A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK

And My Summer Acre

1893

By: “Being the Recreations of Mr. Felix Oldboy” [John Flavel Mines]

Harper & Brothers [New York]

8vo (518 pages, profusely illustrated with drawings, tissue-guarded frontispiece)

Hardcover [Blue decorated cloth]

Item Number: 13644

$145.00

Description

A collection of newspaper columns by John F. Mines about sights, scenes, and events in and around New York City between 1886 and 1890. Those “sketches” comprising “A Tour Around New York” were first published in The Evening Post. Those comprising “My Summer Acre” were first published in The New York Commercial Advisor.
This is a very good First edition copy, somewhat shelfworn, with an age-darkened spine, discreet bookplate on front pastedown. Contents fine.