Lanier, Henry - Greenwich Village, Today & Yesterday

New York, Harper and Bros, 1949. Hardcover. A black hardcover book with the title in green lettering across the front cover and down the spine. There is an illustrated matte dust jacket, with the title printed in white down a majority-green spine. Pages: (7), x-xi, (2), 1-161, (1). Contains seventy black-and-white photographs taken by Berenice Abbott. Contents are as follows: Island village -- Walk-around: West, through hunting grounds and farmlands -- South, along what was river bed -- East, through a reformed swamp -- North, on the world's longes street -- The first villagers -- Demonstrating a superior civilization -- The happiness of no history -- Swallowed but never digested -- Some great ones -- Artists at work -- Hive of expressive arts -- Free folt at play -- Appendix: Dine as you please -- Books to read. VG/VG: Showing signs of wear on the corners, and the pages are beginning to stain with age. No readability is affected, however. The dust jacket has wear around all its edges and a small tear along the spine on the front cover. No text is lost.

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