Carol von Pressentin Wright’s classic Blue Guide to New York City, relied on by tour guides, residents and visitors alike since its first edition in 1983, is available in a special reprint edition from Amazon in the UK and US. You might not guess it, Amazon make the correct edition almost impossible to find despite our frequent requests to them, but, just to be sure, here it is:

Amazon US: Blue Guide New York » 
Amazon UK:  Blue Guide New York »

Check the ISBN of the edition Amazon take you to.  If it is not 9781916568051 then put in the search box exactly this ISBN (not the title).  Ignore the one star review, the 86 reviews averaging 4.6 stars for precisely the same book have been buried by Amazon.  And if you have the right book the price will be $40 / £30, with the above cover.

This is a special reprint addition of Carol Wright’s 2017 fifth edition. Printed in black and white, for copyright reasons it may not include all the original photographs, but the quality Blue Guides text and the mapping are all there in full.

After 40 years and five editions selling tens of thousands of copies Carol Wright is stepping back.  A new edition is in the works, being lovingly researched and written as we speak by the architectural historian, lecturer and journalist Francis Morrone.  More details will follow in due course.