[ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. BAILEY, Vernon Howe (1874-1953). Empire State. A Pictorial Record of Its Construction. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931. Large folio. Color frontispiece, 25 plates after drawings by Bailey. Original half white and blue paper boards, embossed image of the Empire State Building on upper board (tear at base of spine, soiling, slight rubbing to extremities). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE number 584 of an unspecified limitation printed to commemorate the construction of the Empire State Building.