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189016444New York: John B. Alden 1890. Narrow small octavo 18.5cm x 11cm. Original terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 182pp with advertising leaf facing title page; index. Covers slightly soiled and rubbed; dusting to text block edges and endpapers; still a tight internally clean copy VG. Fairly representative Progressive Era omnium-gatherum of social reform ideas statistics and economic theory. The author was a California lawyer and journalist for some time assistant managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner and the author of some twenty books on a wide variety of topics including California history social reform and spiritualism. From the advertising leaf: ".An impartial discussion of some of the wrongs and rights of capital and labor together with an analysis of industrial depressions as related to the present railway system. Also a glance a co-operative profit-sharing an analysis of Henry George's land fallacies with thoughts on socialism and the future of labor containing notes and tables on the social condition of the people. John B. Alden unknown books
428 pages. Index. Bibliography. Fold-out map at back. "Traces the development of Straits society, viewed not from London or Calcutta but from the settlements themselves and especially the capital in Singapore... Examines the social, administrative and economic character of the settlements, the problems of external defence and piracy, relations with the Malay states, and the long history of pressure for constitutional reform and transfer to direct colonial rule." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper. Average wear to book. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
No Place (Cincinnati? ) , Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1940. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 15 pages. History of the UAHC. Address delivered at a banquet of the Friends of the Union, New York City, Apr. 2, 1940. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (HUC, Wisconsin-Milwaukee) , none outside the Midwest. Very good condition. (P-2-55)
200245362Washington DC: GPO 2002. First Edition. First Printing. good. 672 wraps stiff paper covers illus. GPO paperback
185315279London: Saunders & Stanford; Manchester: Simms & Diham 1853. Small 8vo. 40 pp. <br><br>In the society's series: "India reform" this being number 9. Library of Congress attributes authorship to John Sullivan. Condemnation of British assumptions that regarded native rule as evil and wrong. Uncommon. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2I1607 & 2I1608 for the series. Removed from a nonce volume. Good condition. Saunders & Stanford; Manchester: Simms & Diham unknown books
1024507394.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
385 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "This book is a study in the history of ideas, specifically with reference to the conjunction of the movements of religion and social reform in Canada in the years 1914 to 1928... The book catches the social gospel in mid-passage, in a period when its influence was high but its fortunes in crisis." - from Preface. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is preserved in protective Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
428 pages including notes and index. Critically assesses middle-class reform, and addresses the question of ethnic Americans: 'If we did it, why couldn't they?' "...a sober, very well researched, and very valuable contribution to our general knowledge of the relations between immigrants, Blacks, and reformers in the North... a fine and sobering book." - Nathan Glazer, Professor, Harvard University. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Slight warping to red cloth-covered boards. Dust jacket rough. Solid copy overall. Book
188 pages. "I believe there is an urgent need to reform the tax system so that it is simpler, fairer and more efficient.... The Single Tax provides a better solution." - Author. Mills was MP for Broadview Greenwood. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
0530601931.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
pp. 38 +Plus frontis portrait. 12mo. 180mm. Original publisher's pictorial full pebbled cream cloth binding lettered and decorated in gilt. Cover designs of torches strung together with ribbon. Spine blank. Cover is slightly. Spine rubbed. Some Wear to base and head of spine. Corners worn. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. Richard Olney (1835-1917) was an American statesman. He served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland, and in the latter position, briefly, under Cleveland's successor, William McKinley. As attorney general, Olney used injunctions against striking workers in the Pullman strike, setting a precedent, and advised the use of federal troops, when legal means failed to control the strikers. As secretary of state, he raised the status of America in the world by elevating U.S. diplomatic posts to the status of embassy. This book is a transcription of 'An address Delivered before the Alumni of Brown University.' NW63
Features: Congress must reform - Roscoe Drummond; Howard Hughes - he battles for an empire - Spruce Goose photos and more; The Rage to Ski - millions have developed a mad love affair with a sport that provides the thrill of speed on snow; Social Climbing on the Slopes; A condensation of the most startling book ever to be published in the Soviet Union - the truth about Stalin's prison camps; Stan Freberg - His Private War - the comic genius who harpoons the pompous, lampoons the ridiculous; The Wonderful, Wide, Backslapping World of Rotary; How the Modern Minuteman Missile Guards the Peace - great photos, air and ground. Average wear. Chips from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
024302150X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Multi-paginated. 5/8 inches thick. Index. "Clarifies the crucial issues in adoption." - Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D. Usual library markings. Heavy wear. Still a worthy reference copy. Book
202p. Age stained. 12mo. Original quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards. Front board detached. Binding very worn. Hardbound. The rights of U.S. citizens and the structure of government. Includes important chapters on: the ending of slavery; capital punishment; political reform; and the Christian basis of civil liberty. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AMERICANA BOX 9
0265226201.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
[New York? ], Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1939. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 18 pages. Holocaust period publication. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (HUC) Small tear on spine. Very Good condition. (P-2-15)
1334802815.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0656464658.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1391661133.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1527936201.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe, IL. , 1943. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 29 pages. Holocaust period. Three copies listed on OCLC. (U of Miami, Chicago Theological Sem. , JNUL) , None in the Northeast or west of Chicago or is any of the major Judaica collections in the US. Very Good condition. (P-2-40)
8vo. Description: xii, 115 pages. In English. SUBJECT (S) : Judaism -- Miscellanea. In very good condition. (RAB17-3)
1840ST20302-02London: Francis Baisler 1840. FIRST EDITION. 195 x 130 mm. 7 3/4 x 5". xi 1 307 1 4 pp. <br/> Publisher's black pebbled morocco covers elaborately decorated in blind with gilt centerpieces smooth spine decorated in gilt all edges gilt gutter between the end of the text and the ads at the back expertly reinforced. With 10 engraved plates including the frontispiece and engraved title. Dedication page with contemporary ink ownership inscription of Wm. C. Drysdale. Noticeable discoloration to pastedowns and flyleaves from binding adhesive plates negligibly foxed otherwise especially clean and fresh internally with only the most trivial of imperfections; the exceptionally clean binding showing virtually no signs of use.<br/> <br/> This collection of essays and verse promoting Protestant thought and values comes in a beautifully preserved Victorian publisher's binding. The editor of this work Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 1790-1846 was an evangelical Protestant social reformer particularly devoted to exposing poor factory conditions and improving the welfare of women and the poor. Writing under the name Charlotte Elizabeth she made "contributions to social reform literature and her use of the 'Christian Lady's Magazine' as a forum to influence politics through her female readers mark her as a significant nineteenth-century figure especially for other women social reform writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe . . . and Elizabeth Gaskell." DNB Of particular note in our volume is an essay by Charlotte Elizabeth discussing the figure of Katherine Parr sixth wife of Henry VIII as a model of Protestantism and womanhood. Francis Baisler unknown
0332093840.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
