Lysander Spooner Bibliography

NOTE:Additonal bibliography can be found on the Lysander Spooner Page

Spooner, Lysander (1834) The Deist's Immortality, and An Essay On Man's

Accountability For His Belief.

-- ( 1835). "To the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts To

the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts." Worcester Republican. Worcester, MA.

--- (1836). The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of

Christianity. Boston.

-- (1843). United States Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District

of Massachusetts. Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking. Worcester, MA.

-- (1843). Credit, Currency and Banking: Constitutional Law, Relative To

Currency, And Banking. Worcester, MA.: Jos. B. Ripley.

--- (1844). The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting

Private Mails. New York: Tribune Printing Establishment.

--- (1849). Who Caused the Reduction of Postage in 1845?. Boston: A. J.

Wright, printer.

--- (1850). A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, Against the Acts of Congress

of February 12, 1793, and September 18, 1850. Boston: B. Marsh.

--- (1850). The Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster. Boston:

Bela Marsh.

--- (1855). The Law of Intellectual Property; Or an Essay on the Right of

Authors and Inventors to a Perpetual Property in Their Ideas. Boston, MA: Bela Marsh. Vol. I.

--- (1858). A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery: To the Non-Slaveholders of

the South.

--- (1860). Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the

United States. 2d ed. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge.

--- (1860). Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the

United States. 2d ed. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge.

--- (1860). The Unconstitutionality of Slavery. 2 ed. Boston: B. Marsh.

Repr. NY: Franklin, 1965. 2 V. in 1.

--- (1861). A New System of Paper Currency. Boston: Printed by Stacy

& Richardson.

--- (1862). Our Mechanical Industry, As Affected By Our Present Currency

System: An Argument for the Author's New System of Paper Currency. Published by Stacy and Richardson [Boston], No. 11 ed. Print.

--- (1863). Articles of Association of the Spooner Copyright Company for

Massachusetts. R. B. Apthorp, CHS. Hale Browne, and J. B. Harris. Editorial. Boston.

--- (1864). Considerations for Bankers and Holders of United States Bonds.

New York: A. Williams ∓ American News.

--- (1864). Letter to Charles Sumner.

--- (1870). No Treason Boston: The author.

--- (1873). A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the

Burnt District. Boston.

--- (1875). Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty

--- (1877). The Law of Prices: A Demonstration of the Necessity for an

Indefinite Increase of Money. Boston: A. Williams.

--- (1877). Our Financiers: Their Ignorance Usurpations, and Frauds.

Boston: A. Williams.

--- (1878). Gold and Silver as Standards of Value: The Flagrant Cheat in

Regard to Them. Boston: A. Williams.

--- (1879). Universal Wealth Shown to Be Easily Attainable. Part First.

Boston: A. Williams.

--- (1880). Revolution: The Only Remedy for the Oppressed Classes

of Ireland, England, and Other Parts of the British Empire. A Reply to "Dunraven". Revolution.

--- (1882). A Letter To Congressman Thomas F. Bayard: Challenging His

Right--And That of All the Other So-Called Senators and Representatives in Congress--To Exercise Any Legislative Power Whatever Over the People of the United States.

--- (1882). Natural Law; Or The Science of Justice: A Treatise of Natural

Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society; Showing That All Legislation Whatsoever Is an Absurdity, A Usurpation and a Crime. Part First. Boston: A. Williams.

--- (1884). Letter to Scientists and Inventors on The Science of Justice,

and Their Right of Perpetual Property In Their Discoveries and Inventions. Boston: Upham & Cupples.

--- (1886). A Letter to Grover Cleveland on his False Inaugural address,

the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People. Boston: Benj R. Tucker.

--- (1912). Free Political Institutions: Their Nature, Essence, and .

Maintenance. An Abridgment and Rearrangement of Lysander Spooner's "Trial by Jury" Edited by Victor Yarros. London: C.W. Daniel.

--- (1971). The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner. Biography and

introduction by Charles Shively. Weston, MA: M & S Press.

--- (1971). An Essay on the Trial by Jury. New York: Da Capo Press

[c1852].

--- (1971). Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure New York Da Capo

Press.

--- (1998). [1867]. The Lysander Spoonerr Reader. San Francisco: Fox and

Wilkes.

--- (2010). The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner.

vol. I (1834-1861). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.

--- (2010). The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner.

vol. 2 (1862-1884). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.

About Spooner

Alexander, A. John. "Ideas of Lysander Spooner." New England Quarterly,

v23 (June 1950), pp. 200-17.

McElroy, Wendy (2000). "The Liberty Debate on Participation in Politics."

The Independent Review. Vol. IV, N. 3, Winter 2000, pp. 377-391. [pdf]