ALTGELD, John P. - Live Questions Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims

New York, The Humboldt Publishing Co, n.y. Paperback. Brown/burgundy cloth over flexible boards with gilt lettering. ix, 296pp, (7pp ads). Frontispiece. Very good. Mild edgewear only. Handsome and nice reprint edition, a volume in this publisher's "Twentieth Century Library" series. First published in 1890 (Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry), this turn-of-the-century reprint (ca. 1900) collects the popular Democratic 20th governor's writings on a broad range of topics such as: "The Administration of Justice in Chicago," "The Eight-Hour Movement," "Slave-Girls of Chicago," "Protecting the Ballot-Box," "Pensions for Soldiers" and dozens of others. Front flyleaf bears printed (not authentic) facsimile "Compliments of / John P. Altgeld. .

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