Co-Operative Movements from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. First Edition. 8vo. 21.5cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over grey paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine and black to front board. Very light bumping and edgewear in a clean and bright dustjacket with some light wear. A very good, clean copy indeed. 279pp. Top edge stained yellow, yellow endpapers,… Read more about this item

[Delavan, WI: Delavan Republican (printers), 1940]. Square 16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; [28pp]. Mild crease at upper portion of front cover, else Near Fine. Seventh in a series of devotional calendars published by the Japanese Christian evangelist, labor organizer, and promoter of ecnomic cooperation, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Kagawa was a frequent lecturer in the United States,… Read more about this item

[London: 1934]. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 12pp. Covers slightly sunned and chipped at extremities; text clean and unmarked. A sound, Very Good copy.

Manchester: The Co-operative Union Ltd, N.d. [ca 1933?]. Second edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 16pp. Vertical crease at bound edge; slight toning to text; a Good, sound copy. Summary of twelve lectures delivered under the auspices of the Southern Co-operative Education Association between 1932-33.

New York: The Cooperative League, N.d. [1937?]. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 16pp. Mild external soil, else Near Fine. Bowen was long-time Executive Director of the Cooperative League and a disciple of the Japanese evangelist and reformer Toyohiko Kagawa. Final page of text comprises "Ten Steps in Organizing a Consumers' Cooperative Association." Undated, but OCLC cataloguing… Read more about this item

New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1867. First Edition. 12mo. Printed thick paper wrappers; 131, (4)pp. Slight external wear and soil; occasional creasing to text; a complete, sound and Good copy in the original publisher's wrappers.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1853. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown cloth, printed paper spine label; [8],158pp. Ex-Library of the Union Theological Seminary with their usual internal markings, faint evidence of previously-removed spine label, extremities a bit worn with rather pronounced dents at bottom edge of both boards, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.… Read more about this item

New York: Philosophical Library, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in cream decorative dust jacket; xiii,[1],178pp. Jacket quite dust-soiled and rather chipped with two small paper flaws mid-spine affecting text without loss of meaning, rear board a bit warped, else Near Very Good overall.

Pasadena: Published by the Author, [1936]. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white printed dust jacket; xii,426pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, most heavily at spine crown, some general soil and light foxing, spine darkened, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper (dated 1945) of the Textile Workers Union of America Local 96, Stottville,… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 242pp. Boards slightly sunned at edges, upper edge of text block lightly dusted; jacket lightly rubbed, marked and faded on spine panel, but still complete and unclipped, VG or better. Late novel by the author of Little Caesar and The Asphalt Jungle.

London: Credit Resesarch Library, 1924. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 15pp. Old soil to covers, internally clean. Scarce.

New York: The American Collectivist, 1934. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 31pp. Mild soil to covers, else a VG, fresh copy. Manifesto for the Collectivist movement, borrowing from Marxist philosophy and communitarian doctrine, possibly intended as a reincarnation of the New York Collectivist Society of the early 1900s. Inside rear cover announces publication of Winn's "The American Collectivist" newspaper, but… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1929. First Edition. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 420pp. Fine, fresh, unmarked copy in lightly soiled jacket, Near Fine. Sixth volume in the publisher's series "Economic and Social History of the World War", which was planned to include "some two hundred volumes published in a dozen countries and a half-dozen… Read more about this item