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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Sammelband. Six pamphlets bound into one volume. 12mo. Approximately [475]pp. Bound without wrappers into leather-backed maroon textured cloth with spine gilt and edges sprinkled. Spine ends worn, rear shoulder split (but sound), about half the volume with a faint marginal dampstain on the topedge, very good and sound. A collection of six uncommon, late-19th Century American political pamphlets. Themes of temperance, wage slavery, women's suffrage, theories of currency, and the country's turn toward a more socialist governing structure, run throughout. A list is below: 1. W.J. [a.k.a. Joslyn Rodolphus Waite]. *The Rights of labor: An Inquiry as to the Relation, Employer and Employed*. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1894. [4] 5-117 [11 ads] pp. Unity Library, No. 37. (N.B. For reasons we can't surmise, a scrap of envelope with the title in pencil has been tipped-on to the title page.) 2. [Stockham, A.]. *The Fearful Outlook, or The Impending Crisis*. [Likely Wait, Ohio: no publisher, circa 1890s]. [1] 2-131 [1 blank] pp. This copy without publication info, which we've gathered from *OCLC*. A handful of penciled corrections in the text, likely by the author? A collection of short moral pieces and anecdotes, several from other writers; topics include Christianity, The Salvation Army, temperance, Mormonism, women's suffrage, and the gold standard. Includes 40pp. of "Stockham's Proverbs." 3. Schuckers, J.W. *The New York National Bank Presidents' Conspiracy: A History of the Panic of 1893; Its Organization and Methods*. Chicago: The American Bimetallic Union, (circa 1895). [2] 5-77 [4 ads] [1 blank] pp. With a letter dated 1895 printed after the copyright page (which is dated 1894), hence our date designation. Features several full-page ads for other publications by The American Bimetallic Union. 4. Bland, T.A. *The People's Party, Shot and Shell*. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1892. [1-5] 6-30 [2 ads] pp. 5. [Likely from, or an offprint published by, *The Coming Nation*]: *Freedom and Bondage*. [No place: likely *The Coming Nation*, circa 1890s?]. [1] 4-48pp. Likely from a late-19th Century socialist newspaper, see below. 6. [Likely from, or an offprint published by, *The Coming Nation*]: *Anarchy and Anarchists*. [No place: likely *The Coming Nation*, circa 1890s?]. [2 blank] 3-62pp. Pamphlets five and six lack publication information but are printed on the same paper stock and appear to be from the same publisher. An internal reference to the People's Party, and another to *The Coming Nation* (in the form of a printed letter asking to cancel their subscription) led us to our designation. We found digitized corroboration via *The Encyclopedia of Social Reform* (Funk & Wagnalls, 1897), which states that "*The Coming Nation*, a People's Party socialist paper, has a circulation of 70,000." Six pamphlets offering a fascinating snapshot of turn-of-the-century "progressive" American politics.