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New York, 1898. Unbound. Fine. New York, 1898 Fine 2-page handwritten, signed letter from Jacob A Riis to Mr Clarke, on 6"x9" Mulberry Street letterhead, in which he conveys the following: "Gov Roosevelt writes to me from Oyster Bay 'I wish I could accept, but it is an absolute impossibility I cannot do it' " Riis goes on to explain that the Governor had 200 urgent invitations to speak and "the mere labor of declining, as he had to, was enormous" The remainder of the letter references the Clarkes, a meeting, and New Haven (Ct) as Riis writes "perhaps 'the little dollar' that forms the stories in my new book 'Out of Mulberry Street' came from New Haven." Theodore Roosevelt was New York City Police Commissioner when Riis wrote his landmark "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890, and would accompany Riis on investigations into the slum conditions in New York tenements and streets of the lower east side Roosevelt instituted… Leer más

Richmond Hill NY, 1904. No Binding. Very Good. Richmond Hill NY, 1904 Very Good 2 page (front and back) handwritten, signed letter on 6"x85" Beech Street, Richmond Hill, Queens NY letterhead The letter is attached with tape along the left edge to a 9x11" card on which is a photograph of Riis, and handwritten note "Jacob Riis, the great friend of Pres Roosevelt" The letter is clean with mailing folds; 1 or 2 letters at the edge of the reverse side are hidden behind the tape Riis writes to Miss Dertz, thanks her for "kind words" writing "the book was written out of my heart, that is why it appeals to yours Your verses are so beautiful that I am sendng them this morning to Mrs Roosevelt to treasure among the memories that must make their White House stay forever dear to them in spite of the other side of human nature one sees so much of these" Undoubtedly, Riis refers to his book "Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen" published in 1904 Riis and… Leer más

New York, N.Y.: Dolph & Stewart, 1942. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 72 pages. 15"x11". Heavy paper wraps in metal spiral binding; front cover illustrated with photograph of the Taconic Parkway. Overall moderate wear to wraps, lower 2" of front cover detached from spirals, small tear to corner of front cover, mostly small bends to corners and text pages,, old staining to covers and lower edges of first 20 pages, text block intact, clean, map colors bright, binding secure. Comprehensive presentation of Westchester "the richest and most beautiful County in the world" (page 2) as it was circa 1940, with 12 full page color annotated maps, many photographs of residential buildings, schools, private homes, parks, historic sites,roads, advertising material, indices and more.

New York: New York Book Company, 1870. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 650pp. 42 plates of engravings. illus. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Hinges broken, front end paper missing, old masking tape connecting front paste down and frontispiece verso, mostly mild/ some moderate foxing to interior, light wear to board edges and spine ends, spine mildly cocked. This is an apparent reissue with a twist of original title by the publisher of the 1869 Women of New York or the Under-world of a Great City by Ellington - a pseudonym according to OCLC, possibly for James Dabney McCabe in the opinion of one scholar (citation on request). The contents: Women of Fashion, Women of Pleasure, Married Women, Wicked Women, Female Artistes, Life in a Female Seminary, Other Women, Female institutions. The last paragraph of the preface sums up the book's general premise: " There are doubtless many true and noble women among the fashion and… Leer más

New York: International Publishers, 1936. First Thus . Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good +. 895 pp. glossary of transliterated vocabulary. Blue cloth with red spine titles. Undated, but published one year after first English edition and printed in the U.S.S.R. Spotting to covers, spine cloth sunned, spine ends frayed, prior owner's name on front pastedown, rear hinge cracked, interior clean. "Industrial Novel" revolving around an irrigation canal construction project in Tadzhikistan, and the forces of nature, politics and class struggle that pose threats to the project's completion.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, Inc., 1903. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 190 pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1903 to previous owner. Spine ends a bit soft, unobtrusive pencil marginalia on a few pages, rear endpapers mildly foxed. Contains 25 plates of photographs taken by Riis of New York's lower east side tenements, conditions of which Riis decried and sought to reform. A nice copy of a quite scarce title..

Bergenfeld, NJ: Avotaynu Inc., 2002. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 704 pp. illustrated. Illustrated paper over boards. Small area of shelf soil to lower text edge, one board corner mildly bumped, otherwise clean, bright, tight with few signs of wear. Gazetteer with unique features, alphabetical listing of towns, organized by longitude/latitude. Also alternate names, Jewish population, soundex search. Maps of the Pale of Settlement, Central and Eastern Europe before and after WW I, between the Wars, after WWII and today.

New York: Trustees of the State Library, 1856. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 987 pp. Index. Cloth and leather covered boards. Leather spine and corners with gilt titles, raised bands on spine. Edgewear to binding extremities, some discoloration to front cloth cover. Front pastedown has a handwritten presentation label from the Trustees to the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, as well as a Theological Seminary Library label. Interior . Interior age-darkened but clean, binding square and tight.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 267 pp. Green grained cloth binding with gilt lettering. Spine ends a bit shelf worn, prior owner's name on second free endpaper, small old bookstore label at bottom of rear pastedown. Binding, text block and photographic plates all tight and clean. Frontispiece of Colonel George E. Waring Jr. Riis's "account of the battle with the slum in New York" includes essays on tenement house blight, and the genesis of gangs.

London; New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page, 1919. A Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Arthur Rackham. 136 pp. 10"x7.5" Illustrated. UK edition. Blue illustrated cloth over boards. Illustrated endpapers. Slight curvature to boards, board edges mild to moderately worn, lower board corners bumped, spine cloth starting to separate at upper rear but still securely attached, faint stain and mark to front board, spine square, joints secure, all 15 color illustrated tipped in plates present with their annotated guards, interior text pages mildly age toned. "...the story of the Knight Huldbrand and of Ringstetten and of Undine, telling how the Knight wedded with a water-sprite, and what chanced therefrom: and how the Knight died and was buried: and how Undine returned to her element beneath the Mediterranean Sea.

