Great Depression (44 results)
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
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Published by City Desk Press, TX, 1995
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: bookroom, Livingston, TX, U.S.A.bookroom
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Add to basketCondition: 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).
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
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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 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.
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
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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.
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
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- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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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.
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).
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.
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.
Press Photo of the CPUSA's Second National Hunger March to Washington Stopped in Philadelphia, 1932
[Great Depression - Communist Party USA - Unemployed Councils] Unknown Photographer
Language: English
Published by United States, 1932
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: 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.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Ohio State Bureau of Criminal Identifiction and Investigation, Akron, Ohio, 1930
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.Meir Turner
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Add to basketNo 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 specif…ic 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.
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.'.
More imagesPublished 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".
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.
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.
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 Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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- First Edition
Seller: Bob Gaba, Victoria, BC, CanadaBob Gaba
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 63 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 5 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act provided for an 8-hour work day and 48-hour work week for industrial workers.
Published by Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 59 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 10 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act created a commission to oversee the administration of laws regarding combinations in restraint of trade (including merg…ers, trusts and monopolies) and other unfair business practices that were extremely detrimental to the public.
Published by Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 58 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act introduced the first national housing policy. Despite demands for affordable housing from social reformers, the Act ende…d up setting the tone for all future housing legislation with the provision of loans for wealthier Canadians and promotion of homeownership and mortgage lending infrastructure. Some 3,263 mortgage loans were administered through the program between 1935 and 1938.
Published by Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 53 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 6 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Wheat production and sales were hugely influential on the domestic economy of Canada. This Act made provisions for the establishm…ent of a Canadian Wheat Board, and empowered it to buy wheat from producers at a minimum price to be fixed by the agency. Upon delivery to the Board, producers would receive the fixed minimum together with participation certificates which entitled the holders to a pro rata share of the net marketing profits received by the Board during a crop year. If the Board was unable to sell the wheat at a profit over the fixed minimum, the government would absorb the loss. Producers still had the option of selling to the Board at the fixed minimum or to private traders at current market price.
Published by Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 44 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 5 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. By this Act, the government was authorized to create and operate a federal agency for fixing minimum wages in manufacturing and c…ommerce as applicable to workers over the age of 16 years. The Act was intended to operate where no arrangements existed for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreements or otherwise, and where wages were exceptionally low.
Published by Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 39 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act stipulated that fair wages were to be paid to all persons employed on public works (including those to which federal aid…has been granted by way of contribution, subsidy, loan, advance, or guarantee), and hours were to be limited to eight per day and forty-four per week.
Published by Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 38 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 38 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act was designed to establish a national employment and social insurance commission, a national employment service, a nation…al unemployment insurance program, and national health insurance plan. The legislation promised a minimum wage, federal regulation of working hours and conditions, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, and an enhanced old-age pension scheme, among other measures. However, as many of these measures infringed upon provincial authority (as outlined by the British North America Act, 1867; 30 & 31 Victoria, Chapter 3; U.K.)they were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada and never put into practice.
Published by Ottawa: Joseph Oscar Patenaude, 1935
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 14 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act stipulated that industrial workers were entitled to a rest of at least 24 consecutive hours in every seven days, on Sunda…y wherever possible.
Published by Ottawa: Frederick Albert Acland, 1931
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 21 & 22 George V, Chapter 58 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 2 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume. This Act was follow-up legislation to the Unemployment Relief Act of the prior year and was designed to help deal with the ongoing world wide economi…c depression and recent wheat crop failures in western Canada. The Act provided financial assistance to municipalities and the provinces for public works, farming activities, and debt maintenance, while maintaining peace, order and good government throughout Canada.
More imagesPublished by Ottawa: Frederick Albert Acland, 1930
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 21 George V, Chapter 1 (Statutes of Canada). General title leaf with Royal coat of arms; caption title, 2 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act, passed in response to the severe economic conditions and widespread unemployment…caused by the Great Depression, allocated $20 million for relief initiatives. Some aid came in the form of vouchers for food, clothing and shelter, but most relief came in the form of municipal public works projects (such as railways, roads, bridges, canals, and wharves). Money was also directed to provinces and municipalities to reimburse them for unemployment relief costs.
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.
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
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- First Edition
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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.
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
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- First Edition
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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.
