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192789842London: MacMillan 1927. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Beginning signs of wear on crown and heel of spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. MacMillan hardcover
190116764New York: The Macmillan Company 1901. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1901 1st edition of essentially Jacob Riis's autobiography. Tight and VG to Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth with bright gilt-insignia and titling along the front panel and lightly-faded titling and insignia at the spine. Light foxing as well at the frontispiece and its tissue-guard light offsetting to the dedication page. Armorial bookplate Anne C. Ewing at the front pastedown OF THE WOMAN TO WHOSE HUSBAND RIIS TWICE INSCRIBED THIS COPY AND WROTE HIS 1 PG. ALS. This copy furthermore includes 2 tiny corrections in Riis's hand one at pg. 283 one at pg. 436. Thick octavo 443 pgs. plus publisher's ads. The Macmillan Company unknown
1902146700New York: The Macmillan Company 1902. Early printing of this exceptional autobiography from the exceptional American reporter and reformer Jacob A. Riis. Octavo original blue ribbed cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel tissue-guarded half-tone frontispiece portrait of Riis top edge gilt illustrated with in-line and full-page half-tone drawings and photographs. In very good condtion with rubbing bookplate of Walter Sondheim to the front pastedown. Rare autograph letter signed by the author tipped in. Octavo one page on Riis's personal stationary signed by Riis and dated Oct 1903. In near fine condition with mail folds. Also tipped in is a magazine article on Riis by Lincoln Steffens. Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer "muck-raking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century by revealing the poor living conditions of the impoverished to the middle and upper classes. While living in New York Riis himself experienced poverty and became a police reporter to write about the quality of life in the slums. As magazine writer Lincoln Steffens explained "Riis was poor in pocket but he was rich in sentiment and strength and courage." The Macmillan Company hardcover
19012353001New York: The Macmillan Company 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. Fogarty Thomas. First edition. Hinges loosening owner bookplate on front endpaper minor abrasion on spine foot. Text clean and unmarked. 1901 Hard Cover. xiii 443 pp. Navy blue cloth gilt titles and decorations top edge gilt photographic frontispiece portrait of author illustrated throughout with a mix of plates and cuts from photographs and drawings by Thomas Fogarty. An autobiography of the author who immigrated to the United States from Denmark and made his name as a social reformer primarily through a series of books humanizing those living in poverty in New York City. His 1890 classic How the Other Half Lives reshaped society's perspective of the working poor. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1929mon0000104628Macmillan 1929-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. 1959 4th printing ex library book Macmillan unknown
190311143New York: Macmillan 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo 443pp. illustrated. A worn copy in fair condition with the inner hinges cracked and corners worn but internally clean. A singificant association copy SIGNED by Riis on the front free endpaper and INSCRIBED to Danish-American pianist and interpreter of Scandinavian music Inga Hoegsbro Christensen before she took her married name: "Inga Hoegsbro from her friend Jacob A Riis." Laid-in are two postcards from Riis to Hoegsbro one dated in December 1913 and another whose date is unclear. The first postcard with a new year's theme reads: "A Happy New Year to you and may we both steer clear of illness in 1914. was sick nearly all summer. Let us hope it was the darkness before the dawn and that all will be O. K. with the lengthening days. Sincerely yours Jacob A. Riis." A bittersweet and foreboding note as Riis would die that following May just six months after this letter was mailed. Hoegsbro has added a note in ink on the postcard which reads "Always keep from my dear old Papa Jacob Riis. A friend in need for years." The other postcard's front depicts the St. Joseph Sanitarium & Bath House in Mt. Clemens Michigan where Riis was staying during the end of December 1913 after feeling ill for most of the autumn. The small blank area on the front of the card is entirely covered in Riis's writing and as it is in Danish and a rather difficult hand we are unable to reproduce or translate it here. On the verso next to where Riis had inked Hoegsbro's address Hoegsbro has written: "Last card from dear Papa Jacob Riis." The book's endleaves are covered in news clippings related to Riis and a few Danish poems. On the rear endpaper is a typed document written by Christensen entitled "A Tribute to Jacob Riis. Paid by Inga Hoegsbro-Christensen on the Occasion of the Golden Anniversary of the Founding of the Jacob Riis Settlement on Henry Street." Praising Riis for his help in her early career she concludes her remarks by noting: "When I begged from time to time to be allowed to repay Riis for his goodness to me his answer was always the same: Would I help some of his friends among the poor with my music I do not need to add how happy I was to be always at his service as pianist and inscructor in his settlement work." Accompanying the book and these postcards is an inscribed copy to one Frank Burton of Inga Hoegsbro Christensen's autobiography "Inga.Play." In it she mentions Riis several dozen times describing him as "Papa Jacob" the figure who helped her get settled in the United States and who introduced her to the influential New Yorkers who would help her achieve fame and success as a musician and interpreter of Scandinavian music. Altogether despite the book's regrettable condition a fantastic association copy of Riis's memoir which sheds great light on his identity as a Danish-American and a friend to struggling artists of all backgrounds. Macmillan hardcover
1908481309Grosset & Dunlap. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1908. Hard Cover. G287 . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
193544679MacMillan. GOOD- Reading Copy/No Jacket. 1935. Hard Cover. E156 . MacMillan hardcover
1916170121099Macmillan 1916. Hardcover. Good. Macmillan hardcover
