Great Depression from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First Trade Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publication date and price rubber stamped on front endpaper. Octavo (21.25cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; [viii],286,[2]pp. Critic Malcolm Cowley's copy, with his ownership signature in black ink on front endpaper. Gentle sunning to upper board edges,… Read more about this item

New Haven: Proctors Products, N.d. (ca. 1935). Quarto. Bifolium (4pp); illus. Old folds from mailing, mild soil; Very Good. Brief illustrated trade catalog of products marketed to Civilian Conservation Corps members, including rings, watches, jewelry and other accessories.

N.p., n.d. [Washington, D.C: GPO, c.1933]. Original window poster, 27-1/2" x 21". Offset lithograph, printed in two colors. Original horizontal and vertical folds; splits at left and right margins, a few small losses, including about a 1/4" loss to paper at fold and at center; another small (ca 1/2" x 1/4") loss at upper margin; a few small stains.… Read more about this item

Washington DC: USGPO, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; original printed thick-paper wrappers (softcover, as issued); 121pp. A somewhat worn copy; a faint tide-mark affects bottom margin of text block throughout; there is occasional pencil underlining and aging to covers; complete and just Good. Uncommon first edition of this Depression-era report on the status and future of… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.75cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Trivial wear and dustiness, else Near Fine. "Communist pamphlet expressing grievances on behalf of the children of the working class. The author tells instance after instance of capitalism's inhumanity to the children, and concludes that children of the workers will really come into a full… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1934. First revised edition (originally published 1933). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 96pp. Trivial external soiling; hint of aging to text, still Near Fine. One of several printings of Olgin's strident "Third Period" polemic, first published in 1933.This version presumably issued to coincide with the 1934 midterm elections. Olgin, editor of the Yiddish communist daily… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 127pp; folding chart tipped in between pp 64-65. Mild external soil and creasing; still a tight, complete, Near Fine copy of the uncommon first edition. SEIDMAN P113: "The definitive Party handbook, written by a Comintern representative in the U.S. Sections deal with fundamentals of the Party… Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard Press, 1939. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 91pp. Tight, straight, and unmarked - a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.00 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and soiled with a small nick at upper margin of rear panel; Very Good. One of relatively few contemporary… Read more about this item

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 with a long closed tear to front panel, just… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 561pp. Tight, straight and unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), rubbed at margins and slightly sunned on spine; Very Good. Haydn's third novel, an epic set in the American South during the last spasms of the… Read more about this item

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 published in 1934 (NY: Covici-Friede).

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 was organized in 1913 and failed in… Read more about this item

Elwood, IN: National Book Company, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Navy blue cloth; titles stamped in red; 291pp; frontispiece and 33 unnumbered leaves of double-sided photographic plates (halftones). Mild dusting to exterior; endpapers slightly discolored from aging to binding adhesive; complete and Very Good. Campaign biography of the 1940 Republican nominee for President, written to accentuate his populist… Read more about this item

New York: The House of Little Books, 1936. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; [48]pp; illus. A few small corner-creases, else a clean, tight copy, Near Fine. One in a series of instructional books by the prolific cartoonist of the 1930s, who marketed his manuals as a means to "becoming your own boss" during the down-and-out years of the… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cream linen titled in black; green-gray topstain; 352pp. Tight, clean, square copy with some fading to the top-stain; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. A collection of 14 short stories in classic Runyonesque style.

[Chicago: Pure Oil Company, 1936]. First Edition. First printing. Three 12mo volumes. Original gilt-pictorial paper-covered boards; each volume 64pp, photo illus. Mild rubbing and wear; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. The complete serialization of Mattern's aviation anecdotes, as recounted on his 1930's radio program "The Diary of Jimmie Mattern." Published and sold by the… Read more about this item

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 trade issue in pictorial wrappers. The very scarce… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Plum cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine; 302pp. Some darkening of endpapers at gutters; erasure to front endpaper, still a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, somewhat faded on spine panel, Very Good. Iowa author's somewhat hard-to-find sixth novel, portraying… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 306pp. A tight, fine copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and with an old clear-tape reinforcement along upper margin of verso (not visible from the printed side); still Very Good or better. A quite attractive copy of Horgan's uncommon fourth book, a… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; x,253pp.; photographic frontispiece. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and lower board edges; clean internally, but for a tiny stain to rear endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is… Read more about this item