An inveterate sailor and native New Yorker views the history, architecture, wildlife, and urban shoreline of this resilient city from a wholly unique and dazzling perspective.
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An inveterate sailor and native New Yorker views the history, architecture, wildlife, and urban shoreline of this resilient city from a wholly unique and dazzling perspective.
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Used book in very good and clean conditions. Minor cosmetic defects may be present. Pages and cover intact. May include library marks notes marks and highlighting. Fast Shipping.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 2002 Stated First Edition and full printing number line. FINE in FINE price intact dust jacket. A fresh, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages, hardcover and dust jacket pristine. Binding tight and straight. Kornblum, a native New Yorker, urban sociologist, and a sailor who has spent decades plying New York City's waterways in his ancient catboat "Tradition, " reveals how the history of the city has been shaped by the water. Each chapter opening is printed with a map of the area to be discussed. 4-page Bibliography included. 5-1/4 x 8-1/8." xvii + 232 Pages.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. 232 pages. Foreword by Pete Hamill. Illustrations by Oliver Williams. First edition, first printing with full number line. A "New York City native, longtime sailor, and urban sociologist, [the author]...takes the reader along as he sails through his hometown, retelling the history of the city's waterfront and maritime culture and the stories of the men and women who made the water their own." A clean, square, unmarked copy, as new but for price-clipped dust-jacket. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.