Metropolis An American City in Photographs
by Assembled by Agnes Rogers; with Running Comment by Frederick Lewis Allen; Edward M. Weyer, Photographer
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
E-372. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 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 .
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- Last Exit Books (US)
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- Title
- Metropolis An American City in Photographs
- Author
- Assembled by Agnes Rogers; with Running Comment by Frederick Lewis Allen; Edward M. Weyer, Photographer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Place of Publication
- E-372
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