Twenty Years Hull House by Addams Jane, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Norah Hamilton (illustrator). 1st Edition. Limited Edition #160 of 210 Copies. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photographs, Illustrations By Norah Hamilton (illustrator). 1st Edition. Xvii, 462 Pp. + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Red-Brown Cloth, Gilt, Color Illustration Mounted On Front Cover, Top Edge Gilt, Light Green Endpapers. Third Printing, December 1910, Of The First Edition. Signed "Jane Addams Hull-House" And "Louise De Koven Bowen" On Preliminary Blank, With Signature Beneath Of Mrs. J. E. Howe Dated 1910, And A Few Pencil Notes Relating To Gertrude Howe Britton (1868-1951), Social Worker And Birth Control Activist, Resident Of Hull-House, Who Was In Charge Of The Hull-House Children's Clubs, Later A Member Of The Chicago Board Of Education And Was Wife Of James Howe Britton (1876-1956), Resident Physician Of Hull-House, They Were The Parents Of The First Child Born At Hull House. She Is Frequently Mentioned In Articles And Books About Addams And Hull-House; In The 1929 Year Book She Is Cited For Meeting Weekly With The Mexican Consul And Neighborhood Residents. With Ephemera: Photographically Illustrated "From The Christmas Concert Hull House, Christmas Card Circa 1910/1930 Of The Brittons; An Invitation From Jane Addams To The Brittons' 25Th Anniversary At Hull House 1929; An Invitation From Addams And The Brittons To A Reception For The Brittons' Son James Howe Britton; An Invitation To The Christening Of Their Daughter Janith, And A Related Newspaper Clipping; And An Announcement For The Opening Of The Joint Medical Offices Of The Brittons' Father And Son In Altadena, Probably Circa 1950. Louise De Koven Bowen (1859-1953) Had An Activist Career In Social And Women's Issues In Chicago For Many Decades. She Was Vice-President, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Director, Woman's Club Of Chicago, Treasurer And President Of The Board Of Directors, Hull House, President, Juvenile Protection Association, Auditor, Nawsa; She Donated Extensive Country Lands For The "Camp And Summer Camp At The "Hull-House And Bowen Country Club". With Other Ephemera Including Newspaper Clippings And Magazine Articles; Brochure "All Work And No Play: A Plea For Saturday Afternoon", By Jane Sheldrick Howe, 1910, Juvenile Protective Association; Hull-House Year Book 40Th Year (1929), Discussing Gertrude Howe Britton's Work Including Her 1925 "Our Mexican Patients In Central Free Dispensary"; "Cathedral Of Compassion: Dramatic Outline Of The Work Of Jane Addams 1860-1935", Signed Limited Edition Additionally Inscribed To Kathryn Howe Miller "Old Hull House Kid)(Mrs. Herman W. Miller) From Hazel Taylor, And With A Loose Slip Regarding Subscriptions To Announcements Of Hull House Exhibitions; "Before And After Trouble", Pamphlet, Hull-House1956; "A Social Settlement In Times Of Neighborhood Change", Hull House 1957; Announcement, Invitation, And Personal Letter From The President Inviting The Recipient To The Hull-House Moving Party, 1963; "Hull House Association", Brochure, 1963. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Xvii, 462 Pp. #107 Of 210 Copies Of The Signed, Limited First Edition, Large Paper 9 5/8" Tall. Vellum Spine Over Brown Paper Covered Boards. A Very Nice Copy, Clean, Hinges Tight, Spine And Cover Gilt Lettering All Brilliant, Small Losses Of Paper On Edges At Tops, A Few Tiny Losses Of Paper At Edges Of Front Cover, No Damage To Vellum, Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontis photo portrait; illus., 7.5 x 5.25", rust-colored cloth, 462pp with index, extremities bumped and fraying, spine darkened with small abrasion, endpapers unevenly toned, waviness from damping on lower edge of textblock throught last third or so of book. Much later edition, but INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JANE ADDAMS, AT TOP OF TITLE PAGE ("Jane Addams Hull House Chicago").

Hardcover. First Edition. 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. 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. Slight offsetting to endpapers from dustwrapper. Bright, close to Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. FIRST edition, second printing. SIGNED and inscribed by social reformer Jane Addams on the front free endpaper. Inscribed to cleric and social reformer Samuel Barnett, whose Toynbee Hall inspired Hull-House: "To Canon Barnett / 'Comps of the author' / Jane Addams." Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and bumped corners. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front free endpaper to labor leader Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, "with compliments of the author," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo (20.5cm). Publisher's terra-cotta pictorial cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xvii+462, [4]pp ads. 12 inserted leaves of plates (halftones); numerous text illustrations. Brief (1") split to endpaper at base of front hinge (internal); a few passages with pencil underlining and a bit of rubbing to board edges; still a fresh, tight, lightly worn copy, Very Good or better. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings by Norah Hamilton, a resident of Hull House. The foundational work of the American Setlement Movement, rarely found in such nice condition, and uncommon signed. This a significant presentation copy, inscribed to the prominent labor and women's rights activist Mary Kenney O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan (1864-1943), herself a resident at Hull House in the early 1880s, was a close ally of Jane Addams and took an active role in organizing and promoting the Settlement Movement in America. After marrying and relocating to Boston, O'Sullivan later (1892) founded Denison House, the second Settlement House to be established in that city (shortly following the establishment of Denison House, founded a year earlier). She was also active in both the garment workers and bookbinders unions in Chicago, where she organized the first local branch of the Woman's Bookbinding Union, later becoming an organizer for the AFL, of which she is reputed to have been the first salaried female employee. A key association copy of one of the most important American women's memoirs of the 20th Century.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jane Addams and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original brick red cloth stamped in gilt with illustrated onlay to upper board. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to covers. Pages toned, front free endpaper lightly soiled, and several hinges throughout are slightly over-opened. Signed by the author, who is know as the mother of social work.

[Women History] [Social Activist] Jane Addams. "Twenty Years at Hull House." New York: Macmillan and Company, 1910. First edition Inscribed and signed by Jane Addams. on the front end page. Maroon cloth cover with gilt detail and a color plate image of Hull House, gilt spine. Wear and small losses to image on front cover, loss to upper left corner of spine. Cracks on inside front and back hindges. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Jane Addams' global advocacy for women's economic, educational, and social equality made her the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In her autobiography Twenty Years at Hull-House, Addams recounts her domestic activism as the founder of the second and most innovative settlement house in the U.S. Originally conceived in 1889 as a space where women of privilege could share their knowledge in humanistic fields such as art, literature, and music with the less fortunate, Hull House rapidly transformed into a community support system where working women could learn practical job skills, obtain medical and legal services, and locate affordable housing. Addams' two decades working in inner-city Chicago ultimately inspired her to take a global approach to advocacy; and she founded the Women's League for Peace and Freedom in addition to serving as President of the Woman's Peace Party.

ADDAMS, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 1st ed. xvii,462pp. Portrait frontis., illus., plates. Orig. vellum-backed boards, T.e.g. Boards lightly scuffed, spine slightly darkened, else very good. Limited Autograph edition. One of 210 numbered copies signed by the author. Autograph letter from Addams tipped onto front free endpaper, dated 3 Dec. 1910, presenting this volume to "Dr. Ochsner" "as a slight expression of my gratitude." The ownership signature "A.J. Ochsner" is on the front pastedown. Albert J. Ochsner of Chicago was considered one of the finest surgeons in the United States and was one of the founders of the American College of Surgeons. Jane Addams founded in Chicago the second and most innovative settlement house in the country. From there, she became a leader of the worldwide women's movement and for global peace.