Child Labor from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Chicago: International Song Publishers, 1920. First Edition. Music sheet (35.5cm x 27cm). Original lithographed covers; 4pp. Light soil and wear; small closed tear to cover at upper margin; Very Good. Text in English. Scarce labor song-sheet issued by a short-lived Chicago Socialist music publishing cooperative founded by Douglas Robson, who contributed at least two compositions to the IWW Songbook;… Read more about this item

[n.p.; New York?]: For the Benefit of the Author, 1860. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Original brown cloth, titled in gilt on front and spine; pink coated endpapers; [i]-xi 15-135pp; wood-engraved frontispiece. Nineteenth-century inscription and bookplate of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, gift of William S. Appleton. Straight and tight, cloth rubbed, small losses to head and tail,… Read more about this item

Washington DC: National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor, 1959. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp.; illus., text printed from typescript. Light wear from handling else Near Fine. Articles include "Emergency Is a Normal Condition for Migratory Farm Workers" and "What Should Be the Language of an Agricultural Child Labor Amendment?

Washington DC: National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 16pp.; maps and illus., text printed from typescript. Light wear from handling, a hint of uneven toning, else Near Fine. Contents cover the Williams-Zelenko Migratory Labor Bills, the Mexican Farm Labor Program; and the passing of the Migratory Farm Labor Health bill. … Read more about this item

Staunton, VA: Press of J.J. Prufer, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Printed paper wrappers; 53pp. Damp-stain to upper 1/4" of margin throughout; bit of discoloration to wrappers - a sound and Good reading copy. Uncommon pamphlet by the noted Virginia legislator and one-time President of the American Bar Association.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth-backed boards; xv, 205,[2]pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, lacking dustwrapper. Presumed remainder issue, with the Swann Sonnenschein sheets in a binding which bears the Allen & Unwin slug at base of spine. Fresh copy of this pioneering work on child welfare by the noted Fabian socialist.

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in brown and black; [4],31pp.; illus. Fine. Collection of 16 timelines on various "firsts" relating to such subjects as black labor, child labor, strikes, and women's labor.

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 340pp. Photographic frontispiece portrait (halftone) showing the author with a group of his "boy friends." Mild rubbing to board edges; ownership signature to endpaper, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Autobiographical essays from the career of Judge Ben Lindsey,… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Orange cloth, 336pp, frontis, photographic plates; pictorial dustjacket. Boards soiled and faintly dampstained on upper one-third of rear board; uncommon jacket is present; price-clipped with moderate overall wear and soil, with dampstaining and clear tape remnants visible on verso. Internally clean, tight and unmarked; Good to Very Good… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1906. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Brown gilt-pictorial cloth boards; 337pp; 32 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Light edgewear to boards, still a bright, clean, and unmarked copy, Near Fine. A socialist's exposé of child labor in America, well-illustrated with photographic plates credited to Marjory Hall, G.W. Goler, Peter Roberts, and the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee (the… Read more about this item