galena guide (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 99.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. pp. 99.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers and brown cloth spine. (7pp), 111pp. Advertisements, foldout map on yellow stock. Very good. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and superb; "Street and Avenue Directory" at rear (pp. 78-100) bears a number of ink crossouts. Tight and attractive copy of this directory of the northwest Illinois Jo Daviess county seat, adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. Quite nice copy of a title seldom seen.

Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers and brown cloth spine. (7pp), 111pp. Advertisements, foldout map on yellow stock. Near fine. Exceptionally tight and unusually handsome copy of this directory of the northwest Illinois county seat, adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. Truly an outstanding condition copy of a title rarely found in respectable condition. Published by the local job printer located in the very building from whence this catalogue description is written.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. First Edition. Small 4to. Rebound in red cloth with gilt front board lettering (with original stiff blue pictorial front wrapper bound in). 79pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, linoleum-block engravings, small color foldout map at rear. Very good. Binding rather edgeworn and a bit rubbed, mainly along spine; original front wrapper and text block quite nice and tight; foldout map at rear bears some discreet archival mends on verso; mild ex-library with very few markings. Tight and decent first edition of this Federal Writers' Project city guide, long thought to have been written anonymously by the then-obscure young writer Nelson Algren (1909-81), who went on to far greater fame as the ?Poet of the Chicago Slums,? author of ?The Man with the Golden Arm? (1949) and other classic Chicago fiction. One of the most desirable of the WPA city guides. The Richard Delson plates are simple but striking and powerful; the often-absent color map at rear is bright and handsome. And while Jerre Mangione's "The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project 1935-1943 (1972) repeats Algren's exaggeration that he wrote the "Galena Guide," historian Richard F. Bales tackles this issue anew, relying on primary source material and close textual analysis in his essay "Who Wrote the Galena Guide?" (pp. 180-194 in his 2024 "Nelson Algren: His Life, Work and Colleagues") to persuasively settle the issue. He finds Algren's claim inaccurate and misleading, concluding that "Algren edited the the Guide, he even revised and rewrote the Guide." Deaccessioned from the library of the very city it celebrates. DYKES 81.

Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 79pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, linoleum-block engravings, small color foldout map at rear. Very good. Quite faint wear and age toning to outer wrappers (only), else internally tight and near fine. Nice first edition of this Federal Writers' Project city guide, long thought to have been written anonymously by the then-obscure young writer Nelson Algren (1909-81), who went on to far greater fame as the "Poet of the Chicago Slums," author of "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1949) and other classic Chicago fiction. One of the most desirable of the WPA city guides. The Richard Delson plates are simple but striking and powerful; the often-absent color map at rear is bright and handsome. And while Jerre Mangione's "The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project 1935-1943" (1972) repeats Algren's exaggeration that he wrote the "Galena Guide," historian Richard F. Bales tackles this issue anew, relying on primary source material and close textual analysis in his essay "Who Wrote the Galena Guide?" (pp. 180-194 in his 2024 "Nelson Algren: His Life, Work and Colleagues") to persuasively settle the issue. He finds Algren's claim inaccurate and misleading, concluding that "Algren edited the Guide, he even revised and rewrote the Guide." From the library of Terry J. Miller (1949-2025), long-time director of the U.S. Grant Home and Illinois State Historic Sites in Galena. DYKES 81.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First edition. 8vo. [6], 9-79, [1] pp. Blue paper wrappers printed in blue and gold. Illustrated with a frontispiece etching, several etched in-text and full-page designs, and around ten plates of black and white photographs at the end. A folding color map tipped in the rear. Part of the American Guide Series. Bruccoli B2. Compiled and written by Federal Writers' Project (Illinois) Works Progress Administration. Nelson Algren wrote eight chapters of this guide, including the section on U.S. Grant and the history of the town's economy. With interviews of the residents of Galena, and a blurb on the Native American burial grounds in the area. The history of Galena's mining and farming industries, and its natural history is also discussed. The guide has a brief history of Ulysses S. Grant and how he made his home in Galena. A historic guide to the legends, sights, and scenery of the charming town of Galena, IL. A touch of sunning to the spine and minor foxing to the verso of the final leaf of photographs.