Delaware Guide First State, Used (52 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. 1st Edition. edgewear and tear to price clipped dj. price sticker partially removed from ffep.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. 448 pages. B1-2493. First edition. Spine is lightly faded, else near fine.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. xxv, 422 pages. B1-2493. Revised edition of the 1952 first edition. With a foreword by J. Caleb Boggs. Library stamp on half title.

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 214 pages. First edition. Divided into four major sections: Delaware's Counties, Delaware History, Delaware Government and Delaware People.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. xxv, 422 pages. B1-2493. First edition. With a foreword by J. Caleb Boggs. Covers faded. Name in ink on front pastedown.

cloth, dust jacket. Delaware (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxv, 549 pages, one large folding map. B1-282. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Folding map is present. Rubbing to boards, else a near fine copy. Edited by Jeannette Eckman, Anthony Higgins and William H. Conner. Written as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Well-illustrated. The map is present in the pocket in the back.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 360 pages. B2-1190. Third edition, revised. A look at government in Delaware. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a federal government project in the United States created to provide jobs for out-of-work writers and to develop a history and overview of the United States, by state, cities and other jurisdictions. It was launched in 1935 during the Great Depression. It was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program. It was one of a group of New Deal arts programs known collectively as Federal Project Number One or Federal One. FWP employed thousands of people and produced hundreds of publications, including state guides, city guides, local histories, oral histories, ethnographies, and children's books. In addition to writers, the project provided jobs to unemployed librarians, clerks, researchers, editors, and historians. 1st edition. This copy is good in blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Ex-library, with typical library stamps and labels. The binding is sound, albeit library tape-reinforced. There is minor scuffing and soiling otherwise. The text is very clean and unmarked, other than the library stamps. It lacks the folding map in the rear pocket. but there is a state map on the front endpapers. First editions of this title are uncommon in the trade. . LB15.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. maps; b/w photos (illustrator). 2nd Edition. revised edition; dj w/lite wear only, clipped price, in mylar; beige c w/blue titles; illustrated end papers; 562 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Second Revised Edition. One corner lightly bumped. Front hinge with light gapping, but holding strongly. Otherwise a good reading copy. ; American Guide Series; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 549 pages.

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 2nd edition. NOT an ex library book. Name on front endpaper. 562 pages including the index. Dust jacket has 1/2" chips and tears, price is clipped.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 360 pages. B2-1190. Third edition, revised. A look at government in Delaware. .

stiff paper wrappers. Delaware (illustrator). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 84, (3) pages. Illustrated. Rubbed. Name of school at top of first page. .

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxv, 422 pages. Revised edition of the 1952 first edition. With a foreword by J. Caleb Boggs. Jacket chipped.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. 448 pages. B1-2493. First printing. Signed by both authors. Covers slightly faded.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. 448 pages. See B1-2493. Second printing. Rubbed along hinges.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxv, 422 pages. Revised edition of the 1952 first edition. With a foreword by J. Caleb Boggs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Delaware: A Guide to the First State, 2nd Edition, Extensively Revised. Hastings House, 1955. Solid and clean copy, with foxing on the inside panels. Dust jacket shows significant wear, including light tears at the top and bottom of the spine. This extensively revised second edition of the mid-century state guide from the renowned Federal Writers Project series offers updated historical and cultural insights into Delaware. A desirable piece for collectors of vintage state guides, American travel literature, or mid-20th-century Hastings House publications. (BB) Shelf 90.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Tan cloth, lettered in black. Slight wear with lightly tanned text block edges, mild tanning to portions of endpapers. 2nd and preferred edition, extensively revised: 1955. xxvi,562 pp., illus. Illus. dust jacket shows surface loss on lower spine panel from call label removal (no other ex-lib indicators), tanned, with modest chipping to corners and spine extremities, shallow loss to portion of top front edge, now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition. BP/Delaware.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. second printing REVISEDtight and white WITH SOME WRITING INSIDE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. moderate sunning to back strip, age discoloration to end papers along hinges from binder's glue, otherwise a clean, square copy, octavo, 549 pages, blue cloth, has a large folding color map in rear pocket.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. xxv, 549 pages. B1-282. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Lacking the folded map. Covers rubbed. Front hinge starting. Edited by Jeannette Eckman, Anthony Higgins and William H. Conner. Written as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Well illustrated.

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 79 pages. Second edition. Guide for the family with children.

Hardcover. Blue cloth. xxv, 549 pp. Numerous bw illus. Compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Delaware. Mao is in rear pocket. VG-, some soiling to cover edges and discoloration to spine, former owner's signature on inside front cover.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VG/G as some wear to dj, map in rear pocket as issued, 2nd printing, xxv + 538pps + index, well photographed document of the period.