Slum, Signed (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. minor shelf wear, xiii + 222 pages, story of who cleaned up the neighborhood after the Hough riots in Cleveland in the 1960's written and signed by her first cousin and godson, some bw photos Size: 6 x 9. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 272 pages including index. Inscribed and signed by the author of half title page and dated 5/2/60. There are no other marks or writing in the book. Light moisture residue bottom corner back cover. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Light fading on the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. Signed by both coauthors on the title page: "Kennedy Odede / Jessica Posner." A previous owner's initials on the bottom page edges, else unmarked; spine slant; one corner and spine ends bumped; a dampstain to the top page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $27.99); edgewear at spine ends and corners; a faint stain to the top of the spine; Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Red cloth with black lettering on spine. Some sunning on extremities and spine; otherwise, almost no wear. Square and securely bound. Jacket has an area of loss (quarter-sized) at bottom of spine along with other light edge, corner and surface wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; Palmer's story of his fight for urban renewal in Atlanta and other cities, for which he was dubbed a Socialist and a Communist. (The more things change, etc. ) Inscribed on the half title to J. Roy McGinty, editor of the Calhoun (GA) Times and a frined of Palmer. M cGinty has an entry in The Dictionary of Georgia Biography from UGA Press. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, 8vo, 144pp, gift inscription from the author on endpaper, text clean and sound, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 083640694X. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 324 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Fine/NF. 1st/First Edition, 1st/First Printing. Flat signed by both co-authors to title page. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. Signed by the author. Pages clean and tight. Dj has one tear near upper spine.Hardcover. Signed by Author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good+ hardcover in good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by author on front end page. First edition (NAP). Bind is sturdy and intact, text is clean throughout. Light shelfwear to boards. Shelfwear, some small chips to edges of dust jacket, light sunning to spine. DJ is mylar wrapped and unclipped. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Inscribed by Palmer on half title page. A near fine copy in a a very good DJ that has some light edgewear and foxing, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #143. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is a UK first edition hardcover published by Brazen in 2024 AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR DIRECT TO THE TITLE PAGE. The jacket is Very Fine and unclipped with the price of £20 on the rear panel. The book is Very Fine with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends. The copyright page has the numbers 1-10 present to confirm the UK first edition state. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed copy by T. H. Marshall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages; Physical desc. : viii, 205, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes: Index ends on final unnumbered page. Includes bibliographic footnotes and index. Subjects: Urban Renewal. Housing - Great Britain - History - 20th century. Slums - Great Britain - History - 20th century. Working class - Dwellings - Great Britain - History. Post War Period. Social History. Local Authority Housing. Great Britain. United Kingdom. 3 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 1st Edition. Inscribed By the Author "For Bernard Gillinson . "Chuck" Palmer ." With Gillinson's fancy bookplate tipped in. Dw has small chip in front cover. Inscribed By the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. TITLE: ADVENTURES OF A SLUM FIGHTER By CHARLES F. PALMER signed 1955 First Edition AUTHOR: CHARLES F. PALMER PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: TUPPER AND LOVE, ATLANTA 1955 EDITION: First Edition CATEGORY: Signed, Adventure, Rare BINDING/COVER: Hardback with dust jacket COLOR: Orange CONDITION: The dust jacket is in good condition; there is a really minor chip to the front bottom edge at the hinge; the $4.00 price is still on the front flap. The half title page is signed by the author in a blue pen. Book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed copy by T. H. Marshall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages; Physical desc. : viii, 205, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes: Index ends on final unnumbered page. Includes bibliographic footnotes and index. Subjects: Urban Renewal. Housing - Great Britain - History - 20th century. Slums - Great Britain - History - 20th century. Working class - Dwellings - Great Britain - History. Post War Period. Social History. Local Authority Housing. Great Britain. United Kingdom. 1 Kg.

Signed First Edition: Hardback, maroon bds., gold titles, 145 x 225 mm., 900g., 398 pp., with Index and Appendices, + adverts, inscribed and signed by the author, H. Barnes (the first copy to his wife), dated 22.5.31 on ffep., water staining to lower crns. and darkening to spine, no dw., G- copy.

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. xi, 272 p. 21 cm. Illustrated endpapers. Index. Section called "About This Book" by Beardsley Ruml. An Atlanta businessman's leadership in the fight against slums during the Great Depression and after. Palmer, during the New Deal years, directed the first Federal slum clearance project in the United States. He was Defense Housing Coordinator and Special Assistant to President Roosevelt in World War II. The book includes his assessment of worldwide efforts to improve slums. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Author signed to Eleanor Roosevelt. DJ protected in Brodart cover. Cover faded and discolored around upper edges, spine. Small hole at upper spine. Upper text block darkened from age and shelf-wear. Pages clean, binding good.Hardcover. Signed by Author. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Robert Bonfils, cover art. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Illustrator(s). The book's second to last page has had the edge cut, but has not eliminated any of the printing. The book has light wear to the extremities, small creases to the front cover, and slight rubbing to the covers. Nightstand Book #NB1647 ($0.75) Signed by the cover artist, Robert Bonfils, on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed ["With the best Wishes"]. DJ in mylar: nominal edge wear, $4.00 price is still on the front flap. Orange cloth boards with black spine text. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. NF=POLITICS/AMERICANHX. Signed by Author(s).

