Slight sunning to spine. Small spot from sticker residue on front free endpaper. Bookplate. ; A handsome and tight copy ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xviii,206 pages View More...
DJ with moderate chips. Former owner's name on half-title page. Boards with light wear and minor discoloration ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xviii,206 pages View More...
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 View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities; 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 View More...
DJ chipped and torn and with loss to DJ top spine ; Nothing could be finer than the photogravures in here. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 514 pages View More...
DJ price clipped, tanned and with chipping along edges. DJ top spine 1" missing; NF folding map in rear pocket; American Guide Series; Photogravures; 8vo; xxvii,514 pages View More...
Moderate chipping to DJ and with some tanning. Small loss to DJ spine ends. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. The slightest tanning to front free endpaper. ; Nothing could be finer than owning this book. NF folding map in rear pocket. Including the beautiful photogravures. Early editions of the WPA Guide South Carolina are increasingly hard to find. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxvii,514 pages View More...
A very handsome copy with price clipped DJ. ; Unlike other later WPA guide printings - this one includes the beautiful photogravures. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 514 pages View More...
Light chipping to price clipped DJ; Second edition of one of the scarcer books in the series; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxvii, 421 pages View More...
Boards a bit darkened and with light wear to extremties. Light fraying to bottom spine. ; American Guide Series; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 558 pages View More...
DJ with light chipping along edges and lightly torn in the back. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 558 pages View More...
Boards with light tanning. Browning to front endpaper and last few pages. Brown spots to top edge and fore edge. ; Historical essays on the Volunteer State include the Native American, the African-American, agriculture, manufacturing, labor, and more. Folding map in rear pocket; Amercian Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 558 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities and with slight discoloration. Former owner's inscription to half-title page. ; Including the incredible photogravures. This is the uncommon stated 2nd printing with blue boards. ; American Guide Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxviii, 718 pages View More...
Light chipping and darkening to price clipped DJ. Boards with light rubbing to extremities and a bit of discoloration. The slightest of browning to the endpapers. Else a handsome and tight copy. ; First Edition with year on title page and not subsequent printing on copyright page. The Texas WPA Guide is after Idaho and Puerto Rico among the rarer guides. Including the outstanding photogravures. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 718 pages View More...
DJ with light chipping. Small loss to DJ spine ends and slightly more chipping to rear top DJ. Bookplate. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. A handsome and tight copy. ; This later edition has the same outstanding photogravures as published in the first edition. The boards of this edition are in off-white fabricoid vs. Light blue cloth for the first edition. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 718 pages View More...
Light soiling to back board; The third of a four volume set covering the entire US. Containing information found in the one-volume American Guide. Continuous pagination ; 8vo; 331 pages View More...
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 View More...
DJ with moderated chipping and a few small holes. One 2" tear to DJ front and small loss to DJ top spine. Slight rubbing and browning to boards. Endpapers and first few pages tanned. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; First edition (stated) in light green cloth and with small rear folding map. ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages View More...
Bookplate. Slight browning to boards; No date, circa 1940. Stated limited edition of 1000; card laid in that states; 'This is No. 12 of 25 project copies of a 60-copy over-run on the first edition. The remaining 35 copies of the over-run were delivered to the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Washington. " So apparently there were 1060 copies. This is a story of a community in Minneapolis along the Mississippi River who were displaced by the inexorable steam-roller of progress. An interesting story, notable for its brevity and poignancy; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 52 pages View More...
DJ a bit browned and with small open tears. ; No date, circa 1940. Stated limited edition of 1000; This copy unnumbered. This is a story of a community in Minneapolis along the Mississippi River who were displaced by the inexorable steam-roller of progress. An interesting story, notable for its brevity and poignancy; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 52 pages View More...
Slight wear to covers ; One of the more unusual WPA projects, this is the concise story of the construction of a resort hotel on the slopes of Mt. Hood in Oregon. Six nifty B&W full-page illustrations, and more on the edges of each page. This 30 page, unpaginated brochure was distributed free of charge and is increasingly hard to find. First and only printing. Including a laid-in Sunset magazine page from 1987 featuring the Loge on it's 50 birthday. Also laid-in 3 Snow Coach tickets, probably from the same time period than the magazine article. Schoyer 518.; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" t... View More...
Pages browned (as usual). Spine a bit sunned. A very tight copy that seems unused ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 231 pages View More...
Sunning to spine. Some photos have apparent dampstaining, slight, not affecting text. Very slight browning to edges and endpapers; Similar to the Minnesota guide, this scarce entry in the American Guide Series includes sections on the mining and hunting areas, national forests, canoe trips and more. Green boards; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 233 pages View More...
DJ with light fraying along edges and with small chips on top spine. 2" open tear to DJ back. Endpapers browned. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper. ; Includes rear folding map ; Amercian Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 244 pages View More...
Open tears to DJ. The usual browning to endpapers ; The scenic, all weather route from New Jersey to Florida on the Ocean Highway is still a lovely drive, and all the memorable sights are discussed here (as of 1938, anyway). Small folding map tipped in to inside rear cover; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 244 pages View More...
DJ browned and chipped. Only half of the DJ remains. Endpapers browned. Else a very handsome copy with tight binding ; Probable second state, omitting reference to US Route 30 since the book refers to the pioneer trail and not the modern highway. color map tipped into rear endpaper ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 244 pages View More...
Slight wear to boards. Crease to back boards; Originally published in 1937 as 'Washington: City and Captial'; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 552 pages View More...
DJ browned and with small chips. Slight browning to boards and endpapers. Faint foxing and small stamp to rear endpapers ; A trip from Maine to Florida, with numerous sidetrips, exquisitely described. Rear map ; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages View More...