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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: 48409More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 65469More details Price: $30.00 -
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: 66677More details Price: $30.00 -
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: 71594More details Price: $26.50 -
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: 34918More details Price: $85.00 -
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: 82780More details Price: $21.50 -
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: 60171More details Price: $25.00 -
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: 19646More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 66499More details Price: $25.00 -
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: 61126More details Price: $35.00