Workers Writers Program W P a (55 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 114p, ills.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Although the book's pages are easily Very Good, the cover, being trimmed beyond the pages, has become chipped and worn simply by being shelved. Top and bottom of the spine are likewise bumped. The front cover's fore edge is deckled as published. Four photo illustrations. A history of printing in the U.S. as well as Lincoln.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No Dust Cover. Shelf Wear at top and bottom of spine. Lighter rub on the corners and spots around the edges of the book. Book grades Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (1943); Good Only/no dj, octavo, 206pp., blue cloth hardcover, 2" stains along outer edge of front cover & top edge of rear cover, exlibrary with number on backstrip & part of dj flap glued on front endpaper, b&w ill's by Hilda Ogburn, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd revised edition. About half the jacket is missing on the spine. Chipping to top of jacket on front and rear panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good/none, used, 1st printing, lite brown colored cloth, map end papers, vii-xxxiii, 511pp. Interior clean no marks except a former owners name, red colored stamp on the contents page, binding tight. The end-flaps of the dj are taped to the book but the rest of the dj is missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Corners lightly bumped. Bookplate. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: price-clipped dj. First Edition. Octavo; x, 308 pages, brown cloth All the action, fun, excitement, gun fights, drama, crimes and sins of Butte, Montana. Includes a Chronology of Events and Dates for Butte, MT, from 1856. Illustrated. This was written with the cooperation of many old pioneers, including Belgian Annie and Filthy McNabb.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 531 pages, numerous photos and maps throughout. Very good condition though some mile cover soil.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Unstated. No statement of printing, very good - blue cloth hardcover with gilt letter shows a name at top of front endpaper, couple of very light internal splits, browning at endpapers and a touch of foxing as well, in very good dust jacket that shows soiling and edgewear that incudes closed tears and open chips. 120 pages with index and black & whites. Solid copy of this installment in the American guide Series.

Condition: Good. Revised Second Edition, hardcover. 531 pages. Nearly very good, owner info and light creasing on front endpaper, hint of folding on first few pages which follow, in a good plus, price-clipped dust jacket (in mylar protector) with a little chipping at the extremities and other wear; overall a solid and clean copy. A Works Projects Adminstration (WPA) / American Guide Series publication; with black & white photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 4th printing. Most of rear jacket flap has been cut off, else a couple small chips to jacket. Price-clipped.

Self-wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Color Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Octavo, 213 pages, green self-wrappers Compiled by the WPA, apparently issued 1942, not 1931. Printed by the Florida Grower Press, Illustrated. With a section written specifically to help teachers to use this material in schools.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hastings House, New York, 1968. Condition: Near Fine book in a near fine jacket. This is the New Revised Edition.Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the WPA for the District of Columbia. (CK).

Hardcover. 8vo; cloth in dust jackets; illustrations. Alfred Packer in near fine condition with tanning along hinges of map endpapers, in very good, price-clipped jacket with light wear, tape reinforcement inside jacket at spine ends and fold lines. Inscribed by the author in purple ink facing title page, "Sincerely yours, Paul H. Gantt, Washington D. C, September 6, 1955." Law Goes West fine condition without dust jacket; Ghost Towns fine in near fine jacket with light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd printing. Five-inch tear to jacket. Couple small chips and one-inch deep chip to jacket at top of spine. Map in rear pocket.

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. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near Fine in gray cloth with illustrated front board. 1st Printing. 48pp 12mo. No spine titles IB.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with heavy wear; spine faded; pages dusty with age toning and soiling. Illustrated with fold-out map laid in rear board (pristine). Less common title as such.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Fourth printing/"Completely Revised Edition," hardcover, the binding has a bit of flex but is not broken, and the book also has bumps with wear to the cloth at the spine ends and corners, a bit of wear to the cover edges, and mild smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, this is a solid, Very Good copy in an unclipped, Good dust jacket, which has creased tears along the head and tail, losses at the spine ends and corners with the title affected at the head of the spine, wear along the hinges and folds, rubbing with scuffing across the exterior, sunning to the spine, and a previous seller's small sticker to the tail of the front fold over part of the publisher's information. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair to Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 302 pages. Illustrated. Foxing, soiling, brown splotches on page ends and some internal pages. Local History--Virginia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing. Shallow chipping to spine ends of jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frank Utpatel (illustrator). Reprint. Recent but undated photocopy/digital reprint of this volume in the 'American Guide Series', begun as a project of the WPA during the depression to provide employment for idled writers. Reprints the original Duell, Sloan and Pearce edition, but about 12% larger - though the margins are wider too, so the book itself is much larger. Pictures look okay, but nowhere near as nice as the originals. Hardcover, full black buckram, gilt titling. Minor wear, light rubbing; no jacket; light staining to page edges. Text clean; [30], 651 pages, b/w photos, maps (rather than a large folding map, this edition, as did the original, has the state sectioned, one section to a page, plus other maps; wood engravings by Frank Utpatel. Size: 7½" by 10¼".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. This is a trade size pamphlet, stapled on the spine. One name and address sticker covers another on inside of front cover. Name and address sticker on pocket glued to inside of back cover. Blind stamp on title page. 48 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Light blue cloth. Bright and strong copy. Slightly bumped at the spine tips. Slight water stain on the top edge of the back cover. Fold-out map in back pocket is in excellent condition. No markings. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is lightly chipped at the top of the spine, another slight chip at the top front, nicked at the corner tips and creased at the top fold of the rear flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Printing. Binding is tight; cover is scuffed and spotted; pages yellowed and foxing; pages a bit crinkled like it was stored in a damp location. 136 pages including index. Book.

Paperback. Condition: 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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illinois Art Project (illustrator). First Edition. Guide to and history of what was then Illinois's 'third city', part of the American Guide Series. Paperback in stiff covers, as pictured; tan wraps with design & title silk-screened in brown & orange. Minor wear to book, corners lightly bumped, ink name & minor smudging to covers, slight discoloration to rear covers from binding staples. Text clean; [2], 144 pages, index, bibliography, sepia-tone photos & block-print art, chronology. Size: Octavo.