Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
RARE HARLEM GUIDE (BUSINESS DIRECTORIES.) CURTIS, CONSTANCE, ADELE GLASGOW AND CARL LAWRENCE, EDITORS. Harlem's Top People, 1953. Illustrated advertisements. 48 pages. 12mo, original printed wrappers, stapled. New York, 1953
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first and only edition. A very scarce guide with the names and addresses of 3500 of the "top people" in Harlem, with advertising for virtually all of Harlem's restaurants, night spots etc. The Schomburg Center's copy of this directory (on microfiche) is listed as "rare," and rare it is, the first copy we've seen.