1901035729New York: Macmillan and Co. 1901. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. Signed by Authors. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray cloth lettered/illus. in black. Light shelf wear minor soiling to cover cloth text block edges a bit toned by age. Firm binding clean interior. xiii443 pp. illus. w/ b&w photographic plates drawings in text. 14th ptg.: Nov. 1908. Notably well preserved presentation copy showing a pastedown 4" x 3.5" mounted on front fixed endpaper inscribed "Faithfully yours / Jacob A. Riis / Christmas 1909." Mounted on the adjacent front flyleaf is the calling card of the recipient Mr. William W. J. Warren inscribed as follows: "Christmas 1909. -- / Mr. Riss sic called today -- / he gave me his autograph / for front cover of book." Also signed by a later owner William Duncan along top edge of front flyleaf. Warren is mentioned on p. 435 of Riis's text as W. W. J. Warren "faithful in good and in evil report" among the author's concluding acknowledgments where a second calling card stained by rust from a paper clip no long present is laid in pp. 435-440 are slightly indented from the clip and pp. 434 440 and 441 show a light rust impression. According to his obituary in American Stationer & Office Manager Vol. 88 Warren 1844-1921 was president of Stewart Warren & Co. a stationery manufacturing firm located at 129 Lafayette St. in New York a personal friend of Henry Ward Beecher and lived in the Richmond Hill section of Brooklyn as the next-door neighbor of Riis until the latter moved to Barre MA where he died in 1914. Original illustrated edition of an influential autobiography by the pioneering documentarian photographer and social reformer whose "How the Other Half Lives" was a landmark expose of living conditions in the Lower East Side tenements that led to reforms and provided Riis with an international reputation. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
1901264664New York: Macmillan 1901. First. hardcover. very good-. Illus. 443pp. 8vo blue cloth edges of corners very lightly worn cloth lightly soiled spine ends rubbed. New York: Macmillan 1901.<br/> <br/> Macmillan unknown
190912255New York: Grosset & Dunlap. As New. 1909. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Illustrated. -- with a bonus offer-- . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1902213222New York: The Macmillan Company 1902. Later printing. Illustrated. xiii 433 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf with A.L.S. tipped in publisher's advertising folder tipped to verso of frontispiece. With Robb's bookplate on front pastedown and label on back pastedown. Recased. Later printing. Illustrated. xiii 433 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Riis has inscribed the flyleaf: "Ellis D. Robb with the hearty regard of Jacob A. Riis"<br /> Additionally there is an autograph letter on Macmillan Co. stationery dated Dec. 4 1902 addressed to Ellis Robb mayor of Eldora Iowa thanking him and discussing an upcoming lecture tour that would be bringing him to the Midwest. The Macmillan Company unknown
190116651New York:: Macmillan 1901. First edition. original decorated cloth. Old ink name and date at head of title; weak at the gutter after the first gathering but still sound; light wear to the cloth. 8vo. Macmillan, hardcover
19972-0281050430SPCK Publishing 1997. Paperback. New. 352 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.80 inches. SPCK Publishing paperback
1975Q-091288214XSleepy Hollow Press 1975-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Sleepy Hollow Press hardcover
1975006377Sleepy Hollow Press. DJ in archival cover. Stated first pprinting. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975. Sleepy Hollow Press hardcover
1978G0816403813I3N01Seabury Pr 1978. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Seabury Pr hardcover
1958032875Glenco IL: Free Press 1958. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 462pp. Black Cloth silver lettering. Offsetting to the endpapersotherwise a near fine unmarked copy. Unclipped green jacket has creasing minor loss to the spine edges. in mylar sleeve. Some of the most noteworthy of Jacob Viner'd original and highly stimulating contributions to economic literature have been collected in this volume. These are writings that have won for him his preeminent place among authorities in the areas of economic theory history of economic thought and economic policy. Size: Octavo. Free Press Hardcover
1974S8615London:: Allen Lane 1974. 1974. First edition in English. 8vo. viii 348 pp. Index. Maroon cloth dust-jacket; jacket extremities a bit worn else fine. Allen Lane, (1974). hardcover books
1973S6772New York:: Pantheon Books 1973. 1973. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. viii 348 pp. Index. Gray cloth dust-jacket. Fine. Pantheon Books, (1973). hardcover books
1973BL3754New York:: Pantheon Books 1973. 1973. Sm. 8vo. viii 348 pp. Index. Cloth dust-jacket; jacket edge torn. Francois Jacob 17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013 was a French biologist who together with Jacques Monod originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and Andre Lwoff. – obituary: Nature Volume: 497 Page: 440 23 May 2013. ISBN: 0394472462 Pantheon Books, (1973). hardcover books
1974HVD-35330-A-0New York NY: Pantheon Books. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. 348 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Otherwise in Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages.; - Were committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . Pantheon Books hardcover
198913340London: Penguin Books / Peregrine Book 1989. First Combined paperback Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Combined paperback Edition. Original Wraps. Underlined and annotations by Oliver Sacks on p.41. Dr. Sacks often wrote conversations with the author and reactions in the margins. Signed on the front endpapers "Oliver Sacks "re-read 11/05."<br /> From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Light shelfwear even toning/sunning else tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial wrappers. 8vo. 430pp.Index. All underlining emphasis and notations are in the hand of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Signed by Oliver Sacks. Penguin Books / Peregrine Book unknown
1974Q-0394472462Pantheon Books 1974-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pantheon Books hardcover
