WPA from Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Posters of the WPA
by DeNoon, Christopher
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- 1987
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$60.00
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Los Angeles: Wheatley Press, 1987. Small folio (29cm). Black cloth, in white pictorial jacket; [176]pp; color illustrations throughout. Generally clean and bright, with minimal pencil marks to f.f.e.p.: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, price-clipped: Very Good. Item Price
$60.00
19 Democratic Party Campaign Broadsides for the Elections of 1938
by [FDR] [NEW DEAL] Democratic National Campaign Committee
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- 1938
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$650.00
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[Washington, D.C.]: Democratic National Campaign Committee, 1938. 19 quarto broadsides (12" x 7-1/2" - ca. 30.5cm x 19cm), with text and illustrations printed recto-only in black on variously-colored stock. Light upward curl along lower edge, and a few broadsides with subtle toning to extremities; two examples with some old, faint splash marks, and a handful with modest wear along… Read more about this item Item Price
$650.00
Rural Relief and Recovery
by VANCE, Rupert B.
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- First Edition
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- 1939
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$25.00
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Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Light wear from handling, old defaced price sticker to upper cover slightly affecting text without loss of meaning, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the Works Progress Administration Social Problems pamphlet no. 3. Item Price
$25.00
Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection
by [EVANS, Walker] KELLER, Judith
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- First Edition
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- [1995]
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, [1995]. First Edition. Large quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxii,410pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of soil to textblock extremities, else Fine. Item Price
$60.00
Planning Our Resources
by [GREAT DEPRESSION] [NATIONAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE]
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- 1938
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$30.00
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Washington DC: GPO, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 35pp. Brief pencil annotation to front cover, else Fine. On the mission and accomplishments of the Depression-era National Resources Committee, the successor entity to the National Planning Board of the Public Works Administration. Item Price
$30.00
Music Unheard: An Anthology of Hitherto Unpublished Verse [Vol. I only]
by MANSFIELD, Margery, ed
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- [1939]
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$35.00
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New York: Henry Harrison, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket printed in brown; 308,[12]pp. Jacket rather brittle with some chipping to extremities, rather substantial loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear panel affecting publisher's advertisements with loss of meaning to approx. 9 lines of text, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good in… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
Music Unheard: An Anthology of Hitherto Unpublished Verse [Vol. I only]
by MANSFIELD, Margery, ed
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- [1939]
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$50.00
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New York: Henry Harrison, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket printed in brown; 308,[12]pp. Jacket rather brittle with some chipping to extremities, closed tear at top edge of rear panel only just missing text, shallow loss at bottom edge of upper panel affecting "Vol. One," else a Very Good copy in the scarce… Read more about this item Item Price
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On the Drumhead: A Selection of the Writing of Mike Quin. A memorial volume
by QUIN, Mike [pseud. Paul Willia Ryan]; Harry Carlisle, ed.; Victor Arnautoff, illus
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- 1948
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$75.00
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San Francisco: Daily People's World & the Mike Quin Memorial Fund to Aid Young Writers and Artists, 1948. First Thus. Octavo (24.25cm.); original black morocco-backed pictorial boards in paper-covered slipcase; xliv,341pp.; woodcuts throughout. Slipcase a bit rubbed and discolored from dust-soil, ownership signature to front free endpaper else Near Fine in Very Good slipcase. Posthumously published writings of the… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment
by GOURVITCH, Alexander
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- 1940
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$35.00
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Philadelphia: Work Projects Administration, National Research Project, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo (25.5cm.); original blue card wrappers; xiii,[1],252pp. Light wear and foxing to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Report No. G-6. Item Price
$35.00
Beet Sugar
by ADAMSON, Raymond K. and Miriam E. West
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- 1938
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$50.00
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Philadelphia: Works Progress Administration, National Research Project in cooperation with National Bureau of Economic Research, 1938. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm.); original blue laminated printed wrappers; xxiv,190pp.; illus. Some bubbling to lamination, wrappers rather worn from handling, else About Very Good. Forms part of the series Productivity and Employment in Selected Industries. Report No. N-1. Item Price
$50.00
Hilltop Russians in San Francisco. Pictures by Pauline Vinson [Limited Edition]
by SAROYAN, William; Pauline Vinson, illus
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- [1941]
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$250.00
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[San Francisco]: James Delkin, [1941]. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Quarto (29cm.); original linen-backed decorative boards, green printed dust jacket; [14]pp. & 30 leaves of color plates with printed tissue-guards. Spine faded to tan, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Reproduces thirty of Pauline Vinson's watercolor portraits of members of the… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Typed Letter, Signed. 2pp, to Ben Shahn, dated 31 July 1967
by LOCKE, Edwin
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- 1967
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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$175.00
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Camp LaGuardia, NY, 1967. Original 2pp typed letter on two sides of a sheet of hotel letterhead, dated 31 July 1967. Addressed: Dear Ben [Shahn], signed in ink "Ed Locke." Three old folds, else fine. A warm and personal letter from Shahn's old friend and fellow FSA photographer, including and commenting on two poems Locke has written: "...a bit… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00