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192014043Kansas City: Burton Publishing Co 1920. First Edition. Small octavo 19cm. Cloth boards lettered in red and black; 184pp. Presentation copy warmly inscribed on front endpaper to UMWA President John L. Lewis: "To John L. Lewis Esq / I am with you heart and soul in any honest effort to better the condition of the heroic hardies who work under ground / R.D. Kathrens" dated 1920. Light wear and soil to boards; presentation leaf has been tipped-on to a stub; a few marginal marks in text possibly in Lewis's hand; Very Good. Publishes a series of letters from the author to Charles Schwab who at this time was President of Bethlehem Steel seeking Schwab's support in implementing a sort of "maximum wage" scheme in the United States. Kathrens's letters grow increasingly indignant as Schwab steadfastly ignores his requests for the courtesy of a reply: ".it is hardly consistent with the civilities--as we understand them west of the Alleghenies--to shoo me away or send me to the back door or require me to deal with the servants." Kathrens professes his own sanity and good judgment frequently enough that our sympathies fall firmly on the side of Mr. Schwab. Includes a full reprint of Kathrens' earlier effort The Menace of the Millionaire and reprints other letters to and from Samuel Untermeyer and George W. Perkins. Burton Publishing Co unknown books
197114621Washington: USNSA United States National Student Association 1971. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Original printed wrappers; 298pp. Ownership signature to front cover and title page; mild external wear and soil; Very Good. Collection of essays on educational reform including contributions by Carl rogers Rick Kean Gerald Farber James Nixon Peter Marin and others. USNSA [United States National Student Association] unknown books
199099233Accra: Ghana Law Reform Commission 1990. 10p. 7.25x9.75 inches very good in original stapled decorative wraps. Ghana Law Reform Commission unknown books
195251262Los Angeles: Freedom Clubs 1952. Offprint. Quarto 11" x 8-1/2"; bifolium; 4pp. Two horizontal mailing folds as issued else Fine. Reprinted from the December 1952 issue of the National Republic. Right-wing attack on attempts to block passage of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act which established immigration restrictions in order to ". safeguard the country from communism "Jewish interests" and undesirables . deemed as external threats to national security" REF: Marinari. "Divided and Conquered: Immigration Reform Advocates and the Passage of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act." Journal of American Ethnic History vol. 35 no. 3 Spring 2016. Freedom Clubs unknown books
190473808Washington 1904. Paperback. Good. 19p. Pamphlet. Disbound removed from a bound volume. No separate wrapper present. 23cm. Stitching gone. 58th Congress 2d Session. Document No. 150. <br/><br/> paperback books
193715340New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Orange cloth 336pp frontis photographic plates; pictorial dustjacket. Boards soiled and faintly dampstained on upper one-third of rear board; uncommon jacket is present; price-clipped with moderate overall wear and soil with dampstaining and clear tape remnants visible on verso. Internally clean tight and unmarked; Good to Very Good overall. A critical examination of child labor practices in America. Well-illustrated with photographic plates depicting young children in harsh working environments as well as portraits of politicians and activists associated with child labor laws. Uncommon in jacket. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
197017644Washington DC: NORML Circa 1970s. First Edition. Very good. 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. <br/><br/>Collection of souvenir ephemera from NORML the marijuana advocacy organization founded in 1970. NORML unknown books
1996183829Boston: MASS CANN / NORML 1996. 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
1936144587New York: National Civil-Service Reform League 1936. 31p. slightly worn wraps. The group takes aim at partisan mismanagement of civil service branches. National Civil-Service Reform League unknown books
1972211726Washington DC: NORML 1972. 12.5x18.5 inch poster neatly folded into quarters for mailing address and cancellation on the blank verso with remnants of tape. NORML unknown books
192040054London: 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
193146420New York: Macmillan Company 1931. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's maroon gilt-lettered buckram blue-green printed dust jacket; vii7318pp.; photographic frontispiece eleven leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. A hint of shelf wear to cloth extremities endpapers toned bottom corner of upper jacket flap clipped though upper corner retaining original price of $3.50 shallow chips along jacket extremities most notably at spine ends spine additionally a bit toned with brief soil spot at foot not affecting cloth binding else Near Fine in a Very Good copy of the scarce dust jacket. This work the result of a year-long study of penological practices across the globe from the criminal tribes in India Japanese penal institutions and the Parchman prison farm in Mississippi. John L. Gillin 1871-1958 was president of the American Sociological Association and showed little qualms at Parchman Farm's use of the strap as a disciplinary practice. Macmillan Company unknown books
192014968Salem Oregon: Printed for the author at the Oregon State Penitentiary 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 262 pp. A fine copy in original cloth. Webb spent ten years incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary providing him with more than sufficient material for this reasoned and well written critique. He argues that the prison system is purely punitive and utterly fails to rehabilitate prisoners: "Every prison is a school for crime.As a rule instead of prison changing the convict to an honest man it makes him a more vicious man. It generally destroys the little good character he has left." He identifies failures in the legal system sentencing prison employment programs and attempts at rehabilitation through religion. Although ultimately "more is expected of prisons than they can possibly fulfill" and other social reforms are needed to address the problem of crime Webb still believes that serious attempts at rehabilitation are worthwhile. "Force prisons out of politics and place men in charge who understand humanity. For of all tasks there is no greater than that of remaking men." Printed for the author at the Oregon State Penitentiary hardcover books
190711384Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1907. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards; gilt spine titles; 368pp. Tight copy externally clean but with moderate foxing to text. Sociological study of female laborers in turn-of-the-century Birmingham. Illustrated with three halftone plates. Not common. University of Chicago Press unknown books
193828566London: United Editorial Ltd 1938. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm.; original green printed wrappers; 74pp. Wrapper extremities faded some soiling else Very Good. United Editorial Ltd unknown books
1933173490New Haven: WONPR Connecticut Branch 1933. 7x10 inch handbill lightly toned otherwise very good. "A vote for ratification is a vote for good government lower taxes and liquor control." WONPR was founded by Pauline Sabin who later was an anti-New Deal activist. WONPR, Connecticut Branch unknown books
