wpa writers program work projects (43 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Like New. No Markings Or Creases.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1951 PRINTING. NO DUST JACKET. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly foxed. Cloth covers show light edge wear with rubbing to corners. Book is slightly shelf-cocked. Binding is tight, hinges strong. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY!; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.02.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.02.

New revised edition (as stated upon copyright page). xxxiv, 717 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with light soiling and small stains; chips, tears, scuffing, and creasing at edges; front flaps' top corner is price-clipped. Light brown cloth. Some soiling and light toning to text block edges all three of which have past owner's ink name stamp; several small stains to top edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Updated and revised from the original 1940 edition. ISBN 0803870558.

New Revised Edition (as stated upon title page). xxiv, 411 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed with a slight scuffing/nicks and short tears at edges; some soiling to white rear panel; a few foxing spots evident to panels but much stronger upon dj's blank verso; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Dark blue cloth spine lightly bumped at ends; gray boards. Foxing to text block edges and endpapers; interior pages remain clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With six unpaged sections of b/w plates (all new for this revised edition) plus three city maps for Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile amongst text; four appendices include Chronology, Bibliography, Map of Alabama in Sections (on pages 391-400 as opposed to the rear pocket large foldout map provided in the 1941 and 1949 editions), and Index. Text divided into three major parts: "Alabama Yesterday and Today" (titled "Past and Present" in the original edition), "Cities" (originally "Courthouse Squares") providing history, description, and points of interest for Anniston, Birmingham, Decatur, Florence, Gadsden, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, and Tuscaloosa, and "Tours" (same as the original). Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {AL-Shelf#9} ISBN 0803803915.

Good to VG: solid, unmarked, exterior appears dusty, contents fine. Hardcover in embossed green cloth showing a buffalo, 749 pages. [Austin Baylitts, Photographs].

Second edition. -- Includes photographs, key map to the tours on front endsheets. -- Hardcover, light blue covers. Condition: very good, no jacket.

Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. xxiii, [1], 430 pages, 12 unnumbererd pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded in pocket) ; 21 cm. G. Minimally marked ex-lib. hand lettering on spine stamp on front end paper. Missing rear map.

Condizione: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Gifter's inscription on endpage. (Copper Trade, Mines, Mining).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.02.

First Edition, First Printing. -- Many photographs. Key to tours map on front endsheets, and transportation map on rear endsheets. -- Hardcover, black covers. Condition: very good minus (covers very slightly warped; cover lettering a little dulled; no jacket).

Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with black titles. xxii, 442 pages illustrations, maps (some folded, in pocket) 21 cm. VG-. Ex-lib with minimal markings. Hand lettering on spine, stamp inside front cover, and card in rear. Map is present and in good condition.

First Printing; Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Edition. Hardcover is blue with gold lettering on spine. Sewn pages are clean and tight. Faint signs of someone perhaps flipping through the pages, otherwise interior appears as if unused. Extensively illustrated with 98 b/w photographs. Laid in is the original order card to 'Cora A. Miller, Chairman, History Committee, K. S. N. A.' A project of the famous depression era WPA [Works Projects Administration]. Sections: Background; Campfire and Candlelight; Lanterns; More Lanterns; Lighthouses; Nurses are Trained; Lamp in Hand; Public Health Nurse Appears; War, Prosperity, Depression; Nurses Organize; Two Days (1892-1941) ; two appendices: brief histories of hospitals and nursing schools in Kansas; chronology of progress In care of sick and prevention of disease in Kansas; index. ; B&W Photographs; 6 x 9; 292 pages; Cover has light shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing, sunning. DJ consists of only back cover and flap.

Hard Cover. Condizione: vg-. Condizione sovraccoperta: good-. 1st Edition. Compiled by the workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in the State of New York. 271pp + b/w photos; text unmarked, previous owner name inside front cover, light foxing to eps; 2 fold-out maps in back pocket; 7.5" tall; darkening & light shelf wear to edges of cover; chips & tears (some taped) to edges of dj in new protective mylar. Hardcover (dj).

Second printing with corrections (as stated upon copyright page; originally published 1940). xxxii, 782 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket toned, soiled, and chipped/torn; front panel and front flap detached but only subtly evident as dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right. Teal cloth. Text block edges toned; a few small stains to upper fore-edge. Some tearing to rear pastedown pocket which retains its color foldout map. Endpapers toned; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.

Octavo, grey cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xvii, 341 pp. Near-Fine, with small blemish (about the size of a pencil eraser) to upper cover. New York, Maritime, Shipping.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. New York: Hastings House, 1943. First edition, 1943. Copper colored cloth with faded gilt spine lettering, frontis illustration, other black and white plates throughout the text, no dustjacket. Light fraying to rear joint, light edgewear, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned but clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First printing (per Hastings House's "First published . . ." statement upon copyright page). xxxviii, 458 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Reddish-orange cloth soiled; sunning to spine. Some toning/soiling to text block edges. Toning to endpapers; past bookseller's pencil note at ffep's top right; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Foldout map NOT PRESENT in rear pastedown pocket. Sponsored by the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission and the University of New Mexico. Photograph contributors include Ernest Knee and Laura Gilpin.

Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with black titles. xxxiii, 718 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm. Plates in eight groups, each preceded by half-title not included in paging, map on lining papers. First published in 1940/A selected reading list of Texas books. "In Texas, A Guide to the Lone Star State, all these elements have been linked together to form a picture of the State as it is. There are 15,000 miles of tours telling the motorist where to go, what to see, and how to get there. Tours take you to places where you can fish or hunt in unspoiled streams and forests, as well as to inspect the old missions, the modern cities and ranches, and the Little Mexicos. Sixty-four pages of gravure illustrations make up a composite portrait of the State's people and natural setting, and 31 maps make travel through city and country easy for the driver"--Jacket flap. VG. No jacket. Exterior toning. Front board slightly cracked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. DJ in archival cover Tiny corner chips owner name. Fine folding map laid in. Revised edition.

Sixth printing (as stated upon copyright page; first published 1941). xxxiv, 511 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket strongly wrinkled with nicks and scuffs at edges; strong color fading to spine; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Cream colored cloth; slender soiling to board edges. Dark stain to text block's top edge with some leaves affected at their top margins. Slight toning to endpapers; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.

First edition (not stated). 48 pages plus covers. Staple-bound booklet: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Blue paper covers; pictorial front cover; minor nick at spine heel; mild bumping and slight toning along cover edges. A very good+ copy. Sponsored by The Federal Commission and the local committee for the Gallipolis Sesquicentennial Celebration. Prefatory Note by Harry Graff, State Supervisor, The Ohio Writers' Project in which authorship is credited to Myron Flechtner and editing to R.D. Sims and E.M. Hawes. Includes six "Drawings of Early Gallipolis" by William Mark Young; four pages of b/w photographs; Sources (bibliography). Gallipolis, the third oldest settlement in Ohio, was settled by refugees from the French Revolution. The pamphlet reviews the town's early history and famous citizens. {Bibliographical references: Powell 1238; Scharf & Schoyer Catalogue 491; September 1941 WPA Writers' Program Publications catalogue-page 35.} Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller.

Third printing (as stated upon copyright page; originally published 1941). xxvi, 595 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some foxing and soiling; shallow chipping, several tears, and creasing at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right. Light brown cloth. Stains and soiling to text block's top edge; light toning to upper fore-edge. Binding is firm.

Fifth printing (as stated om copyright page; first published 1941). xxx, 746 pages plus eight unpaged sections of b/w plates. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket with Caroline Durieux blue and orange pelican, ship, and ocean waves illustration decorating the both panels and spine; usual light soiling to panels with slight toning to spine; nicks and short tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price ($6.50) at top right corner. Dark green cloth; bright gilt stamping to spine and front board; light bumping to spine heel and to boards' bottom fore-edge corners. Past owner's ink signature at front free endpaper's top right; several page corners creased from past fold-downs; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Sponsored by the Louisiana Library Commission at Baton Rouge. Endpaper maps; Foreword; Preface by Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, and Darvey W. Wixon; b/w photographs; maps; illustrations; concluding Appendices section (with Glossary, Chronology, Bibliography, Population Figures-1940 Census, and Index). As with all of the WPA's guides, the book remains a wonderful resource on touring Louisiana with much information regarding history, traditions, and local events. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {WPA-Shelf#4}.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Columbus and Fremont, OH: Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Society; City of Fremont, 1940. First edition, 1940. Depression era WPA publication illustrated in black and white. Softcover, stapled binding, 115 pages plus folding map at rear. Light edgewear to covers, sound binding with staples visible at the title page, very minor insect old insect damage to the far bottom corner of the front free endpaper, pages clean, no names or other markings. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition (not stated). 115 pages (plus covers). Booklet: H 22.5cm x L 15.25cm. Beige paper covers; slight wear at corners and spine ends; subtle light brown moisture staining along spine and faintly evident at top edge of rear cover. Light toning along edges; no staining to interior leaves other than at spine margin of foldout map tipped-in at rear cover. Sponsored by The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. Co-Sponsored by City of Fremont Safety Service Director Charles A. Hochendel who also contributes a brief introductory essay on page 9. Preface by Ohio Writers' Project State Supervisor Harry Graff. Text sections titled as follows: "For the Fremont Visitor;" "Fremont Today;" "County Scene;" "Indian Trouble;" "Young Croghan and Old Betsy;" "Lower Sandusky Town;" "Fremont the City;" "Social Life;" "Livelihood;" "Schools;" "Churches;" "Theater;" "Newspapers;" "Places to Visit in Fremont;" "In the County;" "Neighbors;" "Memorable Years;" and "For Reference" (bibliography). B/w photographs including frontispiece of a downtown streetscape; illustrations. Bibliographical references: Powell 1237; Dykes 247; Scharf & Schoyer Catalogue 490; September 1941 WPA Writers' Program Publications catalogue - page 35. A very good- copy of a quite uncommon Federal Writers' Project publication. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller.