A Day With a Tramp and Other Days

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 191pp. Octavo [19cm]. Bound in dark gray cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Spine a bit rolled. Spine ends lightly scuffed. Boards mildly soiled. In 1891, recent Princeton graduate and budding social scientist Walter A. Wyckoff began an 18-month "experiment in reality," living and working (or hoping to work) among the United States' traveling unskilled worker population. Chapters include "With Iowa Farmers," "A Burro-Puncher" and "Incidents of the Slums.