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Lot 19

Group of New York City books

Estimate: $200 - $300

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$315

Sold Price includes BP

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Group of New York City books, to include New York is Everybody's Town, by Helen Josephy and Mary Margaret McBride, published by Putnam's Sons, 1931; The New York Tombs, by Charles Sutton, published by United States Publishing Co., 1874; New York and its Institutions 1609-1872, by Rev. J. F. Richmond, published by E. B. Treat, 1872; New York by Sunlight and Gaslight, by James McCabe, published by Edgewood, 1883; Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies, by J. Frank Kernan, published by M. Crane, 1885; The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury, published by Knopf, 1929; Darkness and Daylight; or Lights and Shadows of New York Life, by Mrs. Helen Campbell, published by Worthington & Co., 1893; A Tour Around New York and My Summer Acre, by John Mines, published by Harpers & Brothers, 1893; In Old New York, by Thomas Janvier, published by Harper & Brothers, 1894; and Illustrated Catalogue of Views of New York and Other American Cities, formed by Mr. Percy R. Pyne II, to be sold at The American Art Association on June 5, 6, and 7, 1917.

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In various states of condition.

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