Boston: Little Brown, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. An account of his mental breakdown - a life-threatening depression brought on by a decade of alcohol and drugs - and his eventual recovery. Cover praise from George Plimpton, Amy Bloon, Thomas Pynchon (who said " ..Rick Moody, writing with boldness, humor, generosity of spirit, and a welcome sense of wrath, takes the art of the memoir an important step into the future." ) and others. Includes Hawthorne's short story "The Minister's Black Veil", from which the title was taken, plus a selected bibliography. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-316578991.

New York: Delacorte, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel begun by Olsen in the 1930s, but not completed and published until 1974 - her first novel, and second work of fiction - the story of a family trying to survive during the Depression, beginning in a mining town in Wyoming in the early 1920s. Author's note explaining how this had been thought lost and then fragments were found among her papers. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-440-091969.

New York: Crown, (1970) dj. Hardcover - Coming of age novel set in the tobacco growing area of North Carolina in the 1930s during the Depression - Joedel, a thirteen year old boy of mixed white and Native American heritage, is attending the annual auction for the first time - but he is also on a journey to understanding himself. 189 pp.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A poet's account of growing up during the Depression on a farm in Wisconsin. 122 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-346.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A poet's account of growing up during the Depression on a farm in Wisconsin. 122 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-346.

New York: Vantage Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an historical novel set in Nevada, and featuring gold hunters in the 1850s and in the 1930s settlers during the Depression hoping for a fresh start - but all of whom were influenced by the Juniper Trail. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-533057345.

New York: Walker, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The authors' first mystery novel, set in the Jewish community of Boston in the Depression of the 1930s and introducing Belle Appleman, a young widow, garment worker, union menber and devotee of "True Detective" magazine and so when a body is discovered along the Esplanade, she determines to put her skills to work as an amateur sleuth. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-802756255.

New York: Penguin / Blue Rider Press, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - Novel inspired by the lives of photographer Dorothea Lange and the woman who was the subject of her most iconic photograph - Migrant Mother. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp.

New York: Penguin / Blue Rider Press, (2013.) dj. SIGNED first edition - Novel inspired by the lives of photographer Dorothea Lange and the woman who was the subject of her most iconic photograph - Migrant Mother. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0399160707.

New York: Delacorte, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel for older children set in California during the Great Depression. ISBN: 0385310560.

New York: Pantheon, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - "Like a series of snapshops, this novel presents a picture of a particular Brooklyn neighborhood between the years 1935 and 1951, covering the Depression, World War II, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the Korean War." 177 pp. ISBN: 0-394447107.

New York: Macmillan, 1930. Hardcover first edition - In an attempt to deal with the farm price and surplus problems, President Hoover created the Federal Farm Board. It was designed to allow cooperatives to hold crop surpluses and market them in an orderly fashion. One of the first important acts of the farm board was setting up a $20 million grain sales corporation, headquartered in Chicago. This book sets forth problems facing agriculture and the scope of the Agricultural Marketing Act. Chapter headings include: Economic factors which led to the Passage of the Agricultural Marketing Act; The Drive for Farm Relief; Loans; Price Insurance; Clearing House Associations; Advisory Commodity Committees; Possiblities and Limitations of the Farm Board, and more. 197 pp.

New York: Scholastic, (2017). Inspired by the author's own experience of depression, this is a young adult novel which focuses not on the events leading up to a suicide attempt, but on how to recover from one - how to go on living when life does not seem worthwhile. 325 pp plus author's note and a preview of his new novel 'Disappeared.'. ISBN: 978-1338032963.

West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Historical novel, set in 1933 during the Great Depression when unemployed men took to tramping the country in search of work. INSCRIBED on the first page. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-741447444.

New York: Atheneum, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1936 in East Oakland, California, this is the second book about Rinko and her family (the first was the award-winning "A Jar of Dreams.") When Rinko is asked to spend the last month of summer helping Mrs. Hata, a recently widowed friend of her mother's, she does not want to go - but while there, she has a series of 'good' and 'bad' things happen and discovers people are not always what they seem., and the real strength of Mrs Hata. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-689502907.

Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press (1985). Hardcover first edition - A history of banking in Wyoming from its beginnings in the 1870s through the great Depression and the war years. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliographical essay, index. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-870811533.