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1938rif. 26-101027First hardcover edition published by Houghton Mifflin and the Works Progress Administration 1938. Part of the series of books published by the WPA as guides to the states regions and cities of the United States. Each book follows a uniform format including essays on the state's history and culture descriptions of its major cities detailed auto tours of important attractions and sections of b&w photographs. The project was led by Henry Alsberg a journalist and playwright and Benjamin Botkin who was in charge of compiling the folklore for each book. The project provided work for more than 6500 men and women as writers collecting stories interviews and photographs on a variety of subjects. Each book covers a variety of topics; History Geography Agriculture Tourist attractions Education Religion Folklore and Folkways Ethnic Groups Architecture Arts Sports and Recreation and Business and Industry. This is a first printing of the New Hampshire guide published in 1938. 557 pages 5-1/2" x 8-1/4". Line drawing map of the state on the front pastedown - front endpaper pages. Several sections of b&w photos. No dust jacket. Some of the guides included a folded map stored in a pocket at the back pastedown the first printing of the New Hampshire guide did not include a map. No writing no former ownership marks. Dark blue fabrikoid covered boards. Title on the spine panel and front cover board. Spots of rubbing wear to the covers at the edges of the head and heel of the spine panel and tips of the corners. This is not a library discard copy. Edges of the text block are clean and the binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1938rif. 26-101028First hardcover edition published by Houghton Mifflin and the Works Progress Administration 1938. Part of the series of books published by the WPA as guides to the states regions and cities of the United States. Each book follows a uniform format including essays on the state's history and culture descriptions of its major cities detailed auto tours of important attractions and sections of b&w photographs. The project was led by Henry Alsberg a journalist and playwright and Benjamin Botkin who was in charge of compiling the folklore for each book. The project provided work for more than 6500 men and women as writers collecting stories interviews and photographs on a variety of subjects. Each book covers a variety of topics; History Geography Agriculture Tourist attractions Education Religion Folklore and Folkways Ethnic Groups Architecture Arts Sports and Recreation and Business and Industry. This is a first printing of the Connecticut published in 1938. 593 pages 5-1/2" x 8-1/4". Line drawing map of the state on the front pastedown - front endpaper pages. Several sections of b&w photos. No dust jacket. Some of the guides included a folded map stored in a pocket at the back pastedown the first printing of the Connecticut guide did not include a map. No writing no former ownership marks. Dark red fabrikoid covered boards. Title on the spine panel and front cover board. Spots of rubbing wear to the covers at the edges of the head and heel of the spine panel and tips of the corners. Vertical line of hairline thin rubbing wear on the spine panel just below the title about an inch long. This is not a library discard copy. Edges of the text block are clean and the binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1937rif. 26-101030First hardcover edition published by Houghton Mifflin and the Works Progress Administration 1937. Part of the series of books published by the WPA as guides to the states regions and cities of the United States. Each book follows a uniform format including essays on the state's history and culture descriptions of its major cities detailed auto tours of important attractions and sections of b&w photographs. The project was led by Henry Alsberg a journalist and playwright and Benjamin Botkin who was in charge of compiling the folklore for each book. The project provided work for more than 6500 men and women as writers collecting stories interviews and photographs on a variety of subjects. Each book covers a variety of topics; History Geography Agriculture Tourist attractions Education Religion Folklore and Folkways Ethnic Groups Architecture Arts Sports and Recreation and Business and Industry. This is a first printing of the Rhode Island guide published in 1937. 500 pages 5-1/2" x 8-1/4". Line drawing map of the state on the front pastedown - front endpaper pages. Several sections of b&w photos. No dust jacket. Some of the guides included a folded map stored in a pocket at the back pastedown the first printing of the Rhode Island guide did not include a map. No writing no former ownership marks. Dark red fabrikoid covered boards. Title on the spine panel and front cover board. Spots of rubbing wear to the covers at the edges of the head and heel of the spine panel and tips of the corners. This is not a library discard copy. Edges of the text block are clean and the binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1977rif. BN694867Washington ; U.S. Printing Office 1977. 1977. The Bicentennial of the United States of America American Revolution Bicentennial 1776-1976 - 5 volume set : A final report to the people. The Bicentennial of the United States of America American Revolution Bicentennial 1776-1976 - 5 volume set : A final report to the people. American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Washington ; U.S. Printing Office unknown
1939rif. E30008xNew York: Viking Press 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition carrying only "First Published in June 1939" statement on copyright page. Hardcover in navy blue buckram cloth lettered in gilt. Map endpapers. xxxii 735 pp. with chronology index. Folding map in pocket at rear. Illustrated with photographs and maps. A fine example in well preserved dust jacket with fade to the spine. Viking Press hardcover
2013rif. BN240121DATAMOTION PUB LLC 2013. 2013. Softcover. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways - 2009 Edition with 2012 Revisions Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways - 2009 Edition with 2012 Revisions U. S. Department of Transportaton Federal Highway Administration DATAMOTION PUB LLC paperback
2021rif. BN242073Ocotillo Press 2021. 2021. Softcover. FHA Single Family Housing Policy Handbook 17 Aug 2021 FHA Single Family Housing Policy Handbook 17 Aug 2021 Federal Housing Administration Ocotillo Press paperback
1943rif. RWOROHI00drpOxford University 1943. Very Good. Work Projects Administration. The Ohio Guide. NY: Oxford University 1943. 2nd printing. 634pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped spine ends. Small sticker-stamp on rear free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with small losses in spine ends and top corners. . Rear pocket glued to rear pastedown with large fold-out map inside. Oxford University unknown
