Veiller, Lawrence

Housing Reform, A Hand-Book for Practical Use in American Cities

New York: Charities Publishing Company / Russell Sage Foundation, 1910.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 213 pp, bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering. Corners lighly bumped, some soiling and old insect nibbling to boards, internally sound and clean. The author was an influential Progessive-era social reformer. "A major figure in tenement policy, urban planning, and good government movements of the early twentieth century, he has been described as 'the most important housing reformer in the country'" (wiki). First editions of his works are now quite scarce.

Item #24164

Price: $125.00