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THE SECOND TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE. September 1909 to September 1929. With a Record of a Growing World Consciousness

THE SECOND TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE. September 1909 to September 1929. With a Record of a Growing World Consciousness

ADDAMS, Jane Illustrated with drawings by Norah Hamilton and Morris Topchevsky. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'Compliments of the author'/Jane Addams/Hull-House/Chicago." Uncommon in dustwrapper. Jane Addams (1860-1935), American settlement house founder and social reformer, was born to a well-off family in Cedarsville, Illinois. Though she had hoped for a degree from Smith College, her father insisted she attend the Rockford Female Seminary. After graduation, she attended the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia but withdrew due to a chronic spinal illness. After a successful convalescence, she toured Europe in 1883 and 1887 where she was deeply affected by her experiences with the urban poor causing her to undertake a thorough study of the living conditions of the working poor. She vowed to create an American version of the settlement houses she had visited. In 1889, together with lifelong friend Helen Starr, she launched Hull House, a sanctuary offering physical, financial, medical, and legal protection to Chicago's urban underclass. By 1893 Addams had opened or inspired 40 other such local clubs, including nurseries, dispensaries and boarding houses, all based at Hull House and devoted to providing higher standards of care than had ever been offered to America's poor, predominantly female at this time. By the late 1890s Addams no longer had to self-fund her endeavors, but could depend on assistance from wealthy Chicago women. With such backing, Addams, along with Alice Hamilton, Julia Lathrop, and Edith and Grace Abbot, among others, effected not just change in their local community, but lobbied for legislative intervention. Due in large part to their efforts, Illinois passed its first factory inspection act in 1893 and Chicago established the first juvenile court in the United States in 1899; in addition, the succeeding years saw Hull House influence in political battles for child labor laws, limitation on working hours for women, improvement in welfare procedures, recognition of labor unions, protection of immigrants, compulsory school attendance, and industrial safety. Addams's battles occasioned opposition from conservative quarters, and her voluble opposition to the Great War won her no friends, but her local infamy was ultimately overwhelmed by her international reputation for pioneering good works. Addams's local community work led her into political activism on a national and even global scale: in 1909 she became the first female President of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections; in 1911, the first head of the National Federation of Settlements and Vice-President of the National American Women Suffrage Alliance (1922-14); and in 1912, a vocal member of the Roosevelt for President campaign. In 1915 Addams became Chairman of the Woman's Peace Party and President of the first Women's Peace Congress at the Hague; in 1919 she presided over the second Women's Peace Conference in Zurich, and remained its president until her death; and in 1920 she became a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union. During the following decade she pursued many of these causes with vigor and a degree of success. In 1931 Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in forming the first Women's Peace Party, along with Nicholas Murray Butler. Today the most widely-read of her copious publications are her two memoirs, TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE, published in 1910 and her most successful book then as it is now; and its less optimistic sequel, THE SECOND TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE, published in 1930. Slight offsetting to endpapers from dustwrapper. Bright, close to Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Congress of the United States of America, in the Late War

PAINE, Thomas Small quarto (5" x 7-3/4") bound in original sheep with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label; xii, 60, [2], 186, 41, [3], vi-vii, [2], 10-70, [2], 24, [2], 124, [2] pages. Contains 1. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (Albany: Re-Printed, by Charles R. and George Webster, 1791); 2. The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written During the Late War (Albany: Printed & Sold, by Charles R. & George Webster, 1792); 3. Public Good: Being an Examination into the Claim of Virginia, to the Vacant Western Territory, and of the Right of the United States to the Same (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, [n.d.]). 4. Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North-America (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, [n.d.]). 5. Letters, by the Author of Common Sense. First, to the Earl of Shelburne. Second, To Sir Guy Carlton. Third, To the Authors of "The Republican," a French Paper. Fourth, To the Abbe Syeyes (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, 1792). 6. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. The Fourth American Edition (Albany: Re-Printed, by Charles R. and George Webster, [n.d.]). The first collected American edition of "The Crisis," the first time individual numbers were printed together in America. "Crisis" as issued with page 180 misnumbered 178 and Numbers 10 and 12 omitted, as the printers were unable to obtain a copy of the text. Of the articles in "The Crisis," only 5 were issued in pamphlet form, with the others appearing only in newspapers. After publishing articles numbered I-IX, Paine did not assign number X, though in its place he published "The Crisis Extraordinary", which was followed by number XI. He skipped number XII and called the final article in the series "The Last Crisis, Number XIII." Although 9 parts are listed on the general title page, 4 of them--the Letters in Section 5 above--are included as one part. HOWES P-34 states that the First Edition consists of 7 separately paginated sections totaling 517 pages, and the Second Edition consists of 9 sections totaling 623 pages. This copy has 9 sections totaling 517 pages. Signed on the title page by a listed subscriber, John Williams of Salem, in 1793, with an interesting small printed bookplate of the table of contents of the book. The first half of the "Rights of Man" is more browned than the rest of the book's text, but generally clean overall in a nice original binding with some loss at the spine tips, mainly the head, and minor worming to the front cover. Very Good to Near Fine