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
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
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: 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
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 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
New York: Avon Books, 1999. Hardcover. 302p., first edition, very good in a very good dj with price intact. More
Cat.No: 136104
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: 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
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
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
Washington: GPO, 1939. Paperback. 226p., wraps slightly soiled, penned initials on front wrap, else very good condition. Federal Works Agency. Public Works Administration. More
Cat.No: 33596
Los Angeles: Office of the County Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles County, 1942. 53p., mimeo'd rectos, 11x8.5 inch staplebound wraps under mimeo'd cover sheet, binder's tape spine. Cheap paperstock very browned and mildly fragile, rear "hinge" separated without any tearing or detachment (probably best not to "repair" this as it..... More
Cat.No: 148379