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Item #621599 Report of the Heights of Buildings Commission to the Committee on the Height, Size...
BASSETT, Edward M., chairman

Report of the Heights of Buildings Commission to the Committee on the Height, Size and Arrangement of Buildings of the Board of Estimate and Appointment of the City of New York

New York: (M. B. Brown Printing & Binding Co.) for the Heights of Buildings Commission, 1913. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. x, 295pp. Illustrated, including several fold-out diagrams. Maroon cloth gilt. Fine with a tiny bit of wear and the spine a trifle sunned. A very nice copy of this interesting..... More

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Item #621688 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Robert A. CARO
CARO, Robert A.

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

New York: Vintage, (1975). Softcover. Reprint. 1246, xxxiv pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Pictorial wrappers. Ownership stamp of *New York Post* columnist Earl Wilson with a gift inscription to his wife, Rosemary, on the interior front cover. Creases on wraps and pages in rear index, thin strip of..... More

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ISBN: 0394480767

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Item #626450 Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs. Robert KANIGEL
KANIGEL, Robert

Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Hardcover. First edition. 482pp. Light bumping at top corners and spine ends, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. More

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ISBN: 9780307961907

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Item #623582 Manhole Covers. Mimi MELNICK
MELNICK, Mimi

Manhole Covers

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, (1994). Hardcover. Second printing, hardcover issue. Photographs by Robert A. Melnick. Introduction by Allan Sekula. Oblong quarto. xix, 252pp. Binding cocked else fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear. A lovely book. More

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ISBN: 0262133024

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Item #623683 City Development: Studies in Disintegration and Renewal. Lewis MUMFORD
MUMFORD, Lewis

City Development: Studies in Disintegration and Renewal

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1945). Hardcover. First edition. 248pp. Owner bookplate on front pastedown with tiny bookseller ticket (Traver's Book Store) on rear pastedown, inked marking in the margins of several pages, very good in a very good dust jacket with small nicks and tears. More

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Item #627661 The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City. Scott PEEPLES
PEEPLES, Scott

The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City

Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2020). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 206pp. Illustrated. Photography by Michelle Van Parys. Fine in fine dust jacket. More

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Item #627200 The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States. John...
REPS, John W.

The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States

Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1966). Hardcover. Second printing. Oblong small quarto. xv, 574pp. Illustrated in black and white. Page edges foxed, thus very good or better in a toned, near very good dust jacket with edge nicking (mostly confined to the spine ends) and a few very short tears. More

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Item #627813 Public Markets. Helen TANGIRES
TANGIRES, Helen

Public Markets

New York / (Washington, D.C.): W. W. Norton & Company / Library of Congress, (2008). Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 336pp. Heavily illustrated from black and white photographs. Spine ends gently bumped and sunned, near fine in lightly spine-sunned, very good or better dust jacket with light edgewear and a...... More

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ISBN: 9780393731675

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Item #625745 Urbanization: Its Effects on Government and Society. John Giffen THOMPSON
THOMPSON, John Giffen

Urbanization: Its Effects on Government and Society

New York: E.P. Dutton, (1927). Hardcover. First edition. 683pp. Ex-library with stamps, small tear at the crown, very good. More

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Preferring the edition published in the nation of the author's birth. You couldn't find a more classic American novel than Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but it was actually first published in England. However, many collectors prefer to "follow the flag," and the American edition (this fine copy offered in our Catalog 98) is more desirable.more
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