Textile Workers from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; 369pp. Tight and umarked, Near Fine, in the original printed dustwrapper, price clipped and slightly toned on spine and flap-folds; Very Good. Still a standard source on the Gastonia, North Carolina millworkers' strike of 1929.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; [2],xvi,348,[2]pp, with photographic frontispiece and 12 plates of illustrations. Spine ends gently nudged, private library sticker on title page, else a fresh, Fine copy. In the original dustjacket, with a wraparound photograph of… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 293pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); Very Good or better. Contemporary ink ownership inscription inside front cover. The Rhode Island author's second novel. Like his first, the best-selling Our Own Kind (1946), the present work… Read more about this item

Winchester, VA: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, (1990). First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover, decoratively titled in gilt; xii,239pp. A previous owner has neatly created a pocket for a private library card inside rear cover, else Fine. Autographed by Wilbur Johnston on title page, also by two other unidentified (and illegible) signers.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1925. First Edition. First printing, with publisher's (1) at end of text. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth hardcover, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 355pp. Scattered faint foxing, scuff to upper edge of text block, else tight and Near Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed on lighter portions,… Read more about this item

Woonsocket, RI: S.S. Foss, 1871. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed but retaining publisher's peach wrappers printed within decorative border; 17pp. Very light chipping to wrapper extremities, a hint of soil, else Very Good and sound. Criticism of protectionism by the Rhode Island wool manufacturer and former abolitionist, published the year prior to his death.

Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Journal, February, 1850. First Edition. Oversized tabloid broadsheet circular (60x37.50cm.); text printed in triple columns. Some splitting to previous folds affecting a couple of words with brief loss of meaning, light dust-soil to upper and lower margins, else a Very Good, still quite fresh example. Editorial composed in the wake of the repeal of the 1842… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Institute of Industrial Relations - University of California, 1962. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; pp.210-220. Faint creases to covers, scattered pencil marginalia else fine.

New York: National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 1947. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound and hole-punched card wrappers; [2],34pp.; illus. throughout, many photographic. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better.

[London: Chiswick Press, 1898]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; [2],25pp. Boards a bit rubbed and faintly soiled, early 20th-century ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally fine. Features the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press.

London: HMSO, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 51pp. Institutional hand-stamp to front wrapper (Commercial Reference Library, Liverpool); a few pencil annotations; Very Good.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii, 190pp. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), spine-sunned and lightly shelfworn, with a few small nicks and tears; Very Good+. Volume by the… Read more about this item

N.p., N.d.. Original typescript, 5pp on ruled bond. Typed rectos-only. Light soil; single horizontal fold; Very Good. A highly accomplished and moving long poem written in the voice of an unemployed mill-town woman during the Great Depression. Unattributed and undated, but apparently (based on paper and degree of wear) contemporary with the events described. Whether actually written by… Read more about this item