"Tony Sarg's New York" 1927 SARG, Tony (SOLD)

SARG, Tony

Greenberg, Publisher

1927

First Edition

Typography By Lewis F. White (illustrator)

Folio Edition with 24 lithographs by Tony Sarg depicting scenes in New York.

13" x 10 1/4"

VG

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Wonderful bird's eye views of some of the prominent sights of New York. Unpaginated, with two-page introduction, 24 color plates, each preceded by a separate leaf with the place written on the recto, and a smart, clever or ironic caption on the facing verso. There is a mix of places now forever gone, such as the Aquarium that was in Battery Park, the Sixth Avenue L, and Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria (the Waldorf is still around, but it is in a different location now); places that still exist but are enormously different today, such as the Stock Exchange, Chinatown or Columbus Circle, and places that are more or less the same, such as the Flatiron Building, Grand Central Station and the Public Library. Sarg shows the opulent and the gritty, the rich and the poor, and above all else, the legendary energy of the pulsing metropolis.