Jim Dwyer

Kevin Flynn

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Traces the hours following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to reveal the first-hand experiences of survivors, in a volume that draws on oral reports, e-mails, radio transcripts, and cell-phone conversations.

102 Minutes

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1895 Roman Catholic pocket prayer book printed while Corrigan was archbishop of New York. The binding is in ok shape. There are some odd-looking holes punch in on some of the pages, but it looks intentional and uniform in pattern with other pages that have it (pictured). The gold on the cover etching is in good shape (7/10). Some cover wear, but pretty good for its age. There is one signature and a pencil marking from a previous bookseller. No other annotations. One damaged page (small rip and creased on corner - pictured). Overall, an interesting collectors item with a lot of life left if read carefully. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Mexico

Pocket Manual (1895)

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (23rd Edition)

Louisiana

The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City

First published in 1983, this book remains the only full-length study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Expanded to bring it up to the present, Virginia Sánchez Korrol's work traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements#151;"colonias"#151;into the unique, vibrant, and well-defined community of today.

From Colonia to Community

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New York underground 60s, 70s and 80s. Photography art book. First edition 2005. Great condition and signed by multiple photographers within the book Goldie, Roberta Bayley and Bobby Grossman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

New York underground 60’s 70’s 80’s (multiple signatures) 

Bande a part 

kate spade new york

Little to no flaws with this book! That’s why it’s in excellent condition, almost like new even! It even teaches you etiquette and how to decorate to entertain! If you love cookbooks and Kate Spade, get this now!

Michigan

New York Times Bestseller

in this charming guide to entertaining, kate spade new york throws rigid rules out the door and shares unpretentious ideas for the modern-day hostess that are easy, festive, authentic, and always with an air of deliberate polish.

filled with how-tos, personal essays, anecdotes, recipes, and a liberal dash of style, all in good taste will transform you into the hostess everyone wants an invitation from. the book covers the essential lost arts - how to shuck an oyster, curate a vibrant guest list, guide a dinner-table discussion - right alongside modern conundrums such as Instagram etiquette at dinner. whether you entertain a little or a lot, or just love being the person everyone wants to sit next to at dinner, all in good taste is the modern classic you'll treasure for years.

Disclaimer: The wine stain on the cover of the book is a design element and is intentional.

Kate Spade New York: All in Good Taste

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David Remnick

Very good clean tight copy. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

New York

New York Stories from the New Yorker

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of  forty-four of its best stories from (so to speak) home.         East Side? Philip Roth's chronically tormented alter ego Nathan Zuckerman has just moved there, in "Smart Money." West Side? Isaac Bashevis Singer's narrator mingles with the customers in "The Cafeteria" (who debate politics and culture in four or five different languages) and becomes embroiled in an obsessional romance. And downtown, John Updike's Maples have begun their courtship of marital disaster, in "Snowing in Greenwich Village." John Cheever, John O'Hara, Lorrie Moore, Irwin Shaw, Woody Allen, Laurie Colwin, Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, Jean Stafford, Vladimir Nabokov--they and many other stellar literary guides to the city will be found in these pages. Wonderful Town touches on some of the city's famous places and stops at some of its more obscure corners, but the real guidebook in and between its lines is to the hearts and the minds of those who populate the metropolis built by its pages. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. The five boroughs are the five continents. New York is every great and ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.

Wonderful Town * 1st ed./1st

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Cheap Rents…and De Kooning: The downtown art world New York, 1957-63. by John Cohen. published by Steidl. 2015, paperback.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Downtown Art World New York, 1957-63

Cheap Rents … and de Kooning

James Graham Baker

J. P. Bryan

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

The Lost Years, the Lost Paintings

Famed for his bluebonnet landscapes, San Antonio native Julian Onderdonk may be the most well-known artist Texas has ever produced. Onderdonk spent several years outside the state, though, seeking to make a name for himself in New York City. He spent much of his time in New York as the very definition of a starving artist. In Julian Onderdonk: The Lost Years, the Lost Paintings, James Graham Baker explores the artist's New York years, so often neglected by previous scholars. Through painstaking research, Baker reveals that Onderdonk painted hundreds of images under pseudonyms during his time in New York. These images not only reveal the means by which the artist struggled to make ends meet, but add another dimension to our understanding of the artist's oeuvre. It is not possible to appreciate and understand Julian Onderdonk and his art without including these works. Largely composed of landscapes and marine scenes depicting the vanishing rural areas and shorelines around New York City, they show that Onderdonk was more than simply a "bluebonnet painter."

