New York: Trident Press, 1966. First Edition Thus. Reissue of Killens's first book, a landmark novel of social protest chronicling "the lives of the Youngblood family and their friends in Crossroads, Georgia, from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. Its large cast of powerfully affecting characters includes..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1932. First Edition. Essays on the economic future of the United States and the Soviet Union, gathered and unpdated "in this day of world-wide industrial depression...in the hope that the experience of a long life...may contribute something of value to their discussion." Surprisingly uncommon in the trade..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket, reddish-brown topstain; [8],288pp. Jacket spine rather toned, extremities gently rubbed, faint purple ink smear to upper panel, else Very Good or better. Depression-era novel by the Canadian author and television personality. More

New York: The Daily Worker, 1935. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no. 50 of 100 clothbound copies signed by Burck. Quarto; tan buckram with titles and decorations stamped in brown on front and rear covers; 247pp. A lovely, fine copy, free of soiling or wear. There was a simultaneous..... More

Philadelphia: [Joint Committee on Research of the Community Council of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania School of Social Work], 1935. First Edition. A substantial study on the health and welfare of Pennsylvania children five years into the Great Depression. Compiled by the Joint Committee on Research of the Community Council of..... 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

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. First Edition. SEIDMAN P113: "The definitive Party handbook, written by a Comintern representative in the U.S. Sections deal with fundamentals of the Party program, the basic principles of Party organization, the stucture and functions of Party organization, Party membership and cadres, and rules and..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xiv, 205pp; 2 folding maps. Fine copy of the book; in the original dustwrapper, which has been heavily repaired on front and rear panels, covering a ca. 1" x 2" loss and repairing a ca. 4" tear into..... More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Square octavo (19cm). Original yellow cloth, titled and decorated in red on spine and front cover; 128pp. A tight, Very Good copy, lacking the pencil and with the "seal" on pp.17-128 broken. Scattered pencil marginalia; paper-clip stain to upper margin..... More

Washington DC: President's Committee on Economic Security, 1935. First Edition. Pamphlet based on a symposium entitled "The Economic Security Program," broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting system on March 16, 1935. Contains brief essays by Harry Hopkins ("The Economic Security Plan"), Murry W. Latimer ("Security Against Old Age Dependency"), Katharine Lenroot..... More

Pasadena: Montaville Flowers Publicists, [1931]. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 23cm.); publisher's cloth in gilt and blue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; x,[11]-351pp. Jacket quite chipped and rubbed along extremities, tiny punctures along top edge of upper board, rear free endpaper soiled; still, Very Good overall, internally fine. Collection of thirty-six broadcasts..... More

Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1936. First, Limited Edition. Excellent copy of the rare De Luxe Edition of the Oklahoma author's first book, a highly autobiographical novel depicting the coming of age of a young man in a Kansas Mennonite community. Friesen broke sharply from his own religious upbringing; during..... More

ca 1930-35. A chilling image of a pistol-wielding man fleeing the scene of a crime, leaving two bodies lying in the street. It is unclear whether the scene is intended as a commentary on growing racial tensions in Harlem in the 1930s (possibly a direct reference to the Harlem Race..... More