Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
by Bascomb, Neal
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385506600
- ISBN 13
- 9780385506601
- Seller
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About This Item
Doubleday, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in like dust jacket. First printing with full number line. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. 342 pages with pages with Notes, Bibliography. Illustrated with B/W pates; skyscraper drawings on endpapers. In 'Higher', Neal Bascomb brings to life the excitement of the city in the final, heady days before the Great Depression. He creates a tale as suspenseful as the race itself - and as dramatic as an ingenious last-minute flourish that would briefly give one building the title not only of tallest in New York, but tallest in the world, before another monument soared even higher.
Synopsis
Neal Bascomb is a former journalist and book editor. He recently participated in two documentaries on architectural history. A native of St. Louis, he now lives and writes in New York City. For more information about the author, please visit www.nealbascomb.com
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- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001600
- Title
- Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
- Author
- Bascomb, Neal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385506600
- ISBN 13
- 9780385506601
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 352
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