Philadelphia: Works Progress Administration, National Research Project in cooperation with National Bureau of Economic Research, 1938. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm.); original blue laminated printed wrappers; xxiv,190pp.; illus. Some bubbling to lamination, wrappers rather worn from handling, else About Very Good. Forms part of the series Productivity and Employment in Selected..... More

New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc., 1947. First Edition. A novel about Washington politics during the post-New Deal era. It follows the optimistic Matt Wells who moves to Washington D.C. with the dream of being a great politician only to be seduced by money, debauchery, and booze. Wells struggles between his..... More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1940. First Edition. Reprint of Appel's fourth book, a non-fiction chronicle of the American scene a the end of the Great Depression. First Printing. Octavo; brick red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 502pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns..... More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Tight, Very Good or better copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine. More

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Tight, fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly rubbed on front cover but still quite attractive, Very Good or better. A first-hand account of the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, from the point of..... More

[New York: American Unity League, 1942]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original blue decorative cloth stamped in gilt, unadorned spine; 158pp. Ex-library with a few contemporary markings; top edge of cloth considerably faded, textblock a bit shaken, else Very Good and sound. 8-point economic proposal to end the war-time depression without..... More

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1935. First printing. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 266pp. Signed by Caldwell on half-title (presumably later, as the signature is in felt-tip pen). Cloth scuffed at base of spine, else a Near Fine copy in somewhat soiled jacket, darkened on spine and with brief loss..... More

New York: Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Non-fiction account of farm tenancy and sharecropping in the Depression-era South; first in a series of political pamphlets by prominent authors commissioned by this radical publisher. Not, strictly speaking, uncommon, but a key Caldwell "A" item, and this a rather nicely-preserved copy. Octavo..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Depression-era realist novel portraying the tribulations of a nine-foot-tall giant in a world of normal men. Partially set in Minneapolis and written by a Minnesota author. Apparently the only published novel by Carlaw (1905-1979), who went on to a storied career as..... More

New York: New York University Press, 1998. First Edition. Small quarto. Printed pictorial wrappers; xii,560pp; illus. Mild soil to text block edges; faint crease to rear wrapper; still better than VG. More

New York: Random House, 1941. First Random House printing (originally published by Row, Peterson, 1941). Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 60pp; illus. Light rubbing at spine ends and board corners, else Near Fine. In the original illustrated dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.00 on front flap), but rather a wreck, rubbed, chippped and..... More

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1937. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); red boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 294pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Spine gently sunned, with a small patch of rubbing at the left edge of the front panel; Near Fine..... More

New York: Workers Library Publishers, n.d. but ca.1934. Original poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 67.5cm x 80.5cm. Light wear to extremities, old horizontal and vertical folds with attendant creasing; Very Good+. Propaganda poster advertising eight penny pamphlets published by the Workers Library; pricing ensured that even..... More