Description

Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold on spine and stamped on front cover with oval motif of sailing ship. Signed by both authors on title page, a presentation copy to Isaac Barnett Shepherd, a Staten Island local and architectural historian. Purchased from his private library. 565 pages. Includes Timeline, Appendices and Index. Illustrated at rear with a suite of monochrome and color photographs. First edition, due to printers error page 66 was omitted in the early copies of the print run. A single sheet has been supplied by the publisher and laid in loose. The fascinating story of the struggle to save some vestige of the New York waterfront, an effort which created the South Street Seaport and Museum in lower Manhattan. No other marks but for authors signatures and comments. A clean, fresh, and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.