Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 402

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JACOB RIIS.
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.
Riis' seminal title, and a very early use of photographic reproductions, with 43 illustrations (complete), many of which are reproductions of Riis' photographs. 8vo, original gilt-lettered blue-backed illustrated boards, worn; some faint, scattered marginalia, in pencil. Parr/Badger I 53; Hasselblad 46. FIRST EDITION.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890