Old New York: False Dawn (The 'Forties); The Old Maid (The 'Fifties); The Spark (The 'Sixties); New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Caswell, Edward C. 3rd printings. Includes publisher's slipcase and jackets. Owned by Edith Foster Dulles, the mother of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles, with her name in pencil on front flyleaf of each volume. Edges foxed, loss from jacket corners (more from spine of second volume), bottom panel of slipcase missing with surface tear along bottom edge of rear panel and wear along other edges. 1924 Hard Cover. 142, [1]; 190, [1]; 108, [1]; 159, [1] pp. Blue cloth, paper labels, illustrated endpapers by Edward C. Caswell. A quartet of works dedicated to New York in the decades leading up to the Gilded Age.