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18343806Providence 1834. Good plus. Broadside 15 x 10.5 inches printed in three columns within an ornamental border. Old folds short splits along some folds a few small chips moderate dust-soiling and foxing. Untrimmed. A rare broadside disseminating a report from a five-man committee of the General Assembly of Rhode Island recommending penal code reform and the establishment of a state prison in the Ocean State in 1834. The beginning of the report expounds upon the inconsistency of the various legal punishments meted out in county jails. The committee then evaluates different methods of imprisonment in New York Pennsylvania Connecticut and other states concluding as follows: "On the whole the committee are in favor and recommend to the General Assembly the erection of a State penitentiary on the principle of solitary confinement at labor with instruction in labor in morals and religion." The committee hoped this prison reform would "relieve the State from the future support of convicts and may produce a moral reformation in those who may be subjected to its operation." We could locate just one copy of this broadside in OCLC at Brown. unknown
199847964Washington DC: GPO 1998. First Edition. First Printing. good. 424 wraps illus. Serial No. 105-66. GPO paperback
1988229620Edmonton: Institute of Law Research and Reform 1988. Soft cover. Near Fine-. 200 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in blue card covers with white titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Wrinkled and lightly bumped on the spine. NF- <br/> <br/> Institute of Law Research and Reform paperback
0656203811.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0265959241.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1845547003New York: American Female Moral Reform Society 1845. Unbound. Very Good. Single leaf folded to make eight pages. One quarter of first page toned old folds very good or better. A cursory examination of the contents indicates that the American Female Moral Reform Society weren't very enthusiastic about prostitution. American Female Moral Reform Society unknown
0656706368.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1334802130.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
189448920Chicago: By the Author 1894. Revised Edition. 12mo 20cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 931pp; illus. Text is tanned and a bit brittle at the edges neat splits to front wrapper above and below the staples with several tiny tears and a few slivers missing from wrapper extremities particularly at preliminary and terminal leaves; Good complete copy. A tax reform utopia originally published serially in the Chicago Sentinel between 1879 and 1885. An author's note at base of title page states: ".it was then published in cheap pamphlet form - of which over a hundred thousand copies have since been sold. Its popularity as an educator seems to warrant the present better and more expensive edition." Issued as Vol. I no. 1 in Norton's Quarterly Sentinel apparently a successor to his weekly newspaper of the same name. No further numbers of the Quarterly appear to have been issued. <br /> <br /> 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. By the Author unknown
133462447X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0656331623.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0331315289.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
200544858Washington DC: GPO 2005. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 226 wraps illus. Serial No. 108-261. GPO paperback
76-0629New York: Female Moral Reform Society 1837. One issue. pgs. 201-208. Uncut folded quarto. 31 x 26 cm sheet. Good missing sections of right margins old folds light damp staining age toning. Subjects: murder suicide; immorality of theatrical amusements; licentiousness will never be materially lessened except by a truly Christian education of children; correspondence; poem titled The Calling of God; list of agents etc. New York: Female Moral Reform Society, 1837. unknown
76-0633New York: Female Moral Reform Society 1840. One issue. pgs. 9-16. 31 x 26 cm sheet. Good missing sections of right margins old folds light damp staining age toning. New York: Female Moral Reform Society, 1840. unknown
76-0630New York: Female Moral Reform Society 1837. One issue. pgs. 353-360. 31 x 26 cm sheet. Good missing sections of right margins old folds light damp staining age toning. New York: Female Moral Reform Society, 1837. unknown
76-0631New York: Female Moral Reform Society 1839. One issue. pgs. 129-136. 31 x 26 cm sheet. Good old folds light damp staining age toning. New York: Female Moral Reform Society, 1839. unknown
76-0632New York: Female Moral Reform Society 1837. One issue. pgs. 57-64. 31 x 26 cm sheet. Good missing sections of right margins old folds light damp staining age toning. New York: Female Moral Reform Society, 1837. unknown
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
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
1332857582.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
0260147028.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
