For anyone who loves the Big Apple, a postcard book of vintage book jackets with alluring illustrations. Doormen, kids playing around open fire hydrants, limos, laundry flapping on tenement lines, pushcarts, fire escapes, the El, bellboys, and hansom cabs - all the enduring symbols of life in the great metropolis can be found in these period jacket illustrations. Titles include Hacking New York, Fifth Avenue Bus, Ninth Avenue, Manhattan Transfer, Do Not Disturb, Love in Manhattan, Here"s to Broadway, and East Side West Side. This book contains twenty postcards, two each of ten book covers, plus an introduction by the author.