Excerpt from The Greatest Street in the World: The Story of Broadway, Old and New, From the Bowling Green to Albany I think I am right in calling it the greatest street in the world. There are famous streets in the other great cities of the world, but none that shows such wealth for so great a distance. It is said that when the famous Field Marshal Blucher rode in triumphal procession through the streets of London after the battle of Waterloo he gazed about him in astonishment, and, true to his upbringing as a soldier of ...
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Excerpt from The Greatest Street in the World: The Story of Broadway, Old and New, From the Bowling Green to Albany I think I am right in calling it the greatest street in the world. There are famous streets in the other great cities of the world, but none that shows such wealth for so great a distance. It is said that when the famous Field Marshal Blucher rode in triumphal procession through the streets of London after the battle of Waterloo he gazed about him in astonishment, and, true to his upbringing as a soldier of Frederick the Great and the military canons of the time, exclaimed: Gott in Himmel! Vot a magnificent city to sack! If we could suppose the doughty old warrior transported to New York and driven over her great thoroughfare, we can readily believe that words would fail him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Reading copy only. Spine worn. Front hinge cracked. Stamped on front pastedown. Dampstained. (Streets, New York, Broadway, History)
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Good. First Edition. Brown cloth 8vo pictorially stamped in gilt; "160 illustrations and 6 maps". Spine ends and corners rubbed, trace mottling to the cloth, a small rubbed patch on the front board interferes with the word "Poughkeepsie", corners slightly bumped, an apparent patch of erasure on the front free endpaper, else a clean, tight copy. The 6 foldouts are in excellent condition; a very handsome book.
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