Description
Signed limited edition of Twenty Years at Hull-House by Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams, published in 1910.
Octavo, xvii, [1], 462pp. Brown paper-covered boards. Title in gilt on white parchment paper spine. Top edge gilt. Solid text block, rubbed corners, faint soiling to spine. Light wear along hinges. Complete with 12 full-page plates, including frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations.
Limited edition printed specifically for sale at Browne’s Bookstore, Chicago. Known as the “Autograph Edition,” being one of 210 copies, this one numbered 160. Signed by Jane Addams on the limitation page.
In 1889, Jane Addams co-founded a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois alongside social reformer Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House, named after the first owner Charles Gerald Hull, served new European immigrants and provided residents with housing, food, education, and entertainment. Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on local and federal social programs, as well as founding the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1915.
