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Easton Press - How The Other Half Lives - Limited Edition Book - $169 (Sherman Oaks)
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This book is brand new … sealed in original shrink wrap. In slipcase. This book is Out of Print and no longer available.
Asking $169 obo
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How The Other Half Lives
Limited Edition
Featuring all the original vintage photographs from the landmark 1890 first edition. This pioneering work of photojournalism, first published in 1890, documented the squalid living conditions of New York City slums for over one million immigrants. The unforgettable images in this exclusive leather-bound edition helped launch a new era of reform that gave hope to millions.
Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "the most useful citizen of New York".
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Product Features
• 5 1/4" X 8”, 320pp
Features include: Fully bound in genuine leather. 22kt gold deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine. Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper that lasts for generations. Sewn pages — not just glued like ordinary books. Satin-ribbon page marker. Gilded page ends. Bound in the USA. Imported materials. Rigorous inspection at every stage ensures adherence to our exacting standards. Superb craftsmanship and commitment to quality.
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Description: Recreation of the 1890 first edition and limited to a small run through Easton Press. A tale of the American Experience as some of our ancestors arrived at what was the first stop in this country (New York). A tale of our growing country in the second century of our independence and the challenges of the industrial revolution. Most of all however, a tale of burgeoning social inequality and living conditions in our greatest city New York. This work by Jacob Riis sparked an outcry of public conscience and a decade of public and private works to improve living conditions for Poorer inhabitants of New York's lower east side. Likely it also affected other large cities. It also preceded the significant social improvements sparked by the disparity of the gilded age and upheaval of 1920s. It described not only the living conditions among the tenements of New York slums, but of the sweat shops that paid barely a pittance per day. Now obviously compared to some of my other books, the point of this one is not to provide beautiful pictures and drawings, but rather a record of some of these tenements, work houses, and neighborhoods. Like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the greatness and significance of this book is its literary accomplishment and historical impact. Then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "The most useful citizen of New York".