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195419p. Pagination includes wraps. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps. Nice copy. PA PAMPH 20_6 BX7
1879pp. 190 + Map. Lacks frontis map. Well illustrated, including caricitures and wood engraved plates (some from photographs) showing: Native Americans; African Americans; Chinese Americans; etc. Foxed. 8vo. 230 mm. Original decorated blue cloth binding; faded. Hard bound. Good. Issued in the series 'Bibliotheque des ecoles et des Familles' this abridgment of 'Conquete Blanche' (Vattemare's translation of the Dixon's 'White Conquest' deals extensively with: race relations; social life and customs; and travel in the U.S. Especially valuable are the sections on Texas and California. William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879), historian and traveller, born near Manchester, England. In 1846 he became connected with The London Daily News, for which he wrote articles on social and prison reform. In 1850 he published John Howard and the Prison World of Europe, which had a wide circulation. Dixon was editor of The Athenaeum from 1853 to 1869, and later wrote many books of travel and observation. FR-VOYAGES
1977pp. xiii, 225 + Portrait Frontis. 8vo. Original cloth binding spine lettered in gold. Original dust jacket very slightly soiled. Smith's legal career began in 1877. He was an influential Philadelphia lawyer and reformer. PA 12.
1883pp. x, 4-232, xxxiii [Appendix]. Vol. 1 [All published?]. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of William U. Hensel (Lancaster County PA) on front paste down. 12mo. Original brown cloth binding. Extremities worn with slight loss. Black on spine. A detailed history of the overthrow of the corrupt Philadelphia Gas Ring and a tale of a hopeful future without machine politics. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 5 x2
1953162 p. Illustrated with floor plans for City Hall and Annex. 4to. Spiral binding. .
1920291 p. Illustrations. Damp stained. 12mo. Gilt decorated blue cloth binding, slightly worn. Temperance and intemperance in Pennsylvania. Presented by the Christian Temperance Union. The politics of this era were very closely relate d to temperance and reform causes. Scarce. PA 29
1929100p. + Facsimiles. Original full paper covered boards binding. Slipcase. Soiled. First edition. One of only 100 copies, without the Bibliophile insignias, privately printed for Charles E. Goodspeed, as a part of the purchase price of the manuscript material contained in the book. In 1847 Charles Dickens published a pamphlet calling on ''fallen women'' to enter a Home established by his friend Bar oness Burdett-Coutts. For many years this pamphlet was unseen by Dickens collectors and some doubt was expressed as to its very existence. Then, in 1928, Charles E. Goodspeed purchased from the last secretary of the Baroness a copy of the pamphlet together with several letters from a correspondence relating to the home and, in particular, to the efforts of Charles Dickens on behalf of a Miss Caroline Maynard Thompson. These items were purchased from Mr. Goodspeed by the Bibliophile Society. The text of the pamphlet is reprinted here, along with that of the letters. VERY SCARCE **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN 1 W34
1889262 p. XLib. [Questions of the Day, #57]. An important contribution to the study of the "Negro Problem" in the era after Reconstruction. Philip Alexander Bruce (18561933) was an American historian who specialized in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LOC?
1854pp xi, 236. Foxed. 8vo. Library buckram binding. Mildly XLib. "Dr. Dewees looks at the treatments proposed by Dr. Abolition and Dr. Colonization, and decides that a blend of emancipation and colonization will provide the optimal cure, with compensation for slave owners from the proceeds of public land sales." FIRST EDITION. Blockson 9481. LCP 3094. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN2 SE1/2
1838206 p. 12 mo. Foxed. Mildly XLib. Library buckram binding. Extremely important anti-slavery tract. William Jay (17891858), American jurist and reformer, was the son of John Jay (1745-1829), American patriot, statesman, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. For most of the period from 1818 to 1843 he served as Judge of the county court of Westchester, N.Y. An active abolitionist, Jay helped establish (1833) the New York City Anti-Slavery Society and wrote vigorous pamphlets and articles on the topic. He also was a founder (1816) of the American Bible Society; and president (1848-1858) of the American Peace Society. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 Box 4
1839240 p. 12 mo. Foxed. XLib. Spine taped. **NOTE: A very curious feature of this copy is that the copyright notice is pasted over with a changed version. Jay, the son of the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme court, was a noted attorney and staunch abolitionist. He "castigated the federal government's complicity in the crime of slavery. by contrasting actual federal involvement in slavery with the constitutionally required minimal involvement. He also contrasted the gratuitous complicity with slavery with a vision of what the national government might permissibly do against slavery. Most of Jay 's positions on congressional or executive power were well within the mainstream of legal thought of the day." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN2C/W148 Rear
1856Two volumes. pp. 329 + 6 p. [Publisher's advertisements]; 370. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Chipped at head and tale. True first edition of the important sequel to Uncle Tom's Cabin. JUN2C
1910223 p. 12mo. 17.5 cm. Original printed paper boards. Chicago seems to have always had a great reputation as the center of sin. A scarce artifact of the campaign against "White Slavery". W149
