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By: N/A
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, [Hotel Astor]: [1915?]
Seller ID: P7142
Unpaginated (approx. 28p.) Scrape on front with wrap edges overhanging the fore edges creased and torn, stamp of Publicity Bureau of Chamber of Commerce on front. Brochure that begins with a section touting the splendors of the Hotel Astor, but primarily a listing of transportation, clubs, museums, parks, libraries, nearby destinations, theaters, and demographics for the city. Basically exactly what the title promises. Foldout map tipped in inside back wrap. (5"x3-1/... View more info
By: Adamic, Louis
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Bros.: 1945
Edition: First
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: H6746
399p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Cover spine sunned. Includes bibliographical notes. Order leaflet included with this book indicates that a signed copy of this title was available for purchase by mail, which this copy probably was. No. 4 of the Nation of Nations series. Puts forth the premise that the United States isn't essentially Anglo-Saxon but "the blend of cultures from many lands woven of threads from all corners of the earth. Diversity itself is the ... View more info
By: Adamic, Louis
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1940
Edition: First
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: H9328
350p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Cover corners bumped, spine and edges sunned. 8 pages of b&w photo plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. View more info
By: Adamic, Louis
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1940
Edition: First
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: H9297
350p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Cover corners bumped, spine sunned, front hinge a bit weak. 8 pages of b&w photo plates. (9-5/8"x6-1/2") View more info
By: Adamic, Louis
Price: $29.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Bros.: 1942
Edition: First
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: G2043
[xvi], 247p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Spine sunned. [Christian; 529] (8-3/8"x5-5/8") View more info
By: Alaska Mutual Savings Bank
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Anchorage, Alaska, Alaska Mutual Savings Bank: 1976
Seller ID: H4960
48p. Cover lightly soiled. Oblong. B&w photographs. (9-1/4"x12-1/4") View more info
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services: 1984
Edition: First
Seller ID: H10420
429p. 1st printing. Scratches on front cover, brown spots on top page edges, jacket lightly rubbed with chips to edges. Includes bibliographic sources. B&w photographs. (8-1/2"x5-3/4") View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Brooklyn, Bederkesa'er Club: 1904
Seller ID: P7187
36p. Social club in Brooklyn, New York for immigrants from Bederkesa area of Germany. (5-1/4"x4-1/4") View more info
By: Bromfield, Louis
Price: $29.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Bros.: 1948
Edition: First
Seller ID: H7838
[x], 405p. Jacket has 6" tear on spine and has a 2" tear on front flap fold that have been tape repaired with back soiled and smaller tears and chips to edges. B&w illustrations. (8-1/2"x5-7/8") View more info
By: Brown, Daniel T.; Warlene (Greer) Reed, Editor
Price: $35.00
Publisher: St. Charles, Missouri, Howell Foundation: 2003
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: P6515
[xxii], 570p. Signed by author on title page. B&w photographs. (9"x6") View more info
By: Burger, Billy
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, Association Press: 1946
Edition: First
Seller ID: H5761
87p. Spot on frontispiece and title page fore edges, p. 45 top corner missing, endpapers have acid discoloration, cover corners worn, jacket has chips to edges. Personal reminiscences of author's work with the YMCA in New York State. B&w photo plates. (7-1/2"x5-1/4") View more info
By: Case School of Applied Science
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, Case School of Applied Science: 1944
Seller ID: P7184
38p. Name on front and a bit of marginalia. Includes information on requirements for admission, curricula for undergraduates, financial aid and expenses, and college calendar. B&w photographs. (9"x6") View more info
Price: $29.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1919
Edition: First
Seller ID: H11041
[xiv], 164p. Former owner's name on front endpaper, endpapers toned, cover corners bumped and spine sunned, tissue at title page creased. The maps were compiled and drawn by Allen & Francis Chamberlain. Written to "serve as a finger-board to indicate some of the 'wilderness' of New England that await the foot-free rover." 9 leaves of b&w maps and 15 leaves of b&w photo plates & frontispiece. (7"x4-3/4") View more info
By: Croatian Fraternal Union of America, Junior Order
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Penn., Croatian Fraternal Union of America: 1939
Seller ID: G1106
38p. Cover stained, former owner's name on front cover. B&w photographs. Wire bound. (11"x8-1/2") View more info
By: Dawes, Rufus C.; Century of Progress
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Chicago, Century of Progress: 1934
Seller ID: P7013
Some offsetting of plates. Wire spiral binding. 30 color plates. (8-1/2"x11-1/4") View more info
Price: $29.00
Publisher: New York, Boni & Liveright: 1923
Edition: First
Seller ID: H12534
[xvi], 286p. Bookstore label on back pastedown, some edges uncut, fade spots and sizing scraped on cover with spine sunned and gilt worn. In descriptive sketches, Dreiser relates his early impressions of New York City as it was in the first decade and a half of the 20th century. B&w illustrations and 30 brown woodcut illustrated plates and frontispiece. (9"x6") View more info
By: Editors of Look in Collaboration with Frederick L. Allen
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1948
Seller ID: H6463
394p. Cover corners bumped and bottom edge soiled, jacket has 1" tear at top front edge near flap fold and 2-1/2" tear on top front edge near spine fold with chips and smaller tears to edges and holes on folds. Contemporary guide to post-WWII New York City. B&w and color photographs and maps. A Look Picture Book. (8-1/4"x5-1/2") View more info
By: Freemasons. Texas. Grand Lodge
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Waco, Texas, Grand Lodge of Texas: 1953
Seller ID: P5533
60p. Cover corners worn, slight soil mark on back at fore edge, bottom corner of back pages are moisture stained. Well illustrated view of the Masonic building's architecture and interiors. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9"x6") View more info
By: Frikke, Caroline L. (Eddy); Compiled By
Price: $19.00
Publisher: 1982
Seller ID: P4048
57p. Cover spine slightly sunned. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2") View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: [Detroit], General Motors Corp.: [1939]
Seller ID: P7067
Unpaginated (approx. 20p.) Cover edges scraped and chipped. Pamphlet for the General Motors exhibit "Highways and Horizons" at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Includes a transcript of the narration for and photographs of the exhibit designed by Norman Bel Geddes and built by artists and craftsmen under the direction of George Wittbold, builder. B&w photographs. (7"x8-1/4") View more info
