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1827AQ19356London: Printed by Luke Hansard and Sons 1827. 56pp. With four lithographed folding plans by William Webb. Contemporary perhaps original publisher's roan-backed boards morocco lettering piece gilt to upper board. Rubbed with slight loss to spine and short cracks to joints at head and foot. Some spotting and damp-marking to plates. A handsome copy of a comprehensive account of the governance and operation of Lincoln county gaol at Lincoln Castle founded in 1789 which includes the specific rules surrounding prisoners' labour discipline religious observance and diet in Lincoln and extracts of prevailing Regency penal legislation including references to female prisoners and the manner of removing the bodies of executed prisoners. The four plans illustrate executed by William Webb illustrate three floor plans of the gaol and a general ground plan of the Castle. Rare. COPAC locates only four copies in the UK BL NT Royal Society and Senate House; OCLC adds four copies in North America Chigago Georgia Ohio State and Simon Fraser and three elsewhere Auckland Hong Kong University and Queensland. . First edition. Quarto. Printed by Luke Hansard and Sons hardcover
19121080Londres etc.: Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company Limited. 1912. First edition. Large quarto. Publisher's original full dark-green morocco; the upper board triple-ruled in gilt and with the Uruguayan crest in gilt; the spine with five raised bands compartments ruled and decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page contents page introduction and first text page with gilt borders and embellishments. Illustrated profusely throughout with black and white photographs and one map. Ownership inscription of the Australian writer Mary Gilmore to the head of the title page: "Mary Gilmore / Her book / 16. 3. 26". A very good copy the binding square and firm with a few small marks and scuffs to the boards rubbing to the spine and joints and wear to the corners. The contents with scattered foxing to the endpapers are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. An interesting association copy of this comprehensive extensively illustrated and luxuriously produced survey of the people culture history politics economy industry agriculture geography and natural history of Uruguay at the beginning of the twentieth-century belonging to the influential Australian author journalist and poet Dame Mary Gilmore 1865-1962. </p><p>A prolific contributor to Australian literature and the broader national discourse during the first half of the twentieth-century Gilmore wrote for a number of leading newspapers and journals of the period serving as the editor of the women's section of The Australian Worker 1908-1931 as well as The Bulletin The Sydney Morning Herald and the Communist Party's Tribune becoming known as a campaigner for the welfare of the disadvantaged. Her first volume of poetry was issued in 1910 thereafter publishing prodigiously for the ensuing half-century coming to be regarded as one of Australia's most popular and widely read poets. Her poetry essays and memoirs covered a wide variety of themes although public imagination was particularly captured by her evocative views of country life with her best known work - 'No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest' - serving as a morale booster during the Second World War.</p><p>A political progressive Gilmore gained a reputation as a 'fiery radical' - a champion of the workers and the oppressed. Involving herself with the burgeoning labour movement early in her life she had become a devotee of the utopian socialism of William Lane 1861-1917. In 1896 Gilmore and two hundred others followed Lane to Paraguay where they established a communal settlement called New Australia. She started a family there with William Gilmore whom she married in 1897 but the colony was ultimately short-lived with Gilmore leaving in 1900 living in Buenos Aires for six months followed by a period in Patagonia returning to Australia in 1902 after having saved enough money for a return passage.</p><p>Gilmore maintained a strong interest in Latin American politics culture and literature for the rest of her life. Indeed she also engaged in translation projects bringing Latin American literature to a wider audience notably endeavouring to produce a 'Uruguayan anthology' for which she corresponded with friends and associates in the country. This was perhaps also the origin of the present volume which itself forms a pleasing representation of Gilmore's wide-ranging ambitions.</p><p>By her later years Gilmore was a doyenne of the Sydney literary world and became something of a national icon making frequent appearances in the new media of radio and television and maintaining a significant literary output into old age publishing her last book of verse in 1954 aged 89. She died at the age of 97 and was accorded a state funeral a rare honour for a writer and has featured on the reverse of the Australian ten-dollar note since 1993. Londres [etc.]: Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company, Limited. hardcover
