The New York of Yesterday: A Descriptive Narrative of Old Bloomingdale

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1908

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Limited letterpress edition, this is one of five hundred copies. Thick octavo. 597pp. Three quarter orange and blue cloth, white lettering on spine (a bit faded) and front board. Illustrated with 78 plates, diagrams, and maps. Three inch tear on contents and illustration list pages somewhat affecting text, but still readable, contemporary owner's gift inscription on front fly, short tears on spine ends, cloth mildly soiled, still a very good copy with Cassie (Mason-Myers) Julian-James' decorative bookplate laid on front pastedown. The 'Mason-Myers bookplate' mentioned by Robert Lowell in '91 Revere Street', Collected Poems, p. 122. Cassie Mason Myers Julian-James was the author of *Biographical Sketches of the Bailey-Myers-Mason families, 1776 to 1905*, and a philanthropist, vice president of Chapter 3 of the Colonial Dames of America, which she was keenly concerned with the costume collection in the National Museum. Title continuation: "Its topographical features, its early families and their genealogies, its old homesteads and country-seats, its French invasion and its war experiences considered in their relation to its first religious Society The Bloomingdale Reformed Church Organized 1805. Incorporated 1806 as The Church at Harsenville." Very nice collectible copy.…

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Title
The New York of Yesterday: A Descriptive Narrative of Old Bloomingdale
Author
MOTT, Hopper Striker
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Publication year
1908
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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