Workers Writers Program Work Project (4 results)

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.

Paperback. 95p., foreword, preface, exhibits; wraps slightly browned with edge wear, otherwise in very good condition. Published for the 1940 Diamond Jubilee Exposition (American Negro Exposition) held in Chicago to celebrate 75 years of emancipation. The Illinois Writers' Project was one of the only WPA state projects to have a significant number of African Americans. Dykes 78, Powell 302.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. ] Hardback, slim tall octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, brown titling on textured tan cloth covers, x + 165 pages, Near Fine copy/no dj probably as issued, but stiff clear acetate dustwrapper provided to preserve condition. Snug square binding, about no signs at all of any wear/sunning/stains etc and immaculate throughout interior incl no names/writing/bookplates etc. Foreword, Preface, numerous b&w photos, 3 maps, 2 Appendices (I - Outline for a Unit of Work for the Upper Grades, II - Source Material), no index. WPA American Guide Series. Errata slip tipped-in at the front endpapers. RWR5 American History Regional Interest California Construction Infrastructure Dams Dam Building Rivers Navigation Power Electricity Agriculture.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good+. Second Edition, Revised. Paper age-darkening, a few minor manufacturing wrinkles to front cloth board, slight bumps to lower corners, otherwise basically as new! In a fine dust jacket with a smigen of wear to spine ends, but no chips and no tears and not price-clipped. Hard to imagine a better copy survives than this one. Book.