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1904ref. 237201904. Two American digest periodicals documenting changes in national public discourse from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression. The earlier issue contains prominent contemporary coverage of the Statesboro Georgia lynching of 1904 reproducing reactions from newspapers across the country and condemning the burning and killing of two Black men by a white mob after the courts had already imposed sentences. The Literary Digest. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company August 27 1904. Vol. XXIX No. 9 Whole No. 749. Together with The Reader's Digest. Pleasantville New York: The Reader's Digest Association May 1932. Eleventh Year Vol. 21 No. 121. Two illustrated periodicals. The Literary Digest complete in original printed wrappers; the Reader's Digest in original green printed wrappers. The Literary Digest treats the Statesboro lynching as a national disgrace assembling condemnations of the white mob that seized two Black prisoners from lawful custody and burned them alive after their convictions. Its opposition to mob violence is forceful for a mainstream national periodical but the journalism is not racially radical: it condemns lynching chiefly as a collapse of law civilization and public order while reproducing racialized language paternalistic assumptions and comparisons with "Darkest Africa" that reveal the limits of white Progressive reform discourse. The article documents how anti-lynching sentiment could coexist with the racial hierarchies embedded in early twentieth-century American journalism. Other contents also address the Russo-Japanese War Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" politics immigration early automobile culture religion scientific racism and political caricature preserving the mixture of reform journalism racial ideology international reporting and editorial debate that shaped mass-circulation American periodicals at the beginning of the twentieth century. The May 1932 issue captures an American reading public attempting to understand economic collapse mass unemployment and the instability of modern life during the darkest years of the Great Depression. Its condensed articles move from Arthur Pound's courtroom account of bankrupt workers shopkeepers and failed speculators to proposals for canceling international war debts arguments over housing and advertising and criticism of the press's exploitation of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Reports on Japan's campaign in Manchuria cancer research industrial materials telecommunications and labor-saving inventions place domestic economic crisis beside the geopolitical and technological transformations reshaping the interwar world. The two issues document national and international crises into accessible commentary for a broad readership moving from the racial violence imperial politics and reform debates of 1904 to the economic collapse mass media consumer culture and geopolitical instability of 1932. Both remain stapled without annotations or other markings. Completely legible and in overall very good condition with only minor discoloration and scattered creasing or handling use. unknown books
1839ref. 33043Boston: New England Female Moral Reform Society 1839. Very Good. Boston: New England Female Moral Reform Society 1839. First Edition. Octavo; self-wrappers unopened. 16pp. Toning and creasing to edges with a few minor nicks; about Very Good. The New England Female Moral Reform Society's stated goal was the "prevention of licentiousness" prostitution the moral double standard regarding both and protecting young women from the "unprincipled destroyer who seduce and ruin the unsuspecting." Indeed this issue devotes a section to "Street Beggars" who are imposters attempting to lead astray the young and unsuspecting. The paper continues in telling the story of two young women who were led to "a house of ill fame" by one such imposter and were saved from a member of the society and thus saved "from this sink of iniquity. from her 'whose house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death.'" Also of note here is the ongoing "Letters to Sarah E. Grimke" portion of this publication which runs several pages in this issue gently arguing several points regarding the role of women in society. The letter concludes with a post script that the author has just received Grimke's pamphlet "Equality of the Sexes" acknowledges her sincere obligations and urges everyone who reads this publication to also read Grimke's. Scarce in retail. New England Female Moral Reform Society unknown books
