Allen Ronald Compiled (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, xviii, 265 pages, chiefly illustrations; 25 x 29 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by author Allen Cohen on the title page, with a presentation inscription on the preceding leaf. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. *** "Between 1935 and 1946 a group of photographers working for the federal government fanned out across the country to record American life in pictures. Among them were some of the great documentary photographers in American history--including Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Marion Post Wolcott. This massive photographic project, carried out primarily under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) and later preserved at the Library of Congress, was unrivaled in scope: no comparable attempt to document life in this country has ever been made. Times of Sorrow and Hope is devoted to the Pennsylvania photographs in the FSA-OWI collection. It is both a book and an online catalog. The Times of Sorrow and Hope book features 150 selected images from the approximately 6,000 Pennsylvania photographs, and they cover themes ranging from coal mining, steelworkers, and women in wartime industries to cities and small towns, farm life, family life, and life among the Amish and Mennonites. The book also includes an essay introducing the FSA-OWI project, an introduction to the catalog of the entire collection of Pennsylvania photographs, and a historical essay on Pennsylvania during the Great Depression and World War II." - Publisher. Size: Oblong. SIGNED. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Quarto. Brown textured boards gilt stamped without dustwrapper, as issued. Fine. Inscribed by Allen who compiled this bibliography of rare Tennessee imprints limited to 500 copies. Tipped in is an actual leaf from J.W.M. Breazeale's *Life As It Is*; the first page of the introduction.