[SOCIAL REFORM]. LIPPARD, George. New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million. Cincinnati: E. Mendenhall, 1854. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. 284, [8, ads] pp. Publisher?s full purple cloth, boards ruled and paneled in blind, spine lettered in black (spine chipped, sunned, some lettering missing, boards edgeworn, sunned, some bumping, soiling, endleaves toned and foxed, previous owner?s typed slip on fp., and several inkstamps (John O. Licey) on front endleaves, recto of frontispiece and title-page, text toned and foxed). Fair. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS NOVEL ABOUT THE TROUBLES OF THE WORKING POOR OF NEW YORK. Lippard was a good friend of Edgar Allan Poe; he wrote several articles and novels advocating social reform. Measurements: 10 x 8 x 1?.