1834ref. 3806Providence 1834. Good plus. Broadside 15 x 10.5 inches printed in three columns within an ornamental border. Old folds short splits along some folds a few small chips moderate dust-soiling and foxing. Untrimmed. A rare broadside disseminating a report from a five-man committee of the General Assembly of Rhode Island recommending penal code reform and the establishment of a state prison in the Ocean State in 1834. The beginning of the report expounds upon the inconsistency of the various legal punishments meted out in county jails. The committee then evaluates different methods of imprisonment in New York Pennsylvania Connecticut and other states concluding as follows: "On the whole the committee are in favor and recommend to the General Assembly the erection of a State penitentiary on the principle of solitary confinement at labor with instruction in labor in morals and religion." The committee hoped this prison reform would "relieve the State from the future support of convicts and may produce a moral reformation in those who may be subjected to its operation." We could locate just one copy of this broadside in OCLC at Brown. unknown books
1887ref. 21386Washington: H. Peters 1887. Very Good. Washington: H. Peters 1887. Folio 30.5cm.; ribbon-bound engraved self-wrappers wax-sealed and accomplished in manuscript; 8ll. of photo-engraved plans printed on versos only followed by 3pp. text printed in double columns on rectos only. Previous mail folds extremities a bit chipped and toned ribbons slightly frayed else Very Good internally clean and sound. Signed by Acting Secretary of State D.L. Hawkins and Commissioner of Patents Burton J. Hall. Detailed patent application submitted by the Superintendent of the Chicago Bridewell Prison on September 13 1887. Charles E. Felton ca. 1832-1909 was the prison's longest serving overseer having held the position from its opening in 1872 until his retirement in 1890. Formerly a printer in Buffalo New York Felton entered the field of prison administration through the usual political platforms though he assumed his position in Chicago not through the usual channels but based on his previous experience serving as director of the Erie PA correctional facility. A Democrat and avid duck hunter with a rather unfocussed eye on the mayoralty of Chicago Felton was especially interested in enforcing labor in his prisons as a means of reducing costs and galvanizing individual reformation a position he clung to even past his retirement. The present patent submitted with steel manufacturer Herbert B. Streeter 1833-1919 offered substantial air circulation improvements for prisons "or other structures where the tiers of cells or dormitories have an open hall or corridor without separation by floors or otherwise." Previously the Chicago House of Corrections had just one small ventilating flue leaving the air "absolutely foul and poisonous." The plans depicted here show two foul air flues and one steam-coil heating device per cell as well as additional open air gratings for increased circulation. Though it is unclear whether the patent was ever approved Felton in an address delivered before the Prison Congress four years later complained that the increase in crime rates could be blamed in part on "the comfortable quarters" offered prospective convicted criminals. Also to blame "the present views of the public and acts of legislatures as to systems of prison labor and its ease to the prisoner.the quality of food; their the prisoners' easy access to visitation and the readiness with which a sympathetic public accepts as true the complaints of the prisoners" "Inter Ocean" newspaper October 14 1891. This patent submitted to improve the comfortable prison cells Felton so bemoaned an important document for students and historians of prison reform architecture and engineering. H. Peters unknown books
1883ref. 727291883. London 1883. London 1883. The "Annual Blister" of Victorian Law: A Scarce 1883 Reformist Tract on the Deceased Wife's Sister Controversy Marriage Law Reform Association. A Summary of the Chief Arguments For and Against Marriage With A Deceased Wife's Sister. London: Marriage Law Reform Association 1883. 15 1 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in self wrappers. Light toning negligible edgewear light foxing in a few places. $350. Third and final edition. A scarce reformist tract representing one of the most protracted legal and social battles of the Victorian era. The Marriage Law Reform Association was established in 1851 to overturn Lord Lyndhurst's Marriage Act of 1835 which codified the prohibition of marriage between a widower and his sister-in-law. This restriction was rooted in the theological "one flesh" doctrine of affinity which legally equated a wife's sister with a blood sister. The controversy often dubbed the "annual blister" due to its near-yearly debate in Parliament highlighted a sharp class divide; while the wealthy could travel abroad to marry the working classes-who relied on sisters-in-law for domestic stability-were forced into "legalized concubinage." The debate permeated Victorian culture appearing in works ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe to the novels of Dinah Craik. This edition captures the height of the Association's campaign which eventually succeeded with the passage of the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act in 1907. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations Vol. 2 p. 224. unknown books
