The New York I Know by Matya Mannes with Photographs by Herb Snitzer

The New York I Know by Matya Mannes with Photographs by Herb Snitzer is a 159-page hardcover published in 1961 by J.B. Lippincott & Co. and is a stated first edition.  The dust jacket shows wear and is price clipped.  Inside, the pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is tight. Book Summary The New York I Know is an image of America's most prodigious and exciting city, in terms of the personal experience of a notably articulate and perceptive native.  Matya Mannes, author, critic, and well-known observer of the whole American scene, speaks as a part of New York but not necessarily as a partisan.  Love, dismay, and fear for her native city are equally balanced.  Combined with Miss Manne's highly individual view are the brilliantly evocative photographs of Herb Snitzer.  Words and pictures together inspire a new awareness of what Manhattan means to human beings, of its beauties, brutalities, and kaleidoscopic fascinations--and, most of all, its unceasing ferment, characteristic of the city that is always new, always becoming. Less a report than a reflection, less a description than a symphony, The New York I Know is a book that only a New Yorker could have written.  But it is written not only for New Yorkers, born-and-bred or naturalized, but for everyone everywhere over who this island of towering steel and glass and of ageing brownstones exerts a permanent and irresistible power.