Metropolis An American City in Photographs by Rogers, Agnes; Allen Frederick Lewis - 1934

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1934. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Moisture contact has resulted in mild wrinkling to paper over front board; mild rubbing along edges and corners, as expected. Dampstaining inside front cover and evident along text block fore-edge, with slight waviness to a few early leaves, thus techically Good only, but interior is otherwise nearly unaffected, still a relatively decent copy. Stated 1st edition (K-I). Illus. w/ 215 b&w photographs. A glimpse of NYC in the early years of the Great Depression..

New York City: Harper & Brothers, 1934. Third Edition . Oversize Bds. Lacking Dj.. Marvelous early book on New York City told through over 200 photographs and comments documenting how New Yorkers lived, worked and played at the height of the great depression. The book is missing the spine back, but the covers are surprisingly clean and nice. The interior of the book better than vg.

Harper & Brothers, 1934-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's pictorial boards. Hardcover. Spine chipped, minor wear to extremities. Clean, unmarked pages. "Moody black-and-white coverage of day-to-day life in New York in the '30s. Beggars, snow-shoveling squads, schooner crews, railroad commuters, subway crowds, tenement life, tugboats, a sidewalk craps game - this is a romantic masterpiece of street photography. The cover soils easily; don't be picky." - CHRISTOPHER GRAY, "Rare Books About New York, Streetscapes," New York Times, OCT. 14, 2010

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. 4to. Photo-illustrated title, 216 photographs of varying sizes, most full-page, w/ 4 page index and afterword to the images. Photo-illustrated printed boards, lettered in orange, black & white on front & back covers (minor edgewear, minor wear to corners, minor bumping head & foot of spine, small stain to lower fore-edge textblock), still VG- copy. First edition, stated, of this remarkable photographic work assembled in the depths of the depression, and drawing upon the photographic efforts of Edward Weyer and from the Fox Movie, Manhattan Medley, with still images from Bonney Powell. The work has been described as a romantic masterpiece of moody black-and-white coverage of day-to-day life in New York at the height of the Great Depression, filled with beggars, snow-shoveling squads, schooner crews, commuters, subway crowds, tenement life, tugboats, crap games, and Coney Island. Of interest is the focus of the book on where people ate lunch, including views of… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Third edition. Unpaged. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Photographs by Edward Weyer. Assembled by Agnes Rogers, with running comment by Frederick Lewis Allen. One of the first photographic studies of New York City, "primarily devised to suggest the complexion of human life in a metropolis--the ways in which people live and work and play." Lacks the spine back, with moderate soiling to the boards, else a good copy with scattered spotting to the endpapers. Scarce in the trade. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.

E-372. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1934. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 216 photographs of varying sizes, most full-page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in matching illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A remarkable photographic work assembled in the depths of the depression, and drawing upon the photographic efforts of Edward Weyer and from the Fox Movie, Manhattan Medley, with still images from Bonney Powell. The work has been described as a romantic masterpiece of moody black-and-white coverage of day-to-day life in New York at the height of the Great Depression, filled with beggars, snow-shoveling squads, schooner crews, commuters,… Read More

Harper & Brothers, 1934. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Some edgewear. Dust jacket has some edgewear, but in very good shape. Name written on front endpaper.