SKIDMORE, Thomas (1790-1832). The Rights of Man to Property! Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among the Adults of the Present Generation: And to Provide for its Equal Transmission to Every Individual of Each Succeeding Generation, on Arriving at the Age of Maturity . New York: Printed for the Author by Alexander Ming, 1829.
SKIDMORE, Thomas (1790-1832). The Rights of Man to Property! Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among the Adults of the Present Generation: And to Provide for its Equal Transmission to Every Individual of Each Succeeding Generation, on Arriving at the Age of Maturity . New York: Printed for the Author by Alexander Ming, 1829. 12 o (172 x 105 mm). 2 leaves of errata and one-leaf advertisement at end. Original mottled calf, covers lettered in gilt "Rights of Man To Property!," black morocco lettering piece (spine somewhat dry and rubbed). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS RARE AND IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF EARLY AMERICAN RADICALISM. With Robert Dale Owen and Fanny Wright, Thomas Skidmore founded the Working Man's Party, seeking to abolish debtors' prisons, reduce the length of the workday and establish a lien law for building laborers. Skidmore succcessfully added a plea for universal education, but his central aim was a radical redistribution of property that presages Marx. RARE: "Unlike the reform literature mass-produced by the comparatively well-funded abolitionist and temperance societies, most of these labor publications are today scarce because they were financed and produced by solitary crusaders. Skidmore's The Rights of Man to Property! [was] published by the author and [is] today known in only a handful of copies" (Gilreath, "Labor History Sources in the Library of Congress" in Labor History , vol. 25, no 2 (1984). According to American Book Prices Current , no copies have sold at auction in at least 100 years. In addition to the errata, this copy contains a final leaf explaining to the subscribers the novel innovation of stamping the title in gilt on the covers, in lieu of decoration. Adams, Radical Literature in America , p.41; AAS, A Society's Chief Joys , p.38; Egbert & Parsons I:230, II:237; Howes S-530; Kress C-2364; Rayback, A History of American Labor , pp.69-70; Sabin 81584; Shaw & Showmaker 40435.
SKIDMORE, Thomas (1790-1832). The Rights of Man to Property! Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among the Adults of the Present Generation: And to Provide for its Equal Transmission to Every Individual of Each Succeeding Generation, on Arriving at the Age of Maturity . New York: Printed for the Author by Alexander Ming, 1829.
SKIDMORE, Thomas (1790-1832). The Rights of Man to Property! Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among the Adults of the Present Generation: And to Provide for its Equal Transmission to Every Individual of Each Succeeding Generation, on Arriving at the Age of Maturity . New York: Printed for the Author by Alexander Ming, 1829. 12 o (172 x 105 mm). 2 leaves of errata and one-leaf advertisement at end. Original mottled calf, covers lettered in gilt "Rights of Man To Property!," black morocco lettering piece (spine somewhat dry and rubbed). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS RARE AND IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF EARLY AMERICAN RADICALISM. With Robert Dale Owen and Fanny Wright, Thomas Skidmore founded the Working Man's Party, seeking to abolish debtors' prisons, reduce the length of the workday and establish a lien law for building laborers. Skidmore succcessfully added a plea for universal education, but his central aim was a radical redistribution of property that presages Marx. RARE: "Unlike the reform literature mass-produced by the comparatively well-funded abolitionist and temperance societies, most of these labor publications are today scarce because they were financed and produced by solitary crusaders. Skidmore's The Rights of Man to Property! [was] published by the author and [is] today known in only a handful of copies" (Gilreath, "Labor History Sources in the Library of Congress" in Labor History , vol. 25, no 2 (1984). According to American Book Prices Current , no copies have sold at auction in at least 100 years. In addition to the errata, this copy contains a final leaf explaining to the subscribers the novel innovation of stamping the title in gilt on the covers, in lieu of decoration. Adams, Radical Literature in America , p.41; AAS, A Society's Chief Joys , p.38; Egbert & Parsons I:230, II:237; Howes S-530; Kress C-2364; Rayback, A History of American Labor , pp.69-70; Sabin 81584; Shaw & Showmaker 40435.
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