1871ref. 229841871. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the development of state intervention into infant care mortality and childcare practices in industrial Britain establishing a foundational record in the history of child welfare law and public health regulation. Produced in response to widespread concern over infant deaths associated with "baby farming" the report supports research into nineteenth-century social reform gender and labor history and the emergence of legal frameworks governing child protection. Its findings informed subsequent legislation including the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 and later reforms expanding state oversight of childcare marking a significant shift toward recognizing infant welfare as a matter of public responsibility rather than private domestic concern. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life; together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. The volume records proceedings of a parliamentary inquiry directed "to inquire as to the best means of preventing the destruction of the lives of infants put out to nurse for hire by their parents." Contents include formal committee findings extensive Minutes of Evidence and appended statistical and documentary material. Testimony from surgeons coroners medical editors and local officials details infant mortality rates across London Lancashire Yorkshire and Scottish industrial centers. Witnesses describe systems of paid infant care including lump-sum "adoption" payments and weekly nursing arrangements that enabled maternal wage labor alongside accounts of infants transferred "generally immediately after birth" to low-cost nursing establishments. The report analyzes financial structures secrecy in lying-in houses and disparities in care tied to poverty and illegitimacy. Discussions within the proceedings reveal tensions between criminal law enforcement Poor Law administration and emerging public health authorities while tabulated data and narrative testimony together document patterns of neglect mortality and institutional response. The material documents the system of early child welfare regulation through parliamentary inquiry medical testimony and statistical evidence revealing how infant care practices were scrutinized categorized and brought under state oversight and providing primary-source evidence for the study of legal intervention in family life the expansion of public health governance and the consolidation of parens patriae authority. Issued at a time of accelerating industrialization and urban poverty the report demonstrates how gendered labor economic precarity and unregulated childcare markets contributed to infant mortality and prompted legislative reform. Large octavo; single volume; contemporary red cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt. Light rubbing minor surface wear and small spots to binding with edge wear; internally light toning and scattered marginal wear; text clean and fully readable. Overall condition: Very good. unknown books
1736ref. 857121736. London 1736. Fourth & final edition. London 1736. Fourth & final edition. A Spirited Call for Reform: A Layman's Guide to Law's "Evasions Tricks Turns and Quibbles" Legal Criticism. Law Reform. Great Britain. Law Quibbles: Or A Treatise of the Evasions Tricks Turns and Quibbles Commonly Used in the Profession of the Law To the Prejudice of Clients And Others; Necessary to be Perused by All Attornies And Those Who Are or May be Concerned in Law Suits Trials &c. To Avoid the Many Abuses Delays and Expences Introduc'd into Practice. With Abstracts of All the Late Statutes for Amending the Law Relating to Attornies Arrest and Bail Bribery Forgery and Perjury Juries Justices of Peace Prisoners in Execution Law Process Rents of Tenants &c. Under the Proper Heads. And an Essay on the Amendment and Reduction of the Laws of England And a New Proposed Act of Parliament For a Thorough Regulation of the Practice of the Law. Corrected and much Enlarged. To Which is Now Added a Second part Containing Every Curious Precedents of Conveyances in Extraordinary Cases; Likewise Proceedings and Precedents in Chancery And at Common Law in English; With Law-Notes Thereon. