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The battle with the slum / by Jacob A. Riis ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tenement houses--United States--New York (State)--New York.
- Tenement houses.
- Slums.
- United States.
- New York (State).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Social conditions.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Poor--New York (State)--New York.
- Poor.
- Slums--New York (State)--New York.
- Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1902.
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1902.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 465 pages including illustrations, plates. : frontispiece (portrait) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1902.
- Notes:
- "The battle with the slum" is properly the sequel to "How the other half lives." Based upon the author's earlier work, A ten years' war "retaining all that still applied of the old volume" with the addition of much new matter. cf. Pref.
- Sequel to Riis' How the other half lives.
- "Set up and electrotyped October, 1902. Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co. Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A."--T.p. verso.
- Sixteen plates included in pagination. Caption for portrait frontispiece of Theodore Roosevelt printed on tissue guard. Plates and ill. signed variously: W.H. Drake; Thomas Fogarty; Jay Hambidge.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy wanting title page.
- Athenaeum copy: Navy cloth binding; gilt cover and spine titles, signed "W S", probably for William Starkweather.
- OCLC:
- 981891
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