Great Depression from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket;maroon top-stain; 614pp. A tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear and with the top-stain deep and even. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly worn with a few tiny chips at extremities, spine panel subtly sun-darkened, Very Good+.… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Tight, fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly rubbed on front cover but still quite attractive, Very Good or better. A first-hand account of the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, from the point of view of a member of the CPUSA-led… Read more about this item

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Embossed red cloth; dustjacket; black publisher's top-stain; pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, 368pp. A tight, clean copy, very Near Fine, with the spine gilt bright and free of oxidation. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly sunned on spine and rear panel, with a few tiny chips to extremities,… Read more about this item

New York: Socialist Labor Party, N.d. (c. 1934). Quarto (32cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 40pp; illus. Partial split to paper at bound edge (but sound); moderate soiling to covers, mostly visible on rear wrapper; internally complete, VG overall. Rather uncommon one-off publication; an expensively-produced commemorative miscellany that would appear to celebrate the revolutionary history of May Day… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Generically inscribed on front endpaper: "Fraternally / Norman Thomas", dated December, 1934. Octavo (21cm); brick red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; xxii,402pp. Tight, straight and clean, Near Fine. In the original dustjacket, price-clipped, lightly shelfworn, with small chips and losses and three… Read more about this item

New York: Communist Party of the U.S.A., 1933. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed self-wrappers; 16pp. Soil to wrapper edges; mild creasing; Very Good.

New York: Hooker Publishing Co, (1929). First Edition. 12mo (20cm). Original flexible boards of gilt-stamped leatherette; iv,117pp. Scattered foxing to text, else a tight, square copy in bright, original binding, Very Good or better. This rather emphatic denunciation of Wall Street, written by a Pennsylvania hotelier, offered little new in terms of exposing the risks of speculation.… Read more about this item

New Orleans: National Book Co., Inc, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Yellow cloth boards, lettered in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 343pp; frontispiece and 15 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A straight, Near Fine copy, marred only by some oxidation transfer to the spine and joints, a result of the gold foil… Read more about this item

[Carmel, CA]: The Friends of Photography, 1983. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; [3],4-48pp; illus. Modest external wear, gentle sunning to spine, with a few faint creases to wrapper extremities; faintly musty; Very Good+. Volume collecting 33 photographs taken by Wolcott while working for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. With an introduction by Saly Stein, and… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First Trade Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publication date and price rubber stamped on front endpaper. Octavo (21.25cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; [viii],286,[2]pp. Critic Malcolm Cowley's copy, with his ownership signature in black ink on front endpaper. Gentle sunning to upper board edges,… Read more about this item

New Haven: Proctors Products, N.d. (ca. 1935). Quarto. Bifolium (4pp); illus. Old folds from mailing, mild soil; Very Good. Brief illustrated trade catalog of products marketed to Civilian Conservation Corps members, including rings, watches, jewelry and other accessories.

N.p., n.d. [Washington, D.C: GPO, c.1933]. Original window poster, 27-1/2" x 21". Offset lithograph, printed in two colors. Original horizontal and vertical folds; splits at left and right margins, a few small losses, including about a 1/4" loss to paper at fold and at center; another small (ca 1/2" x 1/4") loss at upper margin; a few small stains.… Read more about this item

Washington DC: USGPO, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; original printed thick-paper wrappers (softcover, as issued); 121pp. A somewhat worn copy; a faint tide-mark affects bottom margin of text block throughout; there is occasional pencil underlining and aging to covers; complete and just Good. Uncommon first edition of this Depression-era report on the status and future of… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.75cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Trivial wear and dustiness, else Near Fine. "Communist pamphlet expressing grievances on behalf of the children of the working class. The author tells instance after instance of capitalism's inhumanity to the children, and concludes that children of the workers will really come into a full… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1934. First revised edition (originally published 1933). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 96pp. Trivial external soiling; hint of aging to text, still Near Fine. One of several printings of Olgin's strident "Third Period" polemic, first published in 1933.This version presumably issued to coincide with the 1934 midterm elections. Olgin, editor of the Yiddish communist daily… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 127pp; folding chart tipped in between pp 64-65. Mild external soil and creasing; still a tight, complete, Near Fine copy of the uncommon first edition. SEIDMAN P113: "The definitive Party handbook, written by a Comintern representative in the U.S. Sections deal with fundamentals of the Party… Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard Press, 1939. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 91pp. Tight, straight, and unmarked - a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.00 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and soiled with a small nick at upper margin of rear panel; Very Good. One of relatively few contemporary… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1941. First Random House printing (originally published by Row, Peterson, 1941). Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 60pp; illus. Light rubbing at spine ends and board corners, else Near Fine. In the original illustrated dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.00 on front flap), but rather a wreck, rubbed, chippped and with a long closed tear to front panel, just… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 561pp. Tight, straight and unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), rubbed at margins and slightly sunned on spine; Very Good. Haydn's third novel, an epic set in the American South during the last spasms of the… Read more about this item

London: Neville Spearman, 1954. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-138,[2]pp. Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly toned on margins and spine panel; Very Good. West's third novel, originally published in 1934 (NY: Covici-Friede).