A Ten Years' War: an Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
by Riis, Jacob A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Boston New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo. iv + 267 pp, previous owner's name rubber stamp on ffep, 8 chapters. 12 b&w photos, 5" x 7.75" brown cloth boards, gilt titles to fr cover and spine & top edge. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. Clothh shows light wear at the corners. .
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009523
- Title
- A Ten Years' War: an Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
- Author
- Riis, Jacob A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Keywords
- new york city - urban dwellers - tenants - late 19th 20th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- SOCIOLOGY; U. S. HISTORY;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- First Edition
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- FFEP
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
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