Select Register

The Science, Industry & Business Library of NYPL at 35th and Madison has it.

http://catalog.nypl.org/search/o49235884

I saw one volume on Ebay once.

Corcoran used to have a set in their Broadway & 82nd office, right inside the front door. Maybe it's still there, but further in the office. The whole thing is many volumes.

The 1925 Pease & Elliman, covering just the east side and midtown, is at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015026793094. The 1923 edition is there also, under "Douglas Elliman".

Alas, no digitized version of select register that I can find.

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/pease--elliman-blaisdell-a-g-/pease--elliman-s-catalogue-of-apartment-plans/80699.aspx

webrefdesk, that is very helpful, thanks for sharing!

If you have a friend who is a broker, I think all of the firms have a set. I went in and photocopied 50 of my fav buildings floor plans.

This is all very helpful. Thanks!

This is an amazing resource. Thanks! Are there any later versions that would cover buildings built before The Great Depression? (There are quite a few completed in the late 1920's.)

Columbia has a lot of plans here: http://nyre.cul.columbia.edu/

For pre-WWI buildings, there's http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=151

The 1925 was the latest Elliman. I think Select Register took over from them in publishing plans. That's an ongoing business and under copyright, so nothing online. In the mid-1990s a now-defunct RE site licensed the Select Register plans, but had them hidden. Playing with the URL would turn up pages, but those're gone now.

Above post is correct, NYPL at 35 and Mad does have a set. It would be very much to your advantage to contact them ahead of time, as last time I used the set, they did not have them physically on-site but had to order them in, then had to get them down from the storage room up above. they just arn't sitting on a reference shelf like a dictionary. Also, this is a huge set of books, broken down into books, parts and volumns, about 8 all told. From my notes, which I warn may not be totally on target, the following is what I have found:
1 Pt 1: 5th Ave; 1 pt 2, V 1: park north of 34; 1 pt2 , vol 2: Park north of 76 and Lex and Mad to 86; 2 pt 1, vol 1: crosstown so of 55; 2 pt 2, vol 1 crosstown to 79; 2 pt 2, vol 2 crosstown to 96; 3 pt 1 "districts", ie Sutton, Beekman; 3 p2 West, CPS CPW etc.

Hope this helps

Sorry to bump an old thread but why can't I find anything on this collection on the web?
I'd really like to buy a set, but it's not available anywhere, not on Ebay,not even on websites who specialize in old books.Is it not in print anymore or what...
I live in Europe and since my vacation in NYC has been postponed by covid 19 I'm kinda desperate.

This might be a long shot but try contacting Yale Robbins Publications and see if they have any information.

No luck whatsoever...this is SO frustrating. I just don't understand why this collection is so rare...

AbeBooks?

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_sp=SearchF-_-topnav-_-Results&kn=Pease%20%26%20Elliman&sts=t

As we are now 95 years after 1925, this would appear to be public domain.

Part of the problem could be that AFAIK you could never buy the Select Register - you had to lease it on an annual basis (although some never returned the latest copy they leased even though that's probably 20 years ago?).

I already have the Elliman catalogue in PDF( 1925 and 1928 editions), but the Select Register is far more complete of a source as it has the floor plans from ground floor to penthouse( Elliman alot of times just has the "typical")and it's missing a host of great buildings that were put up in the late 1920s.
I would have thought many people in NYC had it, and at least some would be selling the volumes on Ebay and stuff but nothing.

Also, does anyone know exactly how many volumes are in total, and how many pages on average does each volume have? considering it covers the whole of Manhattan this must be thousands of pages.

Also sorry about bumping this thread, but I have spent ages searching the web for an online copy. One would think that after all these years someone would have posted it - just about everything else is! The link to the Columbia site is helpful, and yes, the Library up in Murray Hill has the set, but as noted it may not be onsite, but at a storage facility. Has anybody turned any additional online sources up?

Its not just that you can't find any copy to buy , but there is almost no information about this collection. I mean not a website where at least it would say how many volumes there are in total, how many of the Boroughs they cover etc. And was it constantly updated after WWII...

You could probably email NYPL and they could tell you, or contact the library of congress.

Ill try but no real hopes tbh..