Addams, Jane

Centennial Reader

New York NY: Macmillian, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak; 330 pages.

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Book number: 59394

Catalogue: United States::Illinois::Chicago

Keywords: Adams, Jane History Chicago, IL

Addams, Jane

Centennial Reader

New York NY: Macmillian, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 7451

Catalogue: United States::Illinois::Chicago

Keywords: Addams, Jane History Chicago, IL

Addams, Jane,

A Centennial Reader.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1960. Hardcover. Chipping with small tears & dampstaining to DJ. Browning to endpapers; The pioneering social worker shares views on many issues ; 8vo; 330 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 14204

Catalogue: Biography

Addams, Jane,

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Small tear to upper spine end; Discussion of society's obligations to women and girls of modest circumstances ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 219 pages. Very Good+.

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Book number: 13832

Catalogue: USA, Midwest

ADDAMS, Jane

The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House. September 1909 to September 1929. With a Record of a Growing World Consciousness

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. Slight offsetting to endpapers from dustwrapper. Bright, close to Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear 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.

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Book number: 021235

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Nobel Peace Prize, Social Reform, Women's Movement, Women's Suffrage Movement, Women's Literature Signed Nobel Peace Prize Social Reform Women's Suffrage Movement

Addams, Jane

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1910. Hardcover. Rear cover scuffed; extremities slightly worn; pages slightly toned; otherwise very good condition. Inscribed "With best wishes - Jane Addams, Hull House, May 5th, 1910" . 162p. Later printing. .

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Book number: 54365

Addams, Jane,

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1909. Hardcover. Slight wear to extremities and spine ends ; 3rd printing, December 1909 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pages. Very Good+.

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Book number: 13833

Catalogue: USA, Midwest

Addams, Jane

Twenty Years at Hull House with Autobiographical Notes

New York NY: Signet, 1961. Fourth Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0451512847. Illustrated by Norah Hamilton Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Pencil marks on a few pages; Foreword by Henry Steele Commager; B&W Illustrations; 320 pages.

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Book number: 58060

Catalogue: United States::Illinois::Chicago

Keywords: 0451512847 Addams, Jane History Chicago, IL Famous Woman Poverty Hull House Hamilton, Norah Commager, Henry

Addams, Jane

Twenty Years at Hull-House

New York, Macmillan, 1910. Hardcover. A red casebound book with gilt text on the spine. 462 pages; 12 pages of plates, as well as several more black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. The top text block is gilted. "The memoirs of Jane Addams, a pioneer American activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Addams created the first Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine. Pencil notations on the front free end page. Tanning to side and bottom text block.

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Book number: 205791

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Addams, Jane ; ;

Addams, Jane,

Twenty Years at Hull- House with Autobiographical Notes.

New York: MacMillan Company, 1930. Later Printing. Hardcover. Foxing to DJ; Inscribed 'faithfully yours' by the author; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 462 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

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Book number: 12502

Catalogue: USA, Northeast

Addams, Jane

"A Visit to Tolstoy" in McClure's (January, 1911)

New York, S.S. McClure & Co. 1911. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with light edgewear. Near Fine.

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Book number: b44155

Addams, Jane.m Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton

Women at the Hague : the International Congress of Women and its results.

Introduction by Harriet Hyman Alonso. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003. Paperback. xl, 91 p. ; 22 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9780252071560.

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Book number: #250606

Catalogue: International Law/Internationaal Recht

Keywords: , international law, Völkerrecht

(Addams, Jane) Conway, Jill

"Jane Addams: An American Heroine" in Daedalus (Spring, 1964)

Daedalus, 1964. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers (some fading and a rubbstamp on the contents page). Near Fine.

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Book number: 015432

[Jane Addams] John Daniels

America Via the Neighborhood

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, worn at crown of spine, front hinge neatly reinforced with archival paper tape, else a hardcover book in very good condition. SIGNED BY JANE ADDAMS ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The signature is in pencil. On the front pastedown opposite is a rubber ownership stamp of the Immigrant's Service League in Chicago, an organization Addams helped start. Addams (1860-1935) was the founder of Hull House, the recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, co-founder of the ACLU, and a champion for women's rights. She was also an active champion of the rights of immigrants and helped to found the Immigrant's Protective League in 1907 - the organization was re-named the Immigrant's Service League in 1958. This work is a sociological study of immigrant neighborhoods and study on how to best assimilate immigrants into American life. A nice association copy of the important 20th century progressive activist. Very good .

Kubik Fine Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 1269224

Catalogue: Rare & Collectible