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183284913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work.<br /> <br /> A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson 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
1831AQ30613London: James Ridgway 1831. 32pp. Modern marbled paper boards printed paper lettering-piece to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. The first edition of a register of the 199 members of the House of Lords that voted against the passing of the Reform Bill. A second edition appeared the same year. . First edition. 8vo. James Ridgway 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
184639101Philadelphia 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> 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. <br /> LCP 10848. AI 46-7277 6. Not in Lomazow or Mott. unknown
184986600Boston: Bela Marsh 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 18.5cm. Publisher's green embossed cloth titled in gilt; pale salmon endpapers; 414pp; mezzotint portrait frontispiece. A quite attractive copy just lightly rubbed to boards with a few scattered spots of foxing to text; solidly Very Good overall and somewhat uncommon thus. <br /> <br /> A significant if entirely idiosyncratic work in the annals of American radical reform as much a philosophical treatise as an autobiography. American pacifist freethinker feminist and abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright 1797-1870 though little remembered was among the most interesting radical voices of the mid-19th century a defrocked Presbyterian minister who in his adopted role as a "Christian reformer" preached against all established religions and adopted a thoroughly stridently contrarian voice in nearly every field of social reform he touched which was practically all of them. His views opposing established government put him directly in the line of such individualist anarchists as Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker while his opposition to slavery was so uncompromising that he was ejected from the American Antislavery Society in 1837. He remained closely associated with most of the New England radical abolitionist community however especially with William Lloyd Garrison with whom he frequently collaborated. <br /> <br /> Like most of Wright's commercially-issued works this one was published by the Boston radical publisher Bela Marsh known for disseminating works by fellow abolitionists and freethinkers during the antebellum period. 86600. Bela Marsh unknown
17292445<p><i>Folio 333 x 205 mm pp. 2 20 title-page in double ruled border E2 badly crumpled some light browning and a few pages a little dog-eared</i><i> uncut and stab-sewn as issued: generally a good copy in original state.</i></p><p>Issued as a parliamentary paper and ordered to be printed on 20th March 1729 this is one of three reports of the Committee set up to investigate the state of prisons. It was read and presented to the Commons by James Oglethorpe and was probably largely written by him. Oglethorpe was an important pioneer of prison reform whose name deserves to be remembered alongside that of his much better known successor John Howard.</p><p>The report shows that the Warden of the Fleet Prison disregarding the changes in the statute regarding the Fleet had continued to exercise 'an unwarrantable and arbitrary power' not only by charging exorbitant fees but by loading prisoners with chains in a manner more cruel and unjustifiable than that practised in the Star-Chamber. Money was extracted from prisoners at every opportunity: any prisoners who could not afford to pay for bedding were obliged to sleep on the floor in foul conditions and the warden would not attend to the forms necessary to discharge a prisoner unless he received the fees he demanded with the result that numerous prisoners were kept several years after they should have been discharged. </p><p>It was Oglethorpe's investigations into the state of prisons and his shocking findings that led him to study the social conditions of his day including unemployment and paved the way for his important Georgia Experiment a policy prohibiting the ownership of slaves in the Georgia Colony see Leslie F. Church Oglethorpe: a study of philanthropy in England and Georgia pp. 9-24.</p>ESTC t44667; Hanson 4022; Goldsmiths 6707 Robert Knaplock, Jacob Tonson, John Pemberton and Richard Williamson
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
1793AQ34964London: Printed for James Ridgway 1793. 15pp 1. Disbound with title detached. Leaves browned light spotting and staining. The first edition thus which includes four anonymous letters which had previously been published in periodicals printed by political publisher and radical sympathiser James Ridgway 1755 – 1838. . First edition. 8vo. Printed for James Ridgway 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