1919Two volumes. pp. (xxx) 448; (x) 531 + Plates. 8vo. 22 cm. Original publisher's cloth binding. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt. The text includes: "A Short Bibliography of the W itings of Samuel Butler and of the Books and Articles Concerning Him". Samuel Butler was born in Langar, Nottinghamshire. The son of a clergyman and grandson of a Bishop, he was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, where he achieved success as a sheep-farmer. His letters home to his father were compiled to form 'A First Year in Canterbury Settlement' (1863), which later became the core of his most popular work, 'Erewhon'. He returned to England in 1864, having accumulated a small fortune, and settled in Clifford's Inn, where he stayed until his death. In 1872 he published 'Erewhon' (an anagram for nowhere) anonymously. It attacked contemporary attitudes on morals, religion, education, and science by describing a land where (among other things) illness is considered a crime. Sick people are thrown in jail, as their sickness is their own fault. Sad people are also imprisoned, for grief is a sign of misfortune and people are held responsible for the actions that made them unfortunate. People who rob or murder, on the other hand, are treated generously and taken to the hospital to recover from their affliction. No machines are allowed in Erewhon, as a philosopher once speculated that machines could rapidly evolve and would take over the world. Students study anything that has absolutely no practical purpose at the University of Unreason. The book was scintillatingly popular. It still can be read with great enjoyment and relevance today. During the next decade Butler wrote a series of controversial scientific works. They were distinctly anti-Darwin, and especially opposed to certain aspects of the theory of natural selection. He also began experimenting in musical composition, and collaborated with his friend (and later biographer) Henry Festing Jones on the oratorio 'Narcissus' (1880). In 1896 he published the biography of his grandfather, Bishop Samuel Butler. Today, his best-known work is probably 'The Way of Al l Flesh'. It was the thoughtful result of many years of hard labor, but did not appear in his lifetime. "I am the 'enfant terrible' of literature and science. If I cannot (and I know I cannot) get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling. I can (and I know I can) heave bricks into the middle of them" - Samuel Butler, 'Notebooks' **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140
1891380 p. Curiously illustrated by the author in a naive style. Worn original full cloth binding. Lacks endpapers. Large 8vo. 23 cm. A remarkable self-published epic free verse poem that covers a vast landscape of late Victorian-American social and cultural issues and situations. Included is a chapter in black dialect. The heroine of the work is "Millie Floss." Though not a brilliant copy, the book is genuinely scarce. Bascom was a Prohibition Party politician in Steuben County, New York. Probably there is much of local interest in this book. Quite remarkable. W145
1878pp. 240, 10, 2. 16 mo. Original full cloth binding. Parkhurst was an inventive man who, at a young age, learned short-hand and became a well-known Boston court reporter. He was taken by the idea of spelling reform (as well as other forms of social change) and published, at his own expense this little quasi-magazine. In addition to topics relating to short-hand, spelling, pronounciation, and punctuation - this little magazine dealt with: Universal Suffrage; Economics; Science (especially Astronomy); Population Control; Land Reform; Voting Rights; and much more. Very Scarce. OCLC records only the copies at Georgetown and Rutgers. VERY SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W147/Rt Stk
1904410p. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Hinges weak. The discussion includes topics such as: awakening = moderation 1785-1826; progression = abstinence 1826-1851; taxation; culmination = prohibi tion; Internal Revenue Act; moral movements since the Civil War; legal and political measures since The War; ground won and ground of conflict; the alleged failures of prohibition; the lessons of expe rience; a temperance constituency; Prohibition Party Movement; Etc. PHREN 2
1983pp. xxx, 575. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Third Edition, Fourteenth Printing. A very nice copy dust jacketed. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WHISKEY 4 **
1912189p. 12mo. Original full blue gold stamped cloth binding. Deals with Republican infighting over gubernatorial candidates; and the Temperance question. First Edition. WHISKEY 4
1915pp. 135, (10) [Publisher's catalogue]. 12mo. Original full red cloth binding. Spine label. WHISKEY 3
1952pp. 294 + Plus portrait frontis and photographs of Doctors. Illustrated. Presentation copy given to Albert L. Sheaffer by the Lycoming County Tuberculosis Society for his publicity program in behalf of the Society. Signed by the Society's president, Dr. L. E. Wurster. Also newspaper clipping. Tall 8vo. Original full gold stamped blue cloth binding. Nice copy. MED 9
1960369p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn and torn. AFRICA/1
1855Full Title: DISCUSSIONS ON PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY REFORM. Chiefly From the Edinburgh Review; Corrected, Vindicated, Enlarged, in Notes and Appendices. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart. With an Introductory Essay by Robert Turnbull. pp. xlviii, 9-764. Damp stained. Bookplates of Geo B. Orlady and the Library of the Philo Literary Society. Small 4to. 9.50" x 6". Original full brown cloth binding embossed and decorated in blind. Binding worn. Hardbound. Good. Sir William Hamilton, the 9th Baronet (1788-1856) was an influential Scottish metaphysician and teacher of philosophy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 4
1927pp. iv, 158. Ruled title page. Small 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, decorated and embossed in black. Original dust jacket. Slightly torn. Nice copy. Coldwar/Economics 10
1755Full Title: "A BRIEF STATE OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA In Which The Conduct of Their Assemblies for several Years past is impartially examined,and the true Cause of the continual Encroachments of the French displayed, more especially the secret Design of their late unwarrantable Invasion and Settlement upon the River Ohio. To which is annexed, As easy Plan for restoring Quiet in the public Measures of that Province, and defeating the ambitious Views of the French in time to come. In a Letter from a Gentleman who has resided many years in Pennsylvania to his Friend in London. Second Edition." 45 p. [Bound without the half-title]. Small 8vo. Nice late 19th century half leather pamphlet binder, front board detached. Text in unusually fine condition. An in-depth look into Pennsylvania politics at the time of the French and Indian War, and the relationships between the Quakers, Germans and "Menonists", English, French and Moravians in the young colony. "Smith's Brief State with its laments over the capture by the Quakers of the 'ignorant German vote' through the help of their 'hireling printer' (Christopher Saur), and its demand that the Germans be denied the vote 'till they have sufficient knowledge of our language and constitution.'" Howes S-686; Sabin 84590. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 61 L Stk