Great Depression (35 results)
Language: English
Published by New Hogtown Press, Toronto, Canada, 1975
- Softcover
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, CanadaOld Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954)
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 7.71
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Add to basketPaper Covers. Stapled Binding. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. As Issued. 73pp. Content clean, bright and sound. This pamphlet is in very good condition with covers showing very minor soil. Photos available on request. The cove is a photograph of East aYork civic workers in the Great Depres…sion. (illustrator).
daughter of earth medsoftcover1st thus, written 1929 struggle to earn living inmissouri during twenties, tobacco stripper
red agnes smedley, danish american activist of great depression and china
Published by feminist, 1970
- First Edition
Seller: forest primeval, cherry tree, PA, U.S.A.forest primeval
Contact seller2-star sellergd. gd, mccarthy black list.
Two Depressions In One Lifetime: A History of Unemployment in Canada
Winnipeg Committee of Unemployed Youth and Veterans of the Great Depression
Language: English
Published by X-Press Printing, Winnipeg, MB, 1983
- Softcover
Seller: Werdz Quality Used Books, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaWerdz Quality Used Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 12.72
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Tight, unmarked; This book was written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young Canadians faced with the same prospects of unemployment, prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading…to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader.
Published by City Desk Press, TX, 1995
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: bookroom, Livingston, TX, U.S.A.bookroom
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Fine. First edition first printing hardcover Fine in fine dust jacket SIGNED INSCRIBED TO ROBERT DAN A COUSIN BY NAIL ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE also includes a long two page letter by Nail to Robert Dan detailing family news. Signed by Author(s).
The Great Depression of Debt: Survival Techniques for Every Investor Brussee, Warren
The Great Depression of Debt: Survival Techniques for Every Investor Brussee, Warren
- Hardcover
Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, CanadaAragon Books Canada
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£ 26.20
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Published by New York Labor News (1930), New York, 1930
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 29pp. Moderate soil to covers; internally clean and unmarked. Very Good. Analysis of the international labor market and the worldwide great depression, from a revolutionary Socialist perspective. The anonymous author contrasts the failures of Capitalism against the advances… of the Soviet Union under the Five Year Plan. Printed in England but with the imprint of Workers Library Publishers, the publishing arm of the SLP.
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Published by GPO, Washington DC, 1938
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 35pp. Brief pencil annotation to front cover, else Fine. On the mission and accomplishments of the Depression-era National Resources Committee, the successor entity to the National Planning Board of the Public Works Administration.
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Bonnie and Clyde | The Lives Behind the Legend
Schneider, Paul [Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 - May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut (Champion) Barrow (March 24, 1909 - May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who travelled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression]
Published by Published by JR Books, 10 Greenland Street, London First Edition . 2009., 2009
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United KingdomLittle Stour Books PBFA Member
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 15.00
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Full printer's code 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains 382 pp with some monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clip…ped, £18.99. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.
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Published by Modern Age Books, New York, 1938
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers w/ pictorial dustjacket; 152p; illus. A clean, tight copy in the uncommon pictorial jacket, lightly rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Extensively illustrated with halftones, uncredited but clearly of WPA/FSA lineage. An explication and defense of federal work-relief programs, wr…itten at the height of the Depression by the famous hobo sociologist Nels Anderson (who also wrote under the pseudonym "Dean Stiff").
Two Major Depressions in One Life Time
(Ad hoc) Winnipeg Committee of Unemployed Youth and Veterans of the Great Depression
Published by (Ad hoc) Winnipeg Committee of Unemployed Youth and Veterans of the Great Depression, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1982
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 46.20
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 72 pages. Circa 1982-83. Perhaps the first book to be written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young families faced with the same prospects of unemployment, has pro…mpted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy.
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Published by Macmillan, New York, 1934
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 164pp; tables; 1 chart (folding). Tight, Near Fine copy in the uncommon dustwrapper, mildly toned on spine and with a tiny loss at upper flap-fold, otherwise quite clean and crisp. Sociological and statistical study of women's work in the G…reat Depression, conducted under the aegis of the American Woman's Association of New York. Lorine Pruette (1896-1977) was a Columbia-trained social psychologist whose later work included periods at the Bureau of Economic Research and the Office of War Information (as a consultant on broadcast propaganda).
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Economic Problems of Modern Society
[ECONOMICS] [GREAT DEPRESSION] ANDREWS, John N. and Rudolf K. Michels
Published by Ronald Press, New York, 1938
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth boards, dustjacket; 798p. Volume in Near Fine condition, with dusting & faint foxing to text block edges. In original dustjacket which is however somewhat worn, with small marginal losses and closed tears, age-toning to spine; Good only. Elementary economics textbook published at the height of…the Great Depression, clearly intended as a primer for an American public forced for the first time to comprehend economic dysfunction on a catastrophic scale. Much on New Deal monetary & fiscal policy, social spending, etc, as well as discussion of the failures of Wall Street. Uncommon.
