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  • FROM BALLOTS TO BREADLINES: AMERICAN WOMEN 1920-1940: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 8. by (Cott, Nancy F., General Editor) Deutsch, Sarah Jane .
    (Cott, Nancy F., General Editor) Deutsch, Sarah Jane .
    FROM BALLOTS TO BREADLINES: AMERICAN WOMEN 1920-1940: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 8.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The eighth volume in this excellent series - the first multivolume series of the public and private lives of women over four centuries, each written by a distinguished historian. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Chronology, suggestions for further reading, index. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5080637.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.

    Book ID: 48409
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  • SONGS OF WILLOW FROST. by Ford, Jamie.
    Ford, Jamie.
    SONGS OF WILLOW FROST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set against 1920s Depression-era Seattle. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-0345522023.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 65469
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  • SONGS OF WILLOW FROST. by Ford, Jamie.
    Ford, Jamie.
    SONGS OF WILLOW FROST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set against 1920s Depression-era Seattle. SIGNED plus a chop mark on a blank preliminary page. 322 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-0345522023.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 66677
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  • SONGS OF WILLOW FROST. by Ford, Jamie.
    Ford, Jamie.
    SONGS OF WILLOW FROST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set against 1920s Depression-era Seattle. SIGNED plus a chop mark on a blank preliminary page. 322 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-0345522023.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot, corners slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 71594
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  • Howard, Donald S.
    THE WPA AND FEDERAL RELIEF POLICY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1943. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive study of the program itself, eligibility, numbers employed and of the broader issues of relief as a government function. Illustrated with data tables, diagrams and maps. Index. 879 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dj. A good copy of a hard-to-find work.

    Book ID: 34918
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  • THIS TENDER LAND. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    THIS TENDER LAND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2019). Hardcover first edition - A stand alone novel set during the Great Depression by this award-winning writer. "1932, Minnesota - the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie OBanion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendents wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own." Author's note. 450 pp. ISBN: 978-1476749297.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82780
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  • THE GOOD KNOW NOTHING: A Tom Hickey Novel. by Kuhlken, Ken.
    Kuhlken, Ken.
    THE GOOD KNOW NOTHING: A Tom Hickey Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the award-winning series featuring police detective Tom Hickey - an unusual series in that the books were not written in chronological order. Set in 1936 "as destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm into California, an old friend brings police detective Tom Hickey a manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie's long ago disappearance. Tom lures the novelist B. Traven to a meeting on Catalina and accuses him of manuscript theft and homicide. Traven replies that the Sundance Kid, having escaped from his reputed death in Bolivia, killed Charlie. Tom crosses the desert to Tucson, tracking the person or ghost of…

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    Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the award-winning series featuring police detective Tom Hickey - an unusual series in that the books were not written in chronological order. Set in 1936 "as destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm into California, an old friend brings police detective Tom Hickey a manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie's long ago disappearance. Tom lures the novelist B. Traven to a meeting on Catalina and accuses him of manuscript theft and homicide. Traven replies that the Sundance Kid, having escaped from his reputed death in Bolivia, killed Charlie. Tom crosses the desert to Tucson, tracking the person or ghost of the legendary outlaw. He meets a young Dust Bowl refugee intent on avenging the enslavement of his sister by an L.A. cop on temporary border duty in Yuma. Tom frees the sister, delivers the boys revenge, and becomes a fugitive, wanted for felony assault by the L.A.P.D., his now-former employer." 277 pp. ISBN: 978-1464202865.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the edges of textblock) Surprisingly uncommon in hardcover first edition

    Book ID: 89095
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  • MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: DOROTHEA LANGE. by [Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965] Arrow, Jan.
    [Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965] Arrow, Jan.
    MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: DOROTHEA LANGE.

    Edition: First UK printing, a large square trade paperback.

    London & Sydney: MacDonald & Co, (1985). First edition - The photographs of Dorothea Lange caught the essence of a country in the grip of drought and financial disaster. Twenty-five of these photos are included here, in a full page format, suitable for framing. ISBN: 0-356-108528.

    Condition: Near fine (sunning to the spine and edges of the cover)

    Book ID: 60171
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  • SCRAPBOOK ON AMERICA. by Line, Frances Raymond, assisted by Helen E. Line.
    Line, Frances Raymond, assisted by Helen E. Line.
    SCRAPBOOK ON AMERICA.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Irvine, CA: Wide Horizons Press, 1990. First edition - A portrayal of the author's boyhood days at Lake Howell in Michigan and of more than 60 years of traveling across the United States - mostly in the West. Illustrated with photographs. 163 pages plus index. ISBN: 0-938109-073.

    Condition: Fine (as new.)

    Book ID: 19646
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  • THIS SIDE OF JORDAN. by Schulz, Monte.
    Schulz, Monte.
    THIS SIDE OF JORDAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1929, this is a novel "told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling toward the Great Depression, and evokes a long ago America of crowded Main Streets and tourist camps, miles of cornfields, rural churchÂes, and musty parlors" SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-1606992968.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 66499
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  • FARTHING'S FORTUNES. by Wright, Richard B.
    Wright, Richard B.
    FARTHING'S FORTUNES.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which "sees our hero (seduced at 15 by his amorous guardian) fleeing rural Canada to set forth on a lifelong journey of adventure - a search which takes him to the bustling, immigrant-filled New York City of the 1890s; to the Klondike Gold Rush; to Europe, where he runs into the "war to end all wars"; and to the rail yards and hobo jungles of the Great Depression. . . a picaresque tale that is a triumph of the comic imagination." SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-7705-14332.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61126
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