Quarter cloth over decorated limp cards, laid on photo
1987 · New York
by Devorkin, Joseph.; Neighbors, Dale L.
New York: Society for the Architecture of the City, 1987. First edition. Quarter cloth over decorated limp cards, laid on photo. A near fine copy, light soiling to wrappers, authors obituary tipped on to half title.. Port. frontispiece, 101 pp. Illus. with approx. 200 b/w photos and drawings. 4to. 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Inscribed by the author on the half title. Edition limited to 300 copies. The work has historical sketches of many New York retailers that originally opened on the famous "Ladies' Mile," a shopping area that reached from 14th and the Union Square area, up Broadway to 23rd Street in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many (truncated)