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1936réf. 144587New York: National Civil-Service Reform League 1936. Pamphlet. 31p. stapled wraps 5.25x7.75 inches bottom corner of front wrap dog-eared faint blindstamp to front wrap else very good condition. The group takes aim at partisan mismanagement of civil service branches. National Civil-Service Reform League unknown books
1882réf. 38710Philadelphia: Office of the Association 1882. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good partially unopened uncut mail fold contents clean. 14 pp. Sm. 8vo. Publications of the Civil-service Reform Association of Philadelphia.; no. 8;. Office of the Association unknown books
1990réf. 99233Accra: Ghana Law Reform Commission 1990. 10p. 7.25x9.75 inches very good in original stapled decorative wraps. Ghana Law Reform Commission unknown books
1996réf. 183829Boston: MASS CANN / NORML 1996. Poster. 13x19 inch poster green purple and black design on white background very good. Poster design by Gary Grimshaw. At top: "No more prisoners! End marijuana prohibition!" Speakers included John Sinclair Mel King Steven Hager and others and well as seven bands. MASS CANN / NORML unknown books
1920réf. 40054London: Library Committee 1920. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy wrappers edgeworn soiling on corners to a few leaves occasional marginalia. 58 pp. 8vo. Collected by Sir Anthony Panizzi and presented to Louis Fagan who presented them to the Reform Club in 1880. Library Committee unknown books
1876réf. 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
1940réf. 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
1902réf. 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
1886réf. 47659London: Longmans Green & Co. and Liverpool: The Financial Reform Association 1886. 8vo; contemporary half calf over marbled boards with red morocco spine label; front and rear boards detached inexpert repairs made made with buckram but contents are clean and sound; good. Longmans, Green & Co. and Liverpool: The Financial Reform Association unknown books
1875réf. 79905Columbus Ohio: Nevins & Myers State Printers. Very Good. 1875. Softcover. This item is soft-bound in light yellow wrappers with black printing on the upper cover. The lower cover is torn/lacking with wear to the spine. The string binding is solid. The contents are bright and generally clean but with light toning to the page edges. There is a very nice fold-out view by Strobridge at the front. . Nevins & Myers, State Printers paperback books
1859réf. 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
1831réf. 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
1970réf. 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
1894réf. 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
1832réf. 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
1932réf. 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
1845réf. 547003New York: American Female Moral Reform Society 1845. Unbound. Very Good. Single leaf folded to make eight pages. One quarter of first page toned old folds very good or better. A cursory examination of the contents indicates that the American Female Moral Reform Society weren't very enthusiastic about prostitution. American Female Moral Reform Society unknown books
1831réf. BK0169Philadelphia: William F. Geddes 1831. 2 12 2 pp. Stitched pamphlet measuring 4 ¼ x 7 inches. Good plus with scattered foxing and soiling some wear to edges. An early appeal for organized missionary work among Philadelphia's urban poor issued upon the establishment of the Philadelphia City Mission in March 1831. The organization brought together Christians from several evangelical denominations to reach residents who rarely or never attended church. Its organizers acknowledged that poverty itself could prevent participation in religious life citing "the want of suitable apparel or the want of provision for the poor in our places of worship-into this last reason every Church may do well to inquire." The pamphlet begins by describing the large numbers of people living in Philadelphia and its surrounding districts who remained outside the ordinary reach of the churches: "The most inattentive christian observer must have remarked that there are many persons in the City and Liberties who live in the habitual neglect of the public worship of God and are as destitute of spiritual life as if they were a thousand miles removed from the sound of the Gospel." The Mission proposed to carry religious instruction directly into poorer neighborhoods through home visits prayer meetings the distribution of Bibles and tracts and efforts to increase attendance at Sabbath and infant schools. Its members were to be drawn from different evangelical denominations and required to demonstrate personal piety before undertaking missionary work. An interesting document of Philadelphia's early urban missionary movement particularly for its recognition of the economic and social barriers separating the city's poorer inhabitants from established religious institutions. . William F. Geddes unknown books
1872réf. BK0173New York: American Church Press Company 1872. Two pamphlets in original printed wrappers 6 x9 inches. Good to very good with toning light soiling and minor wear and chipping to wrappers. Two contemporary publications documenting American preparations for the International Prison Congress held in London in July 1872. Organized principally through the efforts of American prison reformer Enoch C. Wines the congress brought together representatives from Europe and the United States to discuss prison administration criminal punishment and methods of rehabilitation. The meeting followed the American National Prison Congress of 1870 whose declaration of principles had called for greater emphasis on the reformation of offenders. The first pamphlet International Congress on the Prevention and Repression of Crime Including Penal and Reformatory Treatment: Circular Letter Addressed to the National Committees in the Several Countries Proposing to Take Part in the Congress outlines arrangements for the approaching meeting. It calls upon participating countries to establish national committees prepare reports on their existing prison systems appoint delegates and suggest subjects and specialists for discussion. The second International Congress on the Prevention and Repression of Crime Including Penal and Reformatory Treatment: Proceedings of a Public Meeting Held in Relation Thereto New York January 26th 1872 records a meeting chaired by former New York governor Horatio Seymour. It includes addresses and correspondence concerning the proposed congress among them expressions of support from foreign representatives. The meeting formed part of Wines's efforts to secure international participation in the London gathering. OCLC locates six and three copies of each title respectively over multiple entries. . American Church Press Company unknown books
1847réf. BK0175Manchester: G. & A. Falkner Printers 1847. 107 pp. 8vo. Original printed brown wrappers with front wrapper detached and substantially torn and chipped but preserved. Some additional wear and soiling. Presentation inscription at the head of the title page reading "G. T. Bigelow Esq. / From the Author. Fair overall. An examination of British prison conditions by Joseph Adshead 1800-1861 a Manchester merchant social reformer and advocate of the separate system of imprisonment. Adshead had previously published Prisons and Prisoners 1845 in which he defended the Pennsylvania system against critics including Charles Dickens who had condemned solitary confinement following his visit to the United States. Adshead argues that the prevailing practice of confining prisoners together often without adequate separation by age offense or criminal history served to encourage further crime. He describes conditions at several prisons. The presentation inscription is of particular interest. The recipient appears to be George Tyler Bigelow 1810-1878 the Massachusetts attorney and later Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In 1844 Bigelow and George Bemis defended Abner Rogers Jr. a prisoner charged with murdering Charles Lincoln Jr. the warden of the Massachusetts State Prison. Rogers was acquitted on the grounds of insanity in a widely discussed case that raised questions about criminal responsibility and the mental condition of prisoners. The presentation of Adshead's work to Bigelow suggests a connection between two men involved in contemporary debates over prisons and their administration. . G. & A. Falkner, Printers unknown books
1972réf. 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
1872réf. 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
1792réf. 6707Nürnberg: Rau 1792. First Edition. Contemporary marbled paper over paste paper boards. Good; age browning and spotting; binding broken. 8vo 4 5 - 126 2 pp. An essay on the education of young children and instructions for teachers in the German countryside. Rau hardcover books
réf. 2027Philadelphia: G. W. Mentz & Son 1840. . 16mo full contemporary leather worn; partial leather spine label; ownership notation dated 1858 on the verso of the front free endpaper The Appendix the last 131 pp. contains "Formularies for the use of the churches together with rules and orders for the government of the General Synod" pp. 46-48 of the first pagination Philadelphia: G. W. Mentz & Son, 1840. hardcover books
1839réf. 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