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Published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1940
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); pictorial cloth with matching pictorial dustjacket; 350pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn jacket with brief losses at crown of spine. A Brooklyn family on relief relocates to dustbowl-era Oklahoma, where they organize local farmers to stage a sit-down strike for redistribution of food…and land. Based on actual events. Rothermell authored several well-written novels, and worked on the New York Federal Writers' Project. HANNA 3076. BLAKE p.270.
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The Lords of Creation
Allen, Frederick Lewis [Wall Street] [American Industrialists] [Great Depression]
Published by Harper, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Arches Bookhouse
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First Edition. xii, 483pp. Sewn binding in red cloth hard covers with gilt-lettered spine and front cover. 16 B/W photos throughout. Tips worn. Owner's name and inscription to FFEP. Speckled ink stains to end papers and front matter. Small stain to back of front cover. 'This is a history of the e…volution of financial power in the United States since 1900. It shows to what extent this vial power became concentrated, what sort of men wielded in, what instruments of conquest they used, and what were the economic and social effects of their preeminence in American life. In a sense the book is the story of Wall Street and all that it (and the other nuclei of financial power) represented. In another sense it is the story of the American upper class. In another, broader sense it is the story of the economic changes which led inevitably to the crash of 1929 and the lean years of the ninteen-thirties [sic]: the story of how we reached the plight we are now in.'.
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Published by American Association of University Women, "Social Studies Series". Washington, DC ++ NO COPIES in WorldCat ++, 1941
- Softcover
Seller: JF Ptak Science Books, Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.JF Ptak Science Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. RARE report on the Dust Bowl Great Depression Migration of "Destitute Citizens" Esther Cole Franklin. America's "Migrant" Problem. Part of the "Contemporary America" series (April 1941) vol II no. VI published by the American Association of University Women, "Social Studies Series". Washington,…DC, 1941. 9"x 6", 23pp (including a 5pp section on suggested reading (which includes a reference to Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's "American Exodus"). NO COPIES are located in WorldCat. Original wrappers slightly dusted. Provenance: Pamphlet Collection, Library of Congress (with their rubber stamp on the bottom of the front cover). Printed on a heavier stock. VG condition. [++ There is a significant amount of thinking that went into this thin publication, with Franklin clearly moving in the direction of federal and regional (and local) help and aid and care for the "migrant" folks living in a mobile world "on the edge of existence". This is a caring and thoughtful appraisal of the migration of "our destitute citizens".
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Published by Viking Press, New York, 1938
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket;maroon top-stain; 614pp. A tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear and with the top-stain deep and even. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly worn with a few tiny chips at extremities, spine panel su…btly sun-darkened, Very Good+. The author's first novel, set in the halls of political and financial power in an unnamed midwestern state, in the fictional city of "Oklarada," during the Great Depression. Though not explicitly identified, events are clearly based on White's native state of Kansas. He was the son of Kansas newspaperman and agrarian populist William Allen White. HANNA 3769.
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Published by Random House, New York, 1935
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy, fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel, couple of small dust-smudges, else Fine. The jacket spine, which is very prone to darkening on this title, is bright…and unfaded.
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Published by Sears Publishing Company, New York, 1932
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Illustrated paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 118pp; illus. Boards faded at outer margins, rubbed on edges; brief dusting to edges of text block; Very Good. In the scarce pictorial jacket, price-clipped and with small losses at spine ends; about Very Good. Humorous mock-juvenile Depression… novel (somewhat in the vein of Ring Lardner's The Young Immigrunts) in which an orphan is raised by his uncle, a professional grifter. Played for humor, but a gritty work.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, [1934]., New York, NY:, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller8vo. xvii, [1], 267, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Green-blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine, red topstain as issued (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of boy & girl tramps jumping into railcars (minor chipping foot of spine, darkening to spine, slight edgwear, old tape repair…s), still NF/VG- copy. First edition, 2nd printing, of this gritty travel memoir, and sociological study examining the impact of the Great Depression upon teenagers, and even children as young as 10 years-old swelling the ranks of perhaps homeless and tramp youth wandering across the United States in the early 1930's. Minehan while a professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota disguised himself in shabby clothes, and lived on the road for over three years, observing 1465 girls and boys under 18, interviewed nearly 1000, and compiled 499 case histories, with the vast majority never finishing more than 8th grade, or 2 years of high school. He then issued this brutal and frank assessment of young women forced into prostitution as homeless nonprofits largely targeted males, and young boys; examined the impacts of societal aversion to homosexuality which frequently resulted in young people expelled from their homes, with over 10% young women (interesting fact in his tables was that while 20-30% of boys still liked their parents, no such affection was expressed by the young women). Despite the introduction of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and other similar New Deal programs, many of the child tramps remained defiant, including one called "Texas" who railed that "I can't get into the CCC because I have no dependents. I can't remain in any state unless I go to a slave camp. What chance have I got?" Uncommon in original dustjacket.
