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Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1924 (New Series)
by Brown, Henry Collins (Editor)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/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., 1924. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/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, maps, engravings, & colored lithographs & contains fascinating statistics & vignettes about the city, its buildings, residences, & colorful local personalities. Offered here is the 1924 book, which contains a frontispiece + 139 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. 386 pp, including Index. Condition is Fine: nearly as clean & bright as when first printed save for a few faint foxed spots & extremely mild tanning to page edges, slightly heavier to endpapers. Binding strong & straight, pages creamy white. Internal plates & illustrations are virtually flawless, with crisp colors & white margins. 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
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021631
- Title
- Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1924 (New Series)
- Author
- Brown, Henry Collins (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- 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
- 1924
- 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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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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