Search Results: Co-Operative Movements from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Pasadena: Published by the Author, [1936]. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white printed dust jacket; xii,426pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, most heavily at spine crown, some general soil and light foxing, spine darkened, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper (dated 1945) of the Textile Workers Union of America Local 96, Stottville, N.Y. Presumed reprint, lacking the Farrar emblem on title page verso as called for by AHOUSE A57b. HANNA 3230: "A group of unemployed Californians form a cooperative during the Depression." See also BAIRD 2266 and COAN, p. 98.

New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1867. First Edition. 12mo. Printed thick paper wrappers; 131, (4)pp. Slight external wear and soil; occasional creasing to text; a complete, sound and Good copy in the original publisher's wrappers.

[London: 1934]. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 12pp. Covers slightly sunned and chipped at extremities; text clean and unmarked. A sound, Very Good copy.

New York: The American Collectivist, 1934. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 31pp. Mild soil to covers, else a VG, fresh copy. Manifesto for the Collectivist movement, borrowing from Marxist philosophy and communitarian doctrine, possibly intended as a reincarnation of the New York Collectivist Society of the early 1900s. Inside rear cover announces publication of Winn's "The American Collectivist" newspaper, but we find no evidence of actual publication, nor indeed any evidence that Winn's "collectivism" achieved any prominence as a social movement.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1853. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown cloth, printed paper spine label; [8],158pp. Ex-Library of the Union Theological Seminary with their usual internal markings, faint evidence of previously-removed spine label, extremities a bit worn with rather pronounced dents at bottom edge of both boards, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. The author's first book, published when he was just twenty-six years old, written in response to recent radical theories born of the Revolutions of 1848, among them socialism and the co-operative movement.

New York: The Cooperative League, N.d. [1937?]. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 16pp. Mild external soil, else Near Fine. Bowen was long-time Executive Director of the Cooperative League and a disciple of the Japanese evangelist and reformer Toyohiko Kagawa. Final page of text comprises "Ten Steps in Organizing a Consumers' Cooperative Association." Undated, but OCLC cataloguing suggests 1937; references in text support a likely date of 1936 or 1937.

New Haven: Yale University Press / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1929. First Edition. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 420pp. Fine, fresh, unmarked copy in lightly soiled jacket, Near Fine. Sixth volume in the publisher's series "Economic and Social History of the World War", which was planned to include "some two hundred volumes published in a dozen countries and a half-dozen different languages." Uncommon in dustwrapper.

New York: Philosophical Library, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in cream decorative dust jacket; xiii,[1],178pp. Jacket quite dust-soiled and rather chipped with two small paper flaws mid-spine affecting text without loss of meaning, rear board a bit warped, else Near Very Good overall.

[Delavan, WI: Delavan Republican (printers), 1940]. Square 16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; [28pp]. Mild crease at upper portion of front cover, else Near Fine. Seventh in a series of devotional calendars published by the Japanese Christian evangelist, labor organizer, and promoter of ecnomic cooperation, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Kagawa was a frequent lecturer in the United States, where his doctrine of "Brotherhood Economics" had a major influence on American Co-Operative movements, especially in California. The Calendar consists of twelve sections, each with meditations on a Christian-Pacifist-Economic theme. OCLC notes only a single example (for 1951).

Manchester: The Co-operative Union Ltd, N.d. [ca 1933?]. Second edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 16pp. Vertical crease at bound edge; slight toning to text; a Good, sound copy. Summary of twelve lectures delivered under the auspices of the Southern Co-operative Education Association between 1932-33.

London: Women's Co-Operative Guild, N.d. [ca 1927?]. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 8pp. Bit of staining to covers; creased at upper margin; Very Good. The Women's Co-Operative Guild was founded in 1883 and, while never extensive in terms of membership, bore an outsize influence on British politics, being particularly active in the pacifist movement in the years prior to WW1. Eleanor Barton was the group's General Secretary from 1927-1937 and we suspect this pamphlet dates from early in her tenure; 1926 is the latest date referenced in the text. Rare; IISH only in OCLC (incorrectly giving a 1925 date).

London: Credit Resesarch Library, 1924. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 15pp. Old soil to covers, internally clean. Scarce.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 242pp. Boards slightly sunned at edges, upper edge of text block lightly dusted; jacket lightly rubbed, marked and faded on spine panel, but still complete and unclipped, VG or better. Late novel by the author of Little Caesar and The Asphalt Jungle.