james taub (6 risultati)

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 379 p. Audience: General/trade. Owners name in ink front inside, jacket has light edge wear, book is clean and tight. Very good in very good dust jacket.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is verygood. Binding is tight/good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Taub, Morris (jacket design) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Fine condition dark brown linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes A Note to the Reader; Foreword and Preface. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings, including a black-and-white frontispiece drawing. "A fascinating look at the people and places, architecture and geography, history and politics, virtues and vices, splendors and crime, one hundred years ago." - from the jacket front. "Step back a century to a younger New York! Take an armchair tour all around old Manhattan, from the Battery to the northern tip, from the Hudson River to the East River. Along the way you'll see, smell, and hear about: The people of New York; The Harbor; Broadway; Fifth Avenue; The Elevated Railroads; Society; Divorces without Publicity; Christmas in New York; The Bulls and Bears of Wall Street; The Ferries; The Public Squares; The Pawnbrokers and their Ways; The "Lost Sisterhood"; The Bar-Rooms; The Hudson River Tunnel; Jerry McAuley's Mission'; Metropolitan Amusements; New York Hotels; The Tramps; The Post Office; The Markets and hundreds of other sights and secrets in the greatest city in the world." - from the rear outer jacket. " " What Paris is to the Frenchman, or London to the Briton, New York is to the America." So wrote James D. McCabe, Jr., in New York by Gaslight, his wonderful 1882 guidebook -a and loving tribute - to "the Great Metropolis," published more than a century ago. McCabe, a Southern journalist, first visited the city in 1867; he fell under its spell and wrote several books about its wonders - and horrors, New York by Gaslight was his final - and finest - work about the city he grew to love. McCabe went everywhere and observed all with a journalist's eye for just those details that would add color to his descriptions. In delightful prose he tells about the sights - the tall buildings, the beautiful parks, the churches, the fashionable stores, the mansions of the wealthy. He traveled up and down the great thoroughfares of the day: Broadway and Fifth, Sixth, and Madison avenues. He journeyed from Wall Street to South Street, from the Hudson to the East River, from Croton (where the city's water came from - and still does) to Castle Garden, where much of the burgeoning populations gained entrance to the city of their dreams. From firsthand knowledge McCabe described the ferries that connected Manhattan to New Jersey, Brooklyn (then a separate city), and other points, and the elevated railroads that were the forerunners of today's subways. He went into the prisons, the bars, the missions; to the wharves, the courts - and even to the graveyards so he could describe what it was like to die and be buried in New York! McCabe knew the people of the city: the rich and poor, merchants and municipal workers, politicinas and tycoons, firefighters and police. He also observed at close hand life in New York's shadows and described, without shrinking, the horrors of the city - its crime (gambling, prostitution, thievery, murder) and its social problems (the abject poverty of the lower class, the numerious homeless, the drunks). The book is packed with anecdotes, facts, figures, profiles, history - and with immense charm, for McCabe's love of the city shines through in his every word. Dozens of black-and-white engravings of the sights and of scenes of city life add the finishing touches to a wholly delightful volume. So come, take a journey back in time, back to New York as it was more than one hundred years ago, when the city was bursting with promise that no other place on earth could offer. You won't be disappointed." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1951 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 24 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. No. 1-4, Winter to Autumn, 1950. HC, Orig. Red cloth and gilt stamping to spine. B/W photography, ads, illustrations and collected writings from celebrated authors. 4to. 4 page Index to all 4 quarters + 429pp. Fine, Clean, with no markings or writings, never read. Mint Interior with near fine exterior; spine is sunned. Includes stories, poems and other writings by authors such as J. Frank Dobie, Virgie Bernhardt, John Rosenfield, Aubrey Burns, Leonard Casper, Fannie Cook, Elizabeth Coatsworth, David Cornell DeJong, Clyde Eagleton, Dick Johnson, Sidney Sulkin, William Goyen, O. W. Pierce, Amos Taub, James Pipes, Mary Poole, Vernon Young, Thomas Hal Philips, Albert Guerard, Ernest Kroll, Charles Allen, Ruth Morgan, Inez Thrift, Everett A. Gillis, Robert Ramsey, Fred Gibson, Ruby Pickens Tartt and many more. Hard to find in such nice condition. RARE. Collectible. BR Box 152.

Saddle-stitched. Lot of 160 pieces of ephemera (from a variety of renown magicians) related to card tricks. Condition of ephemera is Good overall with mild age toning, shelf wear, and the occasional minor stain to cover. MA Consignment. Shelved in Alcove. 1401341. Special Collections.