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Published by Hastings House, 1939
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.
Published by Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1938
Seller: Fritz T. Brown - Books, Georgetown , MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Work's Progress Administration In The New England States. Good tight condition with wear to top/bottom of spine, cover edges and corners. First front end page missing from the text. Fourth Printing. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.
Published by Sudbury Historical Society, 1987
Seller: Fritz T. Brown - Books, Georgetown , MA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Contents Include: First Fifty Years; The Indian Wars; The Eighteenth Century - Revolution; The Nineteenth Century; Points of Interest; Sudbury - 1939; sudbury - 1940-1986. Card covers. Good to good+ tight condition. Second Revised Edition 1987. 94 pages. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.
Published by Modern Age Books, 1938
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. Modern Age Books, New York, copyright 1938. xxvii, 344 pages. 30 photos, folding map inside lower cover. 8 x 5.5", clothh, no dj. Library spine number, bookplate, pockets, stamps, cover worn, text clean, tight, fair/none.
Published by Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston, First edition, 3rd printingm, 1938., 1938
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth with red lettering, 7 X 10 inches, 220 pages + index. Light wear, very good. Profusely illustrated account of the hurricane that hit New England in Sept of 1938 produced by the WPA.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1939
Seller: Crane's Bill Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xxiii, 424 pp., illus. Slight lean to spine, covers mildly shelfworn and rubbed at edges, page edges lightly foxed, discoloring to endpapers, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Interior clean and unmarked but for faintly visible erased pencil marks on one page only (Preface). A fairly nice copy of the first edition, unfortunately lacking both the folding map and the dust jacket, and so offered As Is.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good.
Hardcover Second Printing. Beige cloth. Illustrated throughout. Near fine. Map in rear pocket fine American Guide Series.
Published by Hastings House, New York, 1947
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is the second printing from 1947. No wear to the binding. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Large folding map in a pocket inside the rear cover. Light edge tears to the map.No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket. Book in a clear mylar protector.
Published by Portage Chamber of Commerce / Works Progress Adninistration, Wisconsin, 1938
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good -. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Good to Very Good copy. 8vo., 85 pp., illstrated with b&w photographs. Bound in blue paper wraps, with black title on front panel. Edges of the wraps toned. Light shelf wear. Part of the publisher's series, American Guide Series. During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers' Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country's shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state's unique flavor.
Published by Houghton Miflin Company, Boston, 1939
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. In Very Good - Illustrated Dust Jacket. xv, 75 pp + unpaginated Illustrations. Large fold-out map tipped to rear free end-paper. Sponsored by the Bret Harte Associates. American Guide Series, Later Printing without any date on title-page. The reprint measures 1/4" taller than first printing, and apparently issued only in cloth, 1939. Not Price Clipped. Only the faintest wear to dj, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Light-red cloth with black lettering to front board and spine. Size: Tall 8vo. Book.
Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1939
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition / Second Printing. 8vo. xiv (ii), 368 pp, illus. Sponsored by the Berkshire Hills Conference, Inc. American Guide Series Second Printing, 1939. frontis, Foreword, Introduction by Walter Prichard Eaton, 14 chapters with 31 illustrations, Berkshire Sports, Index. Very light external wear to cloth extermities. faint foxing to text block, No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.25". Green cloth with black lettering to front board and spine, and a map on rear end papers. Size: Octavo. Book.
Published by The Clegg Company / Works Progress Administration, San Antonio, Texas, 1938
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. A Good + copy. 8vo., 106 pp. Bound with a green plastic comb binding and white, pictorial stiff wraps. Light soiling to the panels. Title page foxing. Previous owner's neat signature on the inside panel. Part of the publisher's series, American Guide Series. During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers' Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country's shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state's unique flavor.
Published by William Penn Assoc., sponsored by the Harmony Society Historical Assoc, Philadelphia, 1937
First Edition
Paperback. 38p., 6x8.25 inches, illustrations, bar-code label on inner rear cover otherwise a very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. American Guide Series. Dykes 282, Powell 1391.
