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Item #2305445 Autobiography of Adin Ballou. 1803-1890. Containing an Elaborate Record and...

Ballou, Adin; Heywood, William S.

Autobiography of Adin Ballou. 1803-1890. Containing an Elaborate Record and Narrative of His Life from Infancy to Old Age. with Appendixes.

Lowell: The Vox Populi Press. - Thompson & Hill. 1896. Hard Cover.

Stain to top corner of front board and frontispiece, front hinge weakening (title page loose but included).

xviii, 586 pp. The memoirs of the founder of the Hopedale Community, who advocated for pacifism, socialism, and abolition.

Price: $125.00

Bjorkman, Frances M.; Porritt, Annie G.

Woman Suffrage: History Arguments and Results

New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1915. Early reissue. Small Hard Cover.

Early reissue edition, following undated 1912 edition. No jacket. Tear along edge of front free endpaper.

231 pp. A collection of seven popular booklets covering practically the entire field of suffrage claims and evidence. Designed especially.....

Price: $65.00

Cheney, John Vance

Memorable American Speeches III [3]: Slavery (The Lakeside Classics Volume 7)

Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1909. First Thus. Hard Cover.

First thus. An exceptional copy.

309, [5] pp. Frontispiece of Wendell Phillips, from a photograph by J.W. Black. An early volume from the collectible Lakeside Classic series, collecting four important speeches regarding the discussion of.....

Price: $675.00

Item #2330259 Smokestacks Allegro: The Story of Solvay, a Remarkable Industrial/Immigrant Village...

Cominolli, Rita

Smokestacks Allegro: The Story of Solvay, a Remarkable Industrial/Immigrant Village (1880-1920)

New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1990. Hard Cover.

Highlighting.

x, 212 pp. Smokestacks Allegro is the first major work published about the Solvay Process Company – one of America's pioneer science-based industries and predecessor of Allied Chemical Corporation, a forerunner of Allied-Signal. This book, partially based on oral history.....

Price: $60.00

Comstock, Anthony; Buckley, J.M.

Traps for the Young.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. Davis, A.B. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Boards a bit soiled, edges faintly foxed, binding slightly shaken with two gatherings slightly proud at fore edge.

xii, [7]-253 pp, 10-page publisher catalog follows text. Olive cloth, gilt titles, black and gold decorations. Frontispiece by.....

Price: $350.00

De Witt, Julia A.W.

How He Made His Fortune (Prize Series, 1889)

Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1889. Hard Cover.

Owner bookplate on front endpaper (Julia Bryant Toohy, daughter of author William Cullen Bryant), faint stain to top and bottom marginal edges, rear board lightly soiled.

317 pp. 8vo. A story relating to the Molly Maguires, with a good.....

Price: $125.00

Edmunds, James

The Medical Use of Alcohol and Stimulants for Women

New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1874. Hard Cover.

Spine & edges toned, boards rubbed, light stain along top edges of endpapers, ink name on front flyleaf.

96 pp., 8-page terminal publisher ad. 8vo. Original orange cloth, gilt titles. A medical assessment of the affects of alcohol on.....

Price: $50.00

Greene, William B.

Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Front free endpaper, first blank and final text page missing. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, crayon marks on paste-down endpapers.

270 pp. Includes discussion of women's suffrage, currency and banking, sex education, labor reform.....

Price: $200.00

Lewis, Sinclair

The Job: An American Novel

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition, first state (no Main Street promo page). Lacks scarce jacket. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head, top edge and rear endpapers faintly foxed, rear hinge just beginning to weaken, two tiny spots on fore.....

Price: $300.00

Item #2325865 Marx Engels Werke (MEW) Blauen Bande Band 1 - 39; Erganzungsband I und II...

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

Marx Engels Werke (MEW) Blauen Bande Band 1 - 39; Erganzungsband I und II (entspricht Band 40 - 41); Marx Engels Verzeichnis (Werke Schriften Artikel) 44-Band Set [German]

Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1964. Hard Cover.

Cannot be shipped internationally. Includes all 44 volumes though, confusingly, three consecutive volumes are labeled 26.1, 26.2, and 26.3, and the last three volumes are unnumbered. Pencil underlining and marginalia sporadically, boards soiled, some edges lightly foxed.

Complete in forty-four volumes. German text. Includes.....

Price: $500.00

McCarney, Hal

Chess with Violence: Rum-running in the 1000 Islands

Ontario: Hal McCarney, 1992. First Edition. Large Softcover.

First edition. Signed by author on half-title page with inscription, "Enjoy." A very nice copy.

