The Big Apple. Gotham City. The city so nice they named it twice. It has Broadway, Wall Street, and Central Park. It's also the city that we call home. In this catalogue dedicated to the city that never sleeps you'll find Walt Whitman's work written during his time as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; George Henry Curtis' Scenes from Opera at the Five Points, which centers on the area made famous by the film Gangs of New York; and the official program and score card from the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium.
New York: Francis & Laurel, Stationers & Printers, 1871. First Edition. Metroplitan Museum of Art. The museum first opened on February 20, 1872. Read More about Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York
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Boston: 1981. Roswell Angier (b. 1940) is a Boston-based photographer known for his early 1970's images of Boston’s "Combat Zone", the area along Washington Street of strip clubs and burlesque houses. Read More about NYC, 1981
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1985; 1986; 1986). First editions (City of Glass is a second printing). Inscribed to Poet Clark Coolidge. The complete New York Trilogy, Paul Auster's classic meta-fictional detective story, with each copy inscribed by the author to poet Clark Coolidge. This was Auster's second work..... Read More about The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room
Price: $4,500
New York: Bohemia Publishing Company. 121 Puliitzer Building, (1898). First Edition. Read More about New York's Chinatown. An Historical Presentation of its People and Places
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New York City: 1958. The American Premiere of Beckett's Endgame. Samuel Beckett's Endgame is considered one of his greatest plays that was first performed Arpil 3rd, 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London and in French. The play was originally written in French before Beckett translated it to English..... Read More about Handbill for the American Premiere of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Cherry Lane Theatre, New York...
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New York: Joseph C. Spear, Cor. of Wall and Water-sts 4th Loft, [1826]. LOFT PRINTED. The earliest known broadside for Castle Garden in Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan. Once a circular fort (Castle Clinton), this structure became a beer garden and restaurant, exhibition hall, and theater. It later..... Read More about CASTLE GARDEN. THE PUBLIC IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT THIS SPLENDID ESTABLISHMENT, IS NOW...
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[New York: Hendricks & Furlong, Publishers, 115 Nassau St, 1886]. Includes a brief account of the Association, which leased the grounds of the former Williamsburg Athletic Club on De Kalb Avenue, with a list of officers and board members, and the stewards for the Spring meeting. Details of scheduled participants..... Read More about First Annual Spring Meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic Association, to take place at the Grounds,...
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New York: April 10, 1865. The End of the Civil War. An historic issue of the New York Times, published the day following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, including the correspondence between the two discussing and accepting terms. Read More about The New-York Times ... April 10, 1865 ... Union Victory! Peace! Surrender of General Lee and His...
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New York: The Sign of the Sphinx, Nine Barrow Street, [1922]. First edition. "Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, to a retired British sea captain and his wife. After his father died, when he was five, his mother, a writer and poet, took the..... Read More about It. By Clivette the Man in Black of Greenwich Village
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[Avon, CT]: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. No. 1255 of 2000 copies, signed by the artist. Read More about Maggie. A Girl of the Streets. A Story of New York. With an Intorduction by Shirley Ann Grau
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[New York: 1881]. Rare broadside poem by the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Field, 1814-1893, on the first man in the U.S. Navy to hold the title of Admiral. Read More about Written on the occasion of the unveiling Farragut statue by St. Gaudens, on 25th May, 1881, City...
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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: Simon and Schuster, [1965]. First edition. Read More about Midnight Cowboy
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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
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[New York: Broadway Theatre, 1852]. A drama taking place in Porto Rico and based on a scene from Washington Irving's pseudo-fictional biography "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Colubmus" (1828). Read More about Broadside advertising "The Peri, or, The Enchanted Fountain. Broadway Theatre...2nd...
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1881. First English edition, first impression. One of 500 copies. SCARCE TWO-VOLUME EDITION OF WASHINGTON SQUARE. An attractive copy of a scarce title, in the two-volume English edition, of which only 500 copies were issued in the first printing. Read More about Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
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New York: April 15, 1865. The full eight-page edition, published between the time Lincoln was shot and his death a few hours later. Read More about The New-York Times ... April 15, 1865 ... Awful Event. President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin. The...
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Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1864]. Reprint. George Lippard (1822-1854) was a close friend of Poe and founder of the Brotherhood of the Union, an early labor union. His popular fiction, which “represented the wildly subversive underside of the antebellum literary scene” (ANB) is often divided between the “city mysteries”..... Read More about The Empire City; or, New York by Night and Day. Its Aristocracy and its Dollars
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Cincinnati: H.M. Rulison, 1853. First edition. In NEW YORK Lippard launched “attacks on family concentrations of wealth, on slavery, and on an alleged attempt by Roman Catholics to infiltrate American schools and governments” (Reynolds, p. 23) George Lippard (1822-1854) was a close friend of Poe and founder of the Brotherhood..... Read More about New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million
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New York: The City History Club, 1923. From the Library of H. P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), master of cosmic terror and the intrusion of supernatural forces into the human realm, lived in New York from 1924 to 1926. He missed his native Providence dreadfully during his residence and deplored..... Read More about Landmarks of New York
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New York: Valentine's Manual Inc 15 East 40th Street, [1922]. Read More about Valentine's Manual of Old New York. No. 6. New Series 1922
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New York: [circa 1870]. The broadside advertises the times of Sunday services as well as Sunday school, and prayer meetings. Constructed from white granite salvaged from the demolition Congregationalist Church of the Puritans on the northwest corner of Union Square, the 53rd Street Baptist Church would open in 1870 (suggesting..... Read More about Fifty Third Street Baptist Church, Bet. Broadway and Sixth Avenue ... All are Welcome!
