Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

402 c   JACOB RIIS. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Riis’ seminal title, and a very early use of photographic reproductions, with 43 illustrations (complete), many of which are reproductions of Riis’ photographs. 8vo, original gilt-lettered blue-backed illustrated boards, worn; some faint, scatteredmarginalia, in pencil. Parr/Badger I 53; Hasselblad 46. FIRST EDITION. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890 [800/1,200] 403 c   WEEGEE. Naked City. Illustrated with photogravure reproductions of Weegee’s photographs depicting the dramas and the human condition on the streets of New York City. 4to, black-stamped cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket, chips and tears. Roth 118; Parr/Badger 145; Hasselblad 142. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WEEGEE. New York: Essential Books, (1945) [1,000/1,500] 402 403