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling 1736. viii 72 132 135 13 pp. With an index and advertisement leaf. Collated and complete. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-1/2"; 19.6 x 11.8 cm. Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands and lettering piece to spine gilt tooling to board edges. Moderate rubbing to boards light wear to extremities joints starting at head chip to center of lettering piece spine ends lightly abraded small vertical surface crack to spine hinges cracked. Light toning to interior crack in text block between pp. 78 & 79 all leaves secure occasional small faint dampstains at page edges. Early owner signature of Thomas Winter dated 1781 to front pastedown. A good sound copy of a scarce and engaging title. $750. Fourth and final edition significantly expanded. First published in 1724 Law Quibbles is a lively and sharply critical guide to the procedural artifices and technical maneuvers of the English legal profession. Designed for the lay reader as much as the practitioner it functions both as a satirical expose and as a practical survival manual for navigating 18th-century litigation. The first part presents an alphabetical "dic. unknown books
1736ref. 856711736. London 1736. Fourth & final edition. London 1736. Fourth & final edition. A Reform-Oriented Layman's Guide to Law's "Evasions Tricks Turns and Quibbles" Legal Criticism. Law Reform. Great Britain. Law Quibbles: Or A Treatise of the Evasions Tricks Turns and Quibbles Commonly Used in the Profession of the Law To the Prejudice of Clients And Others; Necessary to be Perused by All Attornies And Those Who Are or May be Concerned in Law Suits Trials &c. To Avoid the Many Abuses Delays and Expences Introduc'd into Practice. With Abstracts of All the Late Statutes for Amending the Law Relating to Attornies Arrest and Bail Bribery Forgery and Perjury Juries Justices of Peace Prisoners in Execution Law Process Rents of Tenants &c. Under the Proper Heads. And an Essay on the Amendment and Reduction of the Laws of England And a New Proposed Act of Parliament For a Thorough Regulation of the Practice of the Law. Corrected and much Enlarged. To Which is Now Added a Second part Containing Every Curious Precedents of Conveyances in Extraordinary Cases; Likewise Proceedings and Precedents in Chancery And at Common Law in English; With Law-Notes Thereon. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling 1736. viii 132 135 13 72 pp. An Essay on the Amendment and Reduction of the Laws of England bound at rear text complete. Octavo 8" x 4-1/2"; 20.2 x 11.5 cm. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Some fading to spine negligible light shelfwear to extremities. Moderate toning to interior occasional light foxing light soiling in a few places light edgewear to first and last several leaves first four leaves reinforced at edges on verso reinforcement just touching text on one page without loss early owner signature of James Pocock to head of title page. A good copy. $650. Fourth and final edition substantially expanded. First issued in 1724 Law Quibbles occupies a distinctive place in the history of English legal literature as a hybrid work combining satire procedural commentary statutory digest practical precedent book and reform tract. The first part presents an alphabetical exposition of procedural stratagems tactical evasions and professional "mysteries" attributed to legal practitioners. Framed for both attorneys and lay litigants it documents contemporary perceptions of delay expense and pr. unknown books
1901ref. 726361901. in 16 volumes. in 16 volumes. A Remarkable Collection of Nineteenth-Century Works on Legal Reform and International Law Compiled by a Notable Scottish Lawyer Great Britain. Law Reform. Murray David 1842-1928. The David Murray Collection of Law Reform and International Law. 16 volumes. 155 titles. Various paginations. Octavo Vols. 1-15: 8-1/2" x 5" 21.6 x 12.7 cm; Vol. 16: 9-1/4" x 6" 23.5 x 15.25 cm. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards gilt-stamped insignia of the Royal Faculty of Procurators Glasgow to front boards blind rules to joint edges and corners raised bands and lettering piece to spines marbled edges and endpapers presentation bookplate from David Murray to the Faculty dated April 29 1902 to front pastedown of first volume. Light rubbing to boards light residue from leather treatment occasional scuffs nicks scratches and spots to boards and extremities which are more moderately rubbed with darkening in a few places some lettering pieces loose but secure cracking to spines of Volumes 14-16 boards of Volume 1 detached front joint of Volume 2 starting at foot joints of Volume 16 starting at ends. Volumes 1 5 6 7 9 10 and 13 have descriptions of their contents in Murray's hand to their