Search Results: New York City from Charles Agvent

Cooperstown, 23 October 1850. Letter. Fine condition with dark ink in a Fine folder of this exceptional letter. An incredible three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on two sheets of 8-1/2" x 6-7/8" paper by the author of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS written on behalf of James Henry Hackett (1800-1871) to his old friend Charles Augustus Murray (1806-1895) who was at this time consul-general in Egypt. In part: After imparting news of Hackett, Cooper reports on his age and on the development of his country: "Half my time passes me, in looking back. At sixty, if a man is ever to sum up the good and evil of his past life, it is high time he began. I was sixty-one last September and have grown gray. We are 'progressing' as we Americans call it, at a famous rate. New York must have doubled its population, recently, since you saw it.... Taking all things together, I regard New York as the most remarkable town in the world.... Trade is driving all before it, and has fairly invaded Broadway.... Talking of the dust,… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1991. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Berenice Abbott. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-1/2") bound in black oasis goatskin leather with black Irish linen boards. Stories about the New York City waterfront. Illustrated with five photogravures by Berenice Abbott printed on handmade paper. SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Issued in only 250 numbered copies, one of the smallest limitations of the club. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine chipped. Good. Original cloth

New York: David Longworth, 6 July 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Several owner names and annotations on endpapers and front cover. Very Good. Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7") in original calf-backed boards, the rear board printed; 458 pages. Illustrated with a full-page engraving of P. M. Stollenwerk's Mechanical Panorama and a small zodiac text engraving. Contains a wealth of information about New York City at the time including a list of all residents.

[New York], [1945]. First Edition. Manuscript. Black covers chipped and detached; contents quite nice. Very Good. Folio (11-1/2" x 13-1/2") vellum sheets string-tied with black paper covers, the front cover with a decorative drawing; 10 pages with beautiful manuscript calligraphy and 5 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS, all on rectos only. A retirement tribute to Charles Rodenburg, one of the original engineers who helped to build the New York subway system, primarily working on the Brooklyn Fourth Avenue branch. He began his career in 1900 and retired in 1945. The 5 illustrations, humorous in nature, are by Arthur Weindorf, an illustration artist who drew political cartoons for the LONG ISLAND DAILY, contributed illustrations to architectural publications, and who was a specialist in building models to scale. Four pages of the manuscript consist of lined pages, 3 of them with signatures of co-workers and others.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. A thin hardcover chapbook of about 100 pages in pictorial boards. Preface by Luc Sante and photographs of New York scenes by Frieder Blickle, including two that depict the World Trade Center. The final photograph, a two-page spread depicting the city with the towers in the distance and a bird of prey on a cliff in the foreground, is especially striking. Published in a small quantity distributed solely to the trade and not sold to the public, the book consists of selections from Auster's previously published work that deal with New York City.

New York: The Mail & Express, 1899. First Edition. Softcover. Contents clean with old dampstain at bottom margin not affecting images; covers with slight loss and some staining. Very Good in a worn folder. Oblong narrow folio (17" x 6") in original pictorial wraps rebacked with linen in an old, folding blue cloth slipcase lettered in gilt with ribbon tie; 91 pages. Illustrated with 37 chromo-lithographed sheets, printed on both sides totaling 74 color pages, along with mostly black-and-white ads and an index. A series of beautiful chromolithographs that chronicle both sides of the main thoroughfare of Broadway from Steamship Row and Bowling Green to 59th Street. A scarce and important block-by-block record of what Broadway looked like at the turn of the 20th century.

(New York): Sanctuary Books, (2004). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Oblong quarto (12" x 9-3/4") bound in black cloth. First Limited Edition, copy #21 of 200 numbered and SIGNED copies with an original 8x10 SIGNED print laid in. Introduction by Ben Lifson. An impressive first collection of photographs, mostly of life in New York City.