ISBN10: 1582610282, ISBN13: 9781582610283, [publisher: Sports Publishing Inc., Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition A NEAR FINE, bright, clean, tight copy sans tears, stains, markings, discoloration, etc. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in hundreds of black-and-white photographs. "Drawn from the archives of the Daily News, "BIG TOWN/BIG TIME" contains nearly 200 classic stories, photographs and illustrations that take you through the entire gamut of the Big Town's last 100 years. Here is the history of the nation's greatest metropolis through war and peace, boom and bust, the mightiest of achievements, the grandest of mythologies. You will find the builders and the wreckers, the dreamers and the desperadoes, the grand statesmen and the sideshow freaks, the great landowners and the tiniest of peddlers, the godfathers and the governors, and the broad-shouldered laborers and the cheapest of streetcorner sharpies. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the City's incorporation, "BIG TOWN/BIG TIME" gives you the colorful chronicle of New York City in our time." 198 pages. $39.95 in publication. *NOTE: Due to oversize of book significant additional shipping cost will be required for out-of-U.S. shipment. GF3
[Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]