Needle Trades from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Glasgow: William MacKenzie, [1863]. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm). In full leather, blind-stamped with Prince Albert and shields of participating nations on boards, and symbols of the exhibition contents (plow, mining equipment, exhibition hall) on spine, titled in gold on spine, all edges marbled; blue and red marbled endpapers; iv, 592pp; illustrated title page, 18 engraved plates, and… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Division of Wage Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed gray wrappers; 65,(v)pp. Very Good. Statistical analysis and narrative account of employment in the needle trades during the Great Depression.

Woodbridge, Suffolk (UK): Antique Collectors Club, 1986. Reprint. Quarto (28cm.); olive green publisher's cloth boards with gilt lettering and pictorial dust jacket; 262pp. Text block has light soiling and toning about the edges, otherwise crisp and sound in binding; Fine. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear, rolling along edges; yellowing evident to margins of inner flaps. Sticker on rear… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: R.G. Berford, 1843. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); disbound; 48pp.; text printed in double columns. Tear at top edge of title page (serving as upper wrapper), small, discreet rubberstamp "Sold by AAS" at spine edge of last leaf, else Good to Very Good overall. A short tale by the immensely prolific author following the travails of a poor Boston… Read more about this item

New York: Hebrew Publishing Co, 1911. First Edition. Music sheet, 34cm x 26cm; 4pp. Original lithographed cover (signed Jacob Keller) with halftone portrait insets. Slight toning to extremities, still Near Fine. Uncommon sheet memorializing the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Lyrics are printed in Hebrew and transliterated Yiddish; only the title is supplied in English (and the title… Read more about this item

N.p. [New York]: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, (1950). First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Staple-bound thick paper wrappers; [8pp]; illus. A few spots of soil to front cover, else Near Fine. Special program for the inaugural screening (a few weeks before the World Premiere) of Jack Arnold's "With These Hands," a feature documentary-drama on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); gray linen, titled and blocked in gilt and black on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 328pp. Mild sunning to spine, a bit of offset from binders glue to gutters at pastedowns, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn and spine-sunned, with small chips to spine ends and… Read more about this item

Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in grey and green decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],280pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Includes chapters on the International Ladies' Garment Works (AFL) and the United Steelworkers of America (CIO).

New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, 1950. First Edition. Oblong quarto (23cm x 30cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; [36]pp; chiefly illus. Mild external dusting; Near Fine. Pictorial history of American labor struggles, beginning with the birth of the AFL (1886) and concluding with the massive protest by Dressmakers on the streets of New York City in May, 1949. Issued… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original drab printed wrappers; 340,[4],cxivpp.; plain photographic folding plate of the attendees of the convention. Wrapper edges quite rubbed with a few shallow losses not affecting text; textblock shaken and starting to separate from wrappers; still, about Very Good. At head of upper cover: "Documentary History of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America."… Read more about this item

[New York]: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1950. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Stiff card wrappers; 161, (12)pp; illus. Bit of rubbing and wear to cover wrappers; internally clean and unmarked - Very Good. Preface by Jacob Potofsky. History of the ACWU, from its origins in 1910. Well-illustrated with photographic plates (halftones).

New York: Liveright, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth; dustjacket; 328pp. Foxing to cloth at gutters; page edges dusty; else a tight, Very Good copy in the scarce illustrated dustjacket which is heavily rubbed with chips and closed tears. Strongly proletarian novel dealing with the battle to organize Jewish garment workers in New York and Chicago. Winner of the… Read more about this item

New York: Friends Publishers, 1965. First edition. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Illustrated by William Gropper; translated from the Yiddish by Max Rosenfeld. Hinges age-darkened, else a fine, straight copy in very lightly worn dustjacket with a few tiny closed nicks to extremities and some dusting to rear panel. Uncommon collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by the… Read more about this item

New York: The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1939. First edition. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 144pp. Illus. Mild toning & edgewear to fragile wallet-edged covers; internally fresh and unmarked. A quite solid copy overall of an uncommon union history.