New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xi, [4], 4-219, [1], [7] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Addams' dissertation on prostitution in the United States, specifically the trafficking of white female..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-240 pp. Black cloth with red lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket done by Muni Lieblein. A self-described conservative and a radical..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xvii, [1], 260, [2] pp. Orange cloth with orange lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Foreword by Morris Janowitz. Kornblum's ethnography of South Chicago between 1968 and 1970, heavily focused on mill workers..... More
Astor Place / New York: Arden Book Company Publishers [1943], 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-245, [3] pp. Red cloth with black decorations and lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few full-page diagrams. An..... More
New York: The New Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [5], 4-403, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by Terkel on the title page in..... More
New York: The New Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [5], 4-403, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. Terkel's study of race, with interviews between him..... More