How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob A. Riis

$1,750 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First edition. A Very Good copy. Complete, with eighteen black and white plates after photographs, further in-text illustrations. Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in gilt one of two binding variants, no priority known . Binding a little toned and foxed, with extremities slightly frayed. Neat contemporary ink ownership

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