18564036Mexico 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
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
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
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
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
182055414London: John Fairburn 1820. First Edition. First printing. Octavo in fours 22cm. In nineteenth-century half brown calf with marbled paper over boards seven double gilt rules to spine with blind ornament in compartments titled in gilt on brown leather spine label all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers; iv 480pp. 1944 pencil ownership inscription to rear endpaper. A straight sound copy with minor general wear to boards paper lightly scuffed edges rubbed internally largely clean with one or two pencil marks and small spots of foxing: Very Good. <br /> <br /> A key text of early nineteenth-century English parliamentary reformers: "a massive compendium of all the abuses electoral ecclesiastical legal" that they "sought to abolish." The book "passed through edition after edition continually augmented with new arguments new reports of abuses and new statistics. . . its emphasis on the need to have practical as well as equitable representation lies at the root of parliamentary democracy" Printing and the Mind of Man p.180. Previously published in installments in 1819; this is the first book edition. PMM296. GOLDSMITHS 23071. KRESS C.638. John Fairburn unknown
183156386London: Effingham Wilson 1831. Octavo 22.5cm. Later half brown calf purple cloth over boards and subsequently rebacked with brown calf reinforcements to corners top edge stained other edges sprinkled red; orange endpapers; xx576pp. Lacking frontispiece. Externally worn but skilfully repaired internally clean with occasional spots of foxing: Very Good. <br /> <br /> A key text of early nineteenth-century English parliamentary reformers: "a massive compendium of all the abuses electoral ecclesiastical legal" that they "sought to abolish. . . its emphasis on the need to have practical as well as equitable representation lies at the root of parliamentary democracy." The book "passed through edition after edition continually augmented with new arguments new reports of abuses and new statistics"; this 1831 edition "was the most influential coming as it did on the eve of the Reform Bill 1832" Printing and the Mind of Man p.180. PMM296. GOLDSMITHS 23071. KRESS C.638. Effingham Wilson unknown
193254896Huntington WV & Washington D.C.: Prisoners Relief Society 1932. 8vo. x 342 pp. With numerous photo plates text illustrations. Textured blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art image of the West Virginia penitentiary gate minor chipping head & foot of spine wear to corners VG/VG copy. First edition of this gripping memoir by former prisoner convicted of manslaughter describing the deplorable conditions of West Virginia Penitentiary which Dudding describes as a vermin-infested “damnation.†Of particular interest are his extended essays on metabolic imbalances poor brain chemistry and drug abuse as contributing factors to crime along with unwanted pregnancies and marrying too young often resulting in delinquent progeny. Prisoners Relief Society, hardcover
193284363New York: Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Original deep red cloth titled in black to spine with embossed publisher's imprint to front board. Dustjacket. 383pp. Bumped to spine ends with some minor wear to corners some minor darkening to the cloth in places; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed top edge a trifle dusty; in the John Gram dustjacket with some toning to the spine panel shallow chipping and loss to the spine ends intruding upon the author's first name and a short closed tear to the front upper front spine hinge. A good strong copy with some wear.<br /> <br /> Leonov's novel of Soviet labor centred around the building of an enormous factory; Sotstroy. Gorky provides the preface; the novel was notable at the time as an antidote to the image of the USSR as an enormous generator of plans progress noble artistic and industrial endeavor and a shining beacon of energy. Leonov tends towards a more on the ground depiction of enthusiastic ineptitude paranoia and fanaticism. Bookplate of Alvin Kapusta to front pastedown a Special Assistant for Soviet Nationalities at the US State Department and a notable scholar of the Soviet Bloc whose collections are housed at the Hoover Institution. Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh unknown