Published by William Penn Assoc., sponsored by the Harmony Society Historical Assoc, Philadelphia, 1937
First Edition
Paperback. 38p., 6x8.25 inches, illustrations, light wear otherwise a very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. American Guide Series. Dykes 282, Powell 1391.
Published by Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston, 1937
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, Octavo, blue leather over boards stamped in gilt. Guide book to Massachusetts written and compiled by the Federal Writers Project of the WPA, includes a map on the front end paper and a large folding map in the rear pocket. Part of the American guides series. Very good, light wear to cover and no dust jacket.
Published by Mayor's Committee of the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1939
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 36, [2]pp. Illustrated from drawings, map. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine.
Published by Sponsored by The Ross County Northwest Territory Committee, 1938
Seller: Marbus Farm Books, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. Softcover, moderate rubbing to covers and spine. Creasing to rear corners and last few upper corners. Contents clean and tight. 91 pages, bibliography, b&w photos and illus.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, NY, 1938
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Viking Press, New York. 1938. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the half title page from Biloxi, Miss (July 10th 1938). Book Condition: Good; suntoning to spine; light shelfwear to board edges; soiling to textblock edges; last blank page removed from rear. No DJ. Green tweed cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Front endpaper is a map; rear is blank. WPA map is present in rear (1938) and other tourist materials from the 1940s. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 544 pp 8vo. This is one book of the American Guide Series, a WPA project to help out of work writers and do something that had never been done before- to organize a travel and historical guide to all the states. This book goes beyond the limits of a conventional guidebook, first, in its attempt to picture and explain contemporary Mississippi by presenting its people, culture, physiography, politics, folkways, economics and industry in relation to the historical past; and, second, in its narrative a detailed description of points of interest. A clean presentable copy.
Published by The Mayor's Committee of the City of Johnstown, Johnstown, 1939
First Edition
[iv] 36p., 6x9 inches, foreword by Mayor Daniel J. Shields, note by Paul Comily French, illustrated with drawings and photos and a centerfold illustration of the town after the Deluge of 1936, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. American Guide Series (not stated).
Published by Sponsored by The Ross County Northwest Territory Committee, Chillicothe, 1938
First Edition
Paperback. 91p. + 24p. b&w photos, preface, in-text illustrations, very good first edition in trade paperback pictorial wraps with mild staining. American Guide Series. Powell 1224, Dykes 239.
Published by Sponsored by The Ross County Northwest Territory Committee, Chillicothe, 1938
First Edition
Paperback. 91p. + 24p. b&w photos, preface, in-text illustrations, very good first edition in trade paperback pictorial wraps with mild rubbing. American Guide Series. Powell 1224, Dykes 239.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1938
Seller: The Last Book Store, Tyler, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. (CK).
Published by Hastings House, 1939
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover/edges have minor wear. Pages are clean/intact.
Published by Sponsored by Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati, 1938
First Edition
42p., 6x9 inches, frontis-map of the Northwest Territory, illustrated with drawings by Earle Sargeant, light foxing otherwise a very good first edition booklet in blue-gray pictorial stapled wraps. American Guide Series. Dykes 242, Powell 1228.
Published by Sponsored by Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati, 1938
First Edition
41p., 6x9 inches, frontis-map of the Northwest Territory, illustrated with drawings by Earle Sargeant, very good first edition booklet in orange pictorial stapled wraps. American Guide Series. Dykes 240, Powell 1226.
Published by City Council of Augusta, Augusta, GA, 1938
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, very good with no dust jacket. Gray cloth with Confederate-style flag on front board, and lettering in red, white, and blue on spine and front board. Small owner's stamp and date written in ink at top of front endpaper. Light soiling to the gray cloth, and slight weat at corners and spine ends. Includes two color foldout maps which are tipped in, some photographs, bibliography, and an index; 218 pages.