Real Estate Development (10 results)
Published by Vero Beach, FL: John's Island Corporation, [no date - circa 1975]., 1975
- Hardcover
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerUnpaged - approximately 38 leaves (i.e. 72 pages) plus front and rear endpapers. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 28.25cm. Lacks dust jacket (as issued?). White cardstock boards, front board decorated with silver stamped lettering and color photo inset. Strong soiling to boards with bottom corners worn, front board has light impression…from removed sticker at top right with surface scuff at top center, mild staining to rear board, 1cm loss at well worn spine head with slight loss and tearing at bumped heel, small surface chip below spine center. Green endpapers decorated with silver oak tree motif. Color photographs throughout interspersed by brief text describing the community's planning, area history, amenities, etc. Half-page map at book's rear shows the location of John's Island between Florida's Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic shoreline just north of Vero Beach and is immediately followed by a two page color plan showing numbered lots laid out along the community's 18 hole golf course with oceanfront condominiums, beach club, etc. OCLC lists only two copies among member libraries. Only a good copy of an uncommon promotional publication for a real-estate developer's grand scheme.
More imagesGuest Informant 1963 Edition Houston Texas and Environs
(Americana - Advertising - Real Estate Development - Tourism - Texas - Houston - Guest Informant)
Published by Edward A. Spitz Pacific Hotel Publications, Inc., Los Angeles California, 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.Certain Books, ABAA
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A detailed promotional book geared towards business & executives along with tourism of the time, with black & white illustrated articles about Houston and environs interspersed with advertisements, some with color. Prefaced with a printed letter from the office of Lewis Cutrer, ma…yor of the city at the time, enthusiastically promoting the city and its many amenities. Approx. 9" x 11 1/4" size; illustrated glazed-paper covered cardstock boards with plastic comb-style binding. A little tips, edge-wear to the covers; in very good condition.
More imagesGuest Informant 1962 Edition Houston Texas and Environs
(Americana - Advertising - Real Estate Development - Tourism - Texas - Houston - Guest Informant)
Published by Edward A. Spitz Pacific Hotel Publications, Inc., Los Angeles California, 1962
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.Certain Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 34.25
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A detailed promotional book geared towards business & executives along with tourism of the time, with black & white illustrated articles about Houston and environs interspersed with advertisements, some with color. Prefaced with a printed letter from the office of Lewis Cutrer, ma…yor of the city at the time, enthusiastically promoting the city and its many amenities. Approx. 9" x 11 1/4" size; illustrated glazed-paper covered cardstock boards with plastic comb-style binding. A little tips, edge-wear to the covers; one page detached and present; in very good condition.
Published by Éd. du Pavillon de l'Arsenal
Seller: Mooney's bookstore, Den Helder, NetherlandsMooney's bookstore
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 23.81
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Condition: Very Good.
Circa 1890 Original Large Hand-Drawn & Colored Plan of the Vicinity of the Bowery Bay Long Island City
(Americana - 19th Century - New York City - Real Estate Development History)
Published by Not Published, New York City, N.Y., 1890
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.Certain Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerNot Bound. Condition: Good. Manuscript. Large plan or land-map; accomplished in blue ink with some added coloring & detail for a meandering stream and a few structures; with much elevation data; also two locust post surveyor's benchmarks indicated; land bordered at the north with D. Riker property, to the east with the Bowery Ba…y Road, the Jackson property and a small cemetery; other ownership names noted are P. Titus and Baldwin; the plan's title information handwritten on one of the panels on the reverse; no engineer or surveyor noted or date, circa 1890; accomplished on polished linen architectural 'onionskin,' which remains strong; approx. 42" x 56`" large size; some edge, tips wear, browned towards edges & along a few fold lines, little bit of holing at center line; as is reverse, especially at exposed surfaces and with some soiling; few 1" chips to material at top and bottom edges, no loss to the text or drawing; in good condition; interesting Long Island City, real estate development & community history; now known as the Ditmars-Steinway neighborhood of Astoria Queens.
