1880s from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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Sea-leaves
by Hall-Wood, Mary Camilla Foster (pseud. Camilla K. von K.)
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- 1887
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$150.00
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Santa Barbara, CA: Independent Print, 1887. Hardcover. 175, [1]p., boards. 7.5 x 5.5 in. Bound in publisher's red cloth, cover design combination of gilt and block stamping. Cloth a little soiled and fading on spine, but overall Very Good copy. Poems and poetic fragments. The author was a resident of Santa Barbara and editor of the Santa Barbara Index… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Local taxation, especially in English cities and towns. A speech delivered in the House of Commons, on March 23rd, 1886
by Rogers, James E. Thorold
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- 1886
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$18.00
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London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. Pamphlet. 23, [1]p., wraps. A few stray pencil marks in the margins. Tear at bottom of pages 21-22, but with no loss to text. Good. Rogers was a professor of political economy at King's College and Oxford as well as a Member of Parliament for Southwark. Item Price
$18.00
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Leaves from a prison diary; or, lectures to a "solitary" audience. In two volumes. Volume II
by Davitt, Michael
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- 1885
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. Hardcover. xi, 256p., 32p., of ads, front hinge starting, board corners a bit bumped and slightly soiled, slight tilt to spine, slight tear along bottom of front free endpaper, otherwise in very good condition. Item Price
$15.00
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Divorce; a review of the subject from a scientific standpoint, in answer to Mgr. Capel, the Rev. Dr. Dix, the New England Divorce Reform League, and others who desire more stringent divorce laws
by Foote, Edward B[liss]
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- 1884
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$125.00
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New York: Murray Hill Publishing Co, 1884. Pamphlet. [2], 60, [6]p., boards. 7 x 4.75 in. Bound in publisher's limp cloth, gilt stamped "Divorce" on cover. Former owner's name on front flyleaf, dated 1884. Front flyleaves and title page separated from binding. Some pages chipped. Top corner of text block chipped. Good. Dr. Foote was active in freethought and… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
The Adventures of Japanese Photography, 1860-1890
by March, Philipp and Claudia Delank, editors
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 9783933257222
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer Verlag, 2002. Hardcover. 127p., profusely illus., very good condition in pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Item Price
$25.00
![Rational communism; the present and future republic of North America, by A Capitalist [pseud.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/720/785/1599785720.0.m.jpg)
Rational communism; the present and future republic of North America, by A Capitalist [pseud.]
by Van Deusen, Alonzo
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- 1885
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$300.00
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New York: The Social Science Publishing Co, 1885. Hardcover. 498p. hardcover, boards mildly worn with some mottling, title label on spine somewhat rubbed, bookplate inside front cover with rules of the National Co-Operative Library Association and Publishing Co. "All works of strictly public character owned by the government. Small communities. Very detailed." *Sargent. Item Price
$300.00
Wisdom's weavings and grains of gold
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- 1887
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- Ephemera
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Newton, MA: Nonantum Worsted Co, 1887. Ephemera. [4]p., wraps. 5.5 x 2.75 in. Edges chipped and toned. Very Good. Booklet of aphorisms that also carry pitches for yarns, perfumes, and undergarments. Item Price
$15.00
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The Water Mill
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- 1889
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood & Co, 1889. Pamphlet. [16]p., illustrations, wraps. 4 x 4.5 in. Very Good. Advertisement for Hood's sarsaparilla, here marketed as a miracle cure. With two poems: "The Water-Mill" by Sarah Doudney and "Der Vater-Mill" by Charles Follen Adams, the second being written in dialect mimicking German-American immigrant accents. Item Price
$20.00
The Struggles and Triumphs of a Backslider, in Getting Back to his Father's House. The Experience of Rollin K. Sherman, Proprietor of the Tremont House, Nashua, N.H.
by Sherman, Rollin K.
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- 1887
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Boston: McDonald, Gill & Co, 1887. Pamphlet. 12p., wraps. 7.5 x 5 in. Very Good. The testimony of an innkeeper who, after accepting a job where alcohol is served, loses his faith, and finds redemption after hitting rock bottom. Not in WorldCat (January 2024). Item Price
$20.00
Eye-Witnesses to the Annexation of Cameroon 1883-1887
by Ardener, Shirley G.
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- 1968
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Buea --West Cameroon: Ministry of Primary Education [and] West Cameroon Antiquities Commission, 1968. Pamphlet. Unpaginated preliminaries, 88p. plus the publisher's menu of further material, illustrated with fullpage photoportraits of white and Black dignitaries, site photo, documents in facsimile and a clear line-map of the Gulf as it stood in the nineteenth century. Softbound in 10x7 inch plain printed stapled… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
The Political battle of Dorking: Supposed to be the meditations of Uncle Henry Drew, of Bow Lake, Strafford, politician, philosopher, philanthropist, sage, scholar, and statesman, at the advanced age of a hundred and seventeen years, in the year of our Lord 1935, on the decline and rise of the Republican Party of New Hampshire; Fifty years before; the causes which led to its overthrow, and the policy upon which it was reconstructed and regained power; together with interesting personal reminiscences
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- 1885
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$85.00
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Strafford, NH: Bow Lake Publishing Company; For sale by C.F. Batchelder, 1885. Pamphlet. 24p. staplebound pamphlet, very good condition. One of the responses to the 1871 pamphlet 'The Battle of Dorking,' this speculative fiction set fifty years into the future from the date of publication looks back on how the Democrats reclaimed power, raising taxes, restricting the rights of… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
Nationalism
by Griffin, Crawford S.
