POUND, Arthur

THE GOLDEN EARTH: The Story of Manhattan's Landed Wealth

New York: Macmillan, 1935. First Edition. hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt, in dust jacket. Spine sunned. Edges and spine ends chipped. Light soil and scuffing. Bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Endpapers toned. Very good plus in good plus jacket. Very good + / good +. Item #23070

History of New York as seen through the real estate transactions of the wealthy, starting with the Dutch West India Company and continuing up through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Illustrated with prints from engravings by Samuel Hollyer, from the New York Historical Society. Scarce in jacket.

Price: $150.00