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194047622Pasadena: 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
1929321721929 Paris, Alcan, 1929, fort in 8° broché, 639pp. ; index in-fine ; complet de la carte dépliante ; premiers feuillets un peu gondolés.
1950215423Tokyo.: Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry. February 271950. 7pp. Leaves evenly browned and little creased overall a very good copy. 21 x 15cm. A short occupation period government-issued booklet explaining industrial expansion into rural parts of Japan why the measures are necessary and the particulars of policy implementation. . Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry. unknown
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
1992_202100882Nancy, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1992 ; in-8, 161 x 240 mm, 216 pp., broché, couverture illustrée. Actes du colloque organisé à Mirecourt, les 13 et 14 avril 1991, par le Diocèse de Saint-Dié et l'Université de Nancy II. Études réunies par René TAVENEAUX.
197042163Washington 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
191562581Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co. State Printers 1915. 8vo. v 1 234 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding floor plan charts. Blue embossed & ribbed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering stamped front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing edgewear still a NF copy w/ presentation slip bound-in from the Board of PPIE Managers for Massachusetts. First edition of this report which highlighted the tremendous achievements by the State of Massachusetts during the Progressive era as well as their very popular tea room which was one of the best-attended attractions during the run of the World’s Fair. The Massachusetts Booth emphasized their reforms in education for vocational training and reducing poverty new educational methods improvements in Mental Health “Insanity Hospitals†Public Health reforms to improve the blind as well as dental agricultural and medical reforms. In addition there was a fine exhibit on Massachusetts road building for the early “Good Roads†campaign reforms prior to World War I. Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, hardcover
190352594Rockford IL: Calvert-Wilson Co. Press 1903. 12mo. 95 1 pp. Two photo plates 1 floor plan. Olive-green pictorial publisher’s cloth w/ iron jail cell gate in white on front cover white lettering NF copy signed by Lewis on ffep. First edition signed of this fascinating anthology of writings and poetry advocating penal reform including excerpts from Clarence Darrow’s Resist Not Evil. Lewis 1857-1949 was a cigar store owner in Rockford IL and local gadfly who supported “socialist†causes like prison reform and free parks. This work was published by the author to encourage the Rockford city fathers to construct a new jail which was subsequently built at First and Walnut. Calvert-Wilson Co. Press, hardcover
1979217469Beijing.: China Pictorial. 1979. A broken run of nine issues numbering 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 and 12 lacking issues 6 7 and 8. Black and white and colour photographic illustrations throughout to accompany articles 43 - 48pp. 36.7 x 26cm. Pictorial wrappers minor wear extremities and spines some evidence of silverfish damage to wrappers else in good condition. Articles include; <br>The Tian An Men Square Incident of 1976 'Where the Silence Is' - a Stage Play Deng Xiaoping Visits Japan and the USA Chinese Characters Computerized Research Activities in Nanjing University Mourning Peng Dehuai and Tao Zhu The 8th Asian Games Qingdao Jinan Mt. Tai Suzhou Wuxi Hexi Lushan Kunming Leshan Mt Emei the Railway Line on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau The Yungang and Maiji Grottoes Taishan Mountains Vietnam's armed provocations in China's border areas Huang he River source China's Mineral Resources Dr Bethune Brazilian Sinologist Ricardo Joppert Beijing Opera Ma Yinchu and his 'New Population Theory' and the Index to China Pictorial for 1979. <br>Issue 9 is a Special Issue consisting of numerous colour photographic illustrations used in the book 'China Scenes' published in 1979. . China Pictorial. unknown
19309162New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1930. First edition. 8vo 234pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with red and black lettering in illustrated jacket by Arthur Hawkins Jr. Slightly dusty top edge else a near fine book in very good jacket with chipping and scuffing at spine ends and corners. <br /> <br /> Scarce second novel from the Russian-born Chicago writer and playwright Albert Bein 1902-. This novel is semi-autobiographical drawing from his experiences as a child in a Southwestern reform school. "The brutality of the reformatory system and the bestiality and its surroundings are here dramatized in pictures of a dozen or more of these boys and the demoralizing effects of the life they are forced to lead." Surprisingly uncommon in the trade and in a distinctive Hawkins jacket. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith unknown
1992LFA016d6janvier 1992 - format 235 x 145 mm
1925215021Bucarest.: Cartea Românească. 1925. 23pp. Original stapled wrappers trifle browned leaves little bumped and creased throughout overall a good copy. A report from the Bratianu government declaring the land reform of 1921 to be an "agrarian revolution in Roumania without any disorder or violence thanks to the great foresight of the Government". . Cartea Românească. unknown
19859877Paris Réforme 1985 N° 2084, 23 mars 1985, numéro spécial. Un volume in-8 dos collé, couverture marine illustrée, 173 pages, illustrations en n&b. Bon état.
197246484Washington: 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
190254696Girard 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
1924LFA-126720272Un ouvrage de 160 pages, format 205 x 295 mm, broché, publié en 1924 (4e édition entièrement refondue), Gabriel Beauchesne (Paris), bon état
1969LFA-126714272Un ouvrage de 216 pages, format 150 x 210 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 1969, Flammarion, collection "Histoire Illustrée de l'Europe", bon état
1969LFA-126714449Un ouvrage de 216 pages, format 150 x 210 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 1969, Flammarion, collection "Histoire Illustrée de l'Europe", bon état
1973LFA00a0aUn ouvrage de 113 pages, format 200 x 265 mm, broché, publié en 1973, Ligue de la Contre Réforme Catholique, bon état
1988100145684Alianza 1988 in8. 1988. Broché. L'ouvrage d'Adam Przeworski analyse les trois choix stratégiques fondamentaux auxquels le socialisme est confronté : la participation aux élections l'exclusivité de la classe ouvrière comme base sociale et la réforme ou l'abolition du capitalisme. Il explore également la distinction entre une politique social-démocrate et une politique communiste authentique
1995204591Edmonton: Alberta Law Reform 1995. First edition. Paperback. Very good/No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp. iii 212.paperback edition Alberta Law Reform paperback
19323628304Jena, Fischer, 1932. 132 S. OKart.
199940026Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin ; Bern ; Bruxelles ; New York ; Wien Lang, 1999. 306 S. 21 cm, Broschiert ,
2000BT5839Weinheim, Dt. Studien-Verl., 2000. 107 Seiten, Großformat 24 cm, mit graph. Darstellungen, Literaturangaben. 3-89271-903-9.
197998153Wien, Verband der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Österreichs 1979. XVI, 158 Seiten. Softcover/Paperback