Customer Reviews

Up & Down New York (New York Bound Books)

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This attractive book packages a compendium of Tony Sarg's humorous, bird's-eye perspectives of 1920's New York. Each page of the oversized volume yields the Where's Waldo variety of delights for people watching, but also beautiful architectural renderings of the city's most famous historic landmarks.

But how much money do you want to pay for what amounts to 23 full page prints (and a couple of pages of studies)? There's the (charcoal) rub... but I suggest that if you think of this volume as a bound portfolio, it is worth every cent.

I love New York and this amazing collection of late 1920's illustrations reinforces my rapture. Sarg not only captures the architecture of some great landmarks, but also infuses them with vibrancy by populating the scenes with human vignettes out of Breughel, or Where's Waldo if you prefer.

I find the material dazzlingly contemporary, but believe it makes a tremendous gift for parents or grandparents who can use these images to bond with their progeny.

It's fun to view the citizens on the streets in their jackets and ties as a picture of the past; and elders will have a grand time pointing out the way things were (as in "that's the old look of the Museum of Natural History" or "I remember the Metropolitan Museum when the knights in armor were in the main hall."

Get it or give it. It's grand and at a bargain price.

Every time I pick this book up I am drawn into a NYC gone-by that feels so much like the NYC of today. I love to get lost in its world.

If you love this town, you'll love this book!

I really love the pictures in this book. The forward from Jonathan Adler is also great.

I was under the impression that this was a book of New York historical PICTURES and not historical illustrations. The illustrations are top quality, but this book doesn't deliver my expectations. I may have misunderstood what this book was about.