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Arizona A State Guide

by WPA

New York: Hastings House, 1940. First Edition. Very good+ in tan buckram with brown text stampings on the spine and front board and map end papers with a neatly written gift inscription written at the upper edge of the second free end page. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with foxing to the front gutter and foxing to the hinge areas front and back due to a reaction with the glue used in binding. In only a good, price clipped dust jacket with heavy chipping to the upper 1/3rd of the spine area and a... Read more about this item

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A$77.52

Livingston The Story of a Community

by WPA

n.p. (Livingston, NJ): Progress Publishing Company and sponsored by the Township of Livingston, 1939. First Edition. Very good+ in brick red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board together with a blind embossed town seal on the front board and with illustrated end papers. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with printed end sheets. There is a prior owner's name and address written at the lower corner of the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 166 pages... Read more about this item

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A$77.52

CONNECTICUT A Guide to its Roads, Lore, and People

by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+. 1938. Hardcover. American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 593 pages .

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A$103.11

Works Progress Administration Publications

by Morgan, Dale L. [WPA]

Ogden and Salt Lake City: The Utah Historical Records Survey, 1941. 16 volumes. Quartos [27 cm] Printed wrappers. Mimeographed contents. All are very good or better. - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 23. Tooele County (Tooele City) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 5. Daggett County (Manila City) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 29. Weber County (Ogden) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 4. Carbon County (Price) - Inventory of the County... Read more about this item

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A$3,643.68

A SOUTH DAKOTA GUIDE

by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]

Pierre: State Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Second Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and small open tear to DJ, which is price clipped; The rough-and-tumble pioneer history of South Dakota is here chronicled, along with the ususal tours and points of interest. A very handsome copy; B&W Photographs; 8vo; xxvii, 421 pages .

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A$257.77

INVENTORY OF FEDERAL ARCHIVES IN THE STATES Series IV the Department of War

by Survey Of Federal Archives

Newark: Historical Records Survey Project. Very Good. 1940. Paper wraps. Burgundy-colored cover shows shelf wear and slight dampstaining has caused bleed-through to first few pages; Extensive inventory of correspondence and records regarding the War Department on the eve of WWII. Scarce; 4to; 200 pages .

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A$81.01

Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection

by [EVANS, Walker] KELLER, Judith

Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, [1995]. First Edition. Large quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxii,410pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of soil to textblock extremities, else Fine.

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A$93.03

HENDERSON A Guide to Audubon's Home Town in Kentucky

by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]

New York: Bacon, Percy, and Dagget. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ a bit tanned and with light chipping. Sticker on title page; The history and notables of Henderson, Kentucky, the hometown of noted naturalist John James Audubon, are here in this first and only edition. With 25 illustrations; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 120 pages .

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A$103.11

Music Unheard: An Anthology of Hitherto Unpublished Verse [Vol. I only]

by MANSFIELD, Margery, ed

New York: Henry Harrison, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket printed in brown; 308,[12]pp. Jacket rather brittle with some chipping to extremities, rather substantial loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear panel affecting publisher's advertisements with loss of meaning to approx. 9 lines of text, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good in Good or better jacket. We've noted two states of this Volume, this (no priority) with "Volume One" printed on title... Read more about this item

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A$54.27

Music Unheard: An Anthology of Hitherto Unpublished Verse [Vol. I only]

by MANSFIELD, Margery, ed

New York: Henry Harrison, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket printed in brown; 308,[12]pp. Jacket rather brittle with some chipping to extremities, closed tear at top edge of rear panel only just missing text, shallow loss at bottom edge of upper panel affecting "Vol. One," else a Very Good copy in the scarce dust jacket. We've noted two states of this Volume, this (no priority) with "Volume One" printed on title page. Includes poems by Stanton A.... Read more about this item

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A$77.52

Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment

by GOURVITCH, Alexander

Philadelphia: Work Projects Administration, National Research Project, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo (25.5cm.); original blue card wrappers; xiii,[1],252pp. Light wear and foxing to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Report No. G-6.

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A$54.27

Planning Our Resources

by [GREAT DEPRESSION] [NATIONAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE]

Washington DC: GPO, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 35pp. Brief pencil annotation to front cover, else Fine. On the mission and accomplishments of the Depression-era National Resources Committee, the successor entity to the National Planning Board of the Public Works Administration.

