The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking
New York: (Reprinted for distribution by The College Settlements Association), 1901.
Price: $750.00
Softcover. First separate edition (published previously in *The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine* in 1899). Stapled self-wrappers. 8pp. Slight soiling, tiny stains, and a bumped corner, else very near fine. A short story about a boy in the ghetto at Christmas, apparently issued as a Christmas fundraiser. The story was collected in *Children of the Tenements* in 1903. Rare. *OCLC* locates a single copy at Simmons College.
Item #319072
Jacob Riis
birth name: Jacob August Riis
born: 05/03/1849
died: 05/26/1914
Biography
Danish-born American social reformer, muckraking journalist, and pioneer documentary photographer.more