Search Results: Immigration from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Small reviewer's "check" mark in ink to front free endpaper, else Fine in a slightly spine-sunned, else Near Fine dustjacket.

New York: Orcutt Co, [1898]. Lithograph in colors, 49cm x 32.5cm (19" x 12-3/4"). Printed on thin coated stock, text in three lines below large central image of a bearded laborer. Small marginal loss at left (away from printed area); a few small marginal tears, small area of ink (?) specks at left of image. Overall Very Good. The artwork is unsigned; date and artist supplied by us (see below). Original newsstand advertising poster for the April, 1898 issue of Century, illustrated with a dramatic portrait of a coal worker by the prominent Canadian-American illustrator Jay Hambidge (1867-1924). The portrait is one of a dozen or so by Hambidge published to illustrate an article by Henry Edward Drood on the recent disruptions in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. In its magazine appearance, this portrait is captioned "A Factor in the Problem (Italian)" and illustrates a passage by Drood on the problems of immigrant enfranchisement: "...A vote of the English-speaking man who reads these words will… Read More

New York: Council Against Intolerance in America, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green card wrappers; 116pp.; staplebound bibliography pamphlet in chemise mounted inside rear cover. Light wear and a hint of toning, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to title page and rear cover, else Very Good and sound.

Hancock, MI: Suomalais-Luteerilaisen Kustannusliikkeen Kirjapaino, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's blue cloth, upper cover stamped in black and red; 118pp.; four leaves of plates. Spine a shade sunned, a hint of soil to upper cover, else Near Fine. History of the earliest Finnish settlers on the Delaware River. Text entirely in Finnish.

Pittsburgh: Tiskem "Slavonic and English Printing Co., n.d., ca. 1910s. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's green decorative staplebound wrappers; 29pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Wrappers darkened along extremities with a number of small, shallow losses not affecting text, rear wrapper rather soiled, else Near Very Good, interior about fine. Short Slovak-American moral tale published for the Presbyterian Committee of the Presbytery of Pittsburgh. Apparently unrecorded: we find no copies in OCLC as of July, 2017, nor any in the NUC.

Milwaukee: Verlag des "Vorwärts, 1899. First Thus. Cloth issue. Octavo (22.25cm.); original red decorative cloth lettered in black; xxiv,188pp. Corners a bit bumped, a few tiny dampstains to upper cover, cloth very slightly darkened along extremities, else Very Good or better. Slightly later gift inscription to front pastedown in English and German, dated West Allis, Wis., March 2, 1911, urging recipients to "Read Careful." In the same hand the previous owner has written below Berger's name "I. soz. Kongressabgeordneter in den U.S.A., gewählt 8 nov. 1910." German translation of Robert Blatchford's socialist treatise Merrie England (1893), first published in a series of articles in The Clarion. This edition has been adapted for a German-American readership.

Milwaukee: Verlag des "Vorwärts, 1899. First Thus. Wrapper issue. Octavo (21.75cm.); original red decorative wrappers; xxiv,188pp. Lacking rear wrapper, upper wrapper with long closed horizontal tear across lower third of wrapper not affecting text, additional chips and shallow losses along extremities, extremities toned; textblock uniformly toned, pp. 187/8 chipped along gutter edge. Fair to Good. This wrapper issue published as No. 1 of the Vorwaerts Library. German translation of Robert Blatchford's socialist treatise Merrie England (1893), first published in a series of articles in The Clarion. This edition has been adapted for a German-American readership.

Nyu York [New York]: Forverts" Asosieyshon, 1926. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Gilt-decorated russia over boards; 515pp; 16 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Generically inscribed ("With Compliments") by Cahan on front endpaper. Bit of erosion to spine ends and board exteremities; still a tight, VG or better copy. First volume of Cahan's autobiography, which appeared in five volumes between 1926 and 1931. Uncommon signed copy of Cahan's autobiography, this initial volume chronicling his childhood and young adulthood in Lithuania up to his arrival in New York in 1882. Cahan (1860-1951) was unquestionably the most influential Jewish-American intellectual of his time, reaching, through his editorship of The Jewish Daily Forward, a daily audience of millions of Yiddish-speaking readers and establishing that paper's reputation as one of the leading voices of socialism in the United States.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,[1]-287pp; charts, figures. Tight, clean, Very Good or better copy in the original printed dustwrapper, slightly toned on spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Ink ownership signature of Bernice V. Freeman, long time Princeton University librarian.

