1902 SIGNED 1st HC NEW YORK SKETCHES 82 Photos Illustrations Fifth Ave Trolleys+

Description: Title: New York Sketches Author: Jesse Lynch Williams (SIGNED by Author) Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons (1902) Description:SIGNED copy of an absolutely gorgeous book which covers New York City at the turn of the century. Text is descriptive of 1900 New York City done by a first rate writer Jesse Lynch Williams, a famous playwright. This is the only signed copy available on the internet. Charming illustrations and photographs make this book special. There are over 80 of them. As you can see by looking at the illustrations below they are drawn by different artists in different styles but all are extremely well done. And here's the best part - this original first edition printing which is over 120 years old is in nice condition. When found this scarce book is usually in poor to good condition. This one is not. For ANY lover of history and old New York this book will make a phenomenal addition to your library or a great gift. Below are reproduced some illustrations from the book & a short sample of writing from the book. CONTENTS The Water-Front The Walk Up-Town The Cross Streets Rural New York City Here is the list of illustrations:On the Harlem River — University Heights from Fort GeorgeGrant's Tomb and Riverside Drive (from the New Jersey Shore) Down along the Battery sea-wall is the place to watch the ships go byOld New Amsterdam Just as it has been for years. (Between South Ferry and the Bridge.) New New York, Not a stone's throw farther up . . . the towering white city of the new century. (Between South Ferry and the Bridge. ) From the point of view of the Jersey commuter . . . some uncommon, weird effects (Looking back at Manhattan from a North River ferry-boat. ) Swooping silently, confidently across from one city to the other (East River and Brooklyn Bridge.) Looking up the East River from the Foot of Fifty-ninth Street Even in sky-line he could find something new almost every week or two The end of the day — looking back at Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge. For the little scenes . . . quaint and lovable, one goes down along the South Street water-front Smacks and oyster-floats near Fulton Market. (At the foot of Beekman Street, East River.) This is the tired city's playground - Washington Bridge and the Speedway — Harlem River looking south. Here is where the town ends, and the country begins (High Bridge as seen looking south from Washington Bridge.) The Old and the New, from Lower New York across the Bridge to Brooklyn From the top of the high building at Broadway and Pine StreetThe old town does not change so fast about its edges . . . (Along the upper East River front looking north toward Blackwell's Island.) opposite the oval at the ancient Bowling Green immigrant hotels and homesNo. I Broadway Lower Broadway during a paradeThe beautiful spire of TrinityClattering, crowded, typical BroadwayCity Hall with its grateful lack of heightWhat's the matter In the wake of a fire-engineNo longer to be thrilled . . . will mean to he oldGrace Church spire becomes nearerThrough Union Squarewindows which draw women's heads aroundInstead of buyers . . . mostly shopperscrossing Fifth Avenue at Twenty-third StreetMadison Square with the sparkle of a clear . . . October morning In front of the Fifth Avenue HotelDiana on top glistening in the sun Seeing the Avenue from a stage-top people to to the right, up Fifth AvenueA seller of pencilsIt is also better walking up here- those who walk for the sake of walking At the lower corner of the Waldorf-Astoria with baby-carriagesThis is the region of Clubs The Union Leagueclose-ranked boarding-school squadsthe coachmen and footmen flock thereThe Church of the Heavenly RestApproaching St. Thomas's The University Club . . . with college coats-of-arms Olympia Jackies on shore leaveDown near the eastern end of the street Across Trinity Church-yard, from the West An Evening View of St. Paul's ChurchThe sights and smells of the water-front are here too An Old Landmark on the Lower West Side (Junction of Canal and Laight Streets.) Up Beekman Street - Each . . . has to change in the greatest possible hurry from block to block. Under the Approach to Brooklyn BridgeChinatownIt still remains whimsically individual and village-like A Fourteenth Street TreeSuch as broad Twenty-third Street with its famous shopsA Cross Street at Madison Square Across Twenty-fourth Street — Madison Square when the Dewey Arch was thereHerald SquareAs it Looks on a Wet Night — The Circle, Fifty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue Hideous high buildings Looking east from Central Park at night. Flushing Volunteer Fire Department Responding to a Fire AlarmA Bit of Farm Land in the Heart of Greater New York Acre after acre, farm after farm, and never