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Description : Book Details: This lot contains the collection of bound pamphlets show in the corresponding image(s). These pamphlets relate to the establishment and reform of the civil service in the United States including pamphlets on political and governmental reform. Each pamphlet is individually paginated. The pamphlets include The Reform of the Civil Service: A Report to the President by George William Curtis, The Experiment of Civil Service Reform in the United States, its methods, its affects, and the excuses and responsibility for its abandonment by D. B. Eaton, The Practical Working of Our Government. An Address delivered before the Young Men's Christian Union in Boston, March 15th, 1873 by Gamaliel Bradford, Nova Instauratio Republicae: The Commonwealth Reconstructed by C. C. P. Clark, A Report Read By Col. Rush C. Hawkins before the Union League Club. The Evening of February 10, 1876, Relating to the cause of the increase of the city debt, and recommending measures for its more economical government in the future, and The Next Phase of Civil Progress by an unknown author. Marbled end-papers, generally clean, bright, and unmarked, a couple of stray pencil marks, library stamp on first page of first pamphlet, bookplate reading The David Ames Wells Economic Library presented to the City Library Association of Springfield, Massachusetts: A. D. MDCCCXCVIII on front pastedown. Laid in is a long handwritten letter (four double-sided sheets) from Franklin Benjamin Sanborn to David A. Wells, dated May 11 1877, concerning pauperism in Massachusetts. Sanborn was a journalist, author, and reformer who founded the American Social Science Organization, and was one of the people who helped fund the abolitionist John Brown, Wells was an economist, and served as president of the American Social Science Organization 1877-1879. George William Curtis was a journalist who advocated for reforms including emancipation, environmental conservation, and equal civil rights for African-Americans, Native Americans, and women. Rush Hawkins was a lawyer who served as an officer during the Civil War, and later became an avid book collector. Condition / Notes: Antique volume is bound in contemporary marbled paper boards with gilt-stamped red leather spine and tips, very slight wear to edges, binding tight, fine overall, pamphlets bound in original wrappers with slight wear, generally well preserved. Book measures approximately 6.25 x 9. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50
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