Smythe, Ray (Signed)MareMagnum
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188 pages. "To Torchy Peden with Best Wishes, Ray Smythe, July 1 1935" written boldly upon front free endpaper. A newspaperman's close-up of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) - subtitle. "Offers the first constructive close-up of the people who are administering the National Housing Act, and the banking, industrial and employment problems with which this group is dealing so effectively." - from dust jacket. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Name on half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Reading crease to front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, three page corners creased and no bumping to corners. 192pp. A study of gender in the workplace, comprising and comparing the experience and views of male and female childcare workers.
Previous owner's name/label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, very faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked, very slightly sunned boards, foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 368pp. Results of the UN University survey on migrant workers to the Arab world from seven Asian countries - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Republic of Korea, The Philippines and Thailand. Scarce.
Book in mint unread condition. 48pp. Social history at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, textile manufacturing works in Cheshire from 1784.
80 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Dominion Inlaid Linoleum inside front cover; Editorial topics include - Advertising our country, Typical problems in the western provinces, The Return of Employment, and The Cost of Sickness; The Smooth Silence (short story); The Carpenter (short story); Peiping (Beijing/Peking) Under Martial Law - photo-illustrated article of events in troubled China; Not a Case for the Jury (short story); The Girl Who Wouldn't Get Up (short story); The Spongers (short story); First Easter Among the Godless - photo-illustrated article told by Alexander Welikotny describes his experiences in Russia; Heil Summer, Heil Sport, All Heil! - article looks forward to the Olympics, with photos of Canadian Crew Champions, The Leanders "Eight" of Hamilton, broad jumper "Sammy" Richardson, and walker "Hank" Cieman of Toronto; Nice one-page Plymouth ad features a four-Door Touring Sedan and photo of A.B. Ellis, Radio Engineer of station CKLW; Parker pen one-page ad features photo of Princess Rostislav; Nice one-page Dodge care ad includes photo of a Model "D2" four-door Touring Sedan, and photo of Mr. F. Lyle Kelly, of Windsor, Ontario; First report of the Bank of Canada; Great two-page Easter Chevrolet ad features a green two-door; Movie news includes photos of Warner Baxter, Charlie Chaplin, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Billy Lee, and Shirley Temple; Great one-page Lux soap ad features photo of Grace Moore; Pond's ad includes photo of Eleanor Roosevelt, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt of Washington, D.C.; Blue Jay Corn Plaster ad entitled "Corn Demon Killed"; Half-page Canadian National Railways ad features Jasper National Park; Cooking article; Nice one-page ad for Magic Baking Powder; features Miss Lillian Loughton; Spring Cleaning article; Nice one-page Heinz ad features photo of Josephine Gibson; Canadian Pacific half-page ad features photo of the Empress of Britain; Uncommon half-page ad for Ingram's Milkweed Cream; Beauty article; Tangee ad features photo of Lyle Talbot who picked the most appealing lips in an interesting test; World Sayings; Ad inside back cover protests preferential treatment of foreign periodicals in Canada; Wonderful colour back-cover ad for Tea features a Ripley's Believe it or Not theme and says "Drink More Tea for Vitality!"; and more. Average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to rear and to top of spine and nicks to upper and lower front edges. 160pp. The history of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants 1889-1964. British trade unions.
Contents include: Retail trade establishments by geographic areas, kinds of business and type of operations, including such data as number of establishments, sales, employment, payrolls, inventories and commodities. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 1.7". 2.0 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
Contents include: Wholesale trade establishments and service establishments by geographic areas, kinds of business and type of operations including such data as number of establishments, sales, employment and payrolls, with inventories and commodities shown for the wholesale trade. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 1.7". 2.0 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
Name on front cover. No other marks or inscriptions and very slight creasing adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 37pp. Women's and men's work in the home and its effects on their paid employment.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A clean tight booklet with dusty unmarked boards, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 19pp. A discussion paper put forward by the author telling the history of trade unions and of the Independent Labour Party (the I.L.P.) and advocating a strong link between the two to move socialism forward. Undated ca 1907. Extremely scarce.
Pencil underlining to some chapters and previous owner's name to front end paper. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 344pp. In this Open University book the authors have attempted to re-unite the various sub-disciplines of sociology including occupational sociology and industrial sociology.
301pp. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed unmarked boards and softening to some corners. 281pp. Pitman's standard work with tables and ready reckoner for the working office before the days of calculators and computers.
First edition, 12mo (160 x 100 mm), [8], 122, [14]pp., with a final advert leaf, text very clean and bright, cont. calf, joint split, spine chipped, covers held by cords (rear cover by upper cord only). The anonymous author stresses the importance of the poor laws in his introduction and also points out "that in the Streets of this great Metropolis (the Capital, for Trade and Riches, of the whole World) more Unhappy, Miserable People are to be found, than in the Cities of the Poorest Nations Abroad; which is the greatest Scandal to the Kingdom of Great-Britain. By the Abuse or Non-use of our Excellent Laws for Providing for the Poor, we have Thousands of Beggars pestering our Streets...". Of this first edition ESTC locates 6 copies (3 in the UK: BMu; L; Lu; and 3 in North America: CaOHM; CLU-C; CaOTU), the second edition of 1727 is of similar rarity. Hanson, 3252; Goldsmiths'-Kress, 6333.
Good Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Boards marked and spine sunned. A slight bump on one corner. Minor pen marks pages 103-6. Otherwise clean. 144p Used
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 219pp. A very studied account of work, employment, wages, politics, finance and the economy. Originally published as a text-book in 1825. In the 'Famous Books For All Time' series. Undated ca 1890.
minor softening to head and tail of spine, foxing to page block, creasing to corners of pages 703 - 713, otherwise text clean and tight Ex - Library
256p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Name inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. Some creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned around spine and no bumping to corners. 244pp. A study of racism and equal opportunity in employment and government policies towards them in Britain in the 1980s.
Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper - otherwise 'fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 196pp. Six months after the miners' strike of 1984-5, the author visited the north-east of England where he interviewed people on both sides of the dispute - miners, their wives, Union officials, policemen, shopkeepers, young people, Coal Board officials, schoolteachers and many others. This vivid social documents sets out their words. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 168pp.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 240pp. An in-depth historical study of the industry of cotton and the involvement of workers in Britain, India and the southern plantations of North America.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 176 pages. Very slight edge wear to cover.
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with very tiny white spots to front only of otherwise unmarked boards (see image) and slightly softened spine ends and corners. 790pp. This book contains the essentials of the thinking of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. It opens with three essays by Lenin on the significance of Marxism. Two frontispieces photographs of Marx and Engels.