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A$46.52

WPA Federal Art Project - Printmaking in California, 1935-43

by Seaton, Elizabeth

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed and typeset by Patrick Reagh], 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 450 copies, folio size, 135 pp., with Errata sheet, prospectus, and related ephemera. The Federal Art Project, instigated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, was created to employ thousands of artists across the country; this publication from the Book Club of California encompases printmakers working in California, and features a diversity of... Read more about this item

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A$511.66

THE WPA AND FEDERAL RELIEF POLICY

by Howard, Donald S

New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Very Good. 1943. Hardcover. Open tear to front free endpaper. Boards with moderate wear to extremities; Comprehensive history of the Work Project Administration, started by President Roosevelt to alleviate hardships caused by widespread unemployment. Numerous charts and statistics illustrate the text; Ex-Library; 8vo; 879 pages .

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A$154.66

Hilltop Russians in San Francisco. Pictures by Pauline Vinson [Limited Edition]

by SAROYAN, William; Pauline Vinson, illus

[San Francisco]: James Delkin, [1941]. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Quarto (29cm.); original linen-backed decorative boards, green printed dust jacket; [14]pp. & 30 leaves of color plates with printed tissue-guards. Spine faded to tan, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Reproduces thirty of Pauline Vinson's watercolor portraits of members of the Potrero Hill religious colony of San Francisco, with introductory text and image captions by Saroyan. Vinson's... Read more about this item

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A$387.62

NEW CASTLE ON THE DELAWARE Dutch Tercentenary Edition 1651-1951

by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]

New Castle, Del.: New Castle Historical Society. Very Good-. 1950. Paperback. Covers with light shelfwear. Minor spine creases ; The history and landmarks of the lovely village of New Castle, Delaware; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151, ix pages .

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A$73.65

Typed Letter, Signed. 2pp, to Ben Shahn, dated 31 July 1967

by LOCKE, Edwin

Camp LaGuardia, NY, 1967. Original 2pp typed letter on two sides of a sheet of hotel letterhead, dated 31 July 1967. Addressed: Dear Ben [Shahn], signed in ink "Ed Locke." Three old folds, else fine. A warm and personal letter from Shahn's old friend and fellow FSA photographer, including and commenting on two poems Locke has written: "...a bit of formal verse has crowded into my mind, four-square...I'd not send you these trivia, except as evidence that my heart is beating in some fashion...I'm... Read more about this item

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A$271.34

PRINTING COMES TO LINCOLN

by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]

Lincoln: Ben Franklin Club of Lincoln. Very Good+. 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Light edgewear to boards; First and only printing, October 1940. Account of printing in the old days; 8vo; 80 pages .

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A$117.84

19 Democratic Party Campaign Broadsides for the Elections of 1938

by [FDR] [NEW DEAL] Democratic National Campaign Committee

[Washington, D.C.]: Democratic National Campaign Committee, 1938. 19 quarto broadsides (12" x 7-1/2" - ca. 30.5cm x 19cm), with text and illustrations printed recto-only in black on variously-colored stock. Light upward curl along lower edge, and a few broadsides with subtle toning to extremities; two examples with some old, faint splash marks, and a handful with modest wear along upper or lower edges, along with some small nicks, short tears, and attendant creases; Very Good to Very Good+. A... Read more about this item

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A$1,007.82

HERE'S NEW ENGLAND A Guide to Vacationland

by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]

Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards slightly faded. Rear endpaper with notes. Rear map missing. Includes numerous ephemera from this period laid-in; A guide to the highlights of the six New England states for your vacation pleasure. Photos bound in before the title page, of quaint houses and scenic views. Project director Alsburg wanted to produce six regional guides covering all then-48 states, but this is the only one to see the light of day. Including... Read more about this item

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A$58.92

Delaware: A Guide to the First State

by WPA)

New York: Viking, 1938. First. hardcover. near fine/very good(+). Photo illustrations, map in back pocket. 549 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. (edgeworn and with some small chips). New York: Viking, 1938. First Edition.<br/> <br/>

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A$155.05

MASSACHUSETTS

by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with slight wear to extremities. Slight browning to endpapers ; Folding map in rear pocket; Photographures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 675 pages .

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A$103.11

Here's New England A Guide To Vacationland

by WPA

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First Edition. Near fine in decorated bright red-orange cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 3/8 with a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page and with mild dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with shallow (1/8 inch) chipping across the upper edge of the spine area and a 1/4 inch closed tear at the upper edge of the fold to the front... Read more about this item

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A$116.29

CONNECTICUT A Guide to its Roads, Lore, and People

by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine sunned and with gilt lettering faded to spine and front board ; Including fold out map at rear; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 593 pages .

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A$103.11

Posters of the WPA

by DeNoon, Christopher

Los Angeles: Wheatley Press, 1987. Small folio (29cm). Black cloth, in white pictorial jacket; [176]pp; color illustrations throughout. Generally clean and bright, with minimal pencil marks to f.f.e.p.: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, price-clipped: Very Good.