165 pp. Historical novel set in the 1000 Islands during Prohibition. Illustrations, maps, and photographs lead each chapter.

Price: $75.00

Merrill, Arch

The Underground (Freedom's Road) and Other Upstate Tales

New York: American Book - Stratford Press, Inc., 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Jacket rubbed with 1/2 inch chip from rear corner, a few light spots on jacket reverse, ink name on front endpaper.

vi, [4], 181, [1] pp. "Hidden in a wooden box on a jolting wagon.....

Price: $75.00

Noyes, John Humphrey

History of American Socialisms

Philadelphia / London: J.B. Lippincott & Co. / Trubner & Co., 1870. First UK Edition. Hard Cover.

First British edition, with American and UK publishers listed on title page, but with Trubner printed on spine (Sabin 56226, Howes N-221). Front loose and rear hinge weakening - in need of restoration.....

Price: $750.00

Reid, Mayne

The Quadroon; or, A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana

New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., Publisher, 1891. Reissue. Hard Cover.

1891 reissue of 1856 original. Three inch tear to edge of title page, pages toned.

578 pp. Reid was an Irish-American author whose novels describe colonial policy, denounce slavery, and illuminate the ills faced by Native Americans. This is one.....

Price: $50.00

Robins, Elizabeth

Way Stations [Waystations]

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913. First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition. No jacket. Quarter inch tear along spine head, top corners of boards bumped, ink name on front free endpaper. New York State Railways Rochester Lines ticket laid in.

371 pp. Of this collection of speeches.....

Price: $125.00

Item #2332077 Pamphlets for the People Vol. I. [& II.]: On the Means of Conveying Information to...

Roebuck, J.A. [John Arthur]; Chapman, H.S.; Falconer, Thomas; Place, Francis; Allen, William; Hammersley, Robert

Pamphlets for the People Vol. I. [& II.]: On the Means of Conveying Information to the People, with an Appendix; A Letter to the Electors of Bath, on the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill, with a Postscript on the Conduct of Sir Robert Peel and Others, on the Discussion of the Question; The Stamped Press of London and Its Morality; The Dorchester Labourers; On the Qualification Clause of the Corporation Bill; The Amusements of the Aristocracy and the People; The American Ballot-Box, &c.; Persecution Preached by the Parsons of the State Church in Ireland; Uselessness of the Guards in London; Trades' Unions: Their Advantages to the Working Classes; Fallacies of the House of Commons on the Ballot in America; The Taxes on Knowledge; The Morning Advertiser and Mr Wakley; Of What Use is the House of Lords? Persecution of the Unstamped Press; Orange Societies; The Evils of a House of Lords; Mr Spring Rice and the Taxes on Knowledge, with a Postscript; Matchless Constitution; The Crisis! What Ought the Ministers to Do?; A Rotten Borough for Sale; Mr Bulwer's Sham Motion for the Repeal of the Tax on Knowledge; Administration of the Law by the Lords; Mr Ormsby Grove and the Landlords' Argument in Favour of War; The Peers and the People - Municipal Reform - Corn Laws - Taxes on Knowledge; Wholesale Obstructiveness of the Lords, &c.; The Conduct of Ministers Respecting the Lords' Amendments; Local Courts in Boroughs; A Short Review of a Long Session; Mr Grove Price and the Constitution; New Method of Disfranchising Electors, &c.; A Letter to the Duke of Cumberland; A Letter to the Future Municipal Electors of Bath; Borough Courts; Liberal Construction of the Reform Act at Leeds; Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers: A Letter to James Turner, Cotton Spinner; Commemoration of the Reformation; Mr Rintoul the 'We' of the Spectator; The 'Great Unstamped' Acknowledged to be Invinicible; Parties in the House of Commons: Dissensions among the Tories; O'Connell and English Agitation; Consolation and Compensation to Borough Town Clerks: Royal Prerogative; General Evans's Rule of Promotion in the Auxiliary Army of Spain; Conduct of the Authorities towards the Unstamped Press; A Church, What? A State Church, What?; Legal Wisdom - The Revising Barristers; Sobriety of the Working Class - The Gin Palace Fallacy; Democracy in America; Character and Sufferings of the Irish Clergy; The London Review and the Irish Church Question; The 'We' of the Herald; The Times; The Newspaper Stamp Return, &c.; Whigs and Radicals - Lord John Russell; A Letter to Dr Chalmers, on the Subject of a Grant of Public Money to the Scotch Church; Poor Laws; Progress of Democracy; The London Review of the Periodical Press; The Orange Exposure; Preliminary Reforms: Being a Summary of the Principles Advocated in These Pamphlets; A Letter to Daniel O'Connell, Esq. M.P., on Peerage Reform; A Letter from Geo. Sinclair, Esq., M.P., to Mr Roebuck, with Reply and Remarks; The English in America; Injustice to Prisoners; The Municipal Elections; The Whole Art and Mystery of Peerage Scheming; Cheap Law: Hints Addressed to the Young Men of Great Britain, on the Progress of Political Opinion; Should Politics Influence Municipal Elections?; A Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers; The Birmingham Political Union and the House of Lords; More 'Justices' Justice'; Stopping Supplies; Lord Glenelg and the New Australian Colony; England, a Step-Mother to Her Soldiers; Signs of the Times; Toryphobia; Despotism of the French King: Opinions of Republicanism in France; Whig Appointments to Office: Lord Aylmer, Ex-Governor of Canada; Note on 'The Globe'; The Orange Plot; The People Are Not to Blame: Libellous Fallacy of the Edinburgh Review; Decay of Whigism - Public Opinion in Bath - The Recent Dinner; The Whig Creed - Lord John Russell and the Bristol Dinner; Factory Workers and Hand-Loom Weavers: Ten Hours Bill; Prospects of the Coming Session: Views of the Radical Party; Mr N. Goldsmid and Mr John...

