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Washington, DC: American Commonwealth Federation, 1936. Pamphlet. 1 sheet (2 pages). 8.5 x 5.5 in. Horizontal fold, otherwise Very Good. Flier announcing a plan that provided every family guaranteed income. Promotes the pamphlet "American Commonwealth Plan" published in 1936. The American Commonwealth Plan was floated around the same time as the Townsend Plan and Social Security.
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Abundance for all as proposed by the American Commonwealth Federation under "The American Commonwealth Plan.
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All brides are beautiful
by Bell, Thomas
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. Hardcover. 360p., original cloth boards, titling in gilt; board illustration slightly rubbed and dimmed, spine lightly toned, endpapers foxing, touch of foxing on text-block edges, else in very good condition. *Hanna 297.
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American Labor Party Handbook
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[New York]: American Labor Party, 1937. Paperback. 23, [1]p., wraps. 9 x 6 in. Good. Water stain to lower right corner of cover and textblock; edge wear. Second printing. Platform of the party for 1937, with a copy of its principles and by-laws.
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The American Dream in the Great Depression
by Hearn, Charles R.
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. Hardcover. x, 222p., very good condition. No dust jacket. Contributions in American Studies, No. 28.
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Big red; a novel
by Haylen, Leslie
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Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1965. Hardcover. 207p., original red cloth boards, corners mildly bumped, dj mildly edgeworn with minor spine sun-fading and chipping on head and tail, touch of foxing on text block edges, else in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author. First volume of a planned trilogy: 'The streets of a city," and "The towers of Babylon" though we can find no evidence that either volume was published. "In drought and hunger Red Danvers develops his own beliefs and politics. When eventually he is forced off the farm, he goes to the city and, first as a student, and later as a soldier, takes his place as a serious worker in the Labor movement," (dustjacket panel).
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Blue Ridge Schooling; true tales of a depression year in the mountains of West Virginia
by Lawson Sr., Eric W.
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Canastoga, NY: Privately Published, 1999. Paperback. 98p., wraps a bit handled, else very good.
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Ceresota Cook Book
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Minneapolis: The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co, 1930. Pamphlet. 42p., illustrated with six pages in color and several dainty b&w line drawings, softbound, a 7.5x5 inch stapled booklet. Cover is slightly damaged, with two tiny nicks to back panel (one nick is tacked on verso with removable tape) and some abrasion and splitting to spinefold. Back panel also bears a distributor's rubberstamp. The front cover looks good, pace a little age and handling. Clean within, color plates remain bright. A presentable, but fair-to-good only, copy. Laid in is a promotional leaf explaining that "Ceresota flour absorbs More WATER than ordinary flour, Hence it makes more bread and holds moisture longer than" &c. Dated from the desserts; the cake chapter promotes "inexpensive fruit cake," "poverty cake" and "economical sponge cake" (p.27).
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Children of the depression
by Thompson, Kathleen and Hilary Mac Austin, editors
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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xxi, 193p., profuse captioned b&w photography on coated paperstock, first edition titled boards in glossy dj; jacket slightly edgeworn, a very good copy.
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Democracy and Finance
by Williams, Francis
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London: Labour Party, 1932. Pamphlet. 63, [1]p., wraps. 8.5 x 4.5 in. Edges toned. Minor tear to foot of front wrapper. Good. Tract on the relationship between financial and banking interests and democratic governance. Written in the wake of the coming of the Great Depression in England.
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Depression Post Office murals and Southern culture: a gentle reconstruction
by Beckham, Sue Bridwell
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Hardcover. xx, 338p., preface, introduction, coda, appendix of locations, index, footnotes, illustrated with small b&w reproductions and photos, first printing, very good condition in like unclipped dust jacket.
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Diogenes on pension plans; self-liquidating warrants and kindred ideas
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Los Angeles: Gem Publishing, Co, 1938. Paperback. 96p., light rubberstamp on front wrap, minor soil and handling on wraps, small chip on head of spine and chip on corner of rear wrapper, light damp stain on top of text-block edge, staple rust is migrating on rear wrap, else good.
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Five photo-textual documentaries from The Great Depression
by Puckett, John Rogers
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Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. Hardcover. xiv, 169p., boards faintly worn, else in very good condition. Studies on Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, and more.
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The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
by Halprin, Lawrence, author and Memorial designer
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. Paperback. 137p., profuse period and contemporary photography with extensive captioning and a scattered running text, softbound in 10x9.5 inch frenchfold wraps, an entirely sound, clean, unmarked copy of a pretty good book, better than most US honcho memorials. The sculpture layout (part garden) brings more modernism to DC, following in the wake of Maya Lin's Vietnam site.
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Freight trains west
by Lawson, Archie [Jane Rule association]
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Sacramento: Lucas Publishers, 1980. Paperback. v, 143p., introduction, illustrated with b&w photos, personal inscription to Jane Rule and her partner Helen Sonthoff signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The South Dakota author thanks the pair for encouraging him to write the book, a personal memoir of bumming West on the railroads in the 1930s.
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From New Day to New Deal; American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928-1933
by Hamilton, David E.
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Hardcover. xi, 333p., first edition hardbound in 9x6 inch gray cloth boards titled black, in glossy dust jacket. A very good copy.
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The Great Slump; Capitalism in Crisis 1929-1933
by Rees, Goronwy
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New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 310p., illustrated with numerous photoportraits of the political and economic elite, hardbound in openweave black cloth boards lettered white and bright yellow, and enclosed in the glossy black dust jacket. A very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Urbane judgments, sensible stuff.
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Hard times, good times in Oregon; recollections of the 1930s
by Lindley, William R.
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Manhattan: Sunflower University Press, 1995. xi, 106p., preface, illustrated with photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.
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Hiker's guide
by Solomon, Ben
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New York: Leisure League of America, 1934. Pamphlet. 95p., staplebound 8x5.5 inch printed wraps, slight external soil and age-dimming, a very good copy. Leisure league little book number 15.
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Horse shoe bottoms
by Tippett, Tom
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. Hardcover. 298p., first edition cloth boards, very good condition. Novel about organizing coal miners. "One of the most touching of the proletarian novels of the period." *Blake p. 256.
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Living Marxism; vol. IV, no. 2 (March 1938)
by Mattick, Paul, ed
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Chicago: Group of Council Communists, 1938. Magazine. 33-64p., 6x9 inches; wraps slightly soiled from handling, some minor pencil notation on front wrap with a name in purple pencil, spine mildly rubbed, else in very good condition. Content focuses on the Great Depression and the unemployed. Single issue of Paul Mattick's journal founded in 1934 by the council communist organization, the United Workers Party of America. The journal went through several name changes including International Council Correspondence, Living Marxism, and New Essays.
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