New York City Guide; A Comprehensive Guide to the Five Boroughs of the Metropolis - Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond - Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in New York City
Published by Random House Publishers, New York, 1955
- Hardcover
- Used



Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB
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8vo. [4], vii-xx, [2], 3-680, [2] pp. Grey cloth with black and gold lettering blocked in black on the spine; blue topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Schwartz. Illustrated with double-sided plates of black and white photographs, full-page maps done in black and white, and a folding map in a pocket on the rear pastedown. A copyright page date of 1939 printed on the copyright page but based on the jacket price and book design we date this printing to be circa 1955. Offsetting on the rear pastedown; jacket with light edge wear on its spine and rear panels.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- New York City Guide; A Comprehensive Guide to the Five Boroughs of the Metropolis - Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond - Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in New York City
- Author
- Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration
- Publisher
- Random House Publishers, New York
- Publication year
- 1955
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Later printing.
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Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB
Madison, WI, U.S.A.
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