London: Charles Ely / John Longley / C. and W. Reynell, 1835. Hard Cover.

Twentieth century hardcover binding and end sheets, library marks on spine and rear endpaper, ink library stamp on a few pages, some pages moderately foxed, one pamphlet's page bound in the incorrect order (still complete), a......

Price: $750.00

Item #2164107 A Chronicle of Textile Machinery, 1824-1924: Issued to Commemorate the One...

Saco-Lowell Shops

A Chronicle of Textile Machinery, 1824-1924: Issued to Commemorate the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Saco-Lowell Shops

Boston: Saco-Lowell Shops, Boston / William Bond Wheelwright, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Edges a bit rubbed.

83 pp. A one-hundred-year history of the textile mill which pioneered the first factory system, devised by Francis Cabot Lowell. This was the first time spinning and weaving were performed under.....

Price: $100.00

Sanger, Margaret

Ograniczenie... Liczby Dzieci [Family Limitation]

. S.N. First Edition. Stapled Binding.

First Polish edition.

14 pp. Self wrappers. Polish edition of the work originally published in 1914. Hoolihan 3090. From Hoolihan 3084, describing the first edition: "Family limitation defends a woman's right to control her body, defends her right to have an abortion if she.....

Price: $75.00

Item #2164357 American Factories and Their Female Operatives; with an Appeal on Behalf of the...

Scoresby, William

American Factories and Their Female Operatives; with an Appeal on Behalf of the British Factory Population, and Suggestions for the Improvement of Their Condition. (Burt Franklin Research & Source Work Series #184) (American Classics in History & Social Science #27)

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reissue. Hard Cover.

viii, 136 pp. 8vo. 1968 reissue of 1845 original (Sabin 78168). A work based on two lectures by the author before the Bradford Church Institution, which led to 'a principal mill-owner... requesting the publication of the statements on a subject deemed of.....

Price: $125.00

Item #2308099 Riata and Spurs: The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and...

Siringo, Charles A.; Pinchot, Gifford

Riata and Spurs: The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Detective

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition (Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 2030), not to be confused with the revised edition released the same year by the same publisher. Lacks jacket. Fore edge lightly foxed, ink gift note.....

Price: $225.00 save 15% $191.25

Stenhouse, T.B.H.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Tell It All: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism. An Autobiography

Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1875. Reprint. Hard Cover.

1875 printing. Front and end matter and a few other pages foxed, corners a bit rubbed.

xxx, 623, [1] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece steel engraved portrait of the author and full-page engravings. A memoir by a wife and mother who was oppressed.....

Price: $95.00

Stowe, Charles Edward

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals

Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1890. Reprint. Hard Cover.

1890 printing. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, bookplate of E.V. Stoddard on front endpaper. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.

xii, 530, [6] pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top.....

Price: $50.00

Thomas, Norman

After the New Deal, What?

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed.

ix, [3], 244 pp. Green cloth, black titles. Author was a six-time candidate for president of the Socialist Party of America. Thomas defines the political climate of the United States at the time, explains.....

Price: $75.00

Washington, Booker T.

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Boards lightly stained, spine a bit faded, ink name and date on front endpaper.

330 pp. 8 x 5 3/8. 8vo. Brick red cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt, photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. "Up from.....

Price: $425.00