New York: 1937-1938. This photographic archive documents the construction of a massive double-barrel sewer line running from the... Read More about Archive of photographs depicting the construction of the sewer system on the grounds of the...
Price: $3,500
New York: Mayer & Merkel, [1871]. Bowne Properties. 153.407 acres of Flushing between Bay Side and Queens Avenue over to Jamaica Avenue. John Bowne, the Quaker leader (1627/8 -1695) came from England in 1649 and settled in Flushing in 1653. After various peregrinations due to his religious beliefs he settled..... Read More about Map of Land in Flushing sold in Partition in the Suit of Benjamin C. Bowne against James Bowne et...
Price: $200
New York: W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1865. One of 100 numbered Large Paper copies for Subscribers. This copy unnumbered. Printed by A. Alvord. Read More about Old New York: or, Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years. With a Memoir of the Author by Henry T....
Price: $350
New York: [1866 or later]. Tillou's essay on Fulton was published within the 1866 volume of Valentine's Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York. The extra-illustrations include portraits of Fulton and contemporaries, as well as views of his steamboats, homes, etc. Read More about Trinity Chuchyard. A Sketch of the Life of Robert Fulton ... Illustrated
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New York: Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. First edition. One of 350 copies on deckle-edge paper. Read More about The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer. Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. Volume I. Biography and...
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New York: America Press, 1938. First edition. Read More about The Jesuits of the Middle United States
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c.1910. This livery stable, owned by Henry A. Bunkenburg, was located at 413 W. 44th street (New York) in 1907, according to the Trow Business Directory of that year. By 1926, many of the livery stables in New York City had been replaced by other businesses, including a good number..... Read More about H. Bunkenburg Livery Stable: photo of building with employees in front
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Montreal, P.Q., Canada: J.C. Hackett, 1932. Second edition. Who killed the Broadway Butterfly? In 1922 John Kearsley Mitchell, III, a millionaire and the president of the Philadelphia Rubber Works who was married to the daughter of Edward T. Stotesbury (a Philadelphia partner of J .P. Morgan) met Dorothy "Dot" King..... Read More about John Kearsley Mitchell, III. Millionaire Muderer- The Tragedy of the Big Rubber Man and the...
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New York: Farrar Straus, [1949]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Oblong Blur and Other Odysseys
Price: $175
Boston New York: Little, Brown, [1994]. First edition. Inscribed to Liz Smith. Memoir by novelist and New York Post writer Pete Hamill, inscribed to legendary New York Post gossip columnist Liz Smith (1923-2017): For Liz Smith, with thanks for so many years of decency and friendship — un abrazo, Pete..... Read More about A Drinking Life. A Memoir
Price: $375
New York: Mahlon Day, 1832. The New York House of Refuge, located on the Bowery, was the first juvenile reformatory in the United States, largely tasked with "educating" the growing city's immigrant and socio-economically disadvantaged populations for crimes such as petty larceny and vagrancy. This report includes all the acts..... Read More about Documents Relative to the House of Refuge, Instituted by the Society for the Reformation of...
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New York: Hammer Galleries, 1941. First edition. Due to losses suffered in the Great Depression, William Hearst began to sell off items from the family's collection. This included artworks, furnishings, tapestries, rugs, ceramics, glassware, arms and armor, books, autographs, and manuscripts. This auction catalogue was printed by Gimbel Brothers, New..... Read More about Art Objects & Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection
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N.p: n.d. Self-portrait of Drue Heinz in the form of a stream-of-consciousness letter, done for collector and bookseller Burt Britton. With a 1 p. ALS to Britton giving him permission to use the letter for “your marvellous book”. Read More about “… SELFPORTRAITOFMAYBEDHFORBURTONTHESTRAND …"
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New York: Macmillian Company, September 1932. Signed and inscribed by the photographer on the front flyleaf, “Lewis W. Hine, To Dr. Charles C. Adams who started me on the right economic road. 1/10/39”. Read More about Men At Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines
Price: $10,000
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1976]. First edition, special issue, signed by Howe on the half-title. Signed. Signed on half-title. Read More about World of Our Fathers. [The journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they Found...
Price: $150
![Item #309471 In Honor of John L. Elliott [cover title]. Hudson Guild](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/309471.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690407093)
[New York: May 1930]. Presentation album of original drawings and autograph sentiments to John Lovejoy Elliott (1868-1942), Founder of the Hudson Guild Settlement House and an Ethical Culture Society Leader. Given on the occasion of a dinner in his honor on May 26, 1930. The album opens with a calligraphic..... Read More about In Honor of John L. Elliott [cover title
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New York: April 8, 1943. Hughes Bussing Tables at the Stage Door Canteen. The Stage Door Canteen was a New York nightclub run by the USO (American Theater Wing) for the benefit of servicemen on leave, and many stars and celebrities volunteered to perform menial tasks as well as to..... Read More about Portrait of Langston Hughes as busboy at the Stage Door Canteen, with 3 friends
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1916. A group of photo postcards showing a gathering of the Independent Patriotic Women's Division, which formed as part of the large national civic "preparedness" movement that arose in the early years of World War I. Images include a view of the division's tents pitched in a field, numerous group..... Read More about Group of 15 photo postcards showing the Independent Patriotic Women's Division
Price: $750
Philadelphia: Printed by William Dunlap [but G. W. Mentz/ E. C. Clay], 1758 [but 1828]. Reprint of the very rare 1758 editions, extracted from Ashbel Green's "Memoirs of the Rev. Joseph Eastburn" Journey through Canada. Captured in 1756 near Oswego by the French and Indians, Eastburn was taken to Canada..... Read More about A Faithful Narrative of the Many Dangers and Sufferings as well as the Wonderful Deliverances of...
Price: $250
New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company 57 Ross Street, 1903. First edition. Read More about Tales from the Bowery
Price: $75
Washington, D.C: November 24, 1967. “I must assure you that no collapse of any kind awaits this nation.”. At a time when the nation was facing the seeming dissolution of civil society and increasing urban riots, Johnson writes: “… You are perhaps aware of my partiality for the community newspaper..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (possibly by auto-pen), as President, to John Scullin, Jr., of the STATEN...
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[New York: 1991]. Stephen E. Smith (1927-1990), “the cornerstone of the Kennedy family,” was campaign manager for J.F.K.’s senatorial and presidential campaigns, and for the senate campaigns of Edward and Robert. The Stephen E. Smith Center at the J.F.K. Library was dedicated on 4 February 1991. This memorial volume, assembled..... Read More about Steve
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New York: Printed by G.F. Hopkins, for William Dunlap, 1800. Page 8 lists the characters and performers as the play was "performed at the New-York Theatre, March 26, 1800." Read More about Pizarro in Peru or the Death of Rolla. A Paly in Five Acts. From the German of Augustus von...
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June 16, 1670. 1670 Manhattan Land Grant. Signed three times by Nicholas Bayard (1644-1707), secretary of the Province and later Mayor of New York City Francis Lovelace was the younger brother of the poet Richard Lovelace and second govenor of the New York Colony. Read More about Land grant for property near Corlear's Hook, on the East River, from Govenor Francis Lovelace...
Price: $350
1953. One of 100 signed. Read More about Copper engraving: "Penthouse Roof"
Price: $850
