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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

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

Martin, Prestonia Mann

Prohibiting Poverty: Being Suggestions for a Method of Obtaining Economic Security

Winter Park, Florida: Published by the Author / The Rollins Press, 1933. Third Edition. Stapled Binding.

Third edition, the last of three editions printed before Farrar & Rinehart began to print this title. Single fold prospectus laid in. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed, top corner of a few pages creased/curled

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Price: $75.00

Meriwether, Lee

The Tramp at Home

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Former seminary library copy - bookplate only. Minor loss to spine head and spine base, light stain on spine.

xi, 296 pp. Travels in NYC, New England, New Orleans, California, PNW, Hawaii, etc., with a chapter on labor.....

Price: $50.00

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

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

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