181991196Paris: Imprimerie de Denugon 1819. A collection of 18 reports issued between April and December 1819 for the French Royal Society for the Improvement of Prisons comprising: 1. Rapport au Roi 9 avril 1819. 8 pp. Signed in print by the Comte Decazes. 2. Ordonnance du Roi 9 avril 1819. Pp. 9-14 Signed in print by Louis and Decazes. 3. Circulaire de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur à MM. les préfets 4 mai 1819. 5 pages. 4. Statuts de la Société royale pour l'amélioration des Prisons 15 mai 1819. Pp. 15-18. 5. Liste des Fondateurs de la Société royale pour l'amélioration des Prisons. Pp. 19-30. 6. Arrêté de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 7 août 1819. Pp. 8. 7. Réglement de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 7 août 1819. Pp. 9-14. 8. Procès-verbal d'installation de la Société royale des prisons 14 juin 1819. Pp. 15-29. 9. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 25 mai 1819 M. le duc de la Rochefoucauld rapporteur. Pp. 31-38. 10. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans ses séances des 25 mai et 8 juin 1819 M. Pariset rapporteur. Pp. 39-71. 11. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 2 juin 1819 M. le comte Bigot de Préameneu rapporteur . Pp. 73-88. 12. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 8 juin 1819 M. le comte de La Borde rapporteur. Pp. 89-100. 13. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans la même séance M. Try rapporteur. Pp. 109. 14. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans la même séance M. Jacquinot ded Pampelune rapporteur. Pp. 111-121. 15. Visite des prisons des départemens de l'Eure et de la Seine-Inférieure en octobre 1819 M. le marquis de Barbé Marbois. Pp. 44. 16. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons M. le comte Bigot de Préameneu. pp. 136. 17. Arrêté de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 25 décembre 1819. Pp. 137-154. 18. Extraits des lois et réglemens concernant l'administration et la police des prisons. Pp. 2 39. Quarto 243 x 192 mm. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Occasional light spotting; a very good copy. unknown
18474980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown
42542Quebec. Printed for the contractors by Hunter Rose & Co. 1861. 8vo. 24cm 176p. in the original printed blue wrappers with the title repeated on the upper cover in publisher's frame border a fine copy rare. cdn. T.P.L. 3960. Our first copy. no records and listings located. With a list of places visited including the Quarantine Hospital Grosse Isle. Report addressed to Sir Edmund Walker Head Governor General of the British Provinces in North America. Includes also Lunatic Asylums Marine Hospitals Penitentiary Reformatories. Quebec. Printed for the contractors, by Hunter, Rose & Co. 1861 unknown
1855097202London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1855. Book measures 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. 399pp. Bound in modern quarter calf marble boards red leather title label. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally pages clean throughout. A very nice clean well bound copy. First Edition. Very Good Plus. 8vo. George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
BN316490Le Laurier. Softcover. L'histoire d'un oui : Vie de Saint Josémaria Escriva racontée aux enfants <br/><br/>L'histoire d'un oui : Vie de Saint Josémaria Escriva racontée aux enfants Miguel-A. CARCELES et Isabel TORRA Le Laurier paperback
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1804200092AG1804. no place. c.1804. Original engraving. Plate Size: 10 cm x 19 cm. Sheet Size: 13. 3 cm x 21 cm. In very good condition. Minor inkstain visible. A handsome engraving based an earlier portrait of Neild by Samuel De Wilde. Beneath the portrait is an allegorical scene related to Neild's work as a penal reformer. The full title is as follows: "James Neild Esqr. High Sheriff of the County of Bucks. 1804 At 60. One of his Majesty's acting Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Buckingham Kent and Middlesex and the City of Liberty of Westminster. Treasurer of the Society for the Relief of persons imprisoned for small debts." James Neild 4 June 1744 16 February 1814 was an English jeweller and prison reformer. While he was supported by two particular friends Weeden Butler and John Coakley Lettsom his efforts were distinct from those of John Howard and the Quaker group including Elizabeth Fry. Wikipedia unknown
193176467Moundsville: Work & Hope 1931. First edition for this year OCLC records no holding for this year but does for 1927 4 1930 3 1932 3 1935 2 1937 1. Octavo. 48 pp. Extensively illustrated from photographs. Publisher's teal wrappers with red lettering and a large decorated border. Some finger soiling to rear wrapper else a very good copy.The publishers Work & Hope and printers and writers were all inmates of the Moundsville Penitentiary in West Virginia. Likely they worked in the hope of getting released as for a time the Moundsville Penitentiary ranked on the United States Department of Justice's Top Ten Most Violent Correctional Facilities list. The photographs herein present a different story of course. We see a beautiful chapel clean and tidy cells and prisoners at work in the shirt shop the broom shop and the whip shop. There are also photographs of the gothic prison itself. When it was built it was outside the town but by the time of closing it was right in the middle of a residential zone One of the countries most famous pre-historic mounds lent its name to the town.'The West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville was built in 1876 and closed in 1995. During its working history it was deemed as one of the most violent prisons in the U.S.A. seeing its fair share of riots murders and executions. Conditions were less than adequate and humane with the cells and rooms crawling with vermin and cockroaches.During its operation there were 36 reported murders and 94 executions. This does not take into account the suicides and accidents which take the total number of deaths to nearly 1000" A. Oborn 2019 Work & Hope unknown
