Manhattan '45
This volume was published in England at the same time as the American first edition,( a chapter had in fact been already published a year earlier in 1986 in New York Magazine ). Widely regarded as a truly great travel writer of her time (this is her tenth book) as well as being lauded as a great prose stylist, Morris writes an evocative exploration of New York City at the 'zenith of its existence: the year 1945'. Starting with the return of 14,000 GI's to New York on the British Queen Mary, she takes us on the now vanished trolley buses and the Hudson River ferry-boats meeting many disparate characters from the artist Jackson Pollock to mayor La Guardia and then examples of the lowest socio-economic classes. ''In these pages the victorious, hopeful, confident, celebratory and explosive Manhattan of several decades ago finds its literary apotheosis.'' A thrilling historical travel book.
Specifications
| Author | Morris, Jan |
| Illustrator | Multiple Illustrators |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Place Published | London, England |
| Year Published | 1987 |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
First UK Edition |
| Size | Royal 8vo (Royal Octavo) |
| Chapters | IX, |
| Pages | 273pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Excellent Condition - Note: The boards are covered in fine fawn/cream coloured cloth quarter bound in contrasting crimson cloth with faint embossing of a Manhattan skyline on the front board and the title in gold only on the firm spine. The boards are totally clean and undamaged with no bumping or edge fraying and the contemporary designed Dust Wrapper (non price-clipped) is likewise in an excellent state showing only minor browning of the verso edges plus trivial chipping and is now protected by clear archival covering too. - With Dust Wrapper |
| Overall | Excellent Condition - Note: Internally all pages are clean with no foxing, notations or damage including the many interesting black and white photo illustrations. Both front and rear endpapers have useful maps of Manhattan that are likewise in a pristine state. There is minor flecking of both top and fore-edge as the book's only detractor. |