Search Results: Social History from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

New York: New Day Pub, 1980. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Lloyd Van Vactor. Map endpapers, illus with b/w photos.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Co. 1887. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Cloth. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 106 pp. Sermons given over several years in New York's Episcopal churches to women. While the piety was typical, the minister rarely addressed the problems of women though noted some spent too much time on beautification.

Adyar: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1961. Octavo. Third edition. Portrait frontispiece, 297 pages. A remarkable book by a woman who not only was well-versed with the history of philosophy, but deeply interested in pedagogy. For those who have found the sad state of American publication lacking, here she has written a work on moral philosophy and the need not to merely talk about morals but to introduce them a all levels so a child senses them without necessarily naming its philosophers. For Montessori, the teacher's ability to set up an environment that allows children to cultivate their own moral sense is essentialf morally good actions. In 2015 Patrick R. Frierson's article in the History of Philosophy Quarterly, pp.271-292 show how deep her moral sense was developed in a sense of "moral theory". Bound in brown paper covered boards lettered in black, spine lettering black, spine faded and some droplets to spine and a bit of tiny spots of foxine to page edges. A very good copy.

Minneapolis, MN: John M. Wolfe Company, 1927. Octavo. 128 pages, index. Founded at the Seven Stars Inn of Baltimore on April 26, 1819. This work has color photographs of the birthplace as well as over 90 other color images of its temples, hospitals, and parks. The International Order of Odd Fellows is one of the great charitable associations. Its stated purpose is "Visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan". A near fine copy bound in brown pebble grained cloth, central raised lettering within a gold frame, rubbing to spine ends and corners.

New York: Collector's Bookshop, 1941. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 31pp. Annotated checklist of collectable titles by women authors of inventory by famous bookshop. Many famous authors are includes (Alcott to Parker to Wylie) with unusal tibits on publishing history, inscriptions, and provenance. A great window back in time--and essentail for collectors today. In pale green printed wraps.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 236 pp. Nineteen essays on various aspects of the labor movements in the Southwestern U.S.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1870. 12mo. frontispiee, 313p. A sympathetic look at the plight of England's poor in the period Dickens frequently described from the heart of a minister whose own physical deformity helped him to have compassion for the unfortunate. His stories recalled village life of the poor. His chapter: the Negro Servant is an odd mixture both reiterating the fundamentalist legend about the curse of Ham as the origin of the Negroes. Nevertheless, the author condemns the evil of the slave trade where he notes that it was conducted on the high seas by nations whose flag identify them as Christian yet they deal in the horrendous vile traffic. The minister then welcomes the black servant as a believer and he embraces him as a brother. The book is a pretty book with all edges gilt, the original cloth shows a bit of wear to extremeties, with a beautiful blue pictorial panel inset depicting a young woman teaching a small child, within a gilt and black decorative border. Very nice.

Emporia, KS: Emporia State University, 1980. First Edition. 8vo., 44pp. A scholarly treatise on the theme of 'history for the working man' in Doctorow's powerful novels. This article takes up all of Vol. XXIX(2). Text, with footnotes. Index. Printed black on white wraps. Library bar-code on rear endpaper.

New York: Grove Press, Inc. 1967. A Very Good Copy/A Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust jacket price clipped. Author Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, Cook County Jail Psychiatrist, who interviewed Speck twice a week while he aw aited trial, postulates on why Speck resigned himself to execution. Pp 255.

Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket. 635 pp. German text. German social history from the 18th through twentieth century as seen through the development of one German family =, the Bassermanns.

New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., Publishers, 1883. Cloth. Very Good. No Edition Stated. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 344 pp. Lightly bumped upper corners.

Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc, 1964. Octavo. 190pp., written anonymously, with notes and bibliography by Jerome Peltier. An eye witness account of the crimes of the Slade gang and originally published prior to the better known "Vigilantes of Montana" by Thomas J. Dimsdale, first issued in 1866.bound in light brown cloth, spine lettering black. A handsome copy, fine in nearly fine clipped pictorial dust jacket lightly rubbed at foot.

