The Chrysler Building: Lexington Avenue at Forty-Second Street New York
by CHRYSLER TOWER CORPORATION
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Piermont, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Chrysler Tower Corp., 1930 Promotional brochure for the recently completed building, having just lost the height competition to the Empire State. A brief history of its construction is followed by descriptions and illustrations of the interior and exterior decoration. Designed by William Van Alen. With photographs of lobbies, elevators, the Observatory, and the views from the top, carefully omitting the loathed rival a few blocks away. First edition. 25 cm.; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in textured black wrappers with silvered embossed perspective vignette of the building to front cover..
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- Bookseller
- Trevian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015061
- Title
- The Chrysler Building: Lexington Avenue at Forty-Second Street New York
- Author
- CHRYSLER TOWER CORPORATION
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- New York: Chrysler Tower Corp., 1930
- Keywords
- Van Alen
- Bookseller catalogs
- New York City;
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- Fine
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- Vignette
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- First Edition
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- Wrappers
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