Search Results: New York City from Trevian Books

Jamaica: Jamaica Art Center, 1975 First edition. Oblong 12mo; 16 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very gooc copy in original wrappers. Paperback. Catalog for the 1975 exhibition featuring examples of architectural styles found in Queens, New York City, ranging from early churches to terminals at JFK..

New York: USA Books/Universalia Publisher, (2005) First edition. Oblong 4to; 71 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plan, and drawing. A fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. A monograph on the commercial and residential work of Stephen Alton, a specialist in hotel and retial design..

Stamford: Print Research Foundation, 2004 Revised edition.Oblong 8vo; 26 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original wrappers. Catalog for an exhibition, someplace, of the Williams' collection of prints depicting travel on the NYC subway. Includes work by Jacob Lawrence, Lozowick, Sloan, Stuart Davis, etc. .

New York: Port Authority, 1985 Catalog for the remarkable collection of paintings, sculpture, installations, etc., owned and displayed by the Post Authority. Includes work by George Segal, Miro, Nevelson, Corbusier, others. First edition. 28 cm; 125 pp.; illustrated. Tear and rubbed spot to front wrapper; else a good copy or better in pictorial wrappers..

New York: NYLPC, 1981 Two-volume set of the catalogs for the 1981 exhibition at the Met of the landscape and design work of Olmsted and his partners. Vol.1: 23 cm; 169 pp; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Vol 2: 23 cm; 38 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Fine copies in slipcase showing minor wear..

London: Arup, 2014 First edition. 4to; 112 pp. illustrated from photographs, plans,and drawings. A fine copy in original wrapers. House organ of Arup Associates; this issue featuring recent work including the ULTra Heathrown transportation system, First Direct Arena in Leeds, extensive documention of the Corbin Building restoration in Lower Manhattan, other transport systems. **Not to be confused with an earlier music periodical with the same name****. First Edition. Paperback. As New.

New York: Black, Starr and Frost, 1912 Part company history, part monograph on the company’s new building at Fifth Ave. & 48th Street designed by Carrere & Hastings. Showing interiors, show rooms, workshops and setting rooms. With bookplate of Witherbee Black, third-generation owner. First edition. 22 cm; 27 pp.; illustrated from photographs and wood engravings. Rubbing and general wear to tips of covers, with rubbed spot to front cover; wear to foot of backstrip; else a good copy in gilt-stamped and embossed boards. .

New York: Joseph P. Day, 1909 Catalog 590 for auction of properties in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Galilee, NJ. With a photograph of each property and a street plat showing location on the block. 17 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated from photographs and maps. Soft vertical creasing; else a very good copy or better in printed wrappers..

New York: Avenue of the Americas: Assoc., 2001 A book commemorating the 200 year history of Avenue of the Americas, originally Sixth Avenue but renamed in 1945. Published by the Association, illustrated with historical photographs and contemporary photographs of the Avenue's less-than-inspiring 20th century architecture. First edition. 21.5 cm; 65 pp.; illustrated from photographs and engravings. A fine copy in black cloth with illustration affixed to front board, published without a dust jacket..

Collodion Press, 2010, 2010. Biography of Harlem theater producer and movie studio owner and producer of "race" films in the 1920s. Signed limited edition, #94/250 copies. 25.5 cm; 198 pp.; illustrated from stills, advertisements, and photographs. A fine copy in a lightly used dust jacket..

New York: Knopf, 1956 Chronicle of the founding and rise to the top of the retail fashion world of the New York store Bergdorf Goodman. First edition. 21.5 cm; 244 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Light staining to boards; wear to tips; spine faded; owner's name; else contents clean and tight, a good copy or better in cloth-backed boards, lacking the dust jacket..

NY: NYPL, 1998 First edition, vol. 7, no. 1 Fall 1998. 8vo; 139 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original wrappers. Paperback. With article on "Menu History of New York City", et..

New York: NYPL, 1994 First edition. 8vo; 186 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original wrappers. Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 1994 issue of this informative journal from the NYPL, no longer published. This issue with artiles about Frederick Kiesler's theatre, the history of trash in NYC, syphilis, and documenting the history of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1931, 1931. First edition. 8vo; seventeen pp.; facsimile frontispiece. Untidy owner's name and cross-out to endpaper; wrappers chipped. A good copy only in original black wrappers. A record of the hi-jinks of colonial college youth, and their punishments. The first separate printing in full of the infamous Black Book. american college university columbia history new york city.

New York: Princeton Arch. Press, 2007 A collection of essays about Jane Jacobs from New York writers and cultural critics discussing the contemporary relevance of Jacobs's ideas about large-scale redevelopment, gentrification, and activism. First edition. 25 cm;64 pp.; illustrated from photogrraphs and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..

New York: NYC Streets Renaissance/Transportation Alternatives, 2008 First edition. 4to; 50 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. A community guide to address issues including traffic, transit, dangerous intersections, bike networks and lanes, access to the River, etc..

New York: Theodore Kheel/Nurture New York’s Nature, 2008. A plan for New York transportation, sponsored by Kheel, which will reduce traffic through cordon fees, provide universal no-fare transit, shorten travel times, etc. Kheel was a labor lawyer and negotiator with extensive experience in urban mass transit. First edition. 4to; 45 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers..

New Haven: Yale School of Drama, 2005 8vo; pp. 93-133; illustrated. A very good copy in original wrappers. The full script of Boozy, with illustrations from an early production. .

New York: The De Leeuw Riehl Publishing Co., N.d. [1910] A collection of photographs showing the buildings and houses on both sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to Central Park, with period advertisements liberally interspersed. Featured in Christopher Grey's NY Times story about rare NYC Books: "Both Sides of Broadway, 1911 (I saw only one copy, damaged,). Wow, talk about scope! Someone photographed both sides of New York’s jumpingest street, from the Battery up to 59th....captures street life like few other works. Paperbound and terribly difficult to find, almost never in good condition." First edition.Oblong 4to; 503 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Lacking the original paper wrappers; contents bright, clean, and tightly bound but a fair copy only, rebound in gray cloth with paper label to front cover. .

New York: The Author, 1893 First edition, one of 152 copies. 8vo; 115 pp.; illustrated from engravings, drawings, and maps; top edges gilt. Scattered light foxing to preliminaries; owner's bookplate; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. A reduced facsimile of the Bradford map is accompanied by reproductions of rare prints from the author's collection..