New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co. , 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark green and pebbled black cloth over boards with gilt titles. Historical index; illustrated with full page duotone photographic portraits. Light wear to spine ends, corners rubbed and bumped, a few white spots on rear cover, uniformly age toned interior, binding secure, spine square. Biographies of Bronx notables.

New York: Dos Idishe Bukh, 1917. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 319 pp. Illustrated. 10.5"x 7". Rust pebbled cloth over boards, gilt titles and decoration. Second Improved Edition. Hinges broken with closed tears to rear hinge paper but covers securely attached, corners rubbed and bumped, small spot on front cover, prior owner's name stamps on end papers, corner tip bends to a few pages, clean, isolated foxing, spine square. Yiddish text. Illustrated with linocut frontispiece and throughout with line drawings featuring portraits of poets.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1889. 1st Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 768 pp. Cloth and leather over boards. Red speckled text edges. Closed 3" tear to leather at upper joint, wear to board edges, cloth, and leather with small piece of material loss at head of spine. Clean interior, binding secure, spine square. Contains the first published appearance including illustrations of a section of Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives" one year prior to the book's publication in 1890.

New York, 1922. No Binding. Very Good. One page on 85"x11" Settlement letterhead with 2 attached small broadsides Handwritten notation beneath date, presumably by recipient: "ans'd 10/11" Mailing folds, mild creasing, one edge sunned Mrs Riis, President of the Settlement, writes to Mr Reid requesting financial contribution, stating "after my husband's death the burden of financing the Settlement was so great that we considered giving the house over to the YMCA" She goes on to say that she actually lived in the Settlement before deciding to "carry on our work" of 25 years, and writes that the Settlement needs $30,000 annually "It is up-hill work but we are making a mighty effort" The Settlement was located at 48 Henry Street in the Lower East Side of New York City It remained there until 1950 when it moved to Queens where it continues to serve youth, the elderly and immigrants Mary Riis' involvement continued until her own death in… Leer más

Ardsley New York, 1976. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. D. Paolucci. Unpaginated, illustrated. 4to. 11x9 x.75 in. Red and ivory illustrated cloth over boards. Compilation of all three volumes published in 1968, 1971, and 1976 respectively bound together in hardcover on occasion of bicentennial. Contains detailed history, photographs, early maps, bios, clubs, schools, churches, personal anecdotes and essays, etc. Laid in are facsimiles of a 17 x 14 inch early map of Ardsley and surrounding areas, and a newspaper article of 1914 on the fire that devastated the village. The book is clean and tight. The separate map has some staining not affecting printed area.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Felix O.C. Darley Engraved By Eminent Artists. 454 pp. Illustrated. Brown leather, bright gilt decorated edges, marble pattern colored endpapers, 16 engraved illustrations including frontis and fold out lithographed plate from a drawing by William Heath depicting "Peter Stuyvesant's Army Entering New Amsterdam;" Tissue guards present on all full plate illustrations; attached green ribbon place holder. Spine cloth faded, rubbed, spine titles rubbed but legible, rubbing and wear to extremities of front and rear boards; front gilt decoration bright; hinges show signs of weakening but are still secure; no loose pages; text and plates clean with minor foxing in isolated spots. Old signature of previous owner on f.e.p. and title page. "Containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable pondersings of Walter the Doubter, the disasterous projects of William the Testy,… Leer más

South Africa: Purfleet Publications, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 162 pp. References. Glossary. Dust jacket clean and bright with minor edge wear and yellowing to flaps. White cloth boards darkened at outer edges, corners mildly bumped, binding tight, text clean. Contains fold-out chart: Ancient and Modern Structure of Hindu Society.

Albany NY: Geo. C. Riggs, 1883. 1st Edition . Disbound. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 759 pp index, illustrated. Volume II only of 2-vol set Lacks covers and spine (complete solid text block with spine remnants only) Preliminary leaves chipped, worn, creased, brown-stained, last few pages browned, edges torn, nearly detached, first end paper has large open tear with pencil notation "Mrs Dewitt C, fo?1888" remainder of writing torn away Scattered foxing, corner bends to first 80 pages, age toned interior Several full-page and many small illustrations including printed engravings, maps.

Monroe, NY: Privately Printed, 1956. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 320 pp + 67pp index of names, illustrated. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). Original light blue wrappers with illustration of the Church on front cover. Chips to cover edges, transparent tape all along spine holding covers and spine together, closed tears to spine paper, label and blind stamp of prior owner to half-title pages, interior agetoned, mostly clean interior save for a few neatly made pencil and ink notations. Thorough treatment of the Church's history with wealth of genealogical information on officers, members in 1951, list of baptisms, marriages, Honor Roll WWI, trustees, Centennial year 1876 records, and more. A number of full-page reproduced photographs show church ministers, children, church itself. Some pages are bound in upside-down.

New York: Coalition of Publishers for Employment, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Al Hirschfeld -SIGNED. 31 pp. illustrated. 8vo. Illustrated cloth covered boards. Light soiling to cloth, a couple of tiny brown spots to text edge and rear board verso. Insribed in 1996 by Wilk to prior owners, and signed by Hirschfeld 5/18/1985 on title page. Humorous biographical sketches and notes on S. (Sidney) J. Perelman (1904-1979), author, humorist and screenwriter whose credits include Marx Brothers films, Around the World in 80 Days, numerous books, and the New Yorker Magazine. Both Wilk, who died in 2011 and Hirschfeld (1903-2003) were good friends with Perelman.