Depression, Great Depression, 1930s
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
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 dust jacket. 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 dust jacket. 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
Living Marxism; vol. IV, no. 2 (March 1938)
Chicago: Group of Council Communists, 1938. Magazine. 33-64p., 6x9 inches; wraps slightly soiled from handling, some minor pencil notation on front wrap with a name in purple pencil, spine mildly rubbed, else in very good condition. Content focuses on the Great Depression and the unemployed. Single issue of Paul Mattick's..... More
Cat.No: 293579
The Citizens Club; a novel
Stroudsburg, PA: Mey-House, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. 218p., 4.25x7 inch mass paperback wraps; small price sticker on front wrap, bookstore rubberstamp on title page, spine somewhat creased from handling, edges lightly worn, pages lightly browning, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 288844
Message of Gov. B. M. Miller to the Legislature of Alabama, August 16, 1932; 1,000 Copies ordered printed by the House
Montgomery AL: The Brown Printing Company, for the state, 1932. Paperback. 27p., pamphlet, 9x6 inch plain printed staplebound wraps; ex library with a single accession stamp (1933) on the front wrap, the gray-blue cover is a little faded, a very good copy. Miller is addressing a radio audience as well..... More
Cat.No: 194721
The politics of U.S. labor; from the Great Depression to the New Deal.
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1982. hardcover. 189p., slightly shelfworn dj, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 1511
The fat years and the lean
New York: International Publishers, 1940. Hardcover. 454p., cover lightly worn with very minor discoloration, minor toning of endpapers else good condition. No dj. Minton was the pseud. of Richard Bransten. More
Cat.No: 25802
Out of the frying pan
Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., Publishers, 1939. Hardcover. 185p., second printing, endpapers toned, previous owner's name scrawled across free front endpaper, else very good condition in a price-clipped, edgeworn, and chipped dj. "A true history of the 'Ham and Eggs' movement..." California's answer to the Great Depression. More
Cat.No: 1519
Out of the frying pan
Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., Publishers, 1939. Hardcover. 185p., second printing, lacking dust jacket; bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, in very good condition. "A true history of the 'Ham and Eggs' movement..." More
Cat.No: 302407
Depression: Hard Facts vs. Soft Soap
San Francisco: Pacific Publishing Foundation, [195-?]. Pamphlet. 31p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, paper evenly toned otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 40204
The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929-1933; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Hardcover. x, 176p., first edition openweave cloth boards titled black in photographic dust jacket, very good condition. The American West in the twentieth century. More
Cat.No: 47726
American rubber workers & organized labor, 1900-1941
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 339p., very good condition in like dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 6505
A light in the window
Tulsa: Logos to Rhema Publishing, 1996. xi, 119p + photos, very good first edition in pictorial wraps. Signed by the author a retired teacher in Oklahoma who survived the blizzard of 1931 in Colorado which this memoir is about. More
Cat.No: 133017
Hope among us yet; social criticism and social science in Depression America.
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1987. Hardcover. xiv, 340p., illus., very good hardcover in dj. More
Cat.No: 32394
William Green; biography of a labor leader
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. Paperback. x, 223p. in publisher's shrinkwrap, in very good condition. SUNY series in labor history. "William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952, was a controversial figure whom historians invariably depict as bumbling, incompetent, vain, and ignorant;..... More
Cat.No: 28826
Encyclical letter of his holiness Pius XI; by divine providence pope; to our venerable brethren: the patriarchs, primates, archbishops &c &c in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the encyclical 'rerum novarum,' [title page] Forty years after / reconstructing the social order [cover title]. Fifth printing
Washington, D. C: National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1935. Pamphlet. 48p., staplebound printed wraps, mild creasing, wraps slightly browned and foxed else good condition. One chapter heading-- "The uplifting of the proletariat," --bespeaks a church forced to grapple a little with Marx's vocabulary. More
Cat.No: 66690
The Negro in Harlem. A Report on Social and Economic Conditions Responsible for the Outbreak of March 19, 1935
Berkeley / New York City: Anthony M. Platt / The Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem, n.d., 1970s or 80s. Staplebound Wraps. Unpaginated preliminaries, 84p., printed rectos only, typewritten throughout (competently, without such niceties as right-margin justification), standard leaves under red coversheets, side-stapled. A couple of corner-tips and margins are..... More
Cat.No: 303992
Women workers through the depression; a study of white collar employment made by the American Woman's Association. Director of Research, Iva Lowther Peters.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Hardcover. xvii, 164p., tables, folded questionnaire, neatly ex library else good condition. No dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 70487
Five photo-textual documentaries from The Great Depression
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. Hardcover. xiv, 169p., boards faintly worn, else in very good condition. Studies on Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, and more. More
Cat.No: 300093
Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement / The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. xi, 384p., hardbound first edition in orange cloth gilt and dust jacket. Entirely sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 253418