The Great Port: A Passage Through New York by James Morris

MORRIS, James (aka Jan MORRIS). The Great Port: A Passage Through New York. London, Faber, 1970.

First English edition of this fascinating and richly illustrated analysis of the American city, through its relationship with waterways.

Morris explores bustling waterfronts and thoroughfares of 1950s New York, portraying them as sites of constant motion and sources of the city’s culture of restlessness. First published in the US in 1969, The Great Port in some ways pre-supposes ideas of psychogeography.

Octavo, pp. 223; near fine, in blue-coloured publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt, printed flyleaves and pastedowns, printed dustjacket (a little worn at head of spine).