[Rarebooks] Two unusual New York City/ Brooklyn pieces

[Garry R Austin]

We offer these interesting new arrivals in the Urban History / New York City Field. Prices quoted are net to all and postpaid.

Anonymous. PARK SLOPE HISTORIC DISTRICT; BLOCK BY BLOCK DESCRIPTION. (Brooklyn: Park Slope Historic District Commission?), 1973. Small folio, black composite report folder binding, without lettering. (i), 147pp. with errata. Map. This was obviously produced in a very small number of copies, it has been printed from the original typed sheets. A one page introduction descibes and dates the effort, although there is no person listed as author or director of the effort. Very good. Quite unusual. A Block-by-block description of every structure within the historic district of Park Slope, the neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, that abuts Olmstead's Prospect Park. Descriptions are in detail; Example of a shorter one; "No. 561 1st St. This four-story limestone house was built by owner builder Peter Delaney in 1900. It has a curved three-story bay, with handsome engaged columns separating the windows at both the parlor and second floors.  Pilasters appear between the windows of the bay at the third floor.  The low stone ballastrade surmounting the bay displays an unusual series of pierced circles, which recur at the front of the L-shaped stoop. The entrance door is set between two engaged Ionic columns which support an attractive arched pediment enframing a large scalloped shell. The second and third floor windows above the entrance are also handsomely enframed".  $125.00 net to all.

and;
Moss, Frank. THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS, FROM KNICKERBOCKER DAYS TO THE PRESENT TIME; NEW YORK CITY LIFE IN ALL ITS VARIOUS PHASES. New York:  Peter Fenelon Collier, Publisher, 1897. Three Volumes. First edition. Octavo, red pebbled cloth, gilt. I; xxii, (ii), 425pp., II; 429pp., III; 340pp. Profusely illustrated. Very good. Some sunning to the boards but a sound set. Unusual. Introduction by Charles H. Parkhurst. An Historigraph of New York. $95.00 net to all.

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