May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
RIIS, JACOB.
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.

Riis's seminal title, and a very early use of photographic reproductions, with 43 illustrations (complete), many of which are reproductions of Riis's photographs. 8vo, original gilt-lettered blue-backed illustrated boards, slightly darkened, rubbed and worn; scattered early pages slightly tender and with a stamp on the front free endpaper, however overall the binding is tight, and internally the volume quite clean. Parr/Badger I 53; Hasselblad 46. first edition.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890