Tony Sarg's New York. First edition.

4to. 22.3 x 25cm. Original black cloth embossed name and with color onset. .OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1316718313: "Introduction and 24 color lithographs showing various locales throughout New York in serio-comic depictions by Sarg. The illustrations are original continuous tone color lithographs, not half-tones. . Previous owner's signature on fep.Nantucket Historical Association.Tony Sarg (1880-1942) was a creative genius known popularly for his work as a puppeteer, illustrator, toymaker, window designer, and creator of the original Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. Sarg began coming to Nantucket with New York friends in the early 1920s, and purchased a home on North Liberty Street, Nantuucket in 1922. He soon opened the Tony Sarg Shop at 38 Centre Street, which relocated in 1929 to the corner of Easy Street and Steamboat Wharf as Tony Sarg's Curiosity Shop. Less well known for his fine art, Sarg was an active member of the Art Colony, a supporter of Florence Lang, and a close friend and occasional host of the "dean" of the Art Colony, Frank Swift Chase. For the 1927 Nantucket Follies at the Yacht Club, organized by Austin Strong, the Inquirer and Mirror wrote that Sarg "presented a puppet munching a cracker, and then drew a caricature of his assistant, Frank Swift Chase, in the form of a rotund cupid.".…