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[COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION -- CATALOGUE]. HANDY, Moses PBiblio.com

World’s Columbian Exposition official publications. Revised catalogue Department of Fine Arts with index of exhibitors. For this catalogue the pictures are numbered consecutively as they appear on the gallery walls. . . . 2 copies.

1893Best.-Nr. 60194Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co. Publishers to the Exposition 1893. Two vols. 8vo. 506; 506 pp. Frontisp. both vols. With maps photo plates. 1st vol. -- Full dark brown morocco over beveled boards gilt ornamented borders gilt lettering & ownership stamp on front cover gilt lettering on spine gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers t.e.g. minor rubbing edgewear front hinge tender rear hinge just starting very slight uniform interior toning as usual still VG- copy w/ presentation ALS on Conkey private letterhead presenting to Charles M. Kurtz dated Oct. 28th 1893; 2nd vol. -- Full flexible Bible calf dark purple silk moire endpapers gilt lettering stamped front cover & spine a.e.g. w/ dark maroon cloth d.j. backed in dark purple silk moire a F/F presentation copy from Conkey to Kurtz w/ inscription on half-title preserved in open-backed slipcase. First editions thus presentation copies and the second copy with publisher’s note indicating this was No. 91 of 275 Editor’s Deluxe copies signed & presented to Charles McMeen Kurtz 1855-1909 at the time one of Halsey Ives’s Assistants in the Fine Arts Department of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition Art Director of the 1894 St. Louis Exposition and later Museum Director at the Buffalo Museum of Art 1905-1909. Conkey writes in the letter for the first volume to Charles Kurtz “I send you herewith a copy of the Catalogue which you may deem to file away as a reminder of many hours spent in order that others might see intelligently the grand work which you with others have done in the Art Department.” Walter Blakesley Conkey had founded the printing house in 1877 occupied many different job printers and in 1890 absorbed the Illinois Printing & Binding Co. and in Jan. 1893 signed the contracts awarding him exclusive rights for printing the myriad of catalogues and handbooks for the Columbian Exposition receiving a deposit of $ 10000. W.B. Conkey Co., Publishers to the Exposition, hardcover

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Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Space.

1956Best.-Nr. 124814New York: Harper & Brothers 1956. First edition of this work by the legendary Robert Moses. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Janet Hooper Ostahn the daughter of an old and valued friend from Robert Moses." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Herbert Bayard Swope. Books signed by Moses are uncommon. Robert Moses was a public official who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area. Known as the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City Long Island Rockland County and Westchester County he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris and was one of the most polarizing figures in the history of United States urban development. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island. Although he was not a trained civil engineera Moses's programs and designs influenced a generation of engineers architects and urban planners nationwide. Moses held up to 12 official titles simultaneously including New York City Parks Commissioner and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission but was never elected to any public office. He ran only once as the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 1934 and lost in a landslide. Nevertheless he created and led numerous semi-autonomous public authorities through which he controlled millions of dollars in revenue and directly issued bonds to fund new ventures with little or no input or oversight. As a result of Moses's work New York has the United States' greatest proportion of public benefit corporations which remain the primary driver of infrastructure building and maintenance and account for most of the state's debt. Moses's projects were considered economically necessary by many contemporaries after the Great Depression. Moses led the construction of New York campuses for the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs and helped persuade the United Nations to locate its headquarters in Manhattan instead of Philadelphia. Harper & Brothers hardcover books