Rupert Hughes — The Real New York

London, The Smart Set Publishing Company , 1904. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this sightseeing record of New York, under the guidance of American novelist Rupert Hughes. First edition.  In the publisher's original cloth binding.  Rupert Hughes offers here an authentic guide of early 20th-century New York, being the product of an exhaustive sightseeing trip. With descriptions and hints on travel, dining rooms, theatres, Chinatown, the stock-exchange, Bohemia, and the many "faults" of the city, including noise, crowding and expense.  Illustrated with a tinted frontispiece, twenty-one tinted plates and numerous vignettes by Henry Mayer. Collated, complete.   In the publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart indeed, with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: Hy. Mayer. Near Fine .