Forward Pasquotank! Memorializing a (Back) Housing Program of Unique Cultural, Social and Economic Importance
by Saunders, W.O. & W.K
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Elizabeth City, NC: The Independent, 1934. Celebration of the installation of 400 new sanitary privies in Pasquotank County, courtesy of the CWA (the Civil Works Administration, a New Deal program), with drawings of privies old & new, a back house poem, serious article about the program & its benefits in fighting disease, 12 fake 'humorous' ads & privy 'Code of Fair Competition', two outhouse anecdotes. Stapled softcover, red covers, black titling & drawing. Tanned, lightly stained, names in pen & pencil on the front cover, minor creasing, whole thing folded once down the middle parallel to the spine. Text clean; 32 pages, line drawings.. Reprint. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Good. 6" by 9".
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u3864
- Title
- Forward Pasquotank! Memorializing a (Back) Housing Program of Unique Cultural, Social and Economic Importance
- Author
- Saunders, W.O. & W.K
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- The Independent
- Place of Publication
- Elizabeth City, NC
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Outhouse, Privy, Backhouse, Back House, New Deal
- Size
- 6" by 9"
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Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fair
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- Spine
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