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[New York]: [1858] [printed early 1860s]. The Beginnings of Central Park. An extraordinary photograph taken at the very beginnings of the construction of Central Park. Taken from the roof of the Arsenal at 64th Street looking down the dirt road of Fifth Aveue, evidence of the park construction can be..... Read More about Photograph of Fifth Avenue looking southward from the roof of the Arsenal at 64th Street
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New York: Mail & Express, 1899. From Bowling Green to 59th Street. An ephemeral turn of the century depiction of both sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to 59th Street, valuable not only for the architectural renderings but also the locations and types of businesses. Rare, with OCLC recording only..... Read More about A Pictorial Description of Broadway by the Mail & Express [wrapper title
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New York: Published by J. Disturnell, 1842. Detailed insets of New York with part of Brooklyn and Williamsburg, the vicinity of New York and the St. Lawrence River. Read More about Map of the State of New York showing the Boundaries of Counties & Townships, the Locations...
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New York: Ca. 1860. Fine Photograph of Grandpa's Factory, West 52nd Street, NYC, Ca. 1860. An interesting example of New York commerical building in what was then uptown; "Grandpa Meeks" is possibly of the furniture makers J. & J.W. Meeks. Read More about Fine original photograph of 605 West 52nd Street, New York City, showing a brick three story...
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[New York: 1838-9]. First edition. The first volume of this bi-weekly periodical containing stories by G. P. R. James, Washington Irving, Mary Russell Mitford, and Miss Taylor, extracts from works including "Zeluco" and "Rob of the Bowl," short stories including "The Spectre Bride-Groom" and poetry including G. W. F.'s "The..... Read More about The New-York Visiter and Parlour Companion. Vol. 1, No. 1-24. July 1838- June 1839
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New York: 1937-1938. This photographic archive documents the construction of a massive double-barrel sewer line running from the World's Fair grounds, largely in the vicinity of Grand Central Parkway and Roosevelt Avenue. Many of the images are dated in the negative depicting the surveying of the region in June 1937..... Read More about Archive of photographs depicting the construction of the sewer system on the grounds of the...
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n.p: Ca.late 1940's. De Miskey, Julian. Original watercolor cover conception, prepared for evaluation by the magazine's art editor. Writing in The New Yorker of December 15, 1997, Lee Lorenz, the magazine's art editor from 1973-93 and subsequently cartoon editor, noted: “Julian De Miskey, the artist who signed his work M...... Read More about Original conceptual for THE NEW YORKER magazine cover, signed with artist's initial M
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[New York]: 1853-1862. Group of manuscript real estate memoranda books, detailing the Parmly family's income from their various properties, primarily in New York City. Addresses mentioned include: Nos. 11, 15, 17, and 19 West 38th Street; Nos. 165, 166, 167, 170, 172, 658 Broadway; Nos. 80, 80 1/2 82 Green..... Read More about Manuscript real estate memoranda books
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New York: R.H. Russell, 1900. Parrish, Maxfield. First edition. Read More about A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
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New York: The New Theatre Co./ Jan Hus House, 1956. Original theatre programme for a 1956 production of 'Take a Giant Step' at the Jan Hus House, directed by Ira Cirker. One of the earliest Bill Gunn performances. Playwright Louis Peterson (b.1922 - d.1998) was born in Hartford Connecticut and..... Read More about The New Theatre Co. presents "TAKE A GIANT STEP" by Louis Peterson, at the Jan Hus...
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New York: n.d. [ca. 1890]. Read More about Photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First edition. "Disguised and designed in the form of a book, Speculation! stands out as a vivid memento of the twenties bull market. It reproduces stock reports, city pages, and the movement of the tape, 'For Wall Street sharks it may be played, however..... Read More about Speculation! The Wall Street Game-Book
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[New York]: Rockwood Phot, [1869]. A fine image of Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan by George Rockwood (1832-1911), a successful commercial photographer with a studion on Union Square West and the first to import the carte-de-visite to America. Read More about Photograph of Bowling Green, New York City
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n.p: n.d. Fine Original Watercolor by Gordon Ross. Ross illustrated The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon for Heritage Press Gordon Ross (1873-1946) was a prolific artist, working mostly in watercolor, from his early days in his native Scotland. As a book artist he tackled everything from Dickens to Shakespeare, including..... Read More about ORIGINAL pencil, crayon and watercolor illustration, caption reads "New York" and...
