Emily Kies Folpe

It Happened on Washington Square (inscribed by the author)

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002. First edition. First edition/ printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Warmly inscribed on the title page by the author to a Greenwich Village resident. Hardcover. xii+ 353 pp. with index. illustrated with photographs, reproductions and maps. A fond look at the history of New York City's Washington Square from its early life as a parade ground, a potter's field, a focal point of particularly Italian immigration, the avant garde arts and literature center in the early 20th century, the decline during the 1960s and 70s and eventual reclaimation and revival. Fine / fine. Item #E24314
ISBN: 0801870887

Price: $14.50