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Second report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Depression of Trade and Industry, 2 volumes
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Depression of Trade and Industry
Published by London : Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1886
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Good paperback copies only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall despite minor wear and tear. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 34 cm. Contents; pt. 1 Minutes of evidence and appendix -- pt. 2. Appendix. Subjects; Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Financia…l crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 4 Kg.
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Second report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Depression of Trade and Industry, 2 volumes
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Depression of Trade and Industry
Published by London : Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1886
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Good paperback copies only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall despite minor wear and tear. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 34 cm. Contents; pt. 1 Minutes of evidence and appendix -- pt. 2. Appendix. Subjects; Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Financia…l crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 3 Kg.
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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc., South Orange, NJ, U.S.A.Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
Contact seller2-star sellerALS. 2pgs. February 2, 1932. Lyndon Center, Vermont. An autograph letter signed Arthur Merrill Oliver Smith and addressed to his parents. Writing during the Great Depression, Smith, who was probably a student at the Lyndon Institute boarding school, regrets that he cannot come home for the weekend due to a lack of money but inst…ructs his parents not to send more on his behalf: Dear Mother and Dad, I had a dandy little day, or as dandy as could be expected in a place like this. I got a spauling of sixteen apiece and that was just about 160 whacks too much. I am going to tell you that I am sorry that I will have to stay up here over the weekend because my financial standing is not to allow me to come home but dont think anything is wrong it is only the depression and I will be able to make arrangements to stay here because one of my pals is staying here and I can stay with him. Dont send me any more money to come home on because Ill see if I can help out by not spending any more money than I have to. Write again soon and tell me what you think of it. I have paid all my bills and I will be able to make out O.K. Write soon. Much Love Your 16 yr old Son Arthur Merrill Oliver Smith (Amos) (Budge) (Smith). A touching little anecdote showing how the Great Depression affected people of all ages and statuses. The letter is in fine condition.
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Published by [Davistown, PA: n.d. ca 1935]
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. ALS, 18 lines (ca 75 words) on a single sheet of printed stationery, 10" x 7". Original mailing envelope included (unposted, addressed simply "Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt"). Printed return address has been elided on both stationery and envelope ("Beatrice Donley / Morgantown, WV"); mild toning and wear; envelope d…arkened - Very Good and complete. Mrs. Donley writes asking President Roosevelt to intervene in a pending foreclosure by the Second National Bank of Morgantown (WV). After listing her and her husbands assets, which include a large candy factory, she concludes, ".Please make some arrangements with the Receiver of the Bank Mrs. Cassidy, Morgantown W.Va. so I will have some place to live / Yours Truly / Mrs. O.O. Donley." The author's husband, Orris Otto Donley, a Morgantown businessman, appears in contemporary newspaper accounts as the perpetrator of an $80,000 embezzlement against his uncle's estate, a fact not mentioned in Mrs. Donley's letter. Millions of similar messages were sent by desperate citizens to the White House in the years of the Great Depression, often, as here, in a last-ditch attempt to forestall homelessness. A collection of such letters, edited by Robert McIlvaine, was published in 1986 by the University of North Carolina Press under the title Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man. Signed.
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Published by [Oakland: ca 1930s], 1932
- Signed
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPen-and-ink on heavy composition paper, ca 18" x 15" (ca 47cm x 39cm). Compositor's marks and notes at margins; light soil; Very Good. Signed "KET" lower left. Frank Kettlewell (1890-1969) was a long-time staff cartoonist and art director for the Oakland Tribune. This drawing, which manages simultaneously to lampoon America's bu…mpy forward progress under the National Recovery Act and the woeful state of its infrastructure, is undated but clearly comes from the early years of the Great Depression. Signed.
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Published by United States, 1930
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star seller12 ½ x 18 ¾ sheet. Condition: Some wrinkles; near fine. A broadside soliciting advertisers for Condé Nast's publications Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and The American Golfer. Printed following the 1929 crash, the broadside's tactic is to portray Condé Nast magazines' readers as the people who stay rich, or get even richer…, during times of economic upheaval: the "Successful Class [which] profits first" because it contains the "ablest, the most ingenious, and the most ambitious people in the land." "The time has come", the broadside advises, "to re-sell themhard." We find no copies of this broadside in OCLC.