1985217468Beijing.: China Pictorial. 1985. Six issues from 1985. Black and white and colour photographic illustrations throughout to accompany articles 44pp. Minor wear extremities pictorial wrappers all in very good condition. Text in English. 37 x 26cm. Includes issues numbers 1 2 3 6 7 and 8. <br> <br>Articles include: Ye Jianying - An Eminent Army Commander Takins in China Egrets and Herons Pelicans Xinjiang Pioneers A Town in the Gobi 'Life' - a Feature Film Important Discoveries at Xia Ruins Ancient Capital of the Shang Dynasty Tianshan Mountains Glacial Station China's First Research Base in Antarctica A Scientific Survey of the Southern Ocean Tianjin Matteo Ricci and His Autumn of Beijing Suburbs. . China Pictorial. unknown
1980217485Beijing.: China Pictorial. 1980. Broken run of five issues of China Pictorial. Black and white and colour photographic illustrations throughout to accompany articles 43 - 44pp. Pictorial wrappers minor wear extremities and spines else in very good condition. Text in English. 37 x 26cm. Includes issue numbers 3 4 7 8 and 9. <br> <br>Many articles in this incomplete set are of interest because they feature China moving on from the Cultural Revolution and the Gang of Four and focusing instead on modernising and scientific progress. Articles on this theme include A Scientific Excursion in Tibet Scientific Investigations in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Chinese Test Pilots The China International Trust and Investment Corporation New Factories and Mines Surveying the South Pacific Clouds and Earthquakes and The Chinese River Dolphin. <br> <br>Other topics of interest include Sixty Years on Stamp Collecting Sun Yat-Sen's Mausoleum and various other tourist destinations: Hainan Island Mt Hengshan Mt Huashan and Dunhuang. Two articles are about important ancient artefacts Art Treasures Unearthed in Suixian County and another recently unearthed and hugely important treasure the Terracotta Warriors. There is an article dedicated to the author Mao Dun and another to the 1979 restaging of Lao She's play 'Teahouse'. The article Upturn in Chinese Cinema with portraits of film stars indicates how the purpose of cinema has changed in just a few short years. . China Pictorial. unknown
1978217484Beijing.: China Pictorial. Nos. 1-121978. A complete run of 12 issues. Black and white and colour photographic illustrations throughout to accompany articles 43 - 44pp. Pictorial wrappers minor wear extremities and spines else in very good condition. Text in English. 37 x 26cm. The Cultural Revolution having come to an end with the passing of Chairman Mao in 1976 issues in 1978 focus on life returning to normal after the downfall of the Gang of Four. Many articles feature explanations of problems caused by the Gang of Four e.g. The Anshan Iron and Steel Complex After the Downfall of the Gang of Four Commune-run Enterprises The Revolutionization of Beijing Opera and discuss newly staged productions such as the 'Red Lantern Society' the film 'Hai Hsia' and the plays 'Red Hearts' and 'Yang Kai-hui'. Numerous articles also refer to the Gang of Four such as Old Doctors in the PLA Hospital the New Look of Beijing University and the articles on authors Guo Moruo and Wei Wei. <br> <br>Chairman Hua meeting foreign leaders and his visits to notable Chinese sites is heavily featured in the first few pages of nearly every issue with Deng Xiaoping also included. Other articles include the new Long March to Modernisation Chinese Medicine Tangshan The Tahsingkou Forestry Area Paulownia and Farming Fishes of the Yangtze Archaeological Finds from the Yin Ruins Women Scientists and Technicians in Peking The 1978 National Middle School Students' Mathematics Contest Developments in Maotian Song and Dance and Science and Technology in Xinjiang Commemoration of Mao and the 80th Birthday of Premier Zhou En-lai and the Index to China Pictorial 1978. . China Pictorial. unknown
188721386Washington: 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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
200211263Washington 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
195553815New York: Vantage Press 1955. 8vo. 373 1 pp. Photo frontisp. plates. Blue cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. minor toning to fore-edges light toning to endpapers still NF/VG copy. Revised edition of this brutal memoir which served as the basis for Jack London’s Star Rover. This autobiographical account provides an invaluable first-hand look at the brutality that characterized the American prison system in the West at the beginning of the 20th century including the extensive uses of torture devices such as the strait jacket and the derrick which were later banned. Jack London began corresponding with Morrell before his release from prison and drew much of Morrell’s experiences with astral projection during his brutal imprisonment for his 1915 novel. Mildred McEwan Ward left the Univ. of California in order to publish accounts of Morrell’s ordeal and the full story of his life as a member of the Evans-Sontag California Feud Bandits. Vantage Press, hardcover
