Writers Program Works Project Administration (11 results)

Good, corners bumped, waterstained top spine and covers. Cloth Spine ends lightly frayed and chewed, spine chipped along fore-edge. Price and initials on front fly.

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Signed by Robinson on his bookplate on front endpage. Stamped on front endpage verso. Rear hinge cracked. From the Art Reference Collection of wildlife artist and outdoorsman Alan James Robinson. This collection was used by Robinson to create his wonderful art and Cheloniidae Press books. (Animals, Wildlife).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library copy, good in rebound black cloth. From the Fayetteville High School Library. Typical library markings. Foldout map at frontispiece has been repaired, and folding map at rear of book is in two pieces, with slight loss on the fold. Light dampstasining at edges of text block. Hinges are tight; all illustrations and maps are present, includes an Index; 447 pages.

hardback about very good condition in blue cloth.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. This books was compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Illinois. Very Good Condition. No dust jacket, but previous owner created a dust jacket from copying the front and back of the soft cover book and is in a protective Brodart cover (see pictures of both). Some minor discoloration due to age. Corners are slightly worn. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscriptions.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover no dustjacket, "First Published in December 1940," 660 pages + the large folding map in the rear pocket, the gray cloth has moderate edge-wear confined to the corners and spine-ends, the map has tiny areas of wear at the folds but very little loss, the binding is clean and tight and the contents are fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Works Project Administration selected artists (illustrator). 1st Edition. X-lib. Publisher's blue cloth No dustjacket. 1947 First edition; third printing stated. Federal Writers' Project. Map endpapers, but, NO folding map in rear pocket; B&W Photographs; 548 pages. Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Compiled by Workers of the Writer's Program of the Works Project Administration for the City of New York. Introduction by The Honorable Fiorello H. La Guardia. Octavo. 341pp. Owner name penned and address label on front endpapers, light foxing on illustrated pages, spine ends soiled and bumped, else very good in a good only edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with internal tape repair along the extremities.

Condition: good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 486, endpapers and edges soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, spine faded, pencil mark on front board.

First edition. A volume in the American Guide series, sponsored by the Florida State Planning Board. Cloth with dust jacket. Very near fine in very near fine dust jacket, a lovely copy. Jacket signed in the design by (Irving) Politzer. Foreword by Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Stoneman Douglas later wrote the Everglades title for the Rivers of America series, dubbing it "the river of grass." The name caught on and her advocacy was instrumental in saving the Everglades from complete destruction. Sadly, the name of Marjory Stoneman Douglas will now forever be associated with the infamous school shooting in 2018.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Preface by Roscoe E. Lewis. xii, 380pp. Blue buckram stamped in blue lettering. Ex-library with the usual markings, lacking the rear endpapers, hinges cracked, spine darkened with cloth soiled, a good only copy lacking the scarce dust jacket. An important work detailing the arrival of the first Africans in 1619 until the rise of Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries with interviews from hundreds of slaves, extensive research and literature relevant to the times.