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Highway Map of Oklahoma. "The Right Way." Complete Road Information
[Great Depression - Automobile Travel - Oklahoma] Author Unknown
Published by Topeka, 1930
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 346.75
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. A scarce depression-era map of Oklahoma, with graphic advertisements to the verso showing the range of automobile-centric establishments in the state at the time. The map shows all the automobile routes of the time, with text along the borders listing the towns and the telephone numbers of various services…and lodging options. The instructions on the the top read "Put Out Your Fires / Leave a Clean Camp / Keep the Streams Pure / Don't Be a Road Hog." According to the single copy in OCLC, at the Denver Public Library, the map was printed in 1930, though we see no date on the map itself. The depression hit Oklahoma following the drought in 1930, which also coincided with the opening of the East Texas oil field. This map is a relic of the period just before the state's economic downturn, with the early automobile infrastructure still intact and vibrant. Folded map measuring 28 x 17 inches. Some small tears at folds, very good.
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1920s?1940s Photo Album of California Auto Tourism, a Soap Box Derby, and a Billboard in Tennessee Warning of ?NO JOBS in California?
[Great Depression ? California ? Auto Tourism ? Soap Box Derby] Unknown Photographer
Published by United States, 1940
- Photo
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Overall excellent. A photo album of an unknown couple. Early shots include two tintypes which appear to be turn of the century to 1920s, and six real photo postcards, dating to the 1920s at the latest based on stampboxes. The RPPCs include portraits, shots from a farm, and a souvenir photo from Brooklyn. Later shots a…re likely WWII-era, showing several men posing in military uniforms. The album is highlighted by its photographs of Californian auto tourism and a Soap Box Derby event, likely also in California. Identifiable tourist locations include Bear Canyon Campground in Altadena and Cedarpines Park in the San Bernardino mountains; people pose with the car in deep snow and at the campside, and shots show the car with luggage strapped to the outside and filling up at a Shell. One Cedarpines photo is dated, captioned ?Winter ?28? Later auto tourism shots?with what appears to be a 1940s model car?show the car at a Los Angeles mechanic with a teardrop camper and a boat on top, and later parked at a beach with the camper set up, with manuscript verso indicating that the location is Mexico. Alongside these photographs is a shot of a Depression-era billboard reading ?NO JOBS in California / KEEP OUT / 6 MEN FOR EVERY JOB / NO STATE RELIEF AVAILABLE FOR NON-RESIDENTS?; on the verso, it is captioned ?1929 / This sign was posted in Tennessee? Soap Box Derby is a Depression-era invention, beginning in 1934 in Dayton, Ohio, and quickly becoming a national phenomenon. Derby shots in this album appear to be Californian or at least to highlight Californian entrants: the cars pictured are sponsored by Siminow Bros., a Los Angeles gas station and mechanic. These include the cars being towed in, the line for the inspection station, the starting line, and action shots. Highlighting two very different forms of car-based recreation, the album is of interest to historians of the car in American leisure in the period surrounding the Great Depression. Photo album measuring 7 x 10 inches containing fifty-three photographs: two tintypes (c. 1890s and 1920s), six RPPCs, and forty-five modern photographs. Photographs mainly measure 4 x 6 inches and smaller. Conditions vary; some with wrinkling and damage, especially to corners and edges; others Fine.
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"Farm-Auction Blocks in Wake of Drought-". [Supplied Title]
[Great Depression - Dust Bowl - Farm Auctions - Resettlement Administration] Rothstein, Arthur
Published by International News Photos, N.p., 1936
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerIn the mid-1930s, prolonged drought across the Great Plains, combined with falling agricultural prices, forced thousands of farm families into foreclosure and displacement. The crisis, central to what would become known as the Dust Bowl, led to widespread liquidation of farms and personal property, often through public auctions…held under distress conditions. Offered here is a stark press image documenting one such sale in Nebraska. The original caption reads in part: "This farm auction shop is typical of the mid-west where farmers, driven from their land by the drought, are forced to sell at auction their farm machinery, household effects in order to procure enough money to move to more fertile spots. The government is aiding the stricken farmers through loans and relief. It is thought that not less than 100,000 families may be moved from their farms by the government." The photograph shows the exterior of a "Sale Room," with equipment and household goods assembled for liquidation. Rothstein, working for the Resettlement Administration, produced some of the most widely circulated images of rural dislocation during the Depression. Images such as this were distributed through press agencies to illustrate both the severity of the crisis and the federal government's expanding role in relief and resettlement, and were reprinted later. This is an attractive original copy with fine contrast, with 1936 press markings verso. Minor edge wear and toning to caption, else very good. Press photograph, 8 x 10 inches, by Arthur Rothstein, distributed by International News Photos, with original caption on verso dated 1936.
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Final report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the . [LeatherBound]
Great Britain. Commissions. Depression of Trade and Industry
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. I…llustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 225 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 225 Language: English.
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Final report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the . [Leather Bound]
Great Britain. Commissions. Depression of Trade and Industry
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Seller: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, IndiaGyan Books Pvt. Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: New
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Add to basketLeather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…ends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in . The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 225, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 225 225.