half-titles. A remarkable handsomely bound collection. A COMPLETE LIST OF TITLES IS INCLUDED AMONG THE PHOTOS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LISTING. $7000. This collection pertains chiefly to the subjects of law reform and international law. It was formed during the nineteenth century by the notable Scottish lawyer bibliophile and antiquary David Murray who presented it to the Library of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow in 1902. As indicated by the contents which span almost the entire nineteenth century Murray had long possessed a sustaining interest in law reform. Many titles touch upon the numerous areas of law that were dramatically reformed during the 1800s including bankruptcy law conveyancing and real property law judicial administration chancery and equity and to a lesser extent codification criminal law and jurisprudence. Many of the works are presentation copies inscribed to other well-known international lawyers and reformers of the nineteenth century among them Sir Travers Twiss Sir John Connell and Edwin Wilkins Field. Among the authors themselves are John Austin Basil Mont. unknown books
1661ref. 724361661. A Scarce Restoration-Era Pamphlet Proposing Reforms to Court Procedure Law Reform. Great Britain. Certain Proposals of Divers Clerks and Attorneys of the Court of Common-Pleas For the Taking Away Fines upon Original Writs and Damage Cleer And Regulating the Proceedings at Law And Remedying Some Inconveniences. Whereby the Client Will be Much Secured The Process Shortened The Greatest Part of the Charge of Most Suits Abated And Many Unnecessary Suits in Law and Equity Prevented. Which is the End and Desire of the Proposers. Presented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament. London: Printed for J. Starkey at the Mitre in Fleetstreet near Temple-Bar 1661. vi 8 pp. Quarto 7" x 5-1/2". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning soiling to exterior light browning to margins "10" in early hand to head of title page. $450. Only edition. Produced by a "divers" group of "clerks and attorneys of the Court of Common-Pleas" this pamphlet suggests ways to reform pleading and procedure and reduce the number of lawsuits in the civil and equity courts. This is a scarce title. OCLC locates 6 copies 4 in law libraries Harvard Library of Congress San Francisco Law Library Yale. English Short-Title Catalogue R35481. unknown books
1859ref. 88899New York: Chas. W. Baker 1859. First Edition. Sewn pamphlet. Octavo; printed paper wrappers 8pp. Text printed in double columns. Old stains to covers and bottom margin throughout else Good and sound. A pamphlet issued by authority of the American Industrial Association of which Hoxie a District judge and reform-minded philanthropist was Vice-President. Hoxie's rather toothless report regarding the "alarming increase of the necessitous poor" within the New York city limits distilled to its essence is that "something must be done." Of far greater interest is a brief postscript relating a meeting of New York's "sewing women" under the auspices of the Association where a plan was presented to supply a clean well-lit workroom supplied with new sewing machines at no.10 Fourth Avenue in Manhattan for the use of seamstresses in distress. The presentation was made by John Cooke a Methodist minister who in the best tradition of paternalistic condescension remarked addressing a room-full of seamstresses: "The greatest sufferers are the needle women. Unfortunately they have themselves invited the evil by preferring this mode of living to other avocations sic within their reach thus crowding the city labor market and by an unavoidable consequence cheapening labor." Cooke goes on to propose a solution whereby young working women would be transported out of the city and put into situations in "the country." The proposal for free sewing machines and a clean place to work was met with favor by the women's representatives. No mention is made of their reaction to the idea of voluntary exile to parts unknown. Chas. W. Baker unknown books
1940ref. 47622Pasadena: San Pasqual Press 1940. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm; royal blue cloth with printed title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii1551pp. Spine ends gently nudged else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2 gently spine-sunned with some trivial wear to extremities and a few tiny tears. A "brilliant and pitiless exposé of our haywire piratical monetary system" from front flap in which the author points out the defects in our monetary system and analyzing various reform proposals. Hale 1859-1944 a California educator research-worker and former Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate was a major crusader for monetary reform known for her anti-suffrage and anti-vaccine activities. OCLC notes 15 holdings. San Pasqual Press unknown books