Circa 1900 - 1905 Collection Manuscript Real Estate Development Documents, Maps, Letters Concerning Transactions and Development in the Bronx, Westchester and Other New York City Properties, Via The Business of R.I. Brown's Sons
(Americana - 20th Century - Real Estate Development - Bronx - New York City)
Published by Various, New York, 1900
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.Certain Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerNot Bound. Condition: Good. Manuscript. The R.I. Brown's Sons real estate firm was established in 1867 in NY and was located at 3428 Third Avenue; approx. 100 items of paper documenting the transactions of this real estate company; for example: a blueprint Map of the Arden Property Westchester NY, approx. 9 1/4" x 14", with an i…nset route map to the property, indicating plots sold off ; this development was located near Pelham Bay View Park, (with) a related 4-page document typed, giving the New York Property Belonging to Allan G. MacDonnell, 63 Wall Street NY, including the addresses and prices of extensive holdings in the Bronx, lots and developed properties and which also included interest in 900 acres of land located on both sides of Central Avenue between Yonkers & Mount Vernon with the Jerome Travis estate, John Bush, James Gordon Bennet and others; MacDonnell also had properties in Brooklyn, a hotel and grounds located at Coxsackie NY and acreage on Long Island in Holbrook and Riverhead - with the business card attached of Peter J. Quinn Real Estate and Insurance Bloomfield, NJ having a pencil note at top which states 'Westchester - Arden' - (with) a typed sheet from F.E. Pollard, Att'y concerning some of the plots being developed, ".millions soon to be expended on water front." (the note was typed on Lenox bond paper, evidently a re-use - the back with the small letterhead of The Cuban Exposition and Trading Co. NY; this group also with a plot plan blueprint of the area of 184th St., indicating Aqueduct, Grand, Davidson, Jerome Avenues, trolley, sewer, gas & water services and the locations and measurements of various parcels, approx. 8 7/8" x 12 1/2" size; and a group of correspondence concerning the properties of Sol Moses of NYC, including a typed descriptive list, including building details and amenities, sizes, addresses, plot plans, several handwritten notes from Moses, asking the Brown firm to sell the holdings "In view of the larger increases in the population of the Bronx and the consequent improvement of rentals and the work now being done by the Dept. of P.W.there ought to be a good demand for both improved and unimproved property"; a 5-piece group of notes, lists, descriptions, agreements to sell properties of Julia E. Curran, "I hope you will be able to get us a buyer" for various lots, "anxious to sell and will sell cheap providing we can sell at once"; also three filled-in "Description of Property for Sale' forms of R.I. Brown's Sons which are used to clearly describe various properties for sale of August E. Kuntz, noting location, block, frame or brick, stories, families of occupancy, heat, price, mortgage obligations outstanding, improvements, "all the best"; a 9-item group of correspondence conducted on plain postal cards and company stationery of J.E. Butterworth Carpenter and Builder 1901 - 1904, "you and your client go and look at the houses and then make me an offer, I have 2 one family houses on Wash. Ave. near 181 St.papered and in good condition"; a 16-item grouping concerning properties of Wm. Rosenzweig, mostly handwritten letters, "I want to sell for Cash only 660 - 663 East 148th St. and in order to dispose of same at once I will sell at a very low figure. No reasonable offer refused. Try and get me an offer within the next few days if you want to make a good brokerage" - with some interesting ephemera used as scrap for notes from this customer - a small menu, perhaps for a Order of Red Men fraternal society dinner, with the names of contributors of various dishes and an illustrated ticket printed on cardstock for that group, for their "1900 Second Annual Midsummer Night's Festival for the United Tribes of the Reservation of the Bronx, Music by Professor Hager's Full Orchestral Union Band to be held at Brommer's Union Park Willis Ave. and 133d St. (The Committee reserves the right to Eject any Disorderly Persons)"; the R.I. Brown company 'filed' its correspondence with these and other clients in small mailing envelopes.
