Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

8vo. 43 plates including frontispiece after halftone photographs. Original quarter blue cloth gilt, pictorial paper boards printed in red and blue (extremities a bit rubbed with some toning or soiling, contents starting). Provenance: E.S. Beckwith (early ownership signature and book label).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS LANDMARK WORK; "One of the most important photobooks ever published, 'How the Other Half Lives' represents the first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book. It is the beginning, not of a photographic genre, but a photographic attitude, an ethos - humanist documentary photography - in which the photographic social document is employed to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world." Parr & Badger, The Photobook p.53.

[With:] RIIS. The Peril and the Preservation of the Home. Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1903. 8vo. Illustrated from photographs after Riis. Original blue cloth. FIRST EDITION.

[With:] RIIS. The OId Town. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. Illustrations by W.T. Benda. Original pictorial tan cloth. FIRST EDITION.