The Making of an American
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901. Fogarty, Thomas. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2353001
First edition. Hinges loosening, owner bookplate on front endpaper, minor abrasion on spine foot. Text clean and unmarked.
xiii, 443 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, photographic frontispiece portrait of author, illustrated throughout with a mix of plates and cuts from photographs and drawings by Thomas Fogarty. An autobiography of the author who immigrated to the United States from Denmark and made his name as a social reformer, primarily through a series of books humanizing those living in poverty in New York City. His 1890 classic How the Other Half Lives reshaped society's perspective of the working poor.
Price: $125.00