The Secrets of the Great City: a Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York

Language: English

Published by National Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1868

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Seller: Yesterday's Book Shop, CORVALLIS, OR, U.S.A.Yesterday's Book Shop

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See photos for condition details. Hardcover, purple cloth boards decorated in gilt on front and spine. Exterior shows quite a bit of spotting and soiling, spine is heavily signed as our edges. Corner show bumps and edges are frayed. Original canary yellow end pages in front and rear. Front pastedown has a price penciled in front end page shows a stamp from the original owner (Mollie V. Boggs). Pages are tone due to age and foxing is present throughout. Some pages show corner creases as well. Foldout illustrations are present and attached. Binding is a little pulled in a few spots but pages are quite secure.

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Secrets of the Great City: a Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York
Author
Edward Winslow Martin
Publisher
National Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA
Publication year
1868
Condition
Good-
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller catalogs
19th Century, History and Geography

Yesterday's Book Shop

CORVALLIS, OR, U.S.A.

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Yesterday's Book Shop is a small, family-owned establishment. The store first opened in Maryland in 1966 under the name The Collector's Corner, which mainly dealt in older books, stamps and assorted ephemera. In 1975 the name was changed to Yesterday's Book Shop when the main focus became only books and printed matter.

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First editions, signed editions, limited editions, pre-1950 collectible copies with most being around the turn of the twentieth century and earlier.

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Yesterday's Book Shop

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