Search Results: Movements and Organizations from The Owl at the Bridge

Ediciones en Lenguas Extranjeras, Moscú, 1960. Hard Cover. On Trade Unions. 438 p., 20.5 cm. Translations from the 4th Russian edition of Lenin's Works (Moscow, Instituto de Marxismo-Leninismo). A collection of articles from various publications, 1895-1925. At head of title: Proletarios De Todos Los Paises, Unios! Bound in dark maroon boards, front & spine stamped in gold; VG. 39973.

Softcover. 295 pages, 250 illustrations; 21.5 x 25.5 cm. An exhibition of American decorative arts. Three pieces by Gorham are numbers 18-20. Section four (pp. 115-148) is on the Arts and Crafts book. Stock#29074/h. Fine / paperback.

N.Y., The Club, 1898 [DeVinne Press]. 250 "copies Printed at the De Vinne Press." The membership list includes S. L. Clemens, Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, others less notable. Hard Cover. 109 pages, frontispiece, 19 cm.; Vg, boards slightly soiled/ no dj. Stock#NS1010.

New Haven, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1890. The Stonington, Connecticut chapter of this mutual-aid society, which offered support for ill members and death benefits that would later be offered by insurance companies. Soft Cover. 44 pages; 14 cm. Vg / soft cover. Stock#NS0507.

Leipzig. Verlag von F. E. Bilz [February 1900] 'Jubiläums Ausgabe'. Hard Cover. "...sowie dem Porträt des Verfassers und mehreren bunten zerlegbaren Modellen über den Bau des menschlichen Körpers und seiner Organe. Part of the Social Utopia movement. To quote the translated website: 'With the bath season 2000 the Bilzbad Radebeul stood 95 years in the service of the recovery-looking-for. Friedrich Eduard Bilz opened the "public light air bath" on 25 June 1905.' This liberally illustrated monument to hygiene discusses compresses, baths & showers, massage, first aid, exercise, healing herbs, ventilation, stoves & ovens for heat, melancholy, migraine, mushrooms, phrenology, orthopedics... The 16 pages at end are a pink advertising flyer for various baths. 2 leaves, 1943, 16 pages, 723 text figures (incl. photos), 14 color plates, index; double color folding plate, folding group portrait plate & halftone portrait plate (Bilz) precede title-page. Mounted inside both covers are many-layer… Read More

N.Y., Harvest Books [1975?]. HB-14. Soft Cover. x, 239 p.; 18.5 cm. "I have tried to envisage this great area as a single whole, of which the parts were in continuous communication with each other." Contents include The Revival of Commerce (Mediterranean, North Sea & the Baltic); The Towns (Revival of Urban Life; Merchants & the Bourgeoisie; Urban Institutions & Law); Land and the Rural Classes (Manorial Organization and Serfdom; Changes in Agriculture from the Beginning of the 12th Century); Commerce to the End of the 13th Century (Movement of Trade; Fairs; Money; Credit & the Traffic in Money); International Trade to the End of the 13th Century (Commodities & Directions of International Trade; The Capitalistic Character of International Trade); Urban Economy & the Regulation of Industry (Towns as Economic Centres. The Provisioning of the Towns; Urban Industry); Economic Changes of the 14th & 15th Centuries (Catasstrophes & Social Disturbances; Protectionism, Capitalism & Mercantilism); General… Read More

Harper & Row [c1978] 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 56 p., color illus. throughout; 28.5 cm. "Wars, at best, are stupid struggles. They are easy to start, easier to keep going, but hard to stop. This is the story of the three heroes who stopped the Great World War." Lady Adelaide, Spider Max, and Buckingham venture into the forbidden forest to discover (and sabotage) "the biggest cannon in history". Color pictorial dj clipped, chipped, taped, now in mylar; VG. stock#44849.

Providence, E.L. Freeman, 1895. Hard Cover. xx, 869 p. illus. (ports.), 24 cm. This ample history of the first century og Freemasonry in Rhode Island contains biographical sketches of leading masons including Elisha Rhodes of Civil War fame (pp. 412-415). Stock# 32,120. Vg, covers soiled/ no dj.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1930. Hard Cover. 94 p. On the difficulty of legislating behavior. Alcohol abuse was and is a serious social problem. When drinking alcohol was made illegal, people didn't stop drinking, they were only forced to drink illegally. Auerbach shows that the failed legislation, the Volstead Act, can and should be repealed. Vg/no dj. stock#101614 (dr).

Wellesley, MA, Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College / NY, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, c1997. Catalog of an exhibition at the Davis Museum & Cultural Center, February 28-July 14, 1997, and at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, March 6-July 6, 1998. Boston's Arts & Crafts movement was organized into a Society which promoted its members and their work in the decorative arts. Published at $75. Hard Cover. 247 pages, 273 illustrations (60 color), pictorial endpapers; index; 37 cm. New in publisher's shrinkwrap. Inquire about discount for multiple copies. Stock#37755x.

New York, Masonic Publishing, 1869.. Hard Cover. iv, [5]-128,8 p. illus., 12 cm. Preface dated: September, 1864. "Popular works on Freemasonry published by the Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Company" 8 p. at end. This systemizes and regulates Royal Arch Masonic practice. Stock #29,101. Vg, bound in gold stmped red cloth, soiled/ no dj.

Ediciones Populares Argentinas, Buenos Aires [1958]. Movements and Social Doctrines. Includes Genesís del Movimiento Obrero; Los Precursores del Socialismo; Las Revoluciones Europeas de 1848; De la Primera Internacional a la Comuna de Paris; Fundación de la Segunda Internacional; Socialismo Reformista y Sindicalismo Revolucionario; De la Guerra Mundial a la Revolución Rusa; La Internacional Comunista y la División del Movimiento Obrero Mundial; La Vertiente de la Contrarrevolución; El Movimiento Obrero en los Países Democraticos; La Victoria del Nazismo; La Guerra Civil de España y la Segunda Guerra Mundial; El Movimiento Obrero en la Actualidad. Bibliography, p. 283-286. Soft Cover. 290 pages, index; 19 cm. Printed wraps; minor wear; good. stock#38494.

NY, War Resisters League [1985]. Soft Cover. [128] p., illus.; 21.5 cm. Series: Peace Calendar vol. 31. Title continues: and a collection of quotations on war, peace, and social justice. "Pain and suffering are a kind of false currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them along" -- Simone Weil. Stock#47254. Vg. spiral binding.