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 about Monthly Record of the Five Points House of Industry Vol. XI, No. 6, October, 1867
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 about Letters From A Young Lady In 'Scarbro' To Her Cousin In London
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 about Main Street On The Middle Border
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 about The Right People, A Portrait of the American Social Establishment
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 about Platform Echoes: Living Truths for the Head and Heart....Drawn From The Bright And Shady Sides Of...
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 about The Labor Spy Racket
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 about The Geography of Hunger
(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 about Without Sin, The Life And Death Of The Oneida Community
(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 about Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
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 about Men who lead labor. With drawings by Scott Johnston
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 about American Catholic: the Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church
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 about The Status Seekers, An Exploration of Class Behavior in America and the Hidden Barriers That...
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 about The Figures To The First Set Of Quadrilles
(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 about Remembering Denny
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 about Dry Law Facts Not Fiction; 1890 Comparative Facts - 1931 Sensational Dry Raid Facts, Delaware...