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Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. 1968. First Edition Thus. 287 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Penguin Books 2893. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First English edition. A couple of tiny spots on the boards, and one on the jacket, else fine in fine, very slightly soiled dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition. Faint spotting on the boards and page edges thus very good in a very good dust jacket with shallow chips, rubbing, and creasing.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper sunned at the spine, boards faded underneath. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8" x 5½" (0.5 kg); pp 246; Cover art by Graham Byfield; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #148769 ||.…

Zustand: Poor. Different cover design. Worn cover with tanning/creases/marks/scuffs. Tanning/foxing to pages. Text a bit faded in places but clear to read.

Hand colored lithographed folding map, sectioned and linen-backed as issued. 24 x 67 inches. The famed Commissioner's plan of 1811, which laid out New York's street's in the grid pattern which would dictate the city's development, anticipate its massive population growth in the 19th century and cartographically define the city to this day, ended ubruptly and arbitrarily at 155th street. In 1865, Comptroller of the Central Park Commission Andrew Haswell Green began planning for development north of the grid. With the war at an end and with the construction of Central Park completed, Green saw the need for the development of Manhattan north of the park and the advantages of it being accomplished in a consistent, though improved, manner which would better take into account the area's terrain. He published his report, titled Communication to the Commissioners of the Central Park relative to the Laying Out of the Island above 155th Street, in the Tenth Annual Central Park Report in December 1865 and the essay would prove an important contribution in the historiography of city planning and preservation, anticipating more modern principles. Work began immediately in surveying, planning and building the infrastructure. Early maps of the the project appeared in the Central Park Commission reports, but the present map by Edward Ewen was the first separately-published large-scale mapping of the plan. The map is scarce, with only a handful of recorded copies in institutions (New York Public Library, New York State Library, Stony Brook Univ. and Yale). Phillips, p. 538 Folds in publisher's cloth case, upper cover detached, publisher's title on the front pastedown. Signature on verso dated 1873 Hand colored lithographed folding map, sectioned and linen-backed as issued. 24 x 67 inches.…

Very good. Even overall toning. Some loss at old fold intersections. Edge reinforcement on verso. Size 9 x 11 Inches. An extremely rare Justh, Quirot and Co. 1851 letter sheet or broadsheet view of San Francisco during the San Francisco Fire of June 1851. It looks down on the burning city from a pastoral hill at the head of California Street. This letter sheet was issued in San Francisco just days after the June 22nd conflagration. The small size of this letter-sheet is reflective of the small and press that the firm, one of San Francisco's first printers, was able to salvage from the earlier May 3-4th conflagration. It would not be until 1852 that they finally acquired a larger format press. The June 22nd, 1851 Fire Although only 2 years after the 1849 discovery of placer gold in the nearby Sacramento Valley, and the subsequent boom in building, by 1851 San Francisco was already a bustling city. The San Francisco Fire, doubtless the work of an incendiary, began around 11 AM in house on Pacific Street near Powell. Given the high winds, the predominantly wooden city, including wood plank sidewalks, was quickie engulfed in the conflagration. Ten blocks, City Hall, and portions of six others blocks were destroyed. The city had suffered 5 earlier major fires, including a city-wide conflagration just one month earlier in May. San Franciscans quickly rebuilt using less flammable materials and added water takes to the roofs of most new buildings. This proved an effective counter-incendiary and the city did not suffer another major fire until the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1909. Publication History and Census This view is quite rare due it the ephemeral nature of the medium letter sheets and the great loss of surviving sheets that occurred during the 1909 San Francisco Earthquake. The OCLC identifies only 2 examples. An additional example is held at the Bancroft Library. We are aware of one other in private hands. Market presence is negligible, making this a once in a lifetime collecting opportunity. References: OCLC 41411049. University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, BANC PIC 1963.002:168-A.…