Search Results: New York City from Blum and Rosen Books

New York: MacMillan Company, 1902. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 465 pp. Blue grained cloth binding in bright condition with gilt lettering and gilt illustrated front cover. First front end paper missing, back hinge starting but secure, clean, tight text block and many photographic plates showing virtually no wear or age. Frontispiece of Theodore Roosevelt, with double tissue guards. Riis, a police officer, sought to reform the slum conditions of New York City's lower east side tenements..

Bronx NY: Bronx County Historical Society, Inc, 2005. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clean, securely bound, in unused condition. Contains articles on Morrisania, Grand Concourse, African-American History Project, dog runs, Old Westchester.

Brooklyn, New York: Israelowitz Publishing, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 200 pp. several pages of local merchant ads at back. Illustrated paper over boards. Signed by both authors on title page. Clean and tightly bound, no signs of wear. Photographic panorama features full page duotone photographs of Brooklyn streets, buildings, stores, stations, people, etc. as it traces the development of Brooklyn Heights and downtown Brooklyn from the Industrial Revolution until the Jazz Age. Nostalgic look in detail at the Brooklyn that once was.

New York: New York: Little Brown & Co. 2004, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 281 pp. The newspaper reporter's "journey through the city he loves," a memoir and "passionate history.".

New York: George P. Putnam, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Felix O.C. Darley Engraved By Eminent Artists. 454 pp. Illustrated. Brown leather, bright gilt decorated edges, marble pattern colored endpapers, 16 engraved illustrations including frontis and fold out lithographed plate from a drawing by William Heath depicting "Peter Stuyvesant's Army Entering New Amsterdam;" Tissue guards present on all full plate illustrations; attached green ribbon place holder. Spine cloth faded, rubbed, spine titles rubbed but legible, rubbing and wear to extremities of front and rear boards; front gilt decoration bright; hinges show signs of weakening but are still secure; no loose pages; text and plates clean with minor foxing in isolated spots. Old signature of previous owner on f.e.p. and title page. "Containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable pondersings of Walter the Doubter, the disasterous projects of William the Testy,… Read More

New York: Moses King, 1910. 1st Edition . Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 24 pp. of two-sided plates. "The Greatest City in the World" essay by Mills printed on front and rear cover versos. Wrappers lightly soiled, rear cover detached, all wrapper corners chipped, a few edge tears. Interior plates clean and bright, minimal wear, secure in stapled binding; staples rusted, index page may be missing if at one time part of this copy. Contains more than 150 photo-views in natural color of buildings, bridges, street scenes, center-fold aerial view of skyscrapers of lower Manhattan. "Compliments of the Ault & Wiborg Co." a top producer of ink and lithograph supplies.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 304 pp. Dust jacket unclipped, bright. Binding, boards, text all clean and tight, with uniform age toning. Charyn digs into the complex folds of fabric that make up modern New York.

New York: New York: United Postal Card Company, 1931, 1931. 1st Edition . Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 65 pp. (unpaginated) of photographs and illustrations. Original color illustrated paper wrapper detached from binding staples, open tear to bottom corner of front panel, some soiling and general wear. Interior tight and clean. Photographic views arranged in sequence from Governor's Island to the "New Hudson Bridge at 178th Street, the newest achievement in Bridge construction." Stunning aerial views as well as detailed shots of New York architecture and city streets..

New York: A.C. Bosselman Co., 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Original Wraps. Very Good. Unpaginated (25 pp). 9 x 11 inches oblong. Original brushed paper wrappers illustrated with river view of New York City. Mild creasing and wear to covers, light crease marks on a pages, interior clean and bright. Contains 4x6 postcard size brilliantly colored illustrations of various buildings, streets, and views of Brooklyn Bridge. Publisher was a postcard publisher primarily. The illustrations are printed two to a page. Each illustration is captioned with brief description. Scarce.

