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[Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's tan printed staplebound card wrappers; 31pp. Fine condition. More
[Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's tan printed staplebound card wrappers; 31pp. Fine condition. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 161pp. Jacket split in two at upper spine hinge, extremities darkened, small loss at top fore-edge corner touching one letter, large loss at top edge of rear panel affecting text with loss of..... More
[New York]: Public Affairs Committee, 1938. Revised Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's green staplebound wrappers; 32pp. Some wear to wrapper extremities, pencil underlining to first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. Summary of a group of recent studies on tenancy and land tenure conditions. Public Affairs Pamphlet no. 12. More
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Light wear from handling, old defaced price sticker to upper cover slightly affecting text without loss of meaning, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the Works Progress Administration Social..... More
Chicago: [National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery], 1938. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 31pp. Minor creasing to covers at corners, else Near Fine. Handbook distributed to attendees of the National Stewardship Convention in Chicago, Nov. 1-3 1938. Numerous allegorical illustrations in text. Religious revival as a cure for..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 362pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid down to front endpaper. From the library of Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker, with his ownership signature to front endpaper and his maraginal annotations throughout. Tight, VG or better copy in..... More
New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1933. First Edition. Depression-era novel with a Chicago setting, in which a wealthy businessman, facing unexpected early retirement, finds himself immersed in a community of park-dwelling eccentrics, including demimondaines, political radicals, and a precocious young artist. The park is clearly modeled on Chicago's Washington Square..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth stamped in gilt; [x],215,[1]pp. A straight copy, mild rubbing to edges, spine mildly sunned with gilt worn away, else Very Good. Account of the failure of the Bank of the United States in New York, which..... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1954. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-138,[2]pp. Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly toned on margins and spine panel; Very Good. West's third novel, originally..... More
New York: Greenberg, [1933]. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's grey cloth embossed in blue; 213pp. Light shelf wear, just a hint of soil, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good or better, unusually nice copy. "Remainder issue." Depression-era novel of a newspaper reporter who assumes the position of..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. Overall a quite decent copy of Wilder's third novel, published in the first year of the Depression and famously savaged by Michael Gold in The New Republic for its failure to confront contemporary social themes. Gold's scathing review launched a national..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1940. First Edition. Inscribed by Willkie on first flyleaf: "Only the productive can be strong and only the strong can be free," signed, undated but contemporary with publication. A previous owner ("Elsie Louise Knieven") has neatly signed their name to the front endpaper, dated November, 1940..... More
London: Peter Owen, [1979]. First Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); original simulated cloth in green dust jacket lettered in red and white; 143pp. Light shelf wear, minor discoloration to upper jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Memoirs of growing up in the middle-class London suburb of Lee during the Depression..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1934. First Edition. Sociological and statistical study of women's work in the Great Depression, conducted under the aegis of the American Woman's Association of New York. Lorine Pruette (1896-1977) was a Columbia-trained social psychologist whose later work included periods at the Bureau of Economic Research and the..... More
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1933. Staple-bound pamphlet; 14pp. Wear, sunning and foxing to edges of wrappers, pencil to cover, pages sunned, else a clean and sound copy. More