Oxford University Press, December 2005. Hardcover. Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions.....
Houghton 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.
Bedford/st Martins, June 1996. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of immigration, technological innovation, industry, and urban life at the dawn of the twentieth century. American studies instructor and freelance photographer David Leviatin edited this edition to be as.....