Great Depression (39 results)

Paper 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 Depression. (illustrator).…

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Condition: 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).

Condition: Very Good. 19 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 21cms. Category: Northern History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Hunter Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 34 pages, 1 figure. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Economic History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 15 pages, 9 illustrated maps. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Agricultural History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Paperback. 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.…

First 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.…

Condition: 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 clipped, £18.99. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.…

First 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, written at the height of the Depression by the famous hobo sociologist Nels Anderson (who also wrote under the pseudonym "Dean Stiff").…

Paperback. 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 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. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy.…

dj. 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 Great 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).…

dj. 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.…

dj. 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.…

Condition: Very good. A press photo from 1932 of National Hunger March to Washington protestors stopped for a mass meeting at Reyburn Plaza in Philadelphia. This was the second National Hunger March-the first was in 1931-organized by the Communist Party USA's Unemployed Councils. Marchers were limited to elected representatives of local Unemployed Council branches, with 1,600 marching in 1931 and 3,200 in 1932. The march brought unemployed workers from across the country to rally in Washington, D.C., petitioning Congress for aid in the form of emergency winter relief and unemployment insurance. Photograph measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. With caption and manuscript verso. Some wrinkling with fold across lower third; stain across top third.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Wanted Poster 20 x 20 cm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers, never rolled. Stein was arrested for the crime of "sus'' and the disposition is listed as "Pend." In 1930 "sus" meant the individual was arrested on suspicion of a crime rather than a specific charge. In the early 20th century, police routinely arrested people under vagrancy or "suspicion" laws to hold them at the station. This gave detectives time to interrogate them, take their fingerprints, and check if they matched any open cases. The "Disposition" line has the word "Pend" which stands for Pending, meaning the police were still investigating to see if they could officially charge him with a specific crime. The term "sus" became famous in England via the "Sus Law" (officially Section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824), which allowed police to arrest anyone they suspected was a loiterer or frequenting a space with intent to commit a felony. Ted S. Stein was picked up by the Akron police simply because he looked suspicious or fit the description of an ongoing investigation, and they were holding him while they figured out what to do next. Because his crime was listed as "Sus." (Suspicion) and the disposition was "Pend." (Pending), it is very likely that he was released without ever being formally charged or arraigned. Investigative "vagrancy" and "suspicion" detentions during this era rarely resulted in a permanent criminal trial record unless further evidence was uncovered. On the front side of the card, the entire Criminal History table is blank. This indicates that at the time of his arrest in July 1930, the Ohio State Bureau of Criminal Identification had no prior criminal records, aliases, or past convictions on file for him. His nationality is listed as "Am Hebrew" (American Hebrew) and born in Pennsylvania circa 1895. [Recto: Image 1] OHIO STATE BUREAU OF CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION AND INVESTIGATION Address: P. O. BOX 1354, COLUMBUS, OHIO NAME: Ted S. Stein CITY OR COUNTY NO.: 19763 Residence: Akron O. State Bureau No.: 398655 Occupation: none Prison No.: [Blank] BERTILLON SECTION Height: [Blank] O. Arms: [Blank] Trunk: [Blank] H. L.: [Blank] H. W.: [Blank] C. W.: [Blank] R. Ear: [Blank] L. Ft.: [Blank] L. M. F.: [Blank] L. L. F.: [Blank] L. F. Arm: [Blank] Description and Background Section Sentence: [Blank] Yrs. [Blank] Mos. [Blank] Days Fined: [Blank] Institution: [Blank] Date of Birth: Yr. [Blank] Mo. [Blank] Day [Blank] Nationality: Am Hebrew Where Born: Pa Age: 35 in 1930 English Height: 5 Ft. 6 1/2 In. Eyes: Blue Build: med. Complexion: med. Weight: 151 Hair: Black Other History Sections Marks and Scars: [Blank] State brief history of Crime Committed: [Blank] Criminal History Table Name: [Blank]Number: [Blank] City: [Blank] Date: [Blank] Charge: [Blank] Disposition: [Blank][mugshots pasted. Frontal one contains the number: 19763 [Verso:] SBI-8-29-25M OHIO STATE BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION Superintendent: C. A. MYERS, Supt. COLUMBUS, OHIO Color: White Name: Ted S. Stein Class.: 8 M 29 / 18 R I O O 17 / I O O 18 [Handwritten classification numbers] Alias: [Blank] Date: 7/10 1930 Crime: Sus. [= suspicious] Ref.: [Blank] County: Sum. City: Akron Disposition: Pend. [=Pending] Right Thumb: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Right Index: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Right Middle: [Fingerprint present]Right Ring: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Right Little: [Fingerprint present]Left Thumb: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Left Index: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "N"]Left Middle: [Fingerprint present]Left Ring: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Left Little: [Fingerprint present][Bottom Section] [Purple date stamp, diagonally, left side:] JAN 13 1931 Prisoner's signature: [Blank] Left Hand / Right Hand simultaneous impressions: [Four-finger simultaneous prints for both hands are present at bottom row.…

Hardcover. 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 evolution 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.'.…

Soft 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".…

dj. 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 subtly 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.…

dj. 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.…

dj. 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. …

8vo. 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 repairs), 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. …

First 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. Financial crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 3 Kg. …

First 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. Financial crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 3 Kg. …

ALS. 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 instructs 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.…

First 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 darkened - 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. …

Pen-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 bumpy 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.…

12 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.…

Condition: 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.…