writers program works projects administration (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG-. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. xxvi, 442 pages, 80 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (6 on 1 folded leaves, in pocket), portraits ; 21 cm. ; navy full cloth with gilt lettering. Stain on fore edge, not invading text. Maps NOT present.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Western Reserve Historical Society January 1941 Binding: Trade Paperback FRONT COVER IS NOT ATTACHED BUT PRESENT,100 PAGES WITH SOME PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS.

Hardcover. Zustand: G. No Jacket. xxxiii, 718 pages illustrations (including maps) plates, portraits 21 cm ; grey full linen ; dj. Dj chipped. Prev owner's bookplate on reverse of front free endpaper. Adams Herd 54, Six-Guns 46. One volume of the WPA Writers' Project Guide to the States, the most comprehensive travel and history guide ever undertaken, done as a part of Depression recovery measures. The Guides cover history, travel, natural sciences, and a bevy of other topics. Even approaching 80 years after first publication, the Guides contain useful and interesting information about their states. Author John Steinbeck packed a complete set of 48 with him during the journey which became Travels with Charley.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Foreword by Charles L. Perdue, Jr. Preface by Roscoe E. Lewis. Trade paperback. xx, 418pp. Gentle bumps at the spine ends else bright and fine in glossy wrappers.

Self-wrappers. Zustand: Very Good. Color Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Octavo, 213 pages, green self-wrappers Compiled by the WPA, apparently issued 1942, not 1931. Printed by the Florida Grower Press, Illustrated. With a section written specifically to help teachers to use this material in schools.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover with no DJ in good condition. Bound with red cloth over boards, gold lettering on the spine and front cover. Faint dark ring/stain on the front cover, but otherwise clean. Lettering has light wear in some places, but still legible. Plastic/mylar cover is in place of a DJ. Pages are yellowed from age, light staining on the inside of the front and back cover, but otherwise are clean. Edges are lightly foxed. No number line. Copyright date is 1940. 315 pages. A removable map of Nevada is included on the inside of the back cover, tucked into its envelope. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Very good condition with very good map in back pocket. Map has a 3 inch tear at top edge. Book is lightly faded on spine and is rubbed at spine tips and corners with a hard bump at bottom front corner. 660 pages with index plus 103 illustrations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Austin Baylitts (illustrator). Unmarked. Bright straight, clean attractive book. Compiled by the Writers' program of the Works Projects Administration in the City of New York. Illustrations by Austin Baylitts featuring natural history, animals, Wildlife photography, Unmarked bright covers slightly shaken, no dust jacket. 749pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Works Project Administration selected artists (illustrator). 1st Edition. X-lib. Publisher's blue cloth No dustjacket. 1947 First edition; third printing stated. Federal Writers' Project. Map endpapers, but, NO folding map in rear pocket; B&W Photographs; 548 pages. Index.

First edition. A volume in the American Guide series, sponsored by the Florida State Planning Board. Cloth with dust jacket. Very near fine in very near fine dust jacket, a lovely copy. Jacket signed in the design by (Irving) Politzer. Foreword by Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Stoneman Douglas later wrote the Everglades title for the Rivers of America series, dubbing it "the river of grass." The name caught on and her advocacy was instrumental in saving the Everglades from complete destruction. Sadly, the name of Marjory Stoneman Douglas will now forever be associated with the infamous school shooting in 2018.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Preface by Roscoe E. Lewis. xii, 380pp. Blue buckram stamped in blue lettering. Ex-library with the usual markings, lacking the rear endpapers, hinges cracked, spine darkened with cloth soiled, a good only copy lacking the scarce dust jacket. An important work detailing the arrival of the first Africans in 1619 until the rise of Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries with interviews from hundreds of slaves, extensive research and literature relevant to the times.