New York: 1867. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 81-96; original illustrated blue paper wrappers lettered in black;. Signed by a Solomon Graves on front wrapper. The Five Points House of Industry in New York City was established in 1851. Originally the group was formed by the New York Ladies’ Home... More
London & Beverly: Hamilton, Adams And Co., & Kemp And Son, 1872. Ninth Edition. Wraps. 16mo; pp; 39; original printed blue paper wrappers;. Epistolary verse. Society and much more. Scarce. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xix, (i), 423, index; illustrated with twenty-nine black and white photographs; beige cloth lettered in red in a pictorial dust jacket;. An important contribution to midwestern Social History. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xiv), 360, index; illustrated with forty-one black and white photographs; blue cloth and green boards with a cream spine tile lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers, in a dust jacket. American Social History at its best, a handbook to the... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 303, index; Appendix with tables and sample questions; brown buckram with a paper spine label;. Landmark study. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, (ii); 574, index; illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-one additional black abd white plates and map endpapers; decorated gray cloth in a dust jacket;. Life on the plains & in the Mountains are described in this volume, including... More
Hartford: A. D. Worthington & Co. Publishers, 1888. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxviii, 29-639; illustrated with a steel engraved portrait frontispiece and more than 225 black and white wood engravings; burgundy cloth decorated in blind with a gilt and burgundy title tile at center of the upper board and a gilt... More
New York: Modern Age Books, (1937). First Modern Age Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (x), 195, (ii), index, ads; illustrated with eight black and white photographs; original printed pictorial paper wrappers, paperback. The Lafollette Commission, strikebreaking etc. Great content, mid-depression era. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 337, index; blue cloth lettered in black in a dust jacket. An analysis of World Hunger, a suggested sub-title was Hunger & Politics! More
(New York): Allen lane, The Penguin Press, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, (ii), 337, index; black and white photographs; black cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket;. John Humphrey Noyes & Christian Perfectionism. An important experiment in Utopian living. Oneidans collectively... More
(New York): Simon & Schuster, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 875, (iv), index, photo credits; map, photographs; blue cloth and paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. "THE" book on the Big Bill Haywood trial and the Wooblies in the Western Mining Districts. A chronicle... More
New York: Modern Age Books, (1937). Second Printing. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (vi), 270, (ii), glossary, index, ads; wonderful caricature illustrations by Scott Johnson; original printed paper wrappers, paperback. Minton was the pseudonym of Richard Bransten. *Seidman M343. Covers John L. Lewis, Heywood Broun, William Green and others. More
New York: Times Books, Random House, (1997). Fourth printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (iii), 511, (i), index, colphon; photographs; tan cloth and white paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket; previous owner's stamp on a preliminary;. Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the... More
New York: David McKay Company, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; viii, 376, index; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. An important book in the first edition. More
Newport, (Shropshire England): Printed by H.P. Silvester, and Published by T. Lewis, Professor Of Dancing, Nd, c1850. Wraps. A miniature book measuring 2” x 2 7/8”; pp; 16; original puce paper wrappers with no printing on the wrappers, no ownership or other markings on the piece; the first eight pages... More
(New York): Warner Books, (1994). First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (x), 210; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback;. Remembering Denny is perhaps Calvin Trillin's most inspired and powerful book: a memoir of a friendship, a work of investigative reporting, and an exploration of a country and a time that captures... More
Newark Del. The Press Of Kells, 1931. First Edition. Wraps. duodecimo; pp; 224; frontispiece and six photographs and one additional drawing; original printed blue wrappers lettered in orange; some toning, a bit of dampstaining at top right edge, else very good;. Quite scarce! More