Fourteenth Thousand. Fine cloth copy in a good but slightly edge worn dw. Remains overall, quite a well preserved copy; tight, bright, clean and quite strong. Signed copies uncommon and quite scarce in such clear condition. SIGNED by the author; 128 pages; Description: 286 p. , 16 leaves of plates : ill. , port. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Poor --England --London --Social conditions. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Susanna Bott (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, second impression published later the same year. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FFEP BY MORRIS WEST AND DON MARIO BORRELLI 'to Harold Jameson with thanks and compliments Morris L. West' and Don Borrelli has written a an inscription in Italian (sorry my Italian isn't good enough to translate) and signed it with 'Don' and a monogram. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine and extremities of largely yellow jacket extensively browned, corners rubbed with small loss. Not price clipped (16s), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 216pp. Father Mario Borrelli (1922-2007), was a Neapolitan priest, sociologist and educationist. In the 1950s he established an international network for social support, called 'The House of the Urchins', aimed at the recovery from the streets and professional training of the street urchins of Naples. Subsequently, following his leaving the priesthood, he maintained his international reputation for his civil commitment and his studies on peace research and education. Australian novelist Morris West (1916-99), wrote this book on Borrelli's work to raise funds from Australian and American donors. Harold Jameson may have been one of those who donated. Very scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Fourteenth Thousand. Fine cloth copy in a good but slightly edge worn dw. Remains overall, quite a well preserved copy; tight, bright, clean and quite strong. Signed copies uncommon and quite scarce in such clear condition. SIGNED by the author; 128 pages; Description: 286 p. , 16 leaves of plates : ill. , port. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Poor --England --London --Social conditions. 1 Kg.

14 pp, printed on light grey paper. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/8" "Mr Slum", described by Partington as a "pathetic and whimsical person" [from The Old Curiosity Shop] who wrote the poetical puffs for Mrs Jarley's Waxwork Show; Partington finds him of interest as a character "because he was a pioneer of publicity" and wonders, like other Dickens characters, whether there was a real-life model? Partington goes on to make his case for. well, we can't give it all away, so buy the book & find out! Modest extremity wear, sunned at top of front board, with a faint stain to upper corner. Withal, a VG - VG+ copy. Custom bound in brown quarter calf with blue silk moire boards, gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Numerous binder's blanks at rear. Apparently a bespoke binding commissioned by the author, as this the 2nd copy we've handled with this identical binding 1st edition. #22 / 35 cc. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from Partington to fellow Dickensian, Leslie Staples, SIGNED in full by Partington. Includes 2 page ALs from Partington to Staples, discussing background of this work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1934 New York Housing Authority hardcover. "Presented to the School of Law of New York University Irv Halpern" inked to the flyleaf. Book plate to front paste down, card holder to rear paste down. Call letters inked to spine. Numerous foldouts of maps, charts and graphs. E46 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [an ex-library, but nice-looking with only minor handling wear, and with some interesting annotations on the rear pastedown (see Notes for details)]. (B&W photographic plates) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "Faithfully yours / Jacob A. Riis." An account of the author's anti-slum crusade during the decade following the publication of his most famous work, "How the Other Half Lives." By 1900, this Danish-American social reformer, photographer and muckraking journalist was nationally famous, and in demand as a speaker -- which is amply documented by the various markings in this copy, which was (inexplicably) withdrawn from the collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society and is stamped as such on the title page and the rear pastedown. Also on the rear pastedown, the original librarian's (I assume) annotation provides both authentication of the signature and provenance of the book: "Bot [bought] of HW Brown: $1.10 Pd 2-24-1903 Sig. of author same date + heard author lecture at Oliver Theater on 'Tony's Hardships.'" (An additional ownership signature, that of a Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Lincoln, Nebraska, appears on a second front endpaper, also dated 2-24-1903.) The referenced lecture, in all its particulars, is confirmed by an account in the Nebraska State Journal of February 25, 1903, with the reporter commenting that "the unconscious naturalness of [Riis's] pose and gestures, the sincerity of the man and the fact that his words were the outcome of years of keen personal observation and experience, all combined to make the lecture one of exceptional interest, [with] the unusual charm of being seemingly a spontaneous talk with an audience with whom the speaker was in full confidence and sympathy." (And, incredibly, some idiot librarian chose to deaccession this book. Well, that's Nebraska for you. And I'm from there, so I can say that.) ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition. 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 new century. Riis came to Roosevelt's attention through his 1890 book HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES. As Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Roosevelt accompanied Riis on his evening travels through the slums and witnessed firsthand the inhumane conditions endured by many of New York's inhabitants. In his 1901 book MAKING OF AN AMERICAN, Riis wrote of Roosevelt: "It could not have been long after I wrote HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES that he came to the Evening Sun office one day looking for me. I was out and he left his card merely writing on the back of it that he had read my book and had 'come to help.' That was all, and it tells the whole story of the man. I loved him from the day I first saw him; nor ever in all the years that have passed has he failed of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years, we were brothers on Mulberry Street." Roosevelt, in turn, wrote of Riis after his death: "It is difficult for me to write of Jacob Riis only from the public standpoint. He was one of my truest and closest friends. I have ever prized the fact that once, in speaking of me, he said, 'since I met him he has been my brother.' I have not only admired and respected him beyond measure, but I have loved him dearly . and I mourn him as if he were one of my own family." Minor wear to covers. Near Fine.

Condition: Tres bon. JR (illustrator). JR (Jean René dit, 1983) - Action in Kibera Slum, 2009 (Kenya) Lithographie originale en couleurs - Signée au crayon et authentifiée par le cachet de l'artiste - Edition limitée à 1000 exemplaires (le numéro photographié est fourni à titre d'exemple) - Sur Vélin 104 x 73 cm (c. 41 x 29 inches) - Editée par la galerie Idem (Paris) Excellent état INFORMATION : JR est un artiste contemporain français célèbre pour ses collages autour du Monde.