The Tenement House Problem. Including the Report of the New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900 by various writers
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United KingdomLycanthia Rare Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 400.00
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First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. The foundational document of American housing reform. Lawrence Veiller (1872–1959), working through the Charity Organization Society, mounted a Tenement House Exhibition in 1900 - over a thousand photographs, maps, charts and a vast cardboard model of a Lower East Side block, seen by ten thousand visitors - which secured the support of Governor Theodore Roosevelt and led to the creation of a state Tenement House Commission with Robert W. de Forest (1848–1931) as chairman and Veiller as secretary. Veiller did most of the work; the resulting investigation ran to nearly a thousand pages and produced the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901, which set standards for ventilation, sanitation, fire safety and occupancy limits in multi-family dwellings and became the model for comparable legislation across the country. The work sits directly alongside Riis's How the Other Half Lives as a primary source for Progressive Era social conditions, and is the more substantial of the two documentarily, though far less often seen in commerce as a set. Bookplate and ink name to front endpapers, minor toning to text-blocks;minor rubbing to extremities. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Tenement House Problem. Including the Report of the New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900 by various writers
- Author
- DeForest (Robert W.) and Lawrence Veiller, editors.
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1903
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- No jacket
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Frontispieces, illustrations, plates, a portrait, maps including one folding, plans, folding tables and a folding chart.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Non-Fiction
Lycanthia Rare Books
Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
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Lycanthia Rare Books are dealers in modern first editions and children's books, with a specialist interest in the popular areas of genre fiction including weird & supernatural and detective fiction. If you are looking for particular book titles or authors not listed here currently, we can help you locate them. Our team has many years’ experience, both as rare book collectors and sellers, and can help you track down even the most elusive titles. Our specialities are modern first editions and children’s books, with a focus on genre literature, but we do buy & sell across a broad range of subjects, periods and price-ranges. We are always looking to buy first or other significant editions of English & American literature, for both adults & children. We focus on the Weird & Supernatural, Horror & Gothic, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Detective Fiction genres of modern literature, but are happy to consider any books you may have that you are wishing to sell, and can assist if you are also looking to “upgrade” existing titles in your collection.…
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