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The Battle with the Slum |
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[First Ed.] Jacob A. Riis |
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New York |
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The Macmillan Co. |
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1902 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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First edition. 465 pp., illus., 15x21cm. Some Rubbing to binding. Slight staining to back leaf and inside cover. Otherwise in good condition |
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Battle with the Slum reveal through Riis’s sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City. Splendid sequel to author's 1902 classic, How the Other Half Lives and updates us on the advances made in the shameful life in the slums in the early part of the century. |
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