Murder Won't Out
Garden City: Doubleday, 1932. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn, last blank page chipped, cloth lightly soiled, light foxing to first few page margins. Garden City: Doubleday, 1932. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1932. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn, last blank page chipped, cloth lightly soiled, light foxing to first few page margins. Garden City: Doubleday, 1932. More
Adirondack Museum, 1999. 30 full-page black-and-white plates. vii + 64 pages, thin oblong 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Adirondack Museum, (1999). A fine copy. More
New York: Random House, 1984. 484 pages, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. (several small pieces of scotch tape on dust wrapper). New York: Random House, (1984). First edition. A fine copy in a very good (+) dust Wrapper. Inscribed and signed on the fly-leaf. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 191 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper (tiny damp-stain on the lower right front corner). New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995). A fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Harry and Lulu, I hope you find something useful here. Best to you in all things! Mario 1998." More
Cooperstown: The Farmers' Museum, 2008. Photographic endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 297 color and black-and-white photographs by Richard S. Duncan. 240 pages, square 4to, brick red cloth with decorative gilt stamping, dust wrapper. Cooperstown: The Farmers' Museum, (2008). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
8vo, cloth, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. vg. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. chipped and lightly soiled, front board slightly warped, head of cloth spine bumped. corners bumped on back board. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 270 pages. Tall 8vo, red cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. First edition. Very good(+) in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Readex Microprint, 1966. Ed. by Henry C. Murphy. Illus. 8vo, blue cloth. N.p.: Readex Microprint, (1966). Very good. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. Illustrated throughout with many fine b/w photographs, printed on coated paper. Slim square 4to, pictorial wrappers (lightly edgeworn; spine ends bumped and neatly repaired; as usual pages are all toned at edges, well outside of image area). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971). Second softcover printing. Overall a very good copy, inscribed by Davidson on the title page. Fascinating photographs taken taken over a 2 year period on one block in East Harlem. More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Color illustrations throughout. 78 pages. Small folio, pictorial boards, d.w. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Small abrasion at top of spine, else near fine. Pages 1-19 comprise a folding timeline that is 14 feet in length and has 2000 facts and dates. Also there is a folding map of Central Park. More
Boston: Little Brown, 1987. 234 pages, 8vo, light blue cloth backed boards, dust wrapper. Boston: Little Brown and Company, (1987). First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. Backstage history of the Howdy Doody Show. More
New York: Estate of Stuart Davis, 1991. Short 2 page introduction by Earl Davis. Illustrated in color. Slim square 8vo, black cloth-backed patterned boards, cardboard slipcase with paper label. New York: Estate of Stuart Davis, 1991. Limited first edition - one of 1000 copies, though the laid-in limitation card is absent. Printed in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona Italy. More
Staten Island: William T. Davis, 1926. Some black and white illustrations. 200 pages. 8vo, black cloth. Staten Island: William T. Davis, 1926. First Edition. Newspaper clipping neatly pasted on front flyleaf, else a near fine copy. More
plates. xxx, 386pp. 8vo, cloth; (cloth lightly soiled, otherwise very good). N.Y.: Putnam, 1897. First Illustrated Edition. Life in New York City during the 1830's. More
Lisbon: 1983. Many black & white photographic illustrations. Slim oblong 4to, stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. (Lisbon, 1983). Fine. Limited numbered edition signed by the photographer. More
New York: Harvard Club of New York City, 1994. Illus. 490pp. 8vo, red boards. (New York: Harvard Club of New York City, 1994). Very good. More
New York: New York Historical Society, 1886. Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year, 1885. 678pp. 8vo, original green cloth, ex-lib. New York: Printed for the Society, 1886. First Edition. More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. With a brief Description of every Article of Human Food Sold Therein, The Introduction of Cattle in America... Volume I, (all published). 621pp. 8vo, tan cloth. New York: Burt Franklin, (1969). Facsimile of the New York, 1862 edition. More
New York: Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1857. Black & white illustrations with tissue guards, 100pp. 8vo, blind stamped brown cloth, spine rubbed. New York: Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1857. Very good. 3 works bound in one volume. The discourse is a historical sketch of the North Reformed Dutch Church. The second works: Francis, John W. New York during the Last Half Century; A Discourse in Commemoration of the Fifty-third Anniversary of the New-York Historical Society, and of the Dedication of..... More
Paris: Publications du Centre, 1929. Text in French. Dessins d'Henriette Delalain. Title page printed in red & black. Illustrated by Delalain with 1 map and 15 full-page plates of famous New York views, each protected with lettered tissue. 77pp of text. Thin 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/2 crimson morocco with the original wrappers preserved. Paris: Publications du Centre, 1929. A fine copy in a fine binding. Limited edition - Number XV. One of only 10 copies printed on Japon Imperial..... More
Paris: Publications du Centre, 1919. Dessins d'Henriette Delalain. 1 map and 15 full-page plates of famous New York views, each protected with lettered tissue. 77pp. of text. 4to, pr. wrs., uncut, t.p. unopened; (wrs. lightly soiled, otherwise very good). Paris: Publications du Centre, 1929. Limited Edition. Number 262 of 500 copies. Text in French. More
New York: Argosy Antiquarian, 1964. Illustrations; 3 maps, 2 folding in back pocket. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, (1964). Reprint. Fine. More
Barre: Barre Publishing, 1965. Illustrated. 85 pages. Small slim 4to, pictorial cloth, printed glassine d.w. (slight chipping at spine ends). Barre: Barre Publishing, 1965. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. More
New York: C. van Bentheysen, 1863. Pocket-size volume with two fold-out maps. 103 pp, thin 8vo, original light green printed wrapper. Light surface soil. Albany: C. van Bentheysen, 1863. This very scarce survey by Goldsmith Denniston compiles historical, geographical, and statistical information about Orange County, New York. The book contains detailed discussions of the county's geology and physiology, climate and products, and political divisions. In addition, it provides agricultural and manufacturing statistics for several towns, such as Cornwall, Goshen, Monroe..... More
Love your website; first time I have been to it. I have bought books at Argosy for 30+ years from the late Mr. Cohen. Keep up the good work!
Dear Argosy - you've made my day - my order (Netherlands at War, 1940-1945) arrived on my doorstep this morning unheralded and very, very welcome. My sisters and I are Dutch immigrants in New Zealand and we all lived through that war 60 plus years ago as young kids. We had occasion to share what we remembered recently and now you've supplied the book. I can't tell you what this means...