The Valley and Its People: A Portrait Of TVA
by Duffus, R.L. And Charles Krutch
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Quarter green cloth, pictorial paper boards. 167 pp. B&W photos throughout. Sunning to top and tail edges. Rubbing to tail edge. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket darkened and bumped to extremities, chips to top edge. TVA Pre-fabricated house plans laid in. Here, in a happy collaboration of compact text and nearly one hundred superb photographs, is told the story of the nation's first great experiment in rebuilding by the stimulus of public enterprise a region laid waste by decades of exploitation. By partisans and critics of the new Deal alike, the achievements of the Tennessee Valley Authority have been summed up as the one incontestably solid pre-war accomplishment of the Roosevelt Administration.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005353
- Title
- The Valley and Its People: A Portrait Of TVA
- Author
- Duffus, R.L. And Charles Krutch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Charles Krutch, R.L. Duffus, TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee, New Deal, public works Projects
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Geography;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...