Julian Onderdonk in New York signed copy

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Lawrence Block

Georgia

The Burglar in the Library

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Robert A. M. Stern

Thomas Mellins

David Fishman

Rare fine like new first edition in excellent condition. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial

New York 1960 is a massive, in-depth study of the city during a period of unprecedented change. This volume--1,344 pages with more than 1,000 detailed illustrations, including new and period photographs--is part of an ongoing series on the history of New York's architecture and urbanism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

New York 1960

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Thomas Dyja

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

New York in the late 1970s: Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place: kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been. Dyja shows that this metamorphosis wasn't the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory. Three New Yorks evolved in turn. After brutal retrenchment came the dazzling Koch renaissance and the Dinkins years that left the city's liberal traditions battered but laid the foundation for the safe streets and dotcom excess of Giuliani's reformation in the '90s. Then the planes hit on 9/11. The city handed itself over to Bloomberg who merged City Hall into his personal empire. A fourth evolution is happening-- and we must understand that the greatest challenge ahead is the one New York failed in the first three: The cures must not be worse than the disease. -- adapted from jacket

New York, New York, New York *1st ed./1st printing 

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Michael Lomonaco

Donna Forsman

Recipes and Lore from New York's Fabled Restaurant

In addition to over 150 recipes, this cookbook is liberally sprinkled throughout with fascinating stories about the history of '21', the legends that have grown up around it, and the many celebrities who have dined there over the years. 100 illustrations, including photos, many in color, cartoons, drawings, and memorabilia.

The "21" Cookbook

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A Novel

A magical holiday love story set at the glamorous Plaza Hotel in New York City It’s Christmas week when 26-year-old Sabrina Post knocks on the door of the Vanderbilt suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, ready to accept the ghostwriting position for the memoir of Grayson Westcott—a famous art dealer. A struggling journalist, Sabrina can't believe her luck: a paycheck and six nights in her own suite at the Plaza. She feels like Eloise, the heroine from her favorite children’s books. To make the job even more exciting, Grayson recounts how he worked as a butler at the Plaza sixty years ago for none other than the author of the Eloise books, Kay Thompson. What promises to be a perfect week is complicated when Sabrina meets Ian Wentworth, a handsome British visitor, at the hotel bar. When Ian assumes Sabrina is another wealthy guest at the hotel, she doesn’t correct him —a decision she doesn’t regret after learning that Ian is a member of the British aristocracy. But, things are not what they seem. The truth is: Ian is not a wealthy lord; he’s actually the personal secretary of Lord Spencer Braxton. As the week unfolds, will Sabrina and Ian learn the truth about one another? Filled with the magic that can only be found at the Plaza Hotel during the holidays, and revealing facts about the author of the Eloise books, the novel is both a holiday treat and a heartwarming story that reminds us that falling in love is the greatest miracle of all.

A Magical New York Christmas

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Don Delillo

Beautiful first edition, 1997

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Books shows some minor signs of shelf-wear from storage and age

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South Carolina

A 1950s teenage hood from New York is transformed by the Jesuits into a respectable man, managing hazardous waste. A portrait of the decade from the viewpoint of the garbage industry.

Underworld

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History of the New York City subway system. Plenty of photos. Book is an excellent condition except for the cover which is slightly beat up.

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Building the New York Subway 

The City Beneath Us

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Jorg Brockmann

Judith Dupré

Bill Harris

Rare first edition in excellent condition. Collectible. 

From skyscrapers to parking structures, from the Stock Exchange to the historic townhouses of Harlem, the buildings of New York are as diverse as its culture—and they are artfully photographed here by Jorg Brockmann. Essential information, history, and background stories about each one, along with neighborhood maps and useful sidebars, make this the last word on New York buildings large and small. Bill Harris is a veteran New York historian and writer who has also logged many miles as a tour guide. Jorg Brockmann is an accomplished photographer whose talent matches the scale of the project. Together, they have created a feast for lovers of architecture and of great photography, as well as devotees of New York City. Now in a well-priced and easy-to-carry paperback edition, One Thousand New York Buildings is the ultimate guide to the Great American City.

