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Neighbors : life stories of the other half by Jacob A. Riis
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HV4046.N6 R6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- ix, [1], 209, [9] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Macmillan Company, 1914.
- Contents:
- The answer of Ludlow Street
- Kin
- The wars of the Rileys
- Life's best gift
- Driven from home
- The problem from the widow Salvini
- Peter
- Kate's choice
- The mother's heaven
- Where he found his neighbor
- What the snowflake told
- The city's heart
- Chips from the maelstrom
- Heartsease
- His Christmas gift
- Our roof garden among the tenements
- The snow babies' Christmas
- As told by the rabbi
- The strand from above.
- Notes:
- Verso of t.p.: Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co., Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
- Errors in imposition in gathering G: text is discontinuous and incomplete between p. 70 and 87.
- Frontispiece and plates facing p. 9, 64, 80, 95 and 153 signed by W.T. Benda.
- OSU's copy 1 with library binding: lacking t.p., table of contents and preface.
- Advertisements on p. [6]-[9] at end.
- Verso of t.p.: Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914.
- "The works of Jacob A. Riis": p. [4]-[5] at end.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- OCLC:
- 264053
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