Charles Haskins Townsend, Director, Guide to the New York Aquarium, Published by the New York Zoological Society, 1929 (See photo on right of its Main Room View opposite the title page). There are 174 pages in this superbly bound small book. Its lovely cover shows sea-horses sporting amidst underwater sea grasses. There are wonderful black and white pictures of all types of specimens, 2 to 4 per page, with extremely precise ichthyological descriptions. Townsend did a 1948 update of this little book, with its remarkable history of Castle Clinton-Castle Garden background. See my Katydid Polka blog for a lead illustration of Castle Garden, which was to become a main staging area for immigrants until Ellis Island.
A must have for anyone interested in New York City history. This little book has been able to miraculously (20,000 copies) survive until now, 2010, 81 years after the ravishes of Robert Moses and company who finally succeeded in demolishing the New York Aquarium and Castle Clinton's present directors who refuse to take interesting donations for their site. It is in very good condition and is a bargain at $50 with my autograph in it (Dr. Jordan Richman), even though you could probably get it at the miraculously queer Amazon.com for .02.
Scroll down to the bottom in the Brown Section for an early image of the NY Aquarium. How right Amico was when he foresaw the fate of Castle Garden at the workman's hands. Can you picture Jullien with his monster orchestra where now the sea lions sport and play.
DeLancey Ferguson, The Poems of Robert Burns,
by The Heritage Press 1965, Hardcover As New, Wood Engravings by Joan Hassall,1/4 green cloth covered spine with gold lettering & decorations. Rust & white floral designed front and back covers (no lettering) . Black cardboard As New, slipcase; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 191 pages
Price: $10
A must have for anyone interested in New York City history. This little book has been able to miraculously (20,000 copies) survive until now, 2010, 81 years after the ravishes of Robert Moses and company who finally succeeded in demolishing the New York Aquarium and Castle Clinton's present directors who refuse to take interesting donations for their site. It is in very good condition and is a bargain at $50 with my autograph in it (Dr. Jordan Richman), even though you could probably get it at the miraculously queer Amazon.com for .02.
Scroll down to the bottom in the Brown Section for an early image of the NY Aquarium. How right Amico was when he foresaw the fate of Castle Garden at the workman's hands. Can you picture Jullien with his monster orchestra where now the sea lions sport and play.
DeLancey Ferguson, The Poems of Robert Burns,
by The Heritage Press 1965, Hardcover As New, Wood Engravings by Joan Hassall,1/4 green cloth covered spine with gold lettering & decorations. Rust & white floral designed front and back covers (no lettering) . Black cardboard As New, slipcase; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 191 pages
Price: $10
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1885 to October 1885, V. XXX, New Series, V. VIII, serialized installments of William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham and Henry James, The Bostonians. 975 pages of articles, poetry, and illustrations. Text VG, back cover off otherwise in fair condition.
Price: $32
Holmes, Richard, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, 1993, DJ, New, $23
Sisman, Adam, Boswell's Presumptious Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson, 2001, First American Edition, DJ, New, $25
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon, An Unfinished Novel, Scribners reprint 1969, NDJ, As New, $25
The Faulkner Reader, 682 pages, 1954, Random House, Dust Jacket on spine partly missing, rest ok including frontpiece photo,
good, $15
Liam O'Flaherty, Famine, 1937, 466 pages, Literary Guild Edition, good, $10
Mayakovsky, translated and editied by Herbert Marshall, 1965, 432 pages, ndj, faded spine, rest of cover and inside, vg, $35
Herbert Liebman, A Place for Lily, 2005, Baltimore, http://www.publishamerica.com/, 253 pages, softcover, new, $10
Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine, 1967, first American edition, Macmillan, 384, dj, vg, $50
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