Washington DC: The Record Pub. Co., 1936. Pamphlet. 30p. staplebound pamphlet, light handling. A defense of WPA projects, rebutting misleading claims by opponents that vast quantities of money were being wasted on useless projects. More
Cat.No: 280388
Chicago: Blackstone Theatre, 1936, 1937. Pamphlet. Two 5.5x8.5 inch programs; one for a 1936 production of Martin Flavin's "Broken dishes" (four-panel program, folded from a single sheet, corner creased, year penned on cover), the other for a 1937 performance of "The lonely man" by Howard Koch (8 pages, very good;..... More
Cat.No: 286540
San Francisco: The Federal Theatre/Works Progress Administration, 1935-1936. Three programs, 4p. each including covers, 6x9 inches, cast and crew listing, coming attractions on rear panels, light soiling, wear and toning. Playbills for the SF performances of "Battle Hymn" "Crock of Gold" & "The Devil Passes" in late 1935 and early..... More
Cat.No: 245278
[New York]: [WPA], [1937]. Paperback. Staplebound packet, each section individually paginated, mimeographed 8.5x11 inch pages, last page with edge tear. One half of a WPA-produced bibliography; the volume with Parts 1 and 2 not present. More
Cat.No: 254132
New York: National Joint Action Committee for Genuine Social Insurance, 1936. Pamphlet. 30p., stapled wraps, 5x7.25 inches, staples rusted, wraps a bit worn and foxed, else good condition. More
Cat.No: 41279
Washington, DC: Works Progress Administration, 1936. Paperback. v, 106p., 11.5x9 inch wraps; b&W photos, tables, graphs, glossy pages, slightly torn at bottom of spine, pencil notation on front wrap, rubberstamp on front wrap, mildly toned wraps, else in very good condition. Cover notes a '...special booklet "Interesting facts about the..... More
Cat.No: 124512
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. Hardcover. ix, 344p., frontispiece, introduction, index, illustrations, very good first edition in cloth boards and worn and chipped dj. More
Cat.No: 3729
Washington: GPO, 1937. Paperback. xxxviii, 317p., chipped wraps, corners of a few pages creased, minor wrinkling of rear pages from damp. US Works Progress Administration. Division of Social Research. Research monograph, 9. More
Cat.No: 48400
Washington: GPO, 1937. Hardcover. xxxviii, 317p., neatly ex library, maps, tables, slightly chipped dj. WPA. Division of Social Research. Research monograph no. 9. More
Cat.No: 33599
Washington: GPO, 1937. Paperback. xx, 226p., wraps chipped along the edges and spine and browned, minor internal creasing, else good first edition, folded table, eight full page illustrations from photographs (including by Mydans, Jung, Rothstein, & Lange) Workers Progress Administration. Division of Social Research. Research monograph 8. More
Cat.No: 69176
Washington: GPO, 1937. Paperback. xx, 226p., edge worn wraps, spine creased, library stamp on front wrap, minor internal creasing, first edition, folded table, eight full page illustrations from photographs (including by Mydans, Jung, Rothstein, & Lange) Workers Progress Administration. Division of Social Research. Research monograph 8. More
Cat.No: 148568
Washington DC: GPO, 1940. Paperback. xv, 89p., wraps, 7x10 inches, spine chipped else very good condition. At head of title page: Works Progress Administration. Divisions of Research and Statistics. More
Cat.No: 48522
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Hardcover. xx, 338p., preface, introduction, coda, appendix of locations, index, footnotes, illustrated with small b&w reproductions and photos, first printing, very good condition in like unclipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 205598
Philadelphia: Works Progress Administration, National Research Project and Industrial Research Department, University of Pennsylvania, 1938. Paperback. viii, 91p., wraps slightly chipped along the spine, library stamp on front wrap, else very good condition. Report no. P-3, part II. More
Cat.No: 47804
np: Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, [1935-1943]. 8p., stapled wraps, 5.75 x 8.5 inches, lightly worn else very good condition. Exhibition catalog for an exhibit of Hogarth's engravings, containing a brief biography, a list of engravings, and a few quotes from Hogarth. No illustrations except for the one on..... More
Cat.No: 249195
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. xviii, 436p., very good condition in a slightly yellowed dj with a sticker scar on the rear. Flanagan headed the Federal Theatre Project. More
Cat.No: 6820
Chicago: Chicago Civil Liberties Commitee [and] Illinois Civil Liberties Committee, 1942. Hardcover. x, 221p., illus., first edition, very good condition, tattered remains of the dj are present. The Illinois Federal Writers Project did the research for this book. More
Cat.No: 9569
Chicago: Chicago Civil Liberties Committee [and] Illinois Civil Liberties Committee, 1942. Hardcover. x, 221p., illustrated with woodcuts at each chapter head, hardbound in dark red cloth boards gilt. Lacks the jacket. Mild edgewear to casing, pastedown toned with a neat presentation inscription, clean unmarked text, a good copy. The Illinois..... More
Cat.No: 284668
New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. Hardcover. viii, 372p., first printing of this edition, in dust jacket; dust jacket spine is slightly sunned and worn at the ends, else in very good condition. Revised and expanded edition of "They Seek a City." The original 1945 work grew out of the..... More
Cat.No: 44635
San Francisco: the exposition, October [?] 1941. 132p., mimeographed recto-only leaves on slightly spongy but alkaline leaves, softbound upright 13x8.2 inch booklet, staple-fastened with binder's-tape header over plain printed marigold-yellow cover sheets. Has bits of fray at either end of the tape, mild dust-soil and minuscule stain to covers, text-stock..... More
Cat.No: 208472
Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1976. Paperback. 62p., 12x8 inches landscape format, introduction, preface, biography, bibliography, remembrances, memoirs, catalog of the exhibition, illustrated with photos and reproductions, very good slim trade catalog in pictorial wraps. Boynton was a WPA artist who visited the Gold Country of California in the 1930s and..... More
Cat.No: 188729
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978. Hardcover. xiii, 279p. + 8p. photos, stamped 'review copy', mild foxing to edges otherwise a very good first edition in cloth boards and slightly worn, unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 41494
[San Francisco]: n.p., [1967?]. Photograph. 8x10 b&w publicity photo of the artist standing beside his "Penguins Prayer" sculpture with a caption label affixed to back and wrapping over to front. The photo is likely just after the sculpture had been moved to the Center in 1967, certainly no later than..... More
Cat.No: 184880
Philaldelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Hardcover. xv, 249p., illus., dj spine faded, small remainder markon text block edge, in good condition. More
Cat.No: 12774
New York: Macaulay, 1927. Hardcover. 383p., light wear else very good first edition in blue cloth boards. *Hanna 557. "A farmboy caught up in the whirlpool of Chicago life." Itinerant laborer makes his way to the docks of Chicago. Cahill was the national director of the Federal Art Project of..... More
Cat.No: 267479