Worcester, MA: Printed By Isaac Sturtevant for Remark Dunnell, 1814. 16mo. 192 pages. Sharon Block writing in the Journal of American History notes that this is one of the books that terrified and incensed the populace who read about the vicious rapes by the redcoats (p. 116ff.). While courts of law kept the intimate details from the wider public, newspapers, books, almanacs, and a host of printed material were less restrained though leaving little to the imagination to whom the subject of rape was of prurient interest. After describing the various outrages, the address says: How long will you permit this? (report and appeal from Col. Richard E. Parker, Westmoreland County, Virginia) Bound in full contemporary sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label gilt, pages toned, light wear to binding. A very good copy.

Seattle, (1927): The Industrial Worker. First Edition. Octavo. 172p. A History of Militant labor in the United States The labor movement from the mid-1880's to the period before World War II, was not only subject to lockouts but more frequently the hired thugs of the Pinkerton Detective Agency alongside the local police attempted to suppress any attempt of the workers to unionize. This is a systematic account of how the courts with the federal, state, and local governments were used to suppress any attempt of the workers to have protection from the greed and intimidation of the owners. Threats, mass firings, beatings and murder were all part of the arsenal used by the organized crime syndicate of the corporations. There are a number of photographs showing the victims whether on a coroner's slab, a disfigured woman, a child including men who had been tarred and feathered. Today we find virtually no physical violence done to workers since the corporations now can resort to moving to… Read More

Freeport, Illinois, 1878. Broadsheet: I send herewith a photograph of George Thompson, formerly County Clerk of Stephenson Illinois. He left here about four and a half years ago. Indictments have been found against him for mutilating the records of the country and for forgery. He fled to Canada then ended up in California but eventually returned to Illinois where he was sentenced to State Prison.

Columbus, OHio: Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman and Engine Men, 1914. Octavo. pp. 401-525, plus preliminaries, ads. Several full page detailed ads of brake devices (some in color), Besides the many articles on air brakes, there are dozens of technical articles on other equipment (including an electric power that might surpass steam). The article on "fireman and firing" p. 202-203 shows the danger as coal supplies dwindle. There is an article on immigration which is says has brought in "a large population of untrained and unadapted races of south and east Europe...they have lowered the wage standard of the American population." There is a long article "War Prices in the United States" which accuses the monopolies of big business of having obscene profits. The chart of pages 509-510 lists death and disability claims. Besides heart attacks and various other serious maladies it notes boiler explosions, derailments, struck by train, ran over by train, suicides and several others. Bound in pictorial… Read More

Liege: Imprimerie et Lithographie Demarteau, 1890. Half-Leather. A Very Good Copy 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 790 pp. With letters from Cardinal Gibbon, then-bishop Henry Vaughan. Congress on social initiatives in response to problems of education , unemployment, workers' rights, etc.

Boston: National Economic League, 1923. Orginal Wraps. Good. Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 84 pp. Reverse lower cover diagonal crease. Includes address by Edward A. Filene of Filene's, mostly on the issue of 'industrial democracy,' or worker control of direction, which, not surprisingly, the speakers found no interest in workers having other than a token say over their conditions.

Detroit, Mich: Henry Ford, 1916. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 4 volumes in 1. 76 p. Yapped edges. Illus. Port. of Thomas A. Edison and facsimile letter from Edison to Henry Ford. Speaks about the morals, harm and the effects of smoking on the mind and body.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 309p. index. It was Lewis Grizzard (the only eyewitness to the event) who said when Mexicans were hung for rebellion against the United States "but it was their country"--The Anglo-Hispanic culture which was far more pronounced in blending in New Mexico; nevertheless, was a main part of Texas history. The author writes: "This was a world of fluid identities." Besides Lorenzo de Zavala, there is the case of Stephen F. Austin who not only shifted his loyalities giving up his U.S. citizenship to become a Mexican national in order to honor a colonization contract his father had made, but many more. What had been the North of Mexico became the American Southwest. An important contribution.