Search Results: Needle Trades from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1939. First edition. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 144pp. Illus. Mild toning & edgewear to fragile wallet-edged covers; internally fresh and unmarked. A quite solid copy overall of an uncommon union history.

Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in grey and green decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],280pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Includes chapters on the International Ladies' Garment Works (AFL) and the United Steelworkers of America (CIO).

Woodbridge, Suffolk (UK): Antique Collectors Club, 1986. Reprint. Quarto (28cm.); olive green publisher's cloth boards with gilt lettering and pictorial dust jacket; 262pp. Text block has light soiling and toning about the edges, otherwise crisp and sound in binding; Fine. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear, rolling along edges; yellowing evident to margins of inner flaps. Sticker on rear panel, else Near Fine. Contains a thorough historical overview of lace production and design, with 700+ photo-illustrations in color and b/w; original publisher's subscription card laid-in.

New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, 1950. First Edition. Oblong quarto (23cm x 30cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; [36]pp; chiefly illus. Mild external dusting; Near Fine. Pictorial history of American labor struggles, beginning with the birth of the AFL (1886) and concluding with the massive protest by Dressmakers on the streets of New York City in May, 1949. Issued as a premium for distribution at the 50th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. An uncommon and graphically interesting ILGWU souvenir album.

New York: Hebrew Publishing Co, 1911. First Edition. Music sheet, 34cm x 26cm; 4pp. Original lithographed cover (signed Jacob Keller) with halftone portrait insets. Slight toning to extremities, still Near Fine. Uncommon sheet memorializing the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Lyrics are printed in Hebrew and transliterated Yiddish; only the title is supplied in English (and the title is spelled differently on cover and first page). The cover illustration is a full-length portrait of composer Joseph Rumshisky, with inset halftone portraits of the lyricist, Anshel Schorr, and performer Hyman J. Ginsburg. Heskes notes that the composition "appears to be a song whose lyrics were quickly augmented to reflect a tragic event." OCLC gives one location (Harvard); Marwick Roster No. 13359; HESKES 390.

N.p. [New York]: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, (1950). First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Staple-bound thick paper wrappers; [8pp]; illus. A few spots of soil to front cover, else Near Fine. Special program for the inaugural screening (a few weeks before the World Premiere) of Jack Arnold's "With These Hands," a feature documentary-drama on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the origins of the ILGWU. The cast included such Broadway stalwarts as Arlene Francis and Sam Levene, and the film was nominated for the 1950 "Best Documentary" Oscar.

Glasgow: William MacKenzie, [1863]. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm). In full leather, blind-stamped with Prince Albert and shields of participating nations on boards, and symbols of the exhibition contents (plow, mining equipment, exhibition hall) on spine, titled in gold on spine, all edges marbled; blue and red marbled endpapers; iv, 592pp; illustrated title page, 18 engraved plates, and 14 full-page relief plates, as well as extensive numerous in-text wood engravings. A straight, sound copy with minor shelf wear, small ink stain to lower edge of text block, scattered foxing and minor thumbsoiling, pl. 9 spotted and creased, but overall a sturdy, appealing copy: Very Good. A resource on Victorian industrial technology, manufacture, architecture, and fine and decorative arts, as well as natural resources and some trade statistics. It includes extensive material on the print trades (3pp essay on chromolithography, 5pp on paper, 12pp on presses and typefounding), with a note on the… Read More

Philadelphia, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original drab printed wrappers; 340,[4],cxivpp.; plain photographic folding plate of the attendees of the convention. Wrapper edges quite rubbed with a few shallow losses not affecting text; textblock shaken and starting to separate from wrappers; still, about Very Good. At head of upper cover: "Documentary History of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." According to the OCLC record, this was the first publication of this series, despite being for the sixth biennial convention.

Philadelphia: R.G. Berford, 1843. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); disbound; 48pp.; text printed in double columns. Tear at top edge of title page (serving as upper wrapper), small, discreet rubberstamp "Sold by AAS" at spine edge of last leaf, else Good to Very Good overall. A short tale by the immensely prolific author following the travails of a poor Boston seamstress named Lizzy Glenn, later published in 1859 as "Lizzy Glenn, or The Trials of a Seamstress." WRIGHT I 153.

New York: Friends Publishers, 1965. First edition. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Illustrated by William Gropper; translated from the Yiddish by Max Rosenfeld. Hinges age-darkened, else a fine, straight copy in very lightly worn dustjacket with a few tiny closed nicks to extremities and some dusting to rear panel. Uncommon collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by the prolific Yiddish-language author. The Gropper illustrations appear to be taken from earlier sources.

[New York]: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1950. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Stiff card wrappers; 161, (12)pp; illus. Bit of rubbing and wear to cover wrappers; internally clean and unmarked - Very Good. Preface by Jacob Potofsky. History of the ACWU, from its origins in 1910. Well-illustrated with photographic plates (halftones).

New York: Liveright, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth; dustjacket; 328pp. Foxing to cloth at gutters; page edges dusty; else a tight, Very Good copy in the scarce illustrated dustjacket which is heavily rubbed with chips and closed tears. Strongly proletarian novel dealing with the battle to organize Jewish garment workers in New York and Chicago. Winner of the first Edwin Wolf Award (1938) for best novel of Jewish interest. Liveright co-published the book with the Jewish Publication Society, and we have seen copies issued under both the Liveright and the JPS imprints (according to the JPS Annual Report for that year, Liveright had "purchased over 4000 copies" of the book by the end of 1938). BLAKE p.263. HANNA 353.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); gray linen, titled and blocked in gilt and black on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 328pp. Mild sunning to spine, a bit of offset from binders glue to gutters at pastedowns, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn and spine-sunned, with small chips to spine ends and corners (none affecting lettering), and several tears; Very Good. Lacking the original JPS shipping box. Sympathetic rendering of the life of a Jewish labor organizer among garment workers in New York and Chicago. Winner of the first Edwin Wolf Award (1938) for best novel of Jewish interest. The JPS co-published the book with a trade publisher, Horace Liveright, and we have seen copies issued under both the Liveright and the JPS imprints (according to the JPS Annual Report for that year, Liveright had "purchased over 4000 copies" of the book by the end of 1938). BLAKE p.263. HANNA 353.

Washington DC: Division of Wage Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed gray wrappers; 65,(v)pp. Very Good. Statistical analysis and narrative account of employment in the needle trades during the Great Depression.