Garrison-on-Hudson: Treasure Tower Publishing, 1939. 1st Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Allida Conover. 48 pp. Illustrated wraps show mild edgewear, light soiling to back cover; interior clean; staple binding secure. A unique guide to the "Giant" - New York City, describing its Cities within the City with a centerfold map of the cities' locations ( City of Night Clubs, City of Germans and Hungarians, City of Antiques, City of Wholesale Meats, City of the Ghetto, and so on.) Also, the City's shops, listing names of department and specialty stores with addresses, and the City's restaurants. Contains full-page woodcuts of the Flatiron Building, the Waldorf, Wall Street, Power and Light Plant, Cornell Medical Unit, Radio City, Statue of Liberty, and others.. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>

Seattle: Real Cornet Press, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 144 pp. Illustrated. Wraps lightly worn, corner tips bent, reading bend to rear wrap and some interior pages; text clean with some dampstaining to outer margins. Poems by the author about major fires in New York City's history dating from 1627. Black and white photographs and drawings.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, Inc., 1903. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 190 pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1903 to previous owner. Spine ends a bit soft, unobtrusive pencil marginalia on a few pages, rear endpapers mildly foxed. Contains 25 plates of photographs taken by Riis of New York's lower east side tenements, conditions of which Riis decried and sought to reform. A nice copy of a quite scarce title..

New York: Henry E. Frankenberg Co, 1900. 1st Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Oblong 48 pp Illustrated wrappers, bound with string tie "Compliments of Henry E Frankenberg Co, 137 Broome Street, New York" No copyright or title page, undated (circa 1900), Utopia Yarn ad on inside rear cover. One copy only listed on Worldcat, this at Whitney Museum of American Art. Black & white photographs of various New York City locations in late 1800's.

New York: Citadel Press Carol Publishing, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" oblong. 158 pp. illustrated. First 8 leaves loose and laid in, otherwise clean, remainder of text block securely bound in original illustrated wrappers with cover featuring the Washington Square arch. Opens with a 9-page history of Greenwich Village. Profusely illustrated with duotone photographs, maps and etchings from 1664 to 1985, including many full-page plates.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 342 pp. Dust jacket chipped and somewhat worn with library label taped on spine panel, in protective cover. Tape ghosts on front and back boards. Water stain on front board. Spine slightly cocked. Library pocket on rear endpaper. Previous owner's name stamp on front pastedown. The story of the migration and adjustment of Eastern European Jews to the Lower East Side of New York. Contains photographs and illustrations, index..

New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 173 pp. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Illustrated with photographs, map, The author of "Kiss Me Kate" writes her autobiographical account of growing up in the tenements of the lower east side in the early 1900's. Signed by Lois Elias who wrote the Afterword. Streets was first serialized by the Tenement Museum in New York City.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 267 pp. Green grained cloth binding with gilt lettering. Spine ends a bit shelf worn, prior owner's name on second free endpaper, small old bookstore label at bottom of rear pastedown. Binding, text block and photographic plates all tight and clean. Frontispiece of Colonel George E. Waring Jr. Riis's "account of the battle with the slum in New York" includes essays on tenement house blight, and the genesis of gangs.

New York: New York Book Company, 1870. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 650pp. 42 plates of engravings. illus. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Hinges broken, front end paper missing, old masking tape connecting front paste down and frontispiece verso, mostly mild/ some moderate foxing to interior, light wear to board edges and spine ends, spine mildly cocked. This is an apparent reissue with a twist of original title by the publisher of the 1869 Women of New York or the Under-world of a Great City by Ellington - a pseudonym according to OCLC, possibly for James Dabney McCabe in the opinion of one scholar (citation on request). The contents: Women of Fashion, Women of Pleasure, Married Women, Wicked Women, Female Artistes, Life in a Female Seminary, Other Women, Female institutions. The last paragraph of the preface sums up the book's general premise: " There are doubtless many true and noble women among the fashion and… Read More