183339519Paris: Au Dépôt de Lois Chez Gustave Pissin Imprimerie de P. Dupont et Laguionie 1833. Pp. 1-32 49-128 lacking part of "Nouvelle lois actes rendues en Angleterre" and much of Victor Foucher's "Code pénal de la république de Bolivia". 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound accompanied by upper cover some light spotting inked underlining of a few pages else very good. Pp. 1-32 49-128 lacking part of "Nouvelle lois actes rendues en Angleterre" and much of Victor Foucher's "Code pénal de la république de Bolivia". 1 vols. 8vo. Intended to provide the readers with recent changes or papers in the international legal and economic fields. Includes Mittermaier's paper on the British Penal System "Renseignemens nouveaux et récens sur l'efficacité du systeme pénal des Anglais et spécialement de la transportation" pp. 7-24 a section on "Nouvelle Publications" the "Chronique" M. Pinnheiro-Ferreira former minister of Portugal's "Observations sur la loi belge du 1er Octobre 1833 concernant l'extridition des réfugiés" pp. 65-80 an extract of the article by M. Wagener on "De l'Administration de la Justice criminelle en Autriche" pp. 113-122. Au Dépôt de Lois, Chez Gustave Pissin [Imprimerie de P. Dupont et Laguionie unknown
186447074Philadelphia: Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission by King & Baird Prs 1864. Very Good. Philadelphia: Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission by King & Baird Prs. 1864. First Edition. Octavo; purple cloth stamped in gilt; 283pp. Four plates map. Ex-library though with no external institutional markings. Boards worn at extremities with chipping to spine ends and brief exposure to joints and corners; spine faded. Binding sound; ca. 1900 library plate to front pastedown; stamp to title; top portion of the title page torn away not affecting text; else unmarked; still a Very Good copy; includes the four plates of starved soldiers; images available upon request. <br /> <br /> Sabin 51791. Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, by King & Baird, Prs unknown
1845elala484Brussels: Weissenbruch Père 1845. 1845. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. iv 316 ccxv 1errata. 3 folding lithographed plans. partially unopened in original printed wrs. wrs. & outer leaves chipped at edges & detached lower margins of plates ragged upper inner margin of two leaves of preface wanting affecting several words. Brussels: Weissenbruch Père, 1845. unknown
188232544Richmond VA: W. A. Mountcastle 1882. Lithograph. Ca. 9" X 8". Very good. Well-known lithograph of the notorious Confederate prison in Richmond second in infamy only to Georgia's Andersonville Prison. A clean and handsome example of this famous image of this prison with six large tents in the middle ground. One soldier stands sentry in the foreground another stands with arm in a sling and a handful of others military and civilian mill about near the tents and along the large brick structure; interestingly three male civilians stand as a group in the foreground one of them clutching the hand of a young girl clearly posing for the photograph upon which this lithograph has been based. A front corner of the building still retains its original large "Libby & Son / Ship Chandlers & Grocers" sign. An attractive and highly detailed image. Housed in a modern ca. 1970s single cream matte and a simple ½" wooden frame with non-glare glass overall dimensions 12" X 11½". A simple but suitable presentation. W. A. Mountcastle unknown
CA05A-00327United States Bureau Of Prisons. Collectible - Good. United States Bureau Of Prisons 1949. 4to hardcover. Black cloth with gilt lettering and front board device. 317pp. Good book and Near Good dust jacket. The front and rear hinges are bit stress though binding remains secure. The dust jacket is quite shelfworn with a split to the upper front joint and slight dampstaining to each corner. jails prisons architecture design Inquire if you need further information. United States Bureau Of Prisons hardcover
193480648New York: National Library Press 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 256pp. Minor bumping to the spine ends a little superficial wear to extremities strong and handsome with a few areas of discolouration to the bright red cloth in a clean solid dustjacket lightly sunned and spotted to the spine and with some soiling of the white areas and shallow marginal wear. A very good copy. Internally clean although there is some acid reaction or offsetting to the pastedowns and flyleaves toning to page edges. Six illustrative photographs. A rather fascinating early work on conditions for prisoners in US carcerial institutions Fishman pioneered what was referred to as "Deprivation Theory" citing lack of access to heterosexual relationships as a major cause of unrest and friction amongst inmates he was an early suggestor of conjugal visits and a reduction in overcrowding:<br /> "Why is there such a wall of silence encircling the subject of Sex in Prison We are living in a frank and realistic age yet the subject of sex in prison - so provocative so vital so timely in view of the recent epidemic of prison riots - is shrouded in dread silence."<br /> Fishman's researches despite encompassing a number of theories that we know today definitively contribute to unrest and violence amongst prison populations weren't favourably received until the 1960's when a new generation of reformers took sections of his research and advanced them into a more modern understanding of what happens to incarcerated peoples and why the concept of "punishment" is essentially useless without a conceptual pathway towards rehabilitation and a time "after punishment." An important book. National Library Press unknown
