New York from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: Japanese-American Commercial Weekly / Nichibei Shuhosha, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first and only yearbook/almanac issued by the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly (Nichibei Shuho, later Nichibei Jiho). While similar in format to the yearbooks and directories published at the time on the West Coast, this book is much more focused on the import-export businesses that… Read more about this item

New York: (n.p.), 1872. On November 5, 1872, 440,738 New Yorkers went into the voting booth to express a preference for Ulysses S. Grant over Horace Greeley. Under the American political system they were technically selecting voters in the Electoral College, including Frederick Douglass and thirty-four other men on the Republican party slate. This is a very rare printed… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 111 pages. Three stories: The Black Clams, Mr. Flood's Party and the title story, that first appeared in the New Yorker. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with a bit of wear at the spine ends, in an unclipped dust jacket with faded… Read more about this item