CALIFORNIA by Wpa Guide - 1967

Hardcover. Fair. Ex-library book. 570 pp. Photos. Rebound in library buckram with stickers. Usual markings to endpapers etc, else interior OK. A good reading copy only. We have multiple copies of this book available and the binding may differ in color.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.

Berkeley. 2013. April 2013. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520275409. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4. 103 b/w photos. 37 line illus. 10 maps. Introduction by David Kipen. 721 pages . paperback. Cover design: Claudia Smelser. Cover illustration: 'Miners Panning Gold' by Anton Refregier, panel 12, Rincon Annex, WPA mural. keywords: California & Western History United States History Urban Studies . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming. Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930s, the WPA Guide to California features some of the very best anonymous literature of its era, with writing by luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composerwriter- hobo Harry Partch, and… Read More

Very Good.

University of Georgia Press. Good. 1941. Paperback. Paperback published by Univ. of Georgia Press in 1941. Blue cardstock covers with black lettering on front. Prior owner has stamped his name at top of both covers and wrote his name at top of front cover. Spine is faded, and covers are faded some around edges. Corners are slightly bumped. Front cover curls up some at the corners. Prior owner also stamped his name on side edges of pages and on front endpaper, as well as writing his name with a note at top of front endpaper. Foldout map of Washington, Georgia is in back. Book is in good condition. 8vo, 136 pages, .5 lb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages .

New York: Random House, 1939. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. NO MAP. Ex-Library hardcover with spine label, barcode sticker on rear cover, else clean and sharp. Discard stamp on first page.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.

Fine. New book with a hint of shelving wear.

Chicago: A. C. McClurrg, 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. 707 pages, b /w photos, index, map in pocket in rear inside cover, map endpapers; 8vo, red cloth. Paper lioghtly toned, date/name/price on title page, front inner hinge cracked; good+; no dust jacket.

Reno and Las Vegas. 1991. University of Nevada Press. 1st of This Particular Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0874171709. 315 pages. paperback. keywords: WPA Nevada History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - When Las Vegas boasted two motion picture theatres and the University of Nevada student population first reached a high of twelve hundred, the original edition of The WPA Guide to 1930s Nevada was just coming off the press. First published in 1940 as Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State, part of the Work Projects Administration's American Guide Series, the book remains one of Nevada's premiere tour and travel volumes. The WPA Guide to 1930s Nevada includes material on the state's geography and geology, plant and animal life, churches and schools. The native population is discussed, as are the arts, mining, ranching, press, sports, and recreation during the 1930s. The period photographs spread throughout the volume give an excellent picture of Nevada in the early part of the twentieth century and… Read More

NY: Hastings House, nd (1955). Beige cloth. Ex-library, cover edges rubbed: VG-/VG- dj (light edge rubbing, library number). 8vo. Illustrated in black and white. Second edition, extensively revised. of American Guide Series

New York.: Hastings House., 1966.. Reprint.. Hardcover. . Fine copy in near fine (light edge wear) dust jacket (in mylar).. Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.