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WPA Books & Ephemera
CONNECTICUT A Guide to its Roads, Lore, and People
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. DJ with light chipping. This is a later printing, even though no subsequent printings mentioned. Without the rear map (as issued) ; 8vo; 593 pages .
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NZ$161.44
MASSACHUSETTS
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. DJ with light chipping along edges, especially to DJ spine ends. ; Early edition, after the revisions that followed the first printing. ; Photographures; 8vo; 675 pages .
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NZ$201.80
NEW ORLEANS CITY GUIDE
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light wear to extremities. Gilt lettering and spine lettering faded; Folding map in rear pocket; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 430 pages .
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NZ$177.59
Rural Relief and Recovery
by VANCE, Rupert B
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Light wear from handling, old defaced price sticker to upper cover slightly affecting text without loss of meaning, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the Works Progress Administration Social Problems pamphlet no. 3.
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NZ$42.48
MASSACHUSETTS
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelfwear to boards. Mild foxing to top edge and rear endpaper. ; Folding map in rear pocket; Photographures; 8vo; 675 pages .
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NZ$129.15
DEATH VALLEY A Guide
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Light wear to DJ with small open tears and part of the front image scraped away ; Fold-out map of the region to rear endpaper ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 75 pages .
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NZ$64.58
ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY A History & Guide
by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]
Rochester: Scrantom's. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Small bookplate; Including 3 folding maps ; Amercian Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 460 pages .
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NZ$145.30
MONTANA A State Guide Book
by Wpa
New York: Viking Press. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ torn chipped and with spine and back missing. Typical browning to endpapers. ; NF map in rear pocket ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 429 pages .
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NZ$282.53
WASHINGTON City and Capital
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ flap pasted on half title page. Rear map missing; Divided into two sections, the city and its history and environs, and the various government functions. By far the largest of the WPA guides, contains 14 maps and 14 plans ; American Guide Series; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1141 pages .
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NZ$161.44
WASHINGTON City and Capital
by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]
Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good-. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine lettering faded. Former owner's notes on first blank page. Faint foxing to half title page. Front hinge weakening. Rear map and last pages missing ; It is said that when President Roosevelt received his copy, he exclaimed, 'Where is the steamer trunk that goes with it? ' A huge book, over 1100 pages, really comprising two books, one a guide to the city and one a guide to the workings of the...
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NZ$121.08
ALABAMA
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Richard R. Smith. Very Good. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to boards, especially spine ends. Spine darkened. Lacks rear map ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 442 pages .
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NZ$121.08
NEVADA A Guide to the Silver State
by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]
Portland: Binfords & Mort, Publishers. Very Good-. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Glue residue and former owner's name to front endpaper. Rear map pocket clumsily repaired - but rear map in VG condition. Rear hinge started; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 315 pages .
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NZ$80.72
SAVANNAH
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Savannah: Chamber of Commerce. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. Hinges professionally repaired; Guide to 'that noble sequence of wooded and gardened squares which form the glory of the city. ' ; American Guide Series; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 208 pages .
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NZ$322.89
MAINE A Guide 'down East'
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. DJ with light chipping along edges and with small hole to spine. Price clipped. Later printing (issued without map). ; The American Guide Series; Photogravures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 476 pages .
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NZ$161.44
WEST VIRGINIA A Guide to the Mountain State
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover; Second Printing. DJ with very light fraying along edges. A handsome copy with binding tight; Folding map in rear pocket ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 559 pages .
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NZ$282.53
NORTH DAKOTA A Guide to the Northern Prairie State
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover. DJ price clipped. ; A very handsome copy; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; xix, 352 pages .
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NZ$322.89
ILLINOIS A Descriptive and Historical Guide
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Hastings House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. 0803833814 . Light edgewear to DJ and with one small open tear. ; new revised edition; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; xxiii, 775 pages .
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NZ$72.65
KENTUCKY A Guide to the Bluegrass State
by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Hastings House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover; Fourth Printing. DJ price clipped and with light chipping along edges. One small hole and creasing to DJ front. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 489 pages .
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NZ$201.80
WASHINGTON, D.C. A Guide to the Nation's Captial
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Hastings House. Very Good+. 1949. Second Edition. Hardcover; Second Printing. Lacks rear map. A handsome and tight copy. Boards with light wear to extremities; Revised edition with new illustrations; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 528 pages .
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NZ$145.30
THE BERKSHIRE HILLS
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good. 1939. Hardcover; Second Printing. Boards with light wear to extremities. Slight tanning to endpapers. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper ; WPA guide to the Berkshires. Slightly different format without tours; mainly emphasizing its history; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages .
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NZ$113.01
ALASKA Last American Frontier
by Wpa [Federal Writers' Project] Colby, Merle
New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover; Seventh Printing. DJ torn and with open tears. Boards with light rubbing to extremities ; The definitive source on Alaska, before it became a state. The only book in the series to credit a sole author (the Idaho guide credits Vardis Fisher as editor) , no less an authority than the 'Saturday Review' called it 'the most important and descriptive book about Alaska in print' and that designation may still...
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NZ$121.08
THE AMERICAN GUIDE A Source Book and Complete Travel Guide for the United States
by Alsberg, Henry G
New York: Hastings House. Very Good+. 1949. Hardcover. Slight wear to extremities; Maps in endpapers. Minutely detailed overview of America; 8vo; 1348 pages .
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NZ$32.29
KANSAS A Guide to the Sunflower State
by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]
New York: Viking. Very Good+. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers browned. Else we would have called it NF; Folding map in rear pocket ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 538 pages .
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NZ$242.16
HERE'S NEW ENGLAND A Guide to Vacationland
by Wpa [ Federal Writers' Project]
Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards a bit faded and with spine sunned. ; 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. Map in rear pocket. Includes a brochure "New England Art Museums, Summer...
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NZ$80.72
On the Drumhead: A Selection of the Writing of Mike Quin. A memorial volume
by QUIN, Mike [pseud. Paul Willia Ryan]; Harry Carlisle, ed.; Victor Arnautoff, illus
San Francisco: Daily People's World & the Mike Quin Memorial Fund to Aid Young Writers and Artists, 1948. First Thus. Octavo (24.25cm.); original black morocco-backed pictorial boards in paper-covered slipcase; xliv,341pp.; woodcuts throughout. Slipcase a bit rubbed and discolored from dust-soil, ownership signature to front free endpaper else Near Fine in Very Good slipcase. Posthumously published writings of the Communist journalist and author Mike Quin (1906-1947) who also wrote pulp mysteries under...
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NZ$127.46
