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[LITERATURE]. SCHWARTZ, Delmore (1913-1966). Editor: Mary J. J. Wrinn. "The Poets' Pack of George Washington High School by Members of the Poetry Club and the Poetry Class, 1927-1931." New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in glassine. English language. Orange cloth boards with gilt titling on spine and gilt illustration of a shield on front cover. 12mo. XXII, 300 pp. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. 15 oz. Fore-edge and bottom uncut. Text clean. Price in pencil on free front endpaper. Contains (pp.262-265) the first four poems of Delmore Schwartz's to ever be published: "E. A. P. - A Portrait," "The Saxophone," "Automobile," and "Darkness." Schwartz, whose writing garnered early comparisons to T. S. Eliot, was a major figure in twentieth-century literary circles in New York City and at Harvard, where he taught. His short-story collection "The World is a Wedding" is a classic of the period and social milieu. A long-time editor of the Partisan Review, Schwartz was… Read More

Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. 8x6x0. [NEW YORK]. Bao, Xiaolan, and Roger Daniels. "Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92." Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001. English language. Softcover. Text with black and white images. 9 x 5.75 x 1 in. 23 x 14 x 2 cm. 19 oz. pp. xvi, 330. Front cover bows out. Wear on wrappers. Laminate lined on back wrapper. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. White out on first page. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9780252073502."In 1982, 20,000 Chinese-American garment workers—most of them women—went on strike in New York City. Every Chinese garment industry employer in the city soon signed a union contract. The successful action reflected the ways women's changing positions within their families and within the workplace galvanized them… Read More

Bohemian Griot Publishing: Virginia Beach, VA, 2006. Advanced Author's Release, Limi. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 0x0x0. Signed and Inscribed by Author. [NEW YORK]. Sanchez, Ivan. "Next Stop: Growing Up Wild Style in the Bronx." Virgina Beach, VA: Bohemian Griot Publishing, 2006. Signed and inscribed by author in red ink on half title. English language. Hardcover in jacket. "Advanced Author's Release, Limited Edition, First Printing." Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in. 22 x 14 x 2 cm. 13 oz. 207 pp. Back of dust jacket has small tear near top of spine. Text clean. Near Fine in Very Good Plus jacket. ISBN: 9780971544260."Behind the safety of New York City's news headlines, 'Next Stop' is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late 80s and early 90s at the height of the crack epidemic.

New York: Assouline, 2020. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x1x11. [NEW YORK]. Gross, Daniel. "Reinventing Columbus Circle: The Epic Story of New York's Iconic City Center." New York: Assouline, 2020. English language. Hardcover in jacket. Silver boards with embossed white lettering. Text with full-color images. 11 x 8 x 1 in. 28 x 20 x 2 cm. 42 oz. pp. 197. Wear evident on jacket's spine. Minimal use. Text clean. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 9781614288909."At the southwest corner of Central Park lies one of Manhattan’s most trafficked intersections, and one of its greatest anomalies: Columbus Circle, the only roundabout in a city of right angles. Since its construction in the 1850’s, the circle has become one of the borough’s most iconic landmarks, immediately recognizable since 1982 by the grand, pillared monument to… Read More