Jacob August RiisBiblio.com
Jacob August RiisBiblio.com
A Ten Year's War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York 1900
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2017rif. Gyan-9789357582537Facsimile Publisher 2017. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 14.34 x 3 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2017rif. Gyan-9789357582537Facsimile Publisher 2017. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 14.34 x 3 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
rif. B9781165922178New. unknown
rif. A9781298910301Hardback. New. hardcover
1900rif. 21362Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket an ex-library but nice-looking with only minor handling wear and with some interesting annotations on the rear pastedown see Notes for details. B&W photographic plates INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "Faithfully yours / Jacob A. Riis." An account of the author's anti-slum crusade during the decade following the publication of his most famous work "How the Other Half Lives." By 1900 this Danish-American social reformer photographer and muckraking journalist was nationally famous and in demand as a speaker -- which is amply documented by the various markings in this copy which was inexplicably withdrawn from the collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society and is stamped as such on the title page and the rear pastedown. Also on the rear pastedown the original librarian's I assume annotation provides both authentication of the signature and provenance of the book: "Bot bought of HW Brown: $1.10 Pd 2-24-1903 Sig. of author same date heard author lecture at Oliver Theater on 'Tony's Hardships.'" An additional ownership signature that of a Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Lincoln Nebraska appears on a second front endpaper also dated 2-24-1903. The referenced lecture in all its particulars is confirmed by an account in the Nebraska State Journal of February 25 1903 with the reporter commenting that "the unconscious naturalness of Riis's pose and gestures the sincerity of the man and the fact that his words were the outcome of years of keen personal observation and experience all combined to make the lecture one of exceptional interest with the unusual charm of being seemingly a spontaneous talk with an audience with whom the speaker was in full confidence and sympathy." And incredibly some idiot librarian chose to deaccession this book. Well that's Nebraska for you. And I'm from there so I can say that. This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4 "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: 1 email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; 2 view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; 3 browse the books individually including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." Signed by Author . Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
rif. 7104889-nnew. unknown
rif. 7104889like new. unknown
1900rif. 000014239Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 8 2-267 3 pp. Maroon vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with eleven plates all black and white photographs. A moving exploration of urban poverty at the turn of the twentieth century. A bookplate on the front pastedown a name on the free front endpaper one small chip to a leaf. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1902rif. 199960Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1902. Hardcover. Good Ex-Library with pencil markings on ffep and sticker on rear pastedown; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but lightly toned with occasional smudging or foxing; binding is solid. Navy boards with gilt lettering; 4 preliminary leaves 267 1 pp.; frontispiece plates portraits. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
rif. 0554585847.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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rif. 1298910307.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1900rif. 517870Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 268pp. illustrated reproducing black-and-white photographs including scenes of New York City slums. Dark red cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Early armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Henry Bancroft Twombly was a Yale graduate member of Skull and Bones and a prominent New York attorney; and the later ownership signature of Drayton S. Bryant a prominent Philadelphia urban planner and scholar. Light wear on the binding very good or better with small flaws at the spine ends light offsetting from a clipping on one leaf. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1900rif. 55994Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First edition 8vo; pp. 8 267 1; original navy-blue cloth; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; frontispiece of Col. George E. Waring Jr.; 11 half-tone plates; spine extremities and corners slightly scuffed; ex-Merriam Public Library with their bookplate and accession sticker on spine; small deaccession stamps on front and rear endsheets; otherwise very good. Most well-known for his 1890 exposé How the Other Half Lives "Riis was a Danish-American social reformer "muckracking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century" Wikipedia. Riis and the photographers he employed were among the first Americans to utilize flash photography. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown
1900rif. 140029Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 267 pages. Frontispiece of George E. Waring Jr with tissue guard. 11 addtional photographic illustrations. First edition first printing. A very good copy in green cloth with edge and corner wear. with edge fraying. Rear hinge cracked. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover
1900rif. 302514Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt top edge gilt. Illustrated with twelve photographs. Extremities a little rubbed with some sunning to the spine else an attractive very good plus copy. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1900rif. 517870Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 268pp. illustrated reproducing black-and-white photographs including scenes of New York City slums. Dark red cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Early armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Henry Bancroft Twombly was a Yale graduate member of Skull and Bones and a prominent New York attorney; and the later ownership signature of Drayton S. Bryant a prominent Philadelphia urban planner and scholar. Light wear on the binding very good or better with small flaws at the spine ends light offsetting from a clipping on one leaf. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1900rif. 21362Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket an ex-library but nice-looking with only minor handling wear and with some interesting annotations on the rear pastedown see Notes for details. B&W photographic plates INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "Faithfully yours / Jacob A. Riis." An account of the author's anti-slum crusade during the decade following the publication of his most famous work "How the Other Half Lives." By 1900 this Danish-American social reformer photographer and muckraking journalist was nationally famous and in demand as a speaker -- which is amply documented by the various markings in this copy which was inexplicably withdrawn from the collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society and is stamped as such on the title page and the rear pastedown. Also on the rear pastedown the original librarian's I assume annotation provides both authentication of the signature and provenance of the book: "Bot bought of HW Brown: $1.10 Pd 2-24-1903 Sig. of author same date heard author lecture at Oliver Theater on 'Tony's Hardships.'" An additional ownership signature that of a Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Lincoln Nebraska appears on a second front endpaper also dated 2-24-1903. The referenced lecture in all its particulars is confirmed by an account in the Nebraska State Journal of February 25 1903 with the reporter commenting that "the unconscious naturalness of Riis's pose and gestures the sincerity of the man and the fact that his words were the outcome of years of keen personal observation and experience all combined to make the lecture one of exceptional interest with the unusual charm of being seemingly a spontaneous talk with an audience with whom the speaker was in full confidence and sympathy." And incredibly some idiot librarian chose to deaccession this book. Well that's Nebraska for you. And I'm from there so I can say that. This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4 "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: 1 email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; 2 view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; 3 browse the books individually including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." Signed by Author . Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1902rif. 199960Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1902. Hardcover. Good Ex-Library with pencil markings on ffep and sticker on rear pastedown; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but lightly toned with occasional smudging or foxing; binding is solid. Navy boards with gilt lettering; 4 preliminary leaves 267 1 pp.; frontispiece plates portraits. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1900rif. 55994Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First edition 8vo; pp. 8 267 1; original navy-blue cloth; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; frontispiece of Col. George E. Waring Jr.; 11 half-tone plates; spine extremities and corners slightly scuffed; ex-Merriam Public Library with their bookplate and accession sticker on spine; small deaccession stamps on front and rear endsheets; otherwise very good. Most well-known for his 1890 exposé How the Other Half Lives "Riis was a Danish-American social reformer "muckracking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century" Wikipedia. Riis and the photographers he employed were among the first Americans to utilize flash photography. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
1900rif. 302514Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt top edge gilt. Illustrated with twelve photographs. Extremities a little rubbed with some sunning to the spine else an attractive very good plus copy. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
