Unemployment from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); blue-grey cloth, with pictorial title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv,178pp, with color pictorial frontispiece and 10 inserted black & white plates of illustrations by the author. Gentle sunning to spine and extremities, some light pencil underlining in text, and some offsetting to p.1;… Read more about this item

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 34pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better.

New York: Modern Age Books, 1938. First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers w/ pictorial dustjacket; 152p; illus. A clean, tight copy in the uncommon pictorial jacket, lightly rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Extensively illustrated with halftones, uncredited but clearly of WPA/FSA lineage. An explication and defense of federal work-relief programs, written at the height of the Depression by… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (17.5cm); blue publisher's cloth w/ tipped-on color illust., stamped in gilt on spine, in color pictorial dustwrapper; 31pp. Minor soiling and dampstains to boards and interior; mild handling wear; toning to dustwrapper extremities and spine, chipping at crown/heel of spine, short tear near front top leading corner. Very… Read more about this item

Kalamazoo: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1964. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 41pp. Fine, unworn copy. List of publications laid in.

San Francisco: Solutions to Poverty Workshop, 1991. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound pamphlet; photostatically reproduced from typescript; 42pp. Fine, unmarked copy. Report of a workshop held at the 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco, April 1990 to May 1991.

New York: Louis Weitz, [1915]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 59pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and toned, spine lettering partly effaced, else Near Very Good, internally near fine. "Peoples Educational Society" - upper cover. Socialist study of unemployment. A copy would be sent to Jack London in Honolulu, prompting him… Read more about this item

[Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1962]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue staplebound card wrappers; 16pp. Fine condition. "The second of a series of Employment Studies in Southern Cities.

[Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1961]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's grey staplebound card wrappers; 22pp. Fine condition. "The first of a series of Employment Studies in Southern Cities.

Chicago: Chicago Mobilization for March on Washington, N.d. [1975?]. Broadside (bulletin-board flyer), 11" x 8-1/2". Mimeographed; printed recto-only on standard white bond. Near Fine. Protest flyer, announcing a March on Washington DC to protest unemployment, inflation, military spending, and welfare roll-backs. With reservation blank (unused) at bottom margin.

[Atlanta: Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations, 1962]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm.); publisher's tan decorative staplebound wrappers; 21pp. Fine condition.

London: W.F.T.U. Publications, [1952]. First U.K. Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 42pp. Light external soil and wear; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good.

[Boston: Socialist Party of Massachusetts, ca 1932]. Octavo (22.75cm.); single sheet folded into 4-panelled pamphlet; upper panel illustrated with a cartoon depicting a robot labelled "Labor-Displacing Machine," standing on a pay-roll sheet, sweeping away the human workers. Light wear; Very Good or better. Undated, but probably issued for the 1932 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, with Alfred Baker Lewis on the… Read more about this item

[Boston: Socialist Party of Massachusetts, ca 1932]. Octavo (22.75cm.); single sheet folded into 4-panelled pamphlet; upper panel illustrated with a cartoon depicting a pair of one-percenters sneering at a common laborer. Light wear; Very Good or better. Campaign leaflet. Undated, but probably issued for the 1932 Massachusetts gubernatorial election. Alfred Baker Lewis ran for Massachusetts Governor in 1930, 1932,… Read more about this item

New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1932 [but 1933?]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xvi,107pp.; tables and charts throughout. Minor rubbing to boards, short closed tear to last two leaves, not affecting text. Very Good and sound. Issued a year before Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany.

Washington DC: National Planning Association, [1956]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original blue and white decorative card wrappers; xii,203pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled, lighter portions of spine toned, else Very Good or better. Special Report no. 41.

Philadelphia: Work Projects Administration, National Research Project, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo (25.5cm.); original blue card wrappers; xiii,[1],252pp. Light wear and foxing to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Report No. G-6.

[Washington, DC]: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1974. First Edition. Quarto (25.75cm.); original black pictorial staplebound wrappers; v,[1],81pp.; text in double columns. Very light wear from handling, else Near Fine.