Dec 12, 2013 - Sale 2335

Sale 2335 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
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, very lightly worn at the edges; text block just slightly tender, but overall very good. Parr/Badger I 53; Hasselblad 46. first edition.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890