Applicants for work relief: a study of Massachusetts families under the FERA and WPA
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940. Hardcover. xviii, 273p., first edition, very good condition in a slightly soiled and edgeworn dj. More
Cat.No: 62419
Depression, Great Depression, 1930s
The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century America
New York: Hill and Wang, 1980. Paperback. xiv, 274p., pictorial wraps, previous owner's name penned on front blank, else very good condition. American Century Series. James R. Green became an editor for Radical America in 1972. More
Cat.No: 53948
"Or does it explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. viii, 317p., map., graphs., first printing, very good hardcover in like dj. More
Cat.No: 12920
Bitter fruit; black politics and the Chicago machine, 1931-1991
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. xiv, 248p., first printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 73469
The people's road to prosperity: the 1929 Depression and its cure
Los Angeles: Wetzel Pub. Co., 1936. Paperback. 143p. paperback, covers mildly toned and edgeworn. Critique of capitalism in favor of cooperative industry. More
Cat.No: 297201
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. Paperback. 137p., profuse period and contemporary photography with extensive captioning and a scattered running text, softbound in 10x9.5 inch frenchfold wraps, an entirely sound, clean, unmarked copy of a pretty good book, better than most US honcho memorials. The sculpture layout (part garden) brings more..... More
Cat.No: 260400
From New Day to New Deal; American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928-1933
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xi, 333p., first edition hardbound in 9x6 inch gray cloth boards titled black, in glossy dust jacket. A very good copy: completely sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 250157
Big red; a novel
Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1965. Hardcover. 207p., original red cloth boards, corners mildly bumped, dj mildly edgeworn with minor spine sun-fading and chipping on head and tail, touch of foxing on text block edges, else in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author. First volume of a planned..... More
Cat.No: 289858
Open wide the freedom gates; a memoir, foreword by Maya Angelou
New York: Public Affairs, 2003. Hardcover. xi, 322p., plenty of b&w photographic illustrations, hardbound first edition in black and yellow boards titled copperfoil and enclosed in a photoportrait dust jacket. An immaculate copy, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. The civil rights activist's career spans the 20th century, from the Harlem..... More
Cat.No: 83002
The Wall Street Murders
New York: Fortuny's Publisher, 1936. Hardcover. 322p., 5.5x8 inch boards; dustjacket fairly toned, rubbed, and slightly edgeworn, fraying at head and tail of dj spine, dustjacket spine is slightly peeling off and loose, dj edges shelfworn, and dustjacket panels glued to the endpapers, bookplate on front free endpaper, textblock edges..... More
Cat.No: 286472
The Negro novelist; a discussion of the writings of American Negro novelists, 1940-1950
New York: The Citadel Press, 1970. 288p., first wraps printing. Discusses Wright, Yerby, Motley, Himes, Petry, Hurston, Ellison and others. More
Cat.No: 61185
The divided skies; establishing segregated flight training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942
Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1992. xi, 416p., illus., dj. More
Cat.No: 36105
Lumber and labor
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. Hardcover. x, 314p., first edition, endpapers are maps of forest types across the U.S.; slight dust soil on top-edge, endpapers somewhat toned, else in very good condition, lacking dustjacket. Labor in twentieth century America. More
Cat.No: 3567
Meeting the Farm Crisis
Chicago: American Library Association, 1933. Pamphlet. 24p., stapled wraps, 5.25x7.75 inches, extensive pencil notes on a blank part of p24, else very good condition. Exploring the Times. More
Cat.No: 281340
Freight trains west
Sacramento: Lucas Publishers, 1980. Paperback. v, 143p., introduction, illustrated with b&w photos, personal inscription to Jane Rule and her partner Helen Sonthoff signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The South Dakota author thanks the pair for encouraging him to write the book, a...... More
Cat.No: 195465
Trials and Triumphs; A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression with FSA photographs
Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. Hardcover. xi, 313p., illus., 11 x 8.5 inch gray-cloth boards in very good condition in like dustjacket. More
Cat.No: 42388
Hard times, good times in Oregon; recollections of the 1930s
Manhattan: Sunflower University Press, 1995. xi, 106p., preface, illustrated with photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 151940
John Sloan, painter and rebel.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. Hardcover. xxiii, 438p., illus., first edition, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 27645
Middletown in Transition; A Study in Cultural Conflicts
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1937. Hardcover. xviii, 604p., original black cloth boards, corners bumped and rubbed, endpapers are illustrated, head and tail of spine slightly worn, else good. A study done on Muncie, Indiana from the prosperity of the roaring twenties to the Depression era. More
Cat.No: 277494
An ethnic at large; a memoir of America in the thirties and forties
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Hardcover. 378p., first edition, inscribed "For my friend and comrade Ralph Fasanella - with admiration and affection - Jerre Mangione," dated in 1986, light stain on fore edge, worn and soiled price clipped dj. Mangione was active in the WPA Federal Writers Project. More
Cat.No: 97216
An ethnic at large; a memoir of America in the thirties and forties.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Hardcover. 378p., first edition, review slip pasted down on front blank end paper else very good condition in like dj. Mangione was Coordinating Editor of the WPA Federal Writers' Project, and the author of a history of the Project. More
Cat.No: 1460
"Slaves of the depression": workers' letters about life on the job
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Hardcover. x, 229p., original cloth binding, very good condition. No dj. More
Cat.No: 55304
Howard Kester and the struggle for social justice in the South 1904-1977
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. Hardcover. xv, 200p., illus., very good condition in like dj. Minds of the new South; a series in intellectual biography. More
Cat.No: 30115
Living Marxism; vol. IV, no. 2 (March 1938)
Chicago: Group of Council Communists, 1938. Magazine. 33-64p., 6x9 inches; wraps slightly soiled from handling, touch of rust to staples, some creasing and handling soil on wraps, else very good. Content focuses on the Great Depression and the unemployed. Single issue of Paul Mattick's journal founded in 1934 by the..... More
Cat.No: 293409