Chicago: Skandinavens Office, n.d., 1875. First Edition. Broadside (50.25x24.75cm.) printed on tissuepaper chiefly in blackletter in four columns. Previous folds, two extremely faint dampstains, else Very Good or better. Text mostly in Danish, occasional bibliographical descriptions in English. Bookseller's flyer advertising 18 available titles, eight in Danish, the other ten in English but with descriptions provided in Danish. All appear to be Scandinavian in content, including Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life and A Norseman's Pilgrimage, both by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen; My Danish Days, by G.W. Griffin, Norse Mythology by R.B. Anderson, and A Summer in Norway. Unlocated in OCLC as of May, 2016.

New York: Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 311pp; 20 inserted leaves of plates (incl. frontispiece). External wear; ownership signature to front wrapper and to half-title; internally complete and sound - a Good copy of the first printing. Social reform in Pittsburgh's working-class neighborhoods; issued under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Council of Churches of Christ.

London: Pall Mall Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [14], 172pp. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with only a bit of light shelfwear to note. Collection of case studies issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations, exploring "the effects of the issues of colour and immigration in the General Election..." (from front flap). Focus of the case studies is on Brixton, Southall, Sparkbrook, Smethwick, Deptford, and Bradford.

[Sacramento]: California State Library, [1994]. First Spanish Language Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 16pp. Light wear from handling, shallow crease at bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good or better. Spanish language edition of "Understand the Law." OCLC locates three copies as of April, 2020, all in the California public library system.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's thick linen lettered in red; [6],423pp. Minor paper flaws to front and rear free endpapers from previously removed bookplates, else Fine, albeit lacking jacket. Proletarian novel set amongst the oppressed Irish workers in the Cape Cod cranberry region. COAN, p. 82; HANNA 1371.

Steinbach, Manitoba: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, n.d., ca. 1940s. First Edition. 12mo (ca. 18cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 94pp.; illus., text printed in blackletter. Minor wear to wrapper extremities, textblock rather toned and brittle due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in the Plautdietsch dialect. Short novella by the Russian-born Mennonite author who emigrated from present-day Ukraine to Manitoba in the 1920s, working as a newspaperman and author of numerous short novels, the first examples of published works in the Mennonite Plautdietsch dialect.

London: Thornton Butterworth, [1927]. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in dull yellow on spine; 320pp. Light external wear and handling; some minor paint-speckling to front cover; internally clean, tight and unmarked. An attractive VG copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. The German-American author's most enduring work, a scathing critique of Jewish-American assimilation which found its roots in Lewisohn's own experiences with anti-semitism within the American academic community . Published in America under the title "The Island Within," however the London edition preceded the American by nearly a year. Oft-reprinted, but this first UK printing is somewhat uncommon. HANNA 2186 (citing the U.S. edition).

Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 1973. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 624pp. Biographical appendix. Bump to rear corner; mild creasing to covers; Very Good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1853. First Edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers; removed; 32p; cover wrappers lacking. Text slightly tanned, else Very Good. An oration on the history of American immigration, intended as a denunciation of nativist agitation.

N.p. [Pennsylvania?], 1822. Broadside (36.5x19.5cm.) printed in blackletter within typographically decorative border. Faint folds, some spotting, else Very Good and sound. German-American murder poetry broadside recounting the life and death of the Prussian-Polish immigrant Joseph Müller, who eloped to Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with his upper-class wife. Destitute and homesick, Müller would eventually murder his pregnant wife and two children with an axe before hanging himself. Poem consists of sixteen stanzas of eight lines apiece and appears to have gone through as many as sixteen editions, some spelling the name "Miller." A search in OCLC provides three separately catalogued records under the "Müller" spelling, none conforming to the dimensions of this copy. (See Don Yoder, "The Pennsylvania German Broadside" (2005), pp. 52-4, referring to a variant.) Not in Shoemaker.

Chicago: I.W.W., n.d., ca. 1920. First Hungarian Language Edition. 12mo (18.75cm.); original dark blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp.; folding frontispiece of the IWW "wheel," reproduced in smaller format on p. 32. Typed note tipped in with tape (see below) causing offsetting to title page, else Very Good and sound. Tipped in note with manuscript correction: "An official book[l]et of the I.W.W. / Translated into Hungarain [sic] by Joseh [sic] Gereb." Later (1944) manuscript note to title page: "Labadie Collection: G[if]t. Joseph H. Gereb. March 10. 1944." OCLC record erroneously gives Washington as the place of publication. First Hungarian-language edition of the organizing pamphlet One Big Union (see MILES 4378).