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New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1934]. First edition in first state jacket. Variant binding in red cloth (as opposed to light blue cloth), possible trial binding, in jacket that is slightly longer at bottom (~6mm extended from usual jacket). Inscribed to his sister, an important figure in the book's history..... Read More about Call it Sleep
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1931. First edition. Presentation Copy, inscribed to his Haberdasher. PRESENTATION COPY OF RUNYON'S MASTERPIECE, inscribed to Fred Kelly, "who makes good kellys / from Damon Runyon / August 15, 1931" (five days before publication). Fred Kelly was a well-known haberdasher near Times Square that Runyon..... Read More about Guys and Dolls
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New York: ca. 1930]. A striking image, reminiscent of Berenice Abbott's work in its juxtaposition of new and old New York City. Sherril Schell (1877-1964) was an American photographer best known for his architectural photography, especially of New York City. He had a studio in London in the early 1900s-1910s..... Read More about News Building no. 7
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New York: printed by Ludwig & Tolefree, corner of Greenwich & Vesey, 1830. A compilation of anecdotes and dialogues sourced from New York City police registers in the late 1820s, presented as comic, featuring prostitutes, drunks, street hoodlums, pickpockets, robbery victims, etc. Illustrated. Read More about Skillman's New-York Police Reports. Written in 1828-29
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, [1932]. First edition. Scarce group of reviews of New York’s night spots, each with cocktail recipe. Read More about Manhattan Oases. New York’s 1932 Speak-Easies with a Gentleman’s Guide to Bars and Beverages...
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New York: Henry Holt, 1904. First Edition. A Thriller. Read More about The Marathon Mystery. A Story of Manhattan
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New York: J.B. Gibson Company, 1893. UNRECORDED CENTENNIAL HISTORY: ‘A Bulwark against Panic’. Centennial publication comprising a list of officers and committee members, a 9-page list of members, an anonymous 30-page illustrated “History of the New York Stock Exchange” from its origins in 1792 (with list of past presidents), with..... Read More about Souvenir of the New York Stock Exchange
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New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1933. OCLC locates two copies; at Amon Carter Museum Research Library and at Columbia University. Read More about The Story of the Evolution of the Book. Designed and Hand Blocked by an Industrial Arts Class of...
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New York: 1924. A program for the first play by a woman playwright from the heyday of the Greenwich Village Theatre. The Greenwich Village Theatre playhouse opened on November 15, 1917 on Sheridan Square at Christopher Street, where W. 4th Street and 7th Avenue meet, and was designed by Herman..... Read More about The Greenwich Village Theatre Program for a production of Fashion [1924
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New York: Horace Liveright, [1930]. First edition. An Outstanding Association Copy. Inscribed on the ffep "To Edwin Lefevre with the sincere regards of Arthur Train March 24 1930." A better association copy of this title is hard to imagine. Lefévre was the preiminant documentarian of Wall Street and its personalities..... Read More about Paper Profits. A Novel of Wall Street
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5 large Thanksgiving Day Parades 1955 (2), 1961 (2), one undated. Buiding the Colisseum, 1955, Lily Pond Fairmount Park, May 22, 1938; Horticultural Hall. Phila., San Remo from Central Park Sept. 12, 1937 Vase from Versailles, French Pavillon, World's Fair, Flushing Postcard, miscelaneous. Read More about 46 Photographs of New York City: Including 5 of Macy's Day Parade; The Coliseum being built; The...
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[Harold Wollvine Dickins], 1923. A series of 5 etchings of New York City scenes by the Russian-Scottish artist and architect William Walcot (1874-1943) William Walcot was a Scottish-Russian architect, architectural draftsman, graphic artist, and etcher known for his adoption of the Art Nouveau style and the many buildings he designed..... Read More about Five etchings of New York City scenes] "Brooklyn Bridge," "Park Avenue,"...
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New York: Grove Press, [1968]. First edition. Twenty-four hours in the life of Warhol superstar, Ondine, as recorded in phone conversations with Warhol. The twenty-four tapes were typed up by Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker and a couple of high schoolers. The editor, factory regular and photographer Billy Name, kept..... Read More about A. A Novel
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[New York: Ford & Garnett, 1896]. Edition de Luxe. Read More about The History of the Washington Arch in Washington Square, New York, including the Ceremonies of...
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New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. First Edition with a (1) at the end of volume. Read More about The Age of Innocence
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 1920. First edition, one of 1250 copies. Read More about The Gathering of the Forces ... Editorials, Esays, Literary and Dramatic Reviews and Other...
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[New York: The Port of New York Authority], August 1963. To help stimulate urban renewal in downtown Manhattan where he had just built the 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank tower, David Rockefeller, President of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association and of Chase Manhattan Bank, with the help of his brother the governor..... Read More about World Trade Center. Preliminary Design Studies. Prepared for the World Trade Center Department by...
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New York: Gardner Osborn, 1938. A colorful pictorial map of lower Manhattan, published for the World's Fair. Read More about Downtown District of Manhattan ... Nieuw Amsterdam and New York 1789-1939
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