Bayshore, NY: Paul Bailey,1946. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover magazine; 23 pages; black & white illustrations; articles include: “Brooklyn’s Greenleaf Female Institute”; “1845 Preface to Pearl Harbor”; “Mills of Mill Neck”; “Montauk Ranch True to Tradition”; “’Smilin’ Through’ a Long Island Song”; “An Old Time No Good Schoolmaster”; sunned..... More about Long Island Forum Vol.IX, No.6, June 1946
Bayshore, NY: Paul Bailey,1944. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover magazine; 23 pages; black & white “ illustrations; articles include: “Beach Plums and Fox Grapes”; “The Old House on the Hill”; “We’ve had our Blizzards”; “Dutch Houses of Kings County-Group IX”; “From Island Soul He Grew”; “New Jersey Miss Wins..... More about Long Island Forum Vol.VII, No.12, December 1944
NY & London: Charles Scribner's Sons (1935). 2nd edition with B; small 4to; silver and blue clothe covered boards, hardcover; 256 pages; 120 full page black and white drawings by Bailey; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in the rare red, blue and silver chipped and creased dustjacket. More about Magical City: Intimate Sketches of New York
NY: Museum of the City of New York, 1973. small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 26 pages; a very good, clean, tight copy. More about More Than A Mirror To The Past The First Fifty Years of the Museum of The City Of New York
NY: Dover Publications (1975). 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps; 304 illustrations from historical collections showing New York and New Jersey in their infancy; very good/o. More about Early Woodcut Views of New York and New Jersey
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1960. 1st edition, stated First Printing; 8vo. pictorial endpapers; 351 pages; color and black & white decorations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly edgechipped dust jacket with one small closed tear (see picture). More about The Night They Raided Minsky's
NY: Columbia University Press (1994). 8vo; color pictorial stiff covers; softcover; 234 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More about The Bookworm’s Big Apple A Guide to Manhattan’s Booksellers
Valley Stream, Long Island, NY: Valley Stream High School, June, 1929. small 4to, faded blue wraps, softcover, 24 pages; small black and white illustrations; faded covers and light edgewear else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More about Central Flash Volume 1 Number 3
NY: Praeger Publishers in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972). First edition; oblong small 4to; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 174 pages; black and white illustrations; two fold out pages--one of sketches, second a map of Central Park; a very good clean tight copy in a very good... More about Frederick Law Olmsted’s New York
Albany: Van Benthuysen 1857. 8vo., yellow wraps, paperback; 43 pages; soiled and chipped covers else very good. More about A Letter From D. D. Barnard, Addressed to Erastus Brooks, Senator, Etc. on the Proceedings...
New York: New York Marine Society of the City of New York 1995. 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 90 pages; map endpapers; foreword by Walter Cronkite; a fine, clean, tight, copy with no apparent flaws in a fine dustjacket. More about The Marine Society of the City of New York 1770-1995 A Concise History
Smithtown, Long Island, NY: Rost Associates, 1984. 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 43 pages; b&w illustrations; separate folding map of Presbyterian Graveyard; inscribed by the author: “A 1986 welcome to the Church with a 300 year plus past! Belle Barstow”; a very good, clean copy. More about Setauket’s Religious Beginnings with Epitaphs from the Tombstones in the Presbyterian Churchyard
Boston: David R. Godine (1998). Stated First edition; square 8vo.; cloth covered embossed boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 93 pages; color illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More about Stone And Steel Paintings & Writings Celebrating The Bridges Of New York City
NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First Edition, 8vo., cloth covered board,s hardcover; 248 pages; introductory note by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer; a very good, clean, tight copy in a soiled dustjacket. More about Jacob Leisler A Play Of Old New York
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1973). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; Inscribed and signed by both authors on half-title page; 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 354 pages; black and white illustrations and illustrated endpapers; from the dust jacket “a history of eating, drinking and entertainments from... More about On The Town In New York From 1776 to the Present
Huntington, NY: The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (1992). 12mo., stiff decorative wraps, softcover; 177 pages; a very good clean tight copy. More about If the Shoe Fits: Selected Sermons
Port Washington, NY: Ira J. Friedman, Inc, 1962. 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; vii, 424, ix; former owner’s name on front free endpaper else a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More about Historical & Descriptive Sketches of Suffolk County with a Historical Outline of Long Island ...
NY: Thomas R. Bayles, 1977. 8vo; stapled stiff pictorial wraps softcover; black and white illustrations; lightly soiled covers, internally a very good clean tight, unmarked copy. More about Camp Upton in World War I
Middle Island, NY: Thomas R. Bayles, 1964. Small 4to; stapled stiff pictorial covers; softcover; 16 pages; advertising on inside of front and back covers; lightly edgeworn covers with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More about The Ten Towns of Suffolk County Long Island, N.Y
Brookhaven, NY: Town of Brookhaven Bicentennial Commission (1975). 8vo; stapled stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; black and white illustrations; prepared from historical sketches of Suffolk County published by Richard M. Bayles in 1874; a very good clean tight copy. More about Brookhaven Villages of 1874
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press for the Museum of The City of New Yor (1993). 1st edition; small 4to. cloth backed boards, hardcover 420 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a very good dustjacket. More about Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture
NY, London,Toronto & Sydney: B. T. Batsford (1948). Revised edition; 8vo. stained cloth covered boards, hardcover; 95 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; stained covers, internally a very good, clean, tight copy in a chipped and torn dustjacket. The picture is of the dustjacket. More about Portrait of New York
Charleston, SC: Arcadia (2003). 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover;128 pages; black and white illustrations; signed by Ann Becker and Margaret Alfano; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More about Images of America Mount Sinai
NY:Department of Commerce and Public Events the City of New York (1956). small 8vo. stiff decorative wraps, softcover; 48 pages; black and white illustrations; back cover is lightly soiled but internally a very good clean tight copy. More about New York: the City That Belongs to the World
Bronx, NY: History of New York City Project (1996). 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 119 pages; color illustrations; signed by Janet Munro; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More about New York City at the Turn of the Century A Conference on Contemporary Culture