One Thousand New York Buildings

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Ric Burns

James Sanders

Rare first edition in excellent condition. The companion volume to the PBS series forfeited by Ric Burns. 

An Illustrated History

The companion volume to the PBS television series, with more than 500 full-color and black-and-white illustrations This lavish and handsomely produced book captures all the beauty, complexity, and power of New York -- the city that seems the very embodiment of ambition, aspiration, romance, desire; the city that has epitomized the entire parade of modern life, with all its possibilities and problems. Chronicling the story of New York from its establishment as a Dutch trading post in 1624 to its global preeminence today, the book is at once the biography of a great city and a vivid exploration of the myriad forces -- commercial, cultural, demographic -- that converged in New York to usher in the contemporary world. Weaving the strands of the city's sweeping history into a single compelling narrative, New York carries us through nearly four centuries of turbulent growth and change -- from the first settlement on the tip of "Manna-hata" Island to the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War; to the city's stunning emergence in the nineteenth century as the nation's premier industrial metropolis; to the waves of early-twentieth-century immigration that forever transformed the city and the nation; to New York's transfiguration as the world's first modern city -- pioneering skyscrapers, apartment houses, subways, and highways -- and its role as the birthplace of so much of American popular culture. Along the way, we witness the building of the city's celebrated landmarks and neighborhoods, from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building and the United Nations; from Wall Street and Times Square to the Lower East Side, Harlem, and SoHo. The book brims with vibrant illustrations, including hundreds of rare photographs, paintings, lithographs, prints, and period maps. The narrative incorporates the voices and stories of men and women -- statesmen, entrepreneurs, artists, and visionaries -- who have lived in and built the city: an extraordinary cast of characters that includes Peter Stuyvesant, Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, Walt Whitman, Boss Tweed, Jacob Riis, Emma Lazarus, J. P. Morgan, Al Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, and Jane Jacobs. Accompanying the book's narrative are interviews with Robert A. Caro, David Levering Lewis, and Robert A. M. Stern, and essays by a group of distinguished New York historians and critics -- Kenneth T. Jackson, Mike Wallace, Marshall Berman, Phillip Lopate, Carol Berkin, and Daniel Czitrom -- who add their insights about the city to this splendid history.

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New Jersey

The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York

The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including:

Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man) waitressed . . . Men in Black’s Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island…the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . . Ghostbusters’ Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow’s A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of Friends . . . Will & Grace’s Upper West Side building . . . The All in the Family block in Queens . . . The Sopranos’ New Jersey mansion (and the real Bada Bing club) . . . Seinfeld’s favorite diner . . . Sex and the City’s sexiest haunts . . . and many more . . .

Stars’ childhood homes: Lena Horne’s Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse . . . Frank Sinatra’s Hoboken row house . . . Barbra Streisand’s Flatbush housing project . . . J.Lo’s Bronx block . . . Humphrey Bogart’s Upper West Side tenement . . . the Marx Brothers’ Upper East Side brownstone . . .

Apartments and townhouses of the silver screen’s greatest legends: Joan Crawford . . . Marlene Dietrich . . . James Dean . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Montgomery Clift . . . Rita Hayworth . . . Rock Hudson . . . and . . .

Plus: Superstar cemeteries . . . major film and TV studios . . . historic movie palaces and Broadway theaters . . . star-studded restaurants and legendary hotels . . .

For movie-loving New Yorkers, travelers and armchair film buffs, New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide is the ultimate insider’s guide to the Big Apple’s reel attractions.

New York: the Movie Lover's Guide

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Lizzy Goodman

Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands. In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war—and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem. Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it—including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend—and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many others musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music executives, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in modern rock-and-roll.

