signed first edition Hardcover
1902 · New York
by (ROOSEVELT, Theodore) RIIS, Jacob A
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear to covers. Near Fine. Second Printing, in publisher's original decorated blue cloth. Illustrated. This copy is SIGNED "with the best wishes of/Theodore Roosevelt/Dec 1906." Jacob Riis, a significant contributor to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century, was among the most dedicated advocates for America's oppressed and downtrodden. He arrived in New York from his native Denmark at the age of 21 in 1870. A pioneer in photojournalism, Riis photographed and wrote about the slums and tenements of a New York in the dawn of a (truncated)