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1877réf. BK0163New York: National Printing Company 1877. 8vo 56 pp. Original printed wrappers. "Compliments of Dr. Wines" slip affixed to title page. Near fine with a small tear to front wrapper at seam. Proceedings of an important national conference on prison reform organized around a program prepared by Enoch Cobb Wines the leading American prison reformer of the period. Wines had served as secretary of the New York Prison Association and was instrumental in organizing the landmark National Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline at Cincinnati in 1870. The Newport conference met seven years later to formulate a practical system of penal institutions and policies that could be recommended to state legislatures. Much of the pamphlet is devoted to the conference's "Outline Draft of a System of Preventive Reformatory and Penitentiary Institutions and Discipline" which attempted to address criminal justice as a single system extending from childhood through incarceration. Its recommendations begin with compulsory education and institutions for neglected and delinquent children and proceed through reform schools houses of detention women's prisons county jails and state penitentiaries. The conference was particularly severe in its judgment of the existing jail system: "The county jails of the United States numbering about two thousand are with few exceptions schools of vice nurseries of crime and feeders of the penitentiaries. Their construction and management are alike bad; indeed the former is so radically defective as to render any good administration of them impossible." The conference occurred during a period when many of Wines's ideas were beginning to find practical application most notably at Elmira under Zebulon Brockway. Its recommendations ranged from compulsory education and separate institutions for juveniles and women to trained prison officers productive labor improved sanitation and greater state oversight. The "Compliments of Dr. Wines" slip gives this copy a nice association with the man chiefly responsible for both the conference and the program it produced. . National Printing Company 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
réf. BK0166Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. 203 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Near Fine. An important contemporary attack on the Pennsylvania system of prison discipline and its use of prolonged cellular separation published during a heated national and international debate over the treatment of prisoners. Gray had served as vice-president of the Boston Prison Discipline Society and for several years chaired the board of directors of the Massachusetts State Prison. The book appeared amid the bitter 1846-47 controversy within the Boston Prison Discipline Society after Charles Sumner challenged the organization's longstanding hostility toward the Pennsylvania system. Sumner's intervention drew attention in Europe and correspondence from Alexis de Tocqueville; Gray answered from the opposing side with the present work. A later account specifically identified Prison Discipline in America as the principal American response taking a stand against the Pennsylvania system.1 Gray's argument rests heavily on comparative evidence from American prisons including statistics from the Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown and Eastern State Penitentiary at Philadelphia. He regarded the higher rates of insanity and mortality under constant separation as evidence against the system concluding that it tended to "enfeeble the body and the mind." His observations became an enduring part of the literature on solitary confinement and continue to be cited in modern medical and legal discussions of its psychological effects. A particularly nice copy in near fine condition in the original wraps. 1 "RIVAL SYSTEMS OF PRISON DISCIPLINE. Speech before the Boston Prison Discipline Society at the Tremont Temple June 18 1847" in Charles Sumner. His Complete Works Lee and Shepard 1900 digitized by Project Gutenberg accessed October 8 2026 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45473/pg45473-images.html. . Charles C. Little and James Brown unknown books
1904réf. 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
1972réf. 232591972. Prison and IncarcerationSocial activism Prison reform organizing conference broadside. Attica and San Quentin prison organizing stand at the center of this January 1972 Berkeley conference broadside which opens with a Brecht quote "Slave who is it that shall free you.all of us or none" and declares that "no one in America today is more a slave than the inmates in American prisons." The text ties prison struggle to "class and racial oppression" names the murders at Attica and San Quentin and frames the prison system as a site of beatings drugs "behavior modification" and brain surgery schemes. The conference was held just a few months after the 1971 Attica uprising during which prisoners revolted against inhumane treatment and racial discrimination in a violent struggle that left 39 dead. The conference roster grounds the prison rights moment Bay Area Black liberation featuring figures including Afeni Shakur Fay Stender and former Soledad Prison chief psychiatrist Frank Rundle. "Slave Who Is It Shall Free You . . . All of Us or None." The Struggle Inside. Prison Action Conference. Berkeley 1972. Single-sheet broadside 8.5 x 11 inches for a prison action conference scheduled for January 28-30 in Pauley Ballroom UC Berkeley printed on both sides. Recto features two halftone prison photographs and a dense typed manifesto arguing that prisoner demands had moved "from traditional demands for food and shelter to demands for civil and religious rights and finally to a general challenge to the prison system and the society which fosters it." It announces the conference as "a forum for self education and exploration of potential action to assist the prison movement" with key speakers Afeni Shakur a defendant in the Panther 21 trial Fay Stender a Berkeley attorney with years of prison movement experience and Frank Rundle former chief psychiatrist at Soledad Prison. Verso gives the full three-day program: Friday evening remarks by