‎BUCKLEY CHRISTOPHER‎
‎OTHER LIVES‎

‎How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among the Tenemants of New York. With Illustrations chiefly from Photographs taken by the Author. - [INITIATING SOCIAL REFORM]‎

‎New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Lex 8vo. Original blue full clothWith title in blue to front board and blue and gilt lettering to spine. Spine and parts of boards lightly brownspotted. A bit of wear to capitaks and corners. But overall a very nice copy of this fairly fragile and delicate cloth binding (there is an original variant binding with cloth spine and illustrated boards, but no precidency between the bindings has been established). Internally very nice and clean. XV, (1), 304 pp. Wih numerous illustrations, most of them photographic.‎

‎First edition of this landmark work on the miserable living conditions of the poor immigrants in New York, constituting one of the very earliest - and certainly the most popular and influential - attempts at making ""the other half"", i.e. the middle and upper classes, aware of how the poor in New York actually lived. Riis's work created attention to the neglected and overseen community that was the underprivileged in New York. In the long run, the great success of the work created attention to the status, living conditions and general health of the poor, and it initiated social reform movements in all major North American cities. Furthermore, the work is regarded the very first example of ""muckraking"" journalism and was the first to extensively use halftone photographic reproductions in a book.Riis used a convincing combination of facts from Dr. Roger S. Tracy, Registrar of Vital Statistics, and his own talents as a photo journalist to make a hitherto unseen powerful description of the correlation between the high crime rate, drunkenness and reckless behavior of the poor and their lack of proper homes. The statistical facts made it a relevant and sober work and lent it enough authority to the book's claims for it to be taken serious by city official. His groundbreaking photographs confirmed the dry numbers and ""spoke directly to people's hearts"". (Pascal, ""Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer"", p. 87). Unlike all previously works on the living conditions of the poor, ""How the Other Half Lives"" offered concrete solutions on how to improve living condition, how to make the tenants improve their buildings, and finally how the politicians and city officials could make the appropriate and necessary juridical changes.The effect of the work was immediately seen and included: the tearing down of New York's worst tenements, sweatshops, and the reformation of the city's schools. The book led to a decade of improvements in Lower East Side conditions, with garbage collection, sewers, and indoor plumbing all following soon after. Because of the present work, Riis quickly rose to fame and in 1895 he became close friends with Theodore Roosevelt, then a New York City official, who wrote of Riis: ""Jacob Riis, whom I am tempted to call the best American I ever knew, although he was already a young man when he came hither from Denmark"". After Roosevelt became President, he wrote a tribute to Riis that started: ""Recently a man, well qualified to pass judgment, alluded to Mr. Jacob A. Riis as ""the most useful citizen of New York"". Those fellow citizens of Mr. Riis who best know his work will be most apt to agree with this statement. The countless evils which lurk in the dark corners of our civic institutions, which stalk abroad in the slums, and have their permanent abode in the crowded tenement houses, have met in Mr. Riis the most formidable opponent ever encountered by them in New York City.""The title refers to the French writer François Rabelais, who famously wrote in Pantagruel: ""one half of the world does not know how the other half lives"". As a work of journalism and of social criticism, Riis's book still stands as a truly seminal testimony to how the lower classes lived at the turn of the century. Due to this work, attention was eventually paid to them and their conditions bettered.‎

‎Tables for Renewing and Purchasing of Leases. As also for Renewing and Purchasing of Lives. With other Necessary Tables for Computing of Interest, either Simple or Compound + Tables of Simple Interest, Exactly Computed For 1 to 12 Months, and For 1 Da... - [AGE-RELATED RENT AND LEASING]‎

‎London, J. Brotherton, 1735. 12mo. Bound in one beautiful contemporary full mottled calf binding with four raised bands and red title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Single gilt line-border to boards, inside which a lovely blindstamped ornamental border to one side. All edges of boards with blindstamped ornamentations. P. 1 has a contemporary neat inscription reading: ""Exam.d Morris"" - in the author's own hand? Macclesfield copy, with the armorial bookplate of Earls of Macclesfield to pasted down front end-paper and Shirburn Castle (seat of the Earls of Macclesfield) armorial blindstamp to first four leaves Ex-libris. A lovely, clean, and crisp copy. IV, 48 + (2), 92 pp.‎

‎Exceedingly scarce first edition of Morris' book of tables for renewing and purchasing leases in relation to age, being the most accurate and comprehensive list of tables published at the time. The work was considered controversial due to the proposed fall in rent in relation to age, which was seen as a discrimination against young people"" a concept which today has been implemented in virtually all aspects of banking and insurance. ""As late as 1735, Gael Morris, a writer of commercial manuals on annuities and leases, explained that annuities could frequently be purchased cheaper on lives aged between 30 and 40 than on lives under 25 because 'the Hazards of Persons between 15 and 25 are so many' - a conclusion making some intuitive sense but strictly at odds with the lessons taught by Halley's table. There seems to have existed, in short, a deep reluctance to embrace the discovery that the value of annuities and land leases made for the duration of a life (or lives) varied predictably with the age(s) of the lessee(s)."" (Clark, Betting On Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775, p. 116).Gael Morris worked as a mathematician and astronomer and was the assistant of British astronomer James Bradley for several years, where he helped to compute tables of planetary orbits.The work is of the utmost scarcity, with only five copies listed on OCLC (two in the US) and merely one copy listed at auction within the last 40 years (being this copy). Goldsmith: 7269.Hanson: 4767Macclesfield: 1455‎

‎The Lives of Saints are compiled from the Four Mines and other books by Sophia D‎

‎The Lives of Saints are compiled from the Four Mines and other books by Sophia Destunis with 480 images of saints and the holidays of academician F.G. Solntsev. January June July. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Zhitiya Svyatykh sostavleny po Chet-Mineyam i drugim knigam Sofiey Destunis s 480-yu izobrazhniya svyatykh i prazdnikov akademika F.G. Solntseva.Yanvar iyun iyul.St. Petersburg. Edition 3 of the bookseller I.L.Tuzov 1904. 222 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbc629e5e7534deea4‎

‎SOHO - SILVIA SUCKS !, A SAINT SHE AIN'T, natasha one fit curly girlie, response stiff words, paige & alexis can't keep their hands off each other, exposure, get into the lives of our wives....- TEXTE EXCLUSIVEMENT EN ANGLAIS‎

‎PAUL RAYMOND PUBLICATIONS LTD. NON DATE. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 99 pages - nombreuses illustrations et photos en couleurs dans et hors texte - 1 annotation sur le 1er plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues‎

‎TEXTE EXCLUSIVEMENT EN ANGLAIS - Sommaire: natasha one fit curly girlie, response stiff words, paige & alexis can't keep their hands off each other, exposure, get into the lives of our wives.... Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues‎

‎HOW THE OTHER MAN LIVES‎

‎Odhams Press Ltd. 1949. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 319 pages. Photo en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Texte sur 2 coolonnes.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎An illustrated account of the daily lives of 28 British men and women engaged in diverse occupations. Farmer. Coal-miner. Cotton Spinner. Drifterman. Merchant Navy Captain. Diver. Lighthouse Keeper. Airline Pilot. Engine-Driver. Taxi-Driver. Country Postman. Fireman. Village Constable. Detective. Barrister. King's Messenger. Crime Reporter... Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