Description

W W Norton & Co Inc [Published Date: 1990]. Hardcover, 272 pp. First edition. Signed by author on front free end paper. Very good in very good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. (Mostly) full color photography throughout. [From front jacket flap] With over three hundred photographs plus a complete text and captions, this is the most comprehensive portrait of the financial district ever published. Included are historical descriptions of every major institution: Securities firms, Exchanges, Banks, Law firms, Insurance companies, Private clubs, plus scenes of the South Street Seaport and the World Financial Center, all taken during the year-end holidays. The New York Times says RobertGambee's photographs "speak magic." But he has also included historical information on all aspects of the Wall Street community. You can open this book to almost any page and find something you did not know before. This will be an important visual and historical referencework for many years.