Stender and Shakur; Saturday sessions on "Medical Repression in Prisons" "Adult Authority and Indeterminate Sentencing" "Economics of Prisons" "Juvenile Reformatories and Detention" and "Prisoners Demands"; and Sunday sessions on "Women in Prison" "Defense of Political Prisoners" "Military Prisons" "Prison-Community Communications" "Prisoners Organizations" "County Jails and Pre-trial Detention" plus a closing "Panel Discussion on Racism." The broadside illustrates the actions and intentions of the Berkeley prison movement at a time when prison rebellion legal defense anti-racist analysis and ex-prisoner testimony were being brought before public audiences in the aftermath of the Attica Uprising. Afeni Shakur's appearance links the handbill to the political world of the Black Panther movement while the inclusion of sessions on women in prison political prisoners juvenile detention county jails and medical repression demonstrate the intersectional goals of the movement and the broadening of post-Attica activism from outrage over one massacre to a larger indictment of prison administration and criminal punishment. Some light staining; otherwise very good condition. A Bay Area prison movement piece that preserves both the rhetoric and the working program of organizing against U.S. imprisonment in the immediate aftermath of the 1971 Attica Uprising. unknown books
1834réf. 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
1887réf. 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
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
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
1846réf. 39101Philadelphia 1846. 16 of 18 issues lacking 1 and 2 bound together in contemporary three-quarter calf with marbled boards. Pages numbered 33-288. Some leaves browned. General title page is absent; a small bookplate "Bodichon Scalands Robertsbridge" covers the caption title of No. 3. This is the bookplate of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon notable British artist feminist writer and women's rights activist who founded the first women's college at the University of Cambridge. Bound in contemporary quarter calf rubbed and marbled paper over boards. Occasional text browning. Except as noted Very Good. This periodical is a literary anthology of American and British reformist prose and poetry with significant anti-slavery contributions. The authors included John Greenleaf Whittier James Russell Lowell Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry Longfellow John Pierpont Lydia Maria Child Harriet Martineau Lydia Sigourney Alfred Lord Tennyson Elizabeth Barrett and William Lloyd Garrison who wrote three poems for the journal one while imprisoned for libel of a merchant he had accused of illegal slave trading. The anti-slavery pieces are not only poetic most famous being Whittier's "Branded Hand" but also include his essay on the "Slave Market at Washington" Child on the "Economy of Slavery" the "Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society" and principles of the 1838 "Peace Convention" organized by Garrison. LCP 10848. AI 46-7277 6. Not in Lomazow or Mott. unknown books
2002réf. 11263Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press 2002. First Edition. Illustrated Paperback. Near fine. Report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform signed by President Jimmy Carter. This report was produced by Brookings Institution with co-chairs being: Jimmy Carter Gerald R. Ford Lloyd N. Cutler and Robert H. Michel. Octavo vii 358pp. Illustrated paperback title on cover and spine. This copy appears unread. Signed by President Jimmy Carter on the half title with a full signature. In the wake of the 2000 presidential election a commission was established to look at the integrity of voting systems around the United States. The commission proposed improvements to federal state and local voting systems. The recommendations resulted in landmark legislation called the Help America Vote Act signed by President George W. Bush in 2002. Brookings Institution Press paperback 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
1801réf. 5570New York: I Collins 1801. First Edition. Somewhat later full sheep. Very good; some flaking to the spine of the binding; some offsetting to the plates; otherwise a bright fresh copy. 8vo 4 5 - 94 95 - 109 are erroneously numbered 83 - 97pp. 2 large folding plates a floor plan and elevation and 2 folding tables included in the pagination. Eddy was a Quaker merchant and reformer who had spent time in prison during the Revolution because of his Tory sympathies. He had befriended Philip Schuyler the father-in-law of Alexander Hamilton and hosted a visit of his to Philadelphia to inspect the Walnut Street Jail in 1796. This visit was the impetus for the first penal reform in New York State. Eddy was thus launched upon a career. In 1801 he published the book offered here that is a description of a new prison. The actual design was the work of the Mangin brothers see DAB who are best known for the design of New York City Hall. Eddy's report however contains all of his stipulations for the building and its appointments as well as a detailed summary of how the inmates were to be treated menu lists clothing etc. A most important book: the first native American work on prisons written by the country's first prison director. S & S #431; King Am. Philanthropy # 817; Sabin #21816; see Lewis for citations to Eddy. I Collins unknown books
1747réf. 65Valensa Actually Lisbon: Antonio Balle Unknown 1747 Actually 1751. Second Edition. Contemporary calf; rebacked; spine laid down; hinges reinforced. Fair copy; overall browning; headlines on several leaves are gouged out affecting page numbers. Library release stamp on the verso of the first title page. 4to. I: 12 12 - 264 ; II: 4 12 - 243244 pp. A scarce and according to Palau important tract in the development and introduction of modern pedagogical concepts into Spain. The first edition of 1746 was seized and destroyed. The second edition was clandestinely printed see Martins Livros clandestinos . A revolutionary book in opposing the Jesuits and with very interesting comments on the teaching of the sciences medicine jurisprudence literary aesthetics and the education of women. The book generated a considerable polemical literature. Palau citing the first # 360777. Antonio Balle [Unknown] 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