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- 1889
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$250.00
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Boston: C.S. Griffin, 1889. Paperback. 70p., slender paperback, minor chipping at spine ends, "36%" penciled at top of front cover, ownership signature and date on rear cover. 4.5x6.6 inches. An appeal to resolve the economic problems of the late 19th century through a form of socialism modeled after the ideas of Edward Bellamy and Laurence Gronlund. Item Price
$250.00
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The Earth and its inhabitants. Europe. [Five volumes]
by Reclus, Élisée
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- 1882
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$400.00
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. Hardcover. 5 volumes, illustrations, boards. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Bound in full green leather, gilt decorative ruling and gilt lettered spine. All edges and end papers marbled. Some edgewear, very good. U.S. edition of the first five volumes of Reclus's profusely illustrated geographical encyclopedia of the world. Begun while in exile in… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
The Unity of the Truth in Christianity and Evolution. Second Edition
by Hark, J. Max, D.D.
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- 1889
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: John. B. Alden, 1889. Hardcover. 293p., hardbound in 8x5 inch dark brown cloth boards gilt-titled, with top edge gilt. A once-handsome book bound too stiffly to open well, and is currently a fair-only copy with an air of dereliction. An old paper label is fixed crookedly to spine, find gaps between signatures in the textblock (revealing threads),… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Last Words of Thomas Carlyle - On Trades-Unions, Promoterism and The Signs of the Times
by Carlyle, Thomas
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- 1882
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1882. Paperback. 46p., first issue (or at least, the first softbound issue), 7.5x5 inch wraps, sewn signatures (threads holding nicely), a handleable exemplar lacking two inches on the tail of its spine panel, (roughly torn away but holding well enough), both covers and both endsheets heavily spotted with foxing and smudged with dust-soil. A fair-to-good reading… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
The Rhyming Soldier's Chant on Decoration
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- 1886
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- Ephemera
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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n.p., 1886. Ephemera. 1 sheet. 8.75 x 4 in. Several horizontal folds. Verse on death by the soldier-poet, resident of Dayton, OH. Not found in OCLC as of October 2023. Item Price
$25.00
Socialism made plain. Being the Social and Political Manifesto of the Democratic Federation
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- 1883
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$150.00
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[England]: [Democratic Federation], 1883. Pamphlet. 11, [1]p., wraps. 7 x 4.75 in. Disbound with sewing holes visible, but otherwise a clean, crisp copy. Good. First statement of the position of the Democratic Federation (later Social Democratic Federation) founded by H.M. Hyndman in 1881, who was inspired after reading The Communist Manifesto. Typesigned by the Executive Committee, with Hyndman as… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
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Valley of Baca: a record of suffering and triumph
by Smith, Jennie
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- 1885
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. 288, [2] + 3 leaves of plates, illustrations, boards. 7 x 4.5 in. Bound in publisher's green cloth, blind stamped monogram on front and rear covers; gilt spine titling. Binding cocked slightly. Good. Autobiography. Becomes disabled after a physical injury and ensuing illness; she is cured through faith healing and joins an evangelical circuit.… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
The People's Book. A work for national reformation, showing the only way to restore a harmonious union of the people of the states; showing how to restore honesty, justice, and patriotism to our citizens, and the way to perpetuate a government of the people. A gem of national truths, containing speeches, lectures, &c., and the People's National Platform for 1880
by Shinn, Luther Calvin
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- 1883
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$50.00
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[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1883. Pamphlet. 44p., wraps. 9 x 6 in. Errata slip inserted after final leaf. Platform for a post-Civil War political organization founded by West Virginian Luther C. Shinn, a Greenbacker. Strong theocratic themes. Opposed to foreign capital investment and monopolies. Interspersed are excerpts from speeches. Shinn was a candidate for political… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
![The Century Magazine - [fifteen unduplicated cover-damaged copies with one with extensive damage to textblock including a clipped ad.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/849/661/1559661849.0.m.jpg)
The Century Magazine - [fifteen unduplicated cover-damaged copies with one with extensive damage to textblock including a clipped ad.]
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- 1898
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- Magazine
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$50.00
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1898. Magazine. Entire copies albeit with ruined spine panels and ragged covers. Find twelve from the 1880s and three from the next decade when cheaper means of illustration quickly became the norm. A February 1891 number is the item already described as clipped (a single instance only from the ads) and in thrashed condition, but kept with this lot… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
