Building New York: The Rise & Rise Of The Greatest City On Earth
by Marshall, Bruce (Christopher Gray intro)
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- Hardcover
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Endeavour / Gettyimages London 2009 . 35.0 x 22.0cms, 304pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper This book catalogues New York's skyscrapers, public buildings, department stores, stations, hotels, churches, airpprts, expressways and housing projects. It begins with the Statute of Liberty, Ellis Island & the Brooklyn Bridge and ends with the Pan Am Building, Trump Tower and the World Trade Centre.
Synopsis
Bruce Marshall was the founding editor of The Reader's Digest General Books program, whose first book, The Reader's Digest Great World Atlas, sold more than 20 million copies in editions around the world. He later founded Marshall Editions and created a wide range of popular thematic atlases. He is also the author of The Real World.
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 174339
- Title
- Building New York: The Rise & Rise Of The Greatest City On Earth
- Author
- Marshall, Bruce (Christopher Gray intro)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Endeavour / Gettyimages London 2009
- Keywords
- american architecture skyscrapers
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THE CROSS Art + Books
Biblio member since 2023
Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
About THE CROSS Art + Books
THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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