Search Results: Settlement Movement from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: George Allen & Unwin, (1919). First Edition. Octavo. Olive drab boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; xvi, 336pp. Inserted advertising leaf tipped in before first page of Preface. Tight, straight and unmarked copy, Near Fine. Social survey of British labourers (mainly in the city of Sheffield), undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship (though not credited herein) of the prominent Fabian Socialist, anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman (1886-1972), who also founded the Sheffield Educational Settlement (1918). Among contemporary testimonials included on the inserted advertising leaf is the following from the Daily Mail: "...One of the most interesting social studies that have been made since Charles Booth's Life and Labour in London...Anyone who agrees that 'the proper study of mankind is man' could not fail to find this fascinating." See Helen Smith, "Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. Later but early printing (first published in 1909). Octavo. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth (hardcover); 274,14pp. A bright, clean copy, close to fine, free of markings or wear. Devine (1867-1948) was a pioneer American sociologist and an early director of the New York School of Social Work and an advocate of the Settlement movement, working for many years side-by-side with Lillian Wald at the Henry Street Settlement in New York.

Original illuminated document on parchment; hand-lettered in italic with gilt illuminations at upper left and right margins; signed beneath work by the calligrapher, "E. von E." (unidentified). With original signatures of 71 board members and staff of the Henry Street Settlement. Mild soil at margins; Near Fine. A handsome, hand-lettered tribute to outgoing President of the Board of the Henry Street Settlement Newbold Morris. Morris (1902-1966) was an important figure in Henry Street history, assuming the board presidency soon after the reorganization of the Settlement under Director Helen Hall, in 1944. Morris also played a prominent role in New York City planning and politics during the Robert Moses era; he was among the more prominent members of the New York Planning Commission; was President of the City Council from 1938 to 1945 and an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor in 1945 and 1949. Later, in 1961, Morris achieved some notoriety as the City Parks Commissioner, when he rejected the permits of… Read More