1941rif. TB33750Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service WPA and CCC 1941. First Edition. Both volumes of this complete two volume set are in very good and near fine conditions. Both are small quartos of 10 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches bound in adhesive bindings in light brown cloth covered boards with darker brown text on the spines and front boards. The cloth at the head and heel of volume I is rubbed and worn and the upper fore corners of the front and rear boards are bumped but professionally straightened and strengthened. Volume II shows only light wear to the cloth at the head of the spine and the text block for this volume was made from two-hole punched paper. Volume I is made from standard un-holed paper. Both volumes contain four index tabs each. In volume I: Northwest Inland States; Pacific States; Yellowstone; and Yosemite; Volume II: Central States Southwestern National Monuments; Southwestern States; and Territorial Parks and Monuments. These two volumes contain 664 pages of bibliographies on 79 national parks and national monuments each one with its own pagination. This bibliography is not listed in any of the WPA or American Guide resources held by Town's End Books. OCLC locates only five institutions owning the book version of this title. The forward contained in volume I mentions that this project started in 1936 with: where "much credit is due Mrs. Hazel Hunt Voth for originally laying out the program and directing it until her resignation in April 1939." Hazel Voth's other other major accomplishment was A Bibliography of Yellowstone National Park which is reprinted in this set. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, WPA and CCC hardcover
1945rif. 000677Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1945. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 325pp. Brown paper covers black titles on front panel. Mild wear to extremities of binding. Stamp in red reads "Compliments of American Shipping Bureau." Contents are clean and unmarked. Two fold outs are crisp and intact. June 1945 report analyzes the drawdown and adjustments in use of American sea power at the end of WWII. Uncommon title. . Government Printing Office Paperback
1937rif. RDIGCAP00tpmModern Pilgrim 1937. Very Good. Digges Jeremiah. Cape Cod Pilot. American Guide Series. Works Progress Administration. Provincetown: Modern Pilgrim 1937. 1st edition. 403pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Yellow cloth. Book condition: Very good with soiled and slightly toned extremities. The corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and frayed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with bumped and cipped edges. Head of spine is held by tape. Extremities browning. In dust jacket protector. Modern Pilgrim hardcover
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1950rif. 10486New York: Oxford University Press 1950. Second Edition. 300pp. Octavo 20.5 cm Light blue cloth with the title in blue on the front board. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Very good/Very good. Price clipped jacket lightly worn at the extremities with an ink smudge on the front panel. Ownership stamp small on the front free endsheet. Revised edition of the first state guide published in the American Guide Series. Idaho Federal Writers' Project employees compiled information put into the guide but Vardis Fisher the state director wrote most of the guide. Vardis Fisher a native Idahoan was recommended to be the Idaho state director by a friend and former colleague Harold Merriam. This guide managed to bring national attention to Idaho and bolster the economy through tourism. Through its promotion of the landscape people and history of Idaho the Idaho guide reshaped the national perception of Idaho from a setting in a cheesy dime novel to a place of rugged landscapes and rich customs. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs and maps. Scharf/Schoyer 163. Powell 282. Adams Herd 1118. Howes F153. Oxford University Press unknown
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1922rif. 1403480Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 62 plus 17 illustrated plates. In Fair condition. Gray and purple paper wrappers; both covers detached complete loss of material to spine. Text block remains intact. Light age toning and heavy chipping along all edges of both covers. Age toning to text block. with moderate wear along the edges and dust soiling on the top edge. Light soiling along the fore edge of several pages and plates; page contents unaffected. Housed in a card-backed archival sleeve. Shelved in Room A. . The Autumn 1922 issue of the celebrated and influential avant-garde literary magazine The Little Review. Includes photography by Man Ray a short piece by Gertrude Stein and an essay by the editor Jane Heap referred to in the magazine as "jh" reflecting on the The Little Review's past serialization of James Joyce's novel Ulysses the subsequent obscenity trial and the shift in public opinion after the full novel's release earlier that year. . 1403480. Special Collections. Shakespeare and Company hardcover
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1946rif. 32192New York: Oxford University Press 1946. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press 1946. Second Printing. Octavo. 660pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations map to rear pocket. Illustrated dust jacket. Light green boards stamped in red; front map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket lightly wrinkled with chipping and creasing along edges; spine toned. Boards show light edgewear and binding sound. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; interior else unmarked; a Very Good copy. Forms part of the American Guide Series. Oxford University Press unknown
1941rif. 7435New York: Oxford University Press 1941. First Edition. Hardcover 490 pages. Very Good/Poor. First Edition. Light wear to boards with bumped lower and upper outer spine. Light foxing to outer text block and front and back paste-downs. Envelope affixed to back board paste-down housing large map of Wyoming. Map in good condition with light wear and foxing. Inscription cut and pasted to flyleaf page. Dust jacket shows heavy signs of reading wear scuffing and chipping to multiple areas with large tear along back flap. Oxford University Press hardcover
1938rif. 32395Washington: Government Printing Office 1938. Very Good -. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1938. Research Monograph XVII. Tall octavo 25.5cm; xxiv161pp. Photos tables and graphs throughout. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers a bit toned and edgeworn; lower inch of spine chipped away with adjacent tears; label for "William G. Mather 205 Horticulture Building" stricken in pencil for "Leadley" at bottom front. Tears starting along rest of front hinge with textblock opening easily between a couple gatherings but binding is holding. Pages unmarked. Works Progress Administration Monograph XVII. Government Printing Office unknown
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