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MAGICAL CITY : SKETCHES OF NEW YORK (Association copy)

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MAGICAL CITY : SKETCHES OF NEW YORK (Association copy)

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MAGICAL CITY by Vernon Howe Bailey 1935 Large art book of drawn sketches by Vernon Howe Bailey of many areas - streets - buildings that no longer exist. His style and depictions are very much influenced by the Ashcan School of New York Art. They are indeed dramatic and magical and the book will be centerpiece of any NY collection. Indeed it was formerly owned by celebrity, industrialist and book collector of the 1930s Charles Scott Landen and the book was a gift from City Planner Cleveland Rodgers. Both men figures of NYC during the 1930s. Rodgers wrote several books on NY as well as an early biography of Robert Moses. BOX 5

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