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Seller Description: Fair. Uneven sunning to boards and spine. 1.5-2.5 inch piece clipped out of head of front endpaper. A worn but charming, sturdy, reading copy. From Macmillan's "Modern Reader Series". A classic of the "American experience", by one of the most influential social journalists of the times. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. First Edition, 6th Printing (1964). Published by The Macmillan Company, 1929. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with endpapers professionally replaced. Dust jacket is very good with left flap reinforced, sticker residue on bottom of spine and light shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books ... See More Details

Seller Description: COLLECTIBLE-FAIR. No Jacket. Book New York The MacMillan Co [1927] Pp.284, 1927 Hard Cover. Very Good/ [VG] 1927 PRINTING. Hard Cover. COLLECTIBLE-FAIR/No Jacket. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good+ in boards. Beginning signs of wear on crown and heel of spine.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. See More Details

Seller Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. ex school library book-title page loose in book. xvi, 443 p. illus., plates, ports. 19 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits, Plates. New ed. with numerous illustrations and an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. "The papers which form this autobiography were originally published in The Outlook, the chapter telling of my going 'home to mother' in The Churchman, and parts of one or two others in The Century Magazine."--p. [vii] See More Details

Seller Description: Good+ No Jacket. Front hinge starting. Boards mildly rubbed. Otherwise a clean and sound copy. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. New. Very good. See More Details

Seller Description: xvi, [2], 443, [1]p., frontispiece, illustrations, decorated cloth covered boards. Former owner's autograph. Dust jacket price clipped, chipped around edges, spine sun faded, paper has softened slightly. Good. First published in 1901. See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. The New Edition. Deep green embossed cloth with blue design on front and gilt titles on front and spine. Green topstain. Bright and crisp. Lovely designed end pages. Front hinge starting. Internally Fine. In archival cover. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. Later edition. Very good with tidemarks on the boards. Lacking the dust jacket. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good+ in boards. Some fading to spine. Some markings to back panel.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. See More Details

Seller Description: Fair. Heavy wear to cover. Name on flyleaf. No markings on text or plates. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri. See More Details

Seller Description: As New. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION--Illustrated. --with a bonus offer-- See More Details

Seller Description: Very good. Octavo; pp. xiii, (1), 443, (ii), ads; Illustrated, frontispiece portrait plus eighty-three black and white plates; decorated blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; three small gouges on rear board else very good. Riis and TR became friends during the period when Riis the reformer met Roosevelt as Police Commissioner. Riis often joined TR on his evening inspection rounds throughout New York City. See More Details

Seller Description: Fair. Octavo, 443pp., illustrated. A worn copy in fair condition, with the inner hinges cracked and corners worn, but internally clean. A singificant association copy, SIGNED by Riis on the front free endpaper and INSCRIBED to Danish-American pianist and interpreter of Scandinavian music Inga Hoegsbro Christensen (before she took her married name): "Inga Hoegsbro from her friend Jacob A Riis." Laid-in are two postcards from Riis to Hoegsbro, one dated in December 1913, and another whose date ... See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Textured blue cloth, gilt design and lettering, deckled fore-edge, gilt top. Modestly rubbed extremities, minimal fraying at lower spine. Gilt decoration remains bright. 8th ptg. overall: Oct. 1902. Clean interior. Former owner signature on front flyleaf. Original illustrated edition of an influential autobiography by the documentarian and socially conscious photographer of "How the Other Half Lives." Notably well preserved copy. See More Details

Seller Description: VERY GOOD+. SLIGHT WEAR TO SPINE ENDS AND CORNERS. BRIGHT GILT LETTERING AND DESIGN, MINOR WEAR TO DEPP BLUE CLOTH BOARDS, BINDING TIGHT, INTERIOR CLEAN. See More Details

Seller Description: Poor. Hardcover 1902 edition, 6th printing published by Macmillan in blue cloth with gold gilt lettering and etching of a wreathed eagle on front board and gold olive branches and stars on spine. Former owners bookplate and stamps are on the end papers. The pages are loose through the title page. The covers show heavy wear. The binding is very weak and the front hinge is cracked at the title page. Rear hinge cracked as well. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully ... See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Great condition considering publication date. Cover and edges are worn. Binding is loose but attached. Front free end paper has previous owner's signature. Pages are clean and unmarked. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good in boards. Slight lean to spine.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. Seventh Printing. Deep blue embossed cloth with bright gilt design and titles on front and spine. Bright gilt topstain. Unciut page edges. Bright and crisp. Edge rubs. Gift inscription from 1902 on ffep. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book Solid, attractive first edition. Dark blue ribbed cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Quite clean, no fading. Small spots of wear at spine corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Some pages have light foxing-no names, writing or bookplates. Gilt top edges. Frontispiece portrait of Riis with tissue guard. Many illustrations throughout. 443 pages. Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very good(-) Illus. 443pp. 8vo, blue cloth, edges of corners very lightly worn, cloth lightly soiled, spine ends rubbed. New York: Macmillan, 1901. See More Details

Seller Description: Old ink name and date at head of title; weak at the gutter after the first gathering (but still sound); light wear to the cloth. xiii, 443 [2, ads] pp. 8vo, See More Details