Meet Me in the Bathroom

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Charles Lockwood

Paul Goldberger

Madeleine Isom

California

The New York Row House 1783-1929

Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Rowhouse 1783?1929 was first published in 1972, and remains the only book ever written on the New York row house. It has been met with impressive critical praise ever since and Rizzoli is proud to publish this revised and updated edition as the introductory volume in the new Rizzoli Classics program, dedicated to keeping in print important architecture titles. Charles Lockwood looks at different architecture styles of the New York row house. The book is comprehensive, examining the history of New York's changing neighborhoods and the history of the various row house architectural styles--the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Second Empire, as well as the eclectic but picturesque styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The text and illustrations also delve into the architectural details, paying meticulous attention to all features, including doorways, glass, mantels, staircases, ceiling ornaments, and ironwork. Twenty years later, this edition is updated to include specially commissioned new color photographs of interiors and exteriors of some of New York's most impressive homes. Also included is Best of the Brownstones Walking Tours, carefully detailed and illustrated with color photographs.

Bricks and Brownstone

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Tom Shales

James Andrew Miller

Great shape, one mark on the front cover, pictured 

An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But Saturday Night Live, launched in 1975 and still thriving today, would change the face of television. It introduced brash new stars with names like Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Murray; trashed taboos that had inhibited TV for decades; and had such an impact on American life, laughter, and politics that even presidents of the United States had to take notice. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Shales and bestselling author James Andrew Miller bring together stars, writers, guest hosts, contributors, and craftsmen for the first-ever oral history of Saturday Night Live, from 1974, when it was just an idea, through 2002, when it has long since become an institution. In their own words, dozens of personalities recall the backstage stories, behind-the-scenes gossip, feuds, foibles, drugs, sex, struggles, and calamities, including personal details never before revealed. Shales and Miller have interviewed a galaxy of stars, including Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Chevy Chase, Will Ferrell, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Jon Lovitz, Jane Curtin, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Dana Carvey, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Garrett Morris, Molly Shannon, Damon Wayans, Chris Elliott, Julia Sweeney, Norm Macdonald, and Paul Simon-plus writers like Al Franken, Conan O'Brien, Larry David, Rosie Shuster, Jack Handey, Robert Smigel, Don Novello, and others who got their big breaks as part of the SNL team. The Coneheads, the Blues Brothers, Buck-wheat, Wayne and Garth, Hans and Franz, the Cheerleaders, Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Loopner, "Cheeseburger cheeseburger," Mango, the Church Lady, Ed Grimley-they're all here. And for every fabulous character on-screen there was an outrageous maverick, misfit, or rebel behind the scenes. Live from New York does what no other book about the show has ever done: It lets the people who were there tell the story in their own words, blunt and loving and uncensored.

Live from New York

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

An exploration of the controversy surrounding Pluto and its planet status from a renowned astrophysicist at the heart of the controversy.

The Pluto Files Signed

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First edition copy of Peter, one of the top bestsellers of 1908. It is “the story of a bank worker and his interfering sister who visits him in New York.” This book is charming, humorous, and uplifting—and it has amazing illustrations throughout! If you love classics, humor, and/or the aesthetic of old books, this one is for you!

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Jim Dwyer; Kevin Flynn

102 Minutes

D. J. McMahon; Michael Augustine Corrigan

Pocket Manual (1895)

Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (23rd Edition)

Virginia E. Sanchez Korrol

From Colonia to Community

Glenn O’Brien

Bande a part

kate spade new york

Kate Spade New York: All in Good Taste

David Remnick

Wonderful Town * 1st ed./1st

John Cohen

Cheap Rents … and de Kooning

James Graham Baker; J. P. Bryan

Julian Onderdonk in New York signed copy

Lawrence Block

The Burglar in the Library

Robert A. M. Stern; Thomas Mellins; David Fishman

New York 1960

Thomas Dyja

New York, New York, New York *1st ed./1st printing

Michael Lomonaco; Donna Forsman

The "21" Cookbook

Anita Hughes

A Magical New York Christmas

Don Delillo

Underworld

New York Transit Museum with Vivian Heller

The City Beneath Us

Jorg Brockmann; Judith Dupré; Bill Harris

One Thousand New York Buildings

Ric Burns; James Sanders

New York

Richard Alleman

New York: the Movie Lover's Guide

Lizzy Goodman

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Charles Lockwood; Paul Goldberger; Madeleine Isom

Bricks and Brownstone

Tom Shales; James Andrew Miller

Live from New York

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Pluto Files Signed

F. Hopkinson Smith

Peter (first edition — 1908)