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
1843réf. ST20896London: William Pickering and John W. Parker and Son 1843-57. Second Edition of volumes I III V VI VIII XI XV XVII. Third Edition of volume II. FIRST EDITIONS of the other 13 volumes. 170 x 103 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 1/8". 22 volumes bound as 13. Pleasing contemporary calf by Leighton stamp-signed on verso of front flyleaf covers framed with a double blind rule raised bands spine compartments with a single gilt sun tool russet morocco labels lettered in gilt all edges sprinkled. First volume with one plate depicting the brain and one illustration in the text depicting the brains of different animals. Final volume with an ad for the complete series by John W. Parker. A few light scratches scuffs and spots to leather each volume with offset from ribbon page marker other trivial defects but a fine and attractive set--extraordinarily fresh and clean internally in bindings essentially without wear. Containing a rarely seen complete run of 22 separate works in 13 volumes this attractive set represents the joint efforts of a female Victorian polymath and major publisher William Pickering to introduce the general public to a very wide range of subjects partly to contribute to general popular education and partly to alert the public to the need for reform. Caroline Cornwallis 1786-1858 was a writer scholar and feminist activist whose life-long self-directed course of study led her to explore subjects as diverse as mineralogy theology Tuscan law and the Ancient Egyptian language. In 1842 the first work in the "Small Books on Great Subjects" series appeared authored anonymously by Cornwallis she is named only as "A Pariah" and the editorship of the series is credited to "A Few Well-Wishers to Knowledge". Along with initiating and editing the series Cornwallis composed all but four of the books herself the second and third numbers were written by John Barlow #15 by Wilhelm von Humboldt and #16 by David Power. The works cover philosophy psychology chemistry Greek philosophy Christian history and theology biology law grammar geology politics and more and proved to be a great success in Britain and America. Some of the volumes are histories of general interest "A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles" and "Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century"; others are of significant scientific content "The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy" and "On Man’s Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity; still others are strongly reformist in thrust "On the Principles of Criminal Law" decrying the harshness of punitive Victorian laws and "On the Philosophy of Ragged Schools" dealing with the pressing issue of educating London's poor. Initially "Small Books on Great Subjects" was published by William Pickering but upon his 1853 bankruptcy John W. Parker took over the series. Stray volumes of this series are readily available but complete sets especially in the condition seen here are much more difficult to find. William Pickering (and John W. Parker and Son) unknown books
1856réf. 4036Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido 1856. Still very good. 17pp. Original printed wrappers bound into full calf front board gilt lettered. Some toning and scattered light foxing. This law was promulgated at the end of 1856 by the new liberal government of Mexico following its ascendancy in the mid-1850s and preceded the reform Constitution of 1857 by two months. Its statutes defined "crimes against the independence and security of the nation" including various forms of treason rebellion and foreign military service or assistance and made them punishable by death. The law anticipated conservative resistance and revolt against the new policies of the liberal faction that aimed to strip power and influence from the church and traditional aristocracy of the country. Their efforts indeed led to full-scale civil war in 1858 and the second French intervention in the early 1860s. OCLC locates a small handful of institutional copies and we locate just one in available sales records. Scarce and in attractive original wrappers. Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido 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
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
1840réf. ST20302-02London: Francis Baisler 1840. FIRST EDITION. 195 x 130 mm. 7 3/4 x 5". xi 1 307 1 4 pp. Publisher's black pebbled morocco covers elaborately decorated in blind with gilt centerpieces smooth spine decorated in gilt all edges gilt gutter between the end of the text and the ads at the back expertly reinforced. With 10 engraved plates including the frontispiece and engraved title. Dedication page with contemporary ink ownership inscription of Wm. C. Drysdale. Noticeable discoloration to pastedowns and flyleaves from binding adhesive plates negligibly foxed otherwise especially clean and fresh internally with only the most trivial of imperfections; the exceptionally clean binding showing virtually no signs of use. This collection of essays and verse promoting Protestant thought and values comes in a beautifully preserved Victorian publisher's binding. The editor of this work Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 1790-1846 was an evangelical Protestant social reformer particularly devoted to exposing poor factory conditions and improving the welfare of women and the poor. Writing under the name Charlotte Elizabeth she made "contributions to social reform literature and her use of the 'Christian Lady's Magazine' as a forum to influence politics through her female readers mark her as a significant nineteenth-century figure especially for other women social reform writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe . . . and Elizabeth Gaskell." DNB Of particular note in our volume is an essay by Charlotte Elizabeth discussing the figure of Katherine Parr sixth wife of Henry VIII as a model of Protestantism and womanhood. Francis Baisler 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
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
