How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

by Jacob Riis

$2,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards over blue spine cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with toning and wear to the binding, contents tanned and with occasional soiling. A pioneering work of photojournalism documenting New York City's poor lower class living in squalid conditions at the turn of the century. Item #140947069

• Binding: Hardcover

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