nd Streets before Its Transition to Business about 1880, & an 8-panel color litho of "Wall Street, North Side, from Broadway to William Street before the Great Fire of 1835."' The book's exterior shows moderate rubbing to extremities, loss of gilt to lower corner of the front border & spine lettering. No DJ. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays(PST); weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021630
- Title
- Valentine's Manual of Old New York, 1919-1920 (No. 4, New Series)
- Author
- Brown, Henry Collins (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Valentine's Manual, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- NEW YORK CITY MAPS 1900S TWENTIETH CENTURY GUIDEBOOK PHOTOS VINTAGE BOROUGHS NEIGHBORHOODS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books/Illustrators; Americana-Regional History; Urban/Rural/Regional Studies;
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Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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