1849ref. 86600Boston: Bela Marsh 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 18.5cm. Publisher's green embossed cloth titled in gilt; pale salmon endpapers; 414pp; mezzotint portrait frontispiece. A quite attractive copy just lightly rubbed to boards with a few scattered spots of foxing to text; solidly Very Good overall and somewhat uncommon thus. A significant if entirely idiosyncratic work in the annals of American radical reform as much a philosophical treatise as an autobiography. American pacifist freethinker feminist and abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright 1797-1870 though little remembered was among the most interesting radical voices of the mid-19th century a defrocked Presbyterian minister who in his adopted role as a "Christian reformer" preached against all established religions and adopted a thoroughly stridently contrarian voice in nearly every field of social reform he touched which was practically all of them. His views opposing established government put him directly in the line of such individualist anarchists as Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker while his opposition to slavery was so uncompromising that he was ejected from the American Antislavery Society in 1837. He remained closely associated with most of the New England radical abolitionist community however especially with William Lloyd Garrison with whom he frequently collaborated. Like most of Wright's commercially-issued works this one was published by the Boston radical publisher Bela Marsh known for disseminating works by fellow abolitionists and freethinkers during the antebellum period. 86600. Bela Marsh unknown books
1932ref. 84363New York: Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Original deep red cloth titled in black to spine with embossed publisher's imprint to front board. Dustjacket. 383pp. Bumped to spine ends with some minor wear to corners some minor darkening to the cloth in places; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed top edge a trifle dusty; in the John Gram dustjacket with some toning to the spine panel shallow chipping and loss to the spine ends intruding upon the author's first name and a short closed tear to the front upper front spine hinge. A good strong copy with some wear. Leonov's novel of Soviet labor centred around the building of an enormous factory; Sotstroy. Gorky provides the preface; the novel was notable at the time as an antidote to the image of the USSR as an enormous generator of plans progress noble artistic and industrial endeavor and a shining beacon of energy. Leonov tends towards a more on the ground depiction of enthusiastic ineptitude paranoia and fanaticism. Bookplate of Alvin Kapusta to front pastedown a Special Assistant for Soviet Nationalities at the US State Department and a notable scholar of the Soviet Bloc whose collections are housed at the Hoover Institution. Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh unknown books
1832ref. 84913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work. A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson unknown books
1858ref. 197991858. Powers Susan Rugeley. Remarks on Woman's Work in Sanitary Reform is a circa 1859 pamphlet documenting Victorian women's public health work through the system of sanitary reform revealing how women's domestic educational and visiting labor was framed as essential to national health. Addressed to mothers educators tract distributors and visitors of schools cottages and workhouses the text asks "What can woman do in her domestic and social capacities to remedy these evils" and answers by assigning women authority over household health infant care education and habits. The pamphlet supports research into women's employment Victorian public health sanitary reform feminist social thought and the expansion of women's public roles through reform labor. Powers Susan Rugeley. Remarks on Woman's Work in Sanitary Reform. London: Tweedie circa 1859. 20 pages. 