First Edition. A collection of short stories offering a grim look at gangs and juvenile delinquents in New York City. Each story has a short introduction about its factual basis (or supposed factual basis, I'm not sure). Ellison is best known for his speculative fiction, for which he won eight.....
Price: $300
![Item No: #362946 Map of 117 Valuable Lots to be Sold at Auction by Anth[on]y J....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362946.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720048533)
An auction map for the sale of two city blocks in what is now Midtown Manhattan, just below Central Park. The area for sale ran from 7th Avenue to 8th Avenue and from 57th Street to 59th Street. The terms were 10% payable at the auction, 30% payable when the.....
Price: $500
A real estate auction map for a portion of the Caspar Semlar (sometimes spelled Semler, as in the map title) farm in what is now the Rose Hill neighborhood of New York. This was part of the Common Grounds land Casimir Goerck surveyed in the late 18th century, with the.....
Price: $600
A real estate auction map for three substantial properties in Manhattan in the mid-19th century: a lot stretching from The Bowery to Elizabeth Street; an entire block just up from Times Square; and another at the corner of Beaver and New Streets in the Financial District. Lithographed map on paper.....
Price: $300
A somewhat worn map for a mid-19th century sale of three full city blocks and parts of four other blocks in what is now Chelsea. The map shows the area from 24th to 28th Streets and from the Hudson River to 10th Avenue and advertises properties, as well as "water.....
Price: $200
A real estate map of a portion of Alphabet City in Manhattan that was razed to build the Lillian Wald Houses. The map shows properties for auction on 5th Street between Lewis and Mangin Streets (remnants of those streets remain lower in Manhattan). The map shows Tompkins St. as the.....
Price: $300
An attractive manuscript survey map with period handcoloring of a section of Greenwich Village between Greene and Mercer Streets just south of Waverly Place (here called Sixth Street). William Thomas, the late owner of these 18 city lots, owned a large house surrounded by ample grounds. The house is depicted.....
Price: $950
First Edition. The first and only yearbook/almanac issued by the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly (Nichibei Shuho, later Nichibei Jiho). While similar in format to the yearbooks and directories published at the time on the West Coast, this book is much more focused on the import-export businesses that were located on the.....
Price: $1,500