Circa 1965 Major Projects Planned and Supervised By Robert W. Dowling and City Investing Company New York (with) The Omnia Building A Study for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
(Americana - 20th Century - Real Estate Development - City Investing Company)
Published by City Investing Company, New York - London, 1965
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.Certain Books, ABAA
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Add to basketPortfolio. Condition: Very Good. Manuscript. Two large loose portfolios, approx. 14" x 18" size sheets; both are illustrated with actual tipped-on professionally-taken photographs, in black and white and color; for several of the projects, very dramatic before-and-after views of the developments are shown; text printed in dark t…eal-blue on good quality heavy light putty - color paper- stock; the 'Major Projects' sheets (15, including title page cover sheet) include Parkchester, New York, 'the largest planned residential community in the country'; Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village - NYC, 'innovations in large scale metropolitan residential communities'; Penn Center, Philadelphia 'a vital center of commercial business and transportation'; Penn Park Pittsburgh 'occupies six million square feet of land along the Allegheny River'; Gateway Center, Pittsburgh; Calgary, Central City Canada; Sterling Forest, NY; (with) The Omnia Building study, (14) sheets, giving the background for this concept in the 30th street area in Philadelphia, photo of the concept artwork, site location along the Schuylkill River, details of the building ".accommodating a minimum of 50,000 persons, with a potential to increase to 100,000.a vertical street, composed of the many varied facilities and services of a major downtown avenue.offices, exposition and sales, shopping, transportation, communications, manufacturing and distribution." with details of each of these, conveyed via text and composites of imagery on photographs, an impressive site development proposal; Robert W. Dowling (1895 - 1973) American real estate investor, developer and philanthropist; Dowling College on Long Island is named for him - among his many diverse achievements we wish to note here that due to his involvement in the performing arts, ". In 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower tapped Dowling to head the Arts Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in Washington. Dowling proposed the design of the center, which later became the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts." (from the Dowling College site biography - see it for extensive references to Dowling and his creative and wide-ranging career); not dated and circa 1965 from internal evidence; light edge, tips wear to sheets; occasionally, some old mounting-spots are found on the backs, not intrusive or detracting; the black and white photographs especially are very sharp and well-delineated, the color photos more muted, reflecting the technology of the time and their age; both portfolios in very good condition and an interesting group of material, documenting some of the largest real estate development projects in the United States & Canada by one of the business' largest investment firms in mid-20th century; (with) 11 extra plates, being doubles of some of the pages noted above.
Autographs from noteworthy Californians on Pacific Coast Development Bureau letterhead. RE: Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest by Ellis A. Davis.
Pacific Coast Development Bureau; C. V. Sturdevant (Notary Public, Real Estate, Insurance); Harold H. Martin (Architect); H. G. Cattell; F. H. Fawkes; R. F. Foss; Louis A. Barttell, et al.
Published by Los Angeles, CA: Pacific Coast Development Bureau, [1914]., 1914
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. Letter-Sized Page, Signatures & Stamps on Pacific Coast Development Bureau Letterhead, Good with perforations, toning.Provenance: Letters and Autographs from a Who's Who in California 1914 - 1917, to the author Ellis A. Davis, regarding Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest, California, Nevada,… Utah, Arizona. Sold by Cherokee Book Shop to Frederick Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
Final report of the accelerator development impact study 1969 [LeatherBound]
Illinois. Department of Business and Economic Development Real Estate Research Corporation
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1969 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt band…s. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 142 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 142.
Lanoka Beach / 3700 Bungalow Sites, Each 25 x 100 Price from $100.00 Up
[New Jersey Real Estate Recreation] Lanoka Beach Land and Development Company
Published by N.p., Newark, New Jersey, 1920
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerA poster advertising plots of land for sale in Lanoka Harbor (now Lacey Township), New Jersey. The poster proclaims the healthy climate and varied recreation in the area, and its proximity to the New Jersey Central Railroad. One side features a map with an aerial view of the region, from New York City in the far distance to the…Barnegat Inlet in the foreground, highlighting the railroads and major automobile roads in the area. The map is attractive if quite approximate, especially shortening the distance between Lanoka Harbor and Barnegat Inlet. Overall very good to excellent. Double-sided poster measuring 12 x 19 inches. Rolled; with some damage to edges including tear to right edge.
