50 years ago: WPA/AAA
New York: Washburn Gallery, 1986. Pamphlet. 39p., staplebound, wraps a tad rubbed from shelfwear, artists' names are penciled in next to each illustration, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 299678
New York: Washburn Gallery, 1986. Pamphlet. 39p., staplebound, wraps a tad rubbed from shelfwear, artists' names are penciled in next to each illustration, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 299678
Quoddy Village, ME: National Youth Administration, [1940?]. Pamphlet. 23, [1]p. + 1 folding map, illustrations, wraps. 7.75 x 4.5 in. Handbook provided to participants in a vocational training program for Depression-era youth at Quoddy Village, a community originally meant to house workers for a nearby dam project. The dam was..... More
Cat.No: 312475
n.p. Private Edition, Adam's Acre Press, 1965. Pamphlet. 22p., 6x9 inches, personal inscription in pink ink on title page and final page, signed by the poet/publisher, poetry booklet in with stains to corners of the covers, stapled tan wraps. Cornel Adam Lengyel (who also published as Cornel Adam) was a...... More
Cat.No: 296837
New York: Coward-McCann, 1930. Hardcover. ix, 177p., cloth-covered boards, illus., boards stained, front hinge starting, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, small splash stain on fore-edge, else good later printing. No dust jacket. Children's book inspired by the author's time in Tahiti. Biddle was an artist and muralist who..... More
Cat.No: 297384
Oakland: Correll Studios, 2005. Paperback. 117p., profuse captioned fullpage plates, b&w only as called for, large-format softbound in 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps, back cover providing one of several photoportraits of the artist. Near-fine, the faintest of signs of any handling, totally sound, clean and unmarked. Lynd Ward stuff, just as..... More
Cat.No: 308746
Albany, NY: New York State Education Department. Pamphlet. 7, [1]p., illustrations, wraps. Very good. A WPA initiative to “provide employment for professionally trained men and women in need of relief; and, second, to furnish additional educational and recreational opportunities for the unemployed.” With illustrations showing English language classes, women in..... More
Cat.No: 311790
New York: Stage, 1938. Magazine. 80p., 10x14 inches, articles, reviews, interviews, cartoons, film stills, production stills, calendars, scripts, very good glossy oversized entertainment magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Second installment of six: "I Wanted to Be an Actress" by Katherine Cornell as told to Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick. Also a photo..... More
Cat.No: 296122
New York: Stage, 1937. Magazine. 196p., 10x14 inches, articles, reviews, interviews, cartoons, film stills, production stills, calendars, spine chipped heavily at head and tail, worn covers, fair glossy oversized entertainment magazine in pictorial wraps. The Fond Memories are written as if by various theatre personages like Heywood Broun, Burns Mantle..... More
Cat.No: 302018
New York: Stage, 1938. Magazine. 88p., 10x14 inches, articles, reviews, interviews, cartoons, film stills, production stills, calendars, scripts, very good glossy oversized entertainment magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover portrait of Bea Lillie in "Doctor Rhythm". A short play by Anderson about Russians awaiting death in a Bolshevik prison. Photo..... More
Cat.No: 295358
San Francisco: City Publishing Company, Inc./Francis Ford Coppola, 1976. Magazine. 64p. including covers, 11x13 inches, illustrations, photos, articles, very worn, oversized weekly magazine on newsprint, in worn stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on the WPA murals and artists in SF. More
Cat.No: 289771
npl: North Dakota Humanities Council, 1982. Pamphlet. [52p.], 8x7 inches; slight spine sunning, else very good. More
Cat.No: 301036
Georgetown, CA: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1970. Pamphlet. [vi] 55p., 5.5x8.5 inches, signed limited edition of 500 copies, poetry booklet in with stains to rear cover, stapled wraps. Living Poets Series. Cornel Adam Lengyel (who also published as Cornel Adam) was a Merchant Marine, Forest lookout, Shipwright, Music Teacher and he..... More
Cat.No: 296824
Washington: GPO, 1938. Paperback. xx, 167p., wraps, ex library, spine worn, paperclip dent on first page, illustrated with full page FSA photos including 2 by Ben Shahn and 1 by Dorthea Lange. Works Progress Administration. Division of Social Research. Research monograph 15. More
Cat.No: 148709
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1976. Pamphlet. 23p., wraps, 9.25x9.25 inches, very good condition. Smithsonian Institution Press publication no. 6217. More
Cat.No: 298294
Roswell, NM: Roswell Museum and Art Center, 1989. Staplebound. [8]p., illustrations, wraps. 6.75 x 8 in. Address label on rear cover. Catalog of paintings and drawings by the artist, who had fought in Spain with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and produced numerous anti-war works, some inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, under..... More
Cat.No: 306519
Washington DC: WPA/Federal Theatre, [1937]. Pamphlet. Four panel program, 6x9 inches, cast, crew, synopsis, misfolded and with several horizontal creases, toning, good only. A touring production of a comedy about a young, man brightly hanging up his hat in a bank where he had no job and becoming the leading..... More
Cat.No: 308509
Millerton NY: An Aperature Book, 1984. Hardcover. 78p., first edition hardcover in 11.5x10 inch openweave grey cloth boards titled silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. Casebinding's bottom edge is sunned at the heel, top edge is sunned its whole length and has spotty foxing to top of textblock. The..... More
Cat.No: 290243
San Francisco: Works Progress Administration, 1939. Paperback. ii, 171p., wraps, illus., very good condition, 8.5x11 inches, mimeographed on one side only as issued. More
Cat.No: 316975
Akron, OH: Akron Community Chest, 1941. Paperback. 59p., wraps slightly soiled, minor edge wear and minor internal creasing, staples start to rust else good condition, illus., map tipped in rear. Sponsored by the Akron Department of Recreation in cooperation with the Akron Community Chest and the Akron Chamber of Commerce..... More
Cat.No: 316979
Cynthiana, KY: The Hobson Book Press, 1944. Hardcover. 300p., illus., cover slightly shelf worn, spine lettering a bit dull else good condition. (American guide series). More
Cat.No: 316981