Betts lillian w (8 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest* FAST SHIPPING!! Clean text, no markings, tight binding.

First edition; 8vo. cloth covered boards with pictorial label; 315 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; life in a tenement house; lightly edgeworn covers with two white spots on back cover; internally a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.…

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hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). First. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 315 pages. 8vo, decoratively stamped black cloth with inlaid illustration. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1902. Ownership signature on title page, otherwise internally clean and tight. A very good(+) copy.

First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, with designs stamped in gilt, white, and green; 342pp. Slight wear to cloth, with a few scratches and spots of soil to cover, but still a well-preserved copy, with pictorial elements bright and clean; Very Good. Neat ink gift inscription to front endpaper, dated Christmas, 1904. A stark yet sentimental tale of working-class tenement life in lower Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century. Betts (d.1924) was a pioneering social worker, organizer, and journalist whose work generally focused on the poor immigrant communities of Manhattan and Brooklyn. She was for many years the Home Editor for the progressive weekly magazine The Outlook. HANNA 340.…

First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth, stamped in colors with gilt spine titles; 315pp; frontispiece and 35 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Square and tight with a trace of rubbing at board corners; Near Fine. Unusually nice copy of this richly-illustrated survey of New York slums, with much on the history of welfare and housing reform in the city. Though described by one later 20th-century critic as a "condescending do-gooder tract of generally Progressive sentiment" (see David M. Fine, "Abraham Cahan, Stephen Crane and the romantic tenement tale of the nineties" in American Studies v.14, no. 1, Spring 1973), Betts' work is a useful record of late-Victorian attitudes towards immigrant labor, housing, and cultural assimilation. Lillian Williams Betts (dates uncertain) was a prominent writer on social welfare issues, and long-time Home Editor for The Outlook. [61473].…