10058London 1818. 'Ordered by The House of Commons to be Printed 5 June 1818.'. Folio 293 pp. With fold-out engraved 'Ground Plan of the New Prison Clerkenwell Commenced Septr. 1816'. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Paginated in a contemporary hand 1 to 29 5. Good on lightly-aged paper. The minutes of evidence cover 152 pages with testimony on Tothill Fields Clerkenwell and Cold Bath Fields Prisons and on 'POLICE:- Parish Officers: - Licencing System'. Scarce: copies on COPAC at the Victoria and Albert Museum the Guildhall Southampton and Oxford. London, 1818. ['Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 5 June 1818.'] unknown
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191273780Jeffersonville IN: Reformatory Press 1912. First edition. Octavo. 8 ll. printed on rectos only and bound at the top. Publisher's string-tied brown wrappers with printed paper title label on front. Excellent.This pamphlet lauds the fact that one of the very first psychological laboratories in the country was opening at the Reformatory at Jeffersonville preceded by New York and Boston. This was a huge step forward in penal reform and reflects the growing importance of psychology in preparing inmates for the outside world. "The new laboratory was endorsed by academics and reformers across the country including sociologist Hasting Hart of the Russell Sage Foundation Charles Henderson from the University of Chicago Zebulon Brockway and Maude Ballington Booth. Warden Peyton explained how the lab would disseminate knowledge and significantly advance prison reform. He also emphasized that both heredity and environment played a role in crime. Interestingly Governor Thomas Marshall rejected this view because he said it would be necessary to reject the religious doctrine of original sin" P. R. Clark; Barred Progress 2008. Earlier it was commonly believed that the best course of action for the health of society was to sterilize the insane and "feeble-minded" inmates. But Dr. Petyton was of the new school of though and pushed for psychological reform rather than physical. "Fortunately for inmates the big push for sterilization fizzled and was replaced by a more sophisticated and nuanced approach to crime and the treatment of criminals. In the summer of 1912 prison officials and the scientific community collaborated to create a department of research at the Indiana Reformatory. The psychology laboratory paralleled the commencement of the research department but other sub-departments soon followed including those dedicated to medical and sociological research. The research department took individual testing classification and treatment to a new level. Using relatively new techniques such as the Binet-Simon IQ test researchers tested inmates for perception association memory reason orientation fatigue mental activity motor control moral appreciation the ability to profit by experience attention the ability to carry on a conversation and the ability to plan. Researchers further classified the inmates by the kinds of criminal activity in which they participated. These categories included habitual criminal born criminal criminal through passion criminal by chance accidental" Ibid. The Laboratory seemed to have functioned as both a guidance counselor and a low-skill trade school. David Peyton was a doctor prison warden and a champion of prison reform and published Psychology and Crime 1915; Principles of Prison Reform 1915; The Differential Diagnosis of Crime 1912; Crime as an Expression of Feeble-Mindedness 1913 and many others. He once risked his entire career when he decided to allow the inmates at the Reformatory to fight a local fire.OCLC only locates 2 copies and incorrectly gives the page count as 12. {Reformatory Press] unknown
18163Scholarly article on the overlooked state of women in prison. "Women of the Convicted Class" by Rhetta Alexander. Center for Women's Studies and Services Publications 1971. Stapled with bright blue front and back soft covers front cover with illustration of black snake coiled around the female gender symbol. Measures 8.5 x 11 inches. 13 pages with article subdivided into parts I-VI. 75 cent mark on upper left hand of front cover. Paper details the institutional disinterest on the state of women's prisons and the broader systemic link between patriarchy and female incarceration. "The nature of the crimes committed by women and the conditions surrounding their imprisonment are rooted in the sexism of American society; a society in which sex-based inequlities are written into the law." A sweeping indictment of the carceral state and call to action for a population most often ignored. Slight crease to back cover. Very good condition. unknown
Z1-H-006-00874Home Office HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Home Office, HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales unknown
Z1-C-084-01153The Inspectorate. Used - Good. Paperback. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. The Inspectorate paperback
Z1-I-018-00504Home Office. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. [Home Office] unknown
a26243May 14 1937. 4to. 69 leaves mimeo on rectos charts blue stapled wraps. Good several corners bumped. . paperback
19941862244900Scepter Publishing 1994. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. This copy is in a hardcover format. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Scepter Publishing paperback