a sign of city in sight. One of the Farmhouses that have Come to Town The old Duryea House, Flushing, once used as a headquarters for Hessian officers. East End of Duryea House, where the Cow is Stabled The Old Water-power Mill from the Rear of the Old Country Cross-roads StoreThe Old Country Cross-roads Store, Established 1828 In the background is the old water-power mill Interior of the Old Country- Cross-roads StoreThe Colony of Chinese Farmers, Near the Geographical Centre of New York City Working as industrially as the peasants of Europe, blue skirts, red handkerchiefs about their headsRemains of a Windmill in New York City, Between Astoria and SteinwayThe Dreary Edge of Long Island City The Procession of Market-wagons at College Point FerryPast dirty backyards and sad vacant lots New York City Up in the Beginnings of the Bronx Regions — Skating at Bronxdale Another Kind of City Life — Along the Marshes of Jamaica Bay There is profitable oyster-dredging in several sections of the city Cemetery Ridge, Near Richmond, Staten Island A Peaceful Scene in New York In the distance is St. .Andrew's Church, Borough of Richmond, Staten Island A Relic of the Early Nineteenth Century, Borough of Richmond An Old-fashioned, Stone-arched Bridge. (Richmond, Staten Island) An Old House in Flatbush Sample from the text:From the section A Walk Up-Town Now comes the most rushing section of all down-town: from Trinity to St. Paul's, clattering, crowded, typical Down-Town. So much in a hurry is it that at Cedar Street it skips in twenty or thirty feet a whole section of numbers from 119 to 135. The east side of the street is not so capricious; it skips merely from No. 120 to 128. The people that cover the sidewalks up and down this section, occasionally overflowing into the streets, would probably be pronounced a typical New York crowd, although half of them never spend an entire day in New York City from one end of the month to the other, and half of that half sleep and eat two oi their meals in another State of the Union. The proportion might seem even greater than that, perhaps it is, if at the usual hour the up-town walker should be obliged to struggle up Cortlandt Street or any of the ferry streets down which the torrents of commuters pour. Up near St. Paul's the sky-scrapers again become thick, so that the occasional old-fashioned five or six story buildings of solid walls with steep steps leading up to the door, seem like playthings beside which the modern building if just beginning where the old ones left off. More like towers are many of these new edifices, or magnified obelisks, as seen from the ferries, the windows and lettering for hieroglyphics. Others are shaped like plain goods-boxes on end, or suggest, the ornate ones, pieces of carefully cut cake standing alone and ready to fall over at any moment and damage the icing. Good old St. Paul's, which is really old and, to some of us, more lovable than ornate, Anglican Trinity, has also been made to look insignificant in size by its overpowering commercial neighbors, especially as seen from the Sixth Avenue Elevated cars against the new, ridiculous high building on Park Row. But St. Paul's turns its plain, broad, Colonial back upon busy Broadway and does not seem to care so much as Trinity. The church-yard is not so old nor so large as Trinity's, but somehow it always seems to me more rural and church-yardish and feels as sunny and sequestered as though miles instead of a few feet from Broadway and business. Condition:Book is overall very good. Dark green cloth covers have original pastedown color illustration of Brooklyn Bridge. Front cover has a couple of ring stains. In general covers have light wear. Some discoloration near spine and on rear covers. Spine vg with very discoloration and fading. Edges of book near fine. Corners have lightest of wear. Top edge gilt. Hinges are tight. See photos or please ask for more. No Dustjacket was issued Details:hardcover approx. 7 x 10" 133 pages 1902 first edition (Published November 1902 - no other printings listed)Charles Scribner's Sons No dustjacket. Terms (payment, shipping, tax, returns, feedback, etc.) Please read before buying U.S. bidders only Payment Please pay within 48 hours of winning. eBay managed payments Shipping Shipping will be $7.25 and will be shipped USPS media mail with tracking. We may upgrade your package at our discretion to USPS Ground Advantage. Package will be shipped within 4 business days after payment - usually faster. The USPS can be notoriously slow, it could take 2-3 weeks for delivery. Please take that into account when leaving feedback, that we will ship quickly, but the USPS can take a long time to deliver, and we have no control over delivery time. 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Location: New York, New York

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