rogers agnes running frederick lewis (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Stated First Edition. Unpaginated, b/w photos with captions; folio, pictorial boards. Cover spine reinforced with clear tape, cover edges worn, bookplate, good; contents very good; no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 2nd printing. Binding tight; pages clean; edges of boards show some wear; great deco p/o bookplate on front endpaper (see photos). Unclipped DJ is unfaded but shows edgewear and some tears; looks nice in Brodart cover. "A book of 304 pictures which presents the life of seven million men, women and children in New York," along with 20,000 words of comment. "Metropolis is a volume utterly new in quality and conception, the stuff of American city life today. It is a fascinating sociological study, an unprecedented experiment in book-making, and a grand evening's entertainment." 9-1/4 x 12-1/4".

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 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, 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 beautifully appointed luncheons in fine hotels, to daily luncheon specials consisting of tomato juice and corned beef hash with coffee. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Oversize Bds. Lacking Dj. Third Edition. 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. Book.