DJ price clipped and with moderate chipping throughout as well as light dampstaining. ; The later printing was issued without rear folding map and with no year on title page. Turquoise boards. Photogravures. Schoyer 362. ; The American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 559 pages View More...
Boards with light wear to extremities and lightly stained. Else a tight, handsome and clean copy. ; The later printing was issued without rear folding map and with no year on title page. Turquoise boards. Photogravures. Schoyer 362. ; The American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 559 pages View More...
Board with light rubbing to extremities and with gilt lettering a bit faded. Slight browning to endpapers. Hinges have a bit of play; Including rear map in VG+ condition. Photogravures ; The American Guide Series; Photogravures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 559 pages View More...
Boards with light wear to extremities. Light bumping to corners. Slight sunning to spine ; Early edition, without date on title page. The Granite State, in all its rocky glory. No map as issued; Amercian Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 559 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Neat writing to rear endpaper; Including rear map in VG condition with light marginal wear. Including the outstanding photogravures ; The American Guide Series; Photogravures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 559 pages View More...
Slight browning to pages. Boards with very light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on first blank page; Photogravures; American Guide Series; 8vo; 559 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit darkened. Browning to endpapers and with name on front free endpaper. Rear pastedown with some chipping along edges from separating two pages. ; First edition with year on title page and no subsequent printings on copyright page. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 735 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Endpapers a bit browned. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Glue residue from nicely removed bookplate. Front hinge nicely repaired. Lacks map in rear pocket; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 735 pages View More...
DJ worn and chipped and with glue residue from tape repair ; folding map in rear pocket; The American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 735 pages View More...
DJ with light rubbing to extremities and with a few closed tears. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Numerous pictures depict the varied nature of the Garden State. Unpaginated. This series was originally planned as an accompanying series to the regular American Guide Series, but only a few states published them - including Virginia, Vermont, Montana and New Jersey. All of them are rather rare among the WPA Guides. The sepia-toned pictures of this NJ guide is a sampler from the regular WPA State Guide New Jersey. ; Profile in Pictures; B&W Photographs; Square 12mo; 64 pages View More...
Boards with slight wear to extremities. Former owner's initials on front free endpaper. A handsome and tight copy with the slightest fading to spine. Original map in rear pocket missing. A highway map, similar to the one missing is included, also issued in 1940. ; Including the wonderful photogravures. Schoyer 386. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 458 pages View More...
Light rubbing to boards. Spine a bit faded ; Early edition, lacking the folding map. Detailed description of the city from famous authors that went back to work under the WPA program in the late 1930's and early 1940's. Including the photogravures, an expensive reproduction technique that is coming very close to the original of the b&w photograph. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 430 pages View More...
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 View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit sunned. Title page blindstamped. ; Early edition, with the folding map in rear pocket. Detailed description of the city from famous authors that went back to work under the WPA program in the late 1930's and early 1940's. Including the photogravures, an expensive reproduction technique that is coming very close to the original of the b&w photograph. Schoyer 230; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 430 pages View More...
Boards with light wear to extremities and with gilt lettering (and gilt spine lettering) faded. Endpapers browned and with former owner's name. Map in rear pocket missing; Includes a section on the 1939-40 World's Fair. The first edition is quite rare. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 708 pages View More...
DJ with very light chipping and one small blemish to front DJ. Former owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Bookseller's sticker on rear pocket. A very handsome copy of this early edition. ; Black boards with sky blue cloth spine. Blue DJ with white lettering. Including map in rear pocket. Both WPA New York City volumes "New York City Guide" and "New York Panorama" were the answer for the surprisingly short mentioning in the WPA New York State Guide. Originally 3 volumes for NYC were scheduled but only those two published. Schoyer 414; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 708 pages View More...
An unusually bright, tight and handsome copy. Former owner's name on half-title page ; "The New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays on various subjects relating to the city - history, nationalities, architecture, transportation..." Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Decorative pictorial endpapers. Schoyer 392; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 526 pages View More...
DJ a bit tanned and with light edgewear and tiny open tears. A handsome copy in rare DJ. ; "The New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays on various subjects relating to the city - history, nationalities, architecture, transportation..." Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Decorative pictorial endpapers. In 1st state DJ. Schoyer 392; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 526 pages View More...
A handsome copy; "The New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays on various subjects relating to the city - history, nationalities, architecture, transportation..." Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Decorative pictorial endpapers. Schoyer 392; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 526 pages View More...
Small paper sticker on front endpaper. Former owner's name on page opposite half title page. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a handsome and tight copy; A history and account of every phase of present-day life in the world's greatest metropolis; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 526 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Slightest fading to spine. DJ with light chipping and a 2" oblong hole to DJ back. A very handsome and tight copy; VG+ folding map in rear pocket. The 1st edition is quite rare ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 601 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine sunned. Map in rear pocket missing. ; The Saturday Review (1/13/1940) called this: "the best general reference book available to either the native or the foreigner about life within the State". The North Carolina guide was issued with very nice b&w photographs, but unlike most of the other guides they are not photogravures. Schoyer 465 ; Amercian Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxxiv, 601 pages View More...
Price clipped DJ with a bit of browning and soiling as well with light edgewear. Boards a bit of browning and discoloration. Browning to endpapers. ; Internally a handsome copy with tight binding. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix, 352 pages View More...
DJ price clipped and with light marginal wear. ; According to Lewis Mumford in the New Republic, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." With an endorsement like that , how can anyone resist? ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; xix, 352 pages View More...
Slight fading to gilt lettering. Former owner's name on half-title page. A handsome and tight copy. ; The first edition of the North Dakota guide is one of the rarest as the printrun is believed to have been only 3,000 copies. Ethel Schlesinger was the director of the Writers' Project in North Dakota and was only 20 years old when she started the project. However - she turned out to be one of the most well organized as this book was published well before most other states have been printed. Grass green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Folding map tipped into rear endpaper. Unlike most State G... View More...
Ex-lib with inkstamps to front endpaper, verso of ffep, and edges. Tape residue to front endpaper. Wear and minor tape residue to price clipped DJ. Front hinge a bit gapping and half title page loosening ; According to Lewis Mumford in the New Republic, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; xix, 352 pages View More...