8vo. The pamphlet divides sanitary labor into "the amelioration of injurious external circumstances" and "the reform of injurious habits and customs" identifying the former principally with men and the latter principally with women. Powers argues "It is for woman in her functions of mother housewife and teacher" to change infant management domestic economy education and the habits of women and adds that "It is for her to teach and apply the laws of health in her own provinces where man cannot act." Susan Rugeley Powers was the first secretary of the Ladies' Sanitary Association an organization founded to educate working-class communities on public health; the pamphlet was also connected to the English Woman's Journal and the wider Langham Place reform milieu. The pamphlet demonstrates the process by which sanitary reform converted gendered domestic expertise into organized public health labor giving women a socially sanctioned role in health education before broader access to professional employment. Contemporary holdings appear limited: a dealer record notes four WorldCat copies and three COPAC copies while a University of Wisconsin catalog record identifies a later microfilm version associated with the English Woman's Journal. Slight chipping at binding; pages held together; minor wear. Overall very good. A focused Victorian women's reform pamphlet linking public health domestic authority and early arguments for women's socially necessary work. unknown books
ref. 57805Original illuminated document on parchment; hand-lettered in italic with gilt illuminations at upper left and right margins; signed beneath work by the calligrapher "E. von E." unidentified. With original signatures of 71 board members and staff of the Henry Street Settlement. Mild soil at margins; Near Fine. A handsome hand-lettered tribute to outgoing President of the Board of the Henry Street Settlement Newbold Morris. Morris 1902-1966 was an important figure in Henry Street history assuming the board presidency soon after the reorganization of the Settlement under Director Helen Hall in 1944. Morris also played a prominent role in New York City planning and politics during the Robert Moses era; he was among the more prominent members of the New York Planning Commission; was President of the City Council from 1938 to 1945 and an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor in 1945 and 1949. Later in 1961 Morris achieved some notoriety as the City Parks Commissioner when he rejected the permits of hundreds of folk musicians who had been performing in Washington Square Park sparking the so-called "Beatnik Riot" one of the opening salvos of Sixties countercultural activism. The document is undated but expresses appeciation for Morris's "completion of a decade of service" placing it in the vicinity of 1954-5. Beneath the calligraphic portion the document has been signed by seventy-one individuals including fellow board-members staff and residents. These include a host of prominent mid-century New York figures beginning with Hall herself and including the prominent civic leader Nicholas Kelley; choreographer Alwin Nikolais; economist Mary Keyserling; painter Jack Levine; long-time Henry Street youth worker Ralph Tefferteller and many others. A unique and visually attractive artifact marking the mid-century apex of one of the most successful and long-lived social welfare projects in New York. unknown books
1831ref. 56386London: Effingham Wilson 1831. Octavo 22.5cm. Later half brown calf purple cloth over boards and subsequently rebacked with brown calf reinforcements to corners top edge stained other edges sprinkled red; orange endpapers; xx576pp. Lacking frontispiece. Externally worn but skilfully repaired internally clean with occasional spots of foxing: Very Good. A key text of early nineteenth-century English parliamentary reformers: "a massive compendium of all the abuses electoral ecclesiastical legal" that they "sought to abolish. . . its emphasis on the need to have practical as well as equitable representation lies at the root of parliamentary democracy." The book "passed through edition after edition continually augmented with new arguments new reports of abuses and new statistics"; this 1831 edition "was the most influential coming as it did on the eve of the Reform Bill 1832" Printing and the Mind of Man p.180. PMM296. GOLDSMITHS 23071. KRESS C.638. Effingham Wilson unknown books
1902ref. 54696Girard KS: Appeal Publishing Company 1902. Revised Edition. Octavo 18.75cm; original pictorial wrappers; 56-96pp; illus. Light wear and toning to spine and wrapper extremities with shallow loss to base of spine a short split to upper spine and some faint creasing to upper right corners; Very Good. A tax reform utopia originally published serially in the Chicago Sentinel between 1879 and 1885 and subsequently in pamphlet format by Norton in 1892 which sold over a hundred thousand copies. Ten Men of Money Island was variously reprinted even as late as 1930 including editions by Wayland's Appeal to Reason the London utopian publisher Reeves and the Chicago publisher F.J. Schulte. SARGENT p.45 citing only the London ed. Not in Negley or Lewis and not found in Wright. Appeal Publishing Company unknown books
1972ref. 46484Washington: National Welfare Rights Organization n.d. but 1972. Strike placard comprised of original photographic poster 43x28cm. printed offset in purple and black on white stock stapled to pastepaper board hole-punched and threaded with thick string for hanging around neck. Extremities rather chipped and bottom edge slightly curled poster rather dust-soiled else Good or better with clear evidence of use. Placard featuring a poster protesting H.R.1 and the "D.C. Four Against the Poor" President Richard Nixon Senator from Connecticut Abraham Ribicoff Congressman from Arkansas Wilbur Mills and Senator from Louisiana Russell Long. Adorned with their photographic portraits below which is printed "These men are dangerous!!! They have conspired to starve children destroy families force women into slavery and exploit poor people -- all in the name of 'Welfare Reform.' STOP THESE MEN!" The placard was presumably worn at the NWRO-sponsored "Children's March for Survival" on March 25 in Washington D.C. The parade which consisted of over 50000 participants more than half of them children was led by Jesse Jackson and NRWO's leader George Wiley and included speakers Bella Abzug and Corettaa Scott King with her two daughters. The poster used here not separately catalogued in OCLC as of October 2019. National Welfare Rights Organization unknown books
1894ref. 48920Chicago: By the Author 1894. Revised Edition. 12mo 20cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 931pp; illus. Text is tanned and a bit brittle at the edges neat splits to front wrapper above and below the staples with several tiny tears and a few slivers missing from wrapper extremities particularly at preliminary and terminal leaves; Good complete copy. A tax reform utopia originally published serially in the Chicago Sentinel between 1879 and 1885. An author's note at base of title page states: ".it was then published in cheap pamphlet form - of which over a hundred thousand copies have since been sold. Its popularity as an educator seems to warrant the present better and more expensive edition." Issued as Vol. I no. 1 in Norton's Quarterly Sentinel apparently a successor to his weekly newspaper of the same name. No further numbers of the Quarterly appear to have been issued. Ten Men of Money Island was variously reprinted even as late as 1930 including editions by Wayland's Appeal to Reason the London utopian publisher Reeves and the Chicago publisher F.J. Schulte. SARGENT p.45 citing only the London ed. Not in Negley or Lewis and not found in Wright. By the Author unknown books
1872ref. 30317Philadelphia: Published for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird 1872. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; disbound from larger volume with remnants of cloth spine still present; 96pp.; frontispiece full-page illus. throughout. Very faint previous vertical fold else Very Good and fresh. The title story is a satirical utopia intended to discredit supporters of laissez-faire economics and the Free-Trade League in particular. LEWIS p. 57; SARGENT p. 29; not in NEGLEY. Published for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird unknown books
1876ref. 128531876. NEW JERSEY. REFORM SCHOOL STATE. Twelfth Annual Report . for the Year Ending October 31st 1876. Trenton 1876. 27 p. Removed. The state reform school at Jamesburg Middlesex County. unknown books
1970ref. 42163Washington DC: NORML 1970. First Edition. Very good. Collection of souvenir ephemera from NORML the marijuana advocacy organization founded in 1970. Three buttons two 1.25" diameter and one.5" diameter. Match book 2" x 2.25" approx. Touches of toning and edgewear very good overall. NORML unknown books
1724ref. 753321724. Rare Eighteenth-Century English Tract on Law Reform Law Reform. Great Britain. An Essay on the Amendment And Reduction Of the Laws of England. For the Ease of the Subject The Advancement of Justice And Regulating the Profession of the Law. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt And R. Gosling Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq; for Tho. Corbett 1724. iv 63 1 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets running parallel to joints gilt fillets and contrasting calf lettering piece to spine. Moderate toning to interior faint dampstaining and some wear to fore-edges of final three leaves. $850. Only edition as a separate work. Also issued as the second part of Law Quibbles 1st ed. 1724 this work is a substantial proposal to reform English law and the English legal profession. Clearly the work of an informed and responsible author it influenced the work of the Society of Gentlemen Practisers a professional society for attorneys and solicitors in England and Wales established in 1739. All editions of Law Quibbles are scarce; An Essay is rare. OCLC locates 2 copies Franklin and Marshall College Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; the ESTC locates 1 California State Library Sutro Library. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC N30349. unknown books
