Gilder, Rodman. The Battery: The Story of the adventurers, artists, statesmen, grafters, songsters, mariners, pirates, guzzlers, Indians, thieves, stuffed-shirts, turn-coats, millionaires, inventors, poets, heros, soldiers, harlots, bootlicks, nobles, nonentities, burghers, martyrs, and murderers who played their parts during full four centuries on Manhattan Island's tip. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936.

First edition 1936 hardback without dust jacket. Some edgewear, sunning, small dents to red cloth cover. Spine is pulled. Illustrated with black and white plates. 

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