Jacob Riis Revisited: Poverty and the Slum in Another Era de Riis, Jacob; Francesco Cordasco - 1968

Garden City, NY: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1968. Paperback. First edition, paperback original, first printing. Good with light rubbing to the edges, light shelf wear/soiling, a crease to one corner of the front, and a crease to the spine; binding square and solid; interior bright and clean. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Jacob Riis was a reporter and photographer in NYC at the end of the 19th century who wrote extensively on the poverty and living conditions of the slums of the Lower East Side. This volume presents excerpts from three of his books: How the Other Half Lives (1890), The Children of the Poor (1892), and A Ten Years' War (1900.) Edited with an introduction by Francesco Cordasco. xxii + 418 pages; 16 b&w plates; 4 x 7 inches. List of plates, bibliographical notes.