Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 202

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
RIIS, JACOB.
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, slightly worn. Parr/Badger I 53; Hasselblad 46. first edition.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890