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Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Thus. First printing of the Bison Book Edition with an introduction by T.A. Larson.

50th anniversary edition reprint of the original May 1938 edition published by The Viking Press. xxxiv, 545 pages. Paperback: H 21.25cm x L 13.75cm. Glossy paper covers rubbed with slight scuffing at edges; bumping/creasing at spine heel and at front cover's adjacent lower left; spine sunned. Slight soiling and a few stains to text block edges with a few leaves affected at margins; three leaves creased at their top fore-edge corners from past fold-ins; interior leaves overall remain quite clean. Binding retains some crispness. ISBN 0878053697.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. First Paperback Edition. 8vo (23 x 15 cm). 652 pp. Glossy green covers with steamboat to upper. Blue/black titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked.

New Revised Edition (as stated upon title page). xxiv, 411 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed with a slight scuffing/nicks and short tears at edges; some soiling to white rear panel; a few foxing spots evident to panels but much stronger upon dj's blank verso; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Dark blue cloth spine lightly bumped at ends; gray boards. Foxing to text block edges and endpapers; interior pages remain clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With six unpaged sections of b/w plates (all new for this revised edition) plus three city maps for Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile amongst text; four appendices include Chronology, Bibliography, Map of Alabama in Sections (on pages 391-400 as opposed to the rear pocket large foldout map provided in the 1941 and 1949 editions), and Index. Text divided into three major parts: "Alabama Yesterday and Today" (titled "Past and Present" in the original edition), "Cities" (originally "Courthouse Squares") providing history, description, and points of interest for Anniston, Birmingham, Decatur, Florence, Gadsden, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, and Tuscaloosa, and "Tours" (same as the original). Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {AL-Shelf#9} ISBN 0803803915.

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Sept. 15 (weekend SALE item)* First edition, first printing, 122 pp., plates; folding map, original red cloth (hardcover), very good (lacks dust jacket). Includes large folding map. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Reprint. Reprint. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, lightly tanned pages. Map in sleeve at back of book is in good to very good condition. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with edge rubbing, darkened gilt lettering on front and spine. ; Guidebook to destinations in North Carolina, published under a New Deal program. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ; American Guide Series; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 601 pages.

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Sept. 15 (weekend SALE item)* first edition; 244, [5] pp., plates, folding map at the back; original cloth (hardcover), very good in an edge-worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Reprinted Edition. Book has light bumping to top edge of spine, a mild slant to spine, light foxing to textblock, light foxing to a couple of pages, mild foxing to back endpage, and a couple of small indents to front cover. otherwise book is still in very good condition with a solid binding, clean pages, and a bright cover.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (US history, kentucky, KY) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Second edition. -- Includes photographs, key map to the tours on front endsheets. -- Hardcover, light blue covers. Condition: very good, no jacket.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Includes fold-out map. (US history, kentucky, KY) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

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Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 687 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's red cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight wear including sunning to the spine and some rubbing to the head/tail edges. Text block has slight wear with moderate age toning to the edges. Ex-library markings to the head edge. Pictorial end papers. Previous owner's information to the front and rear end papers. Few notations to the rear end paper. Folded map in a pouch affixed to the rear pastedown. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column O, ND-O. 1388671. FP New Rockville Stock.

Revised edition (originally published 1938). lxii, 416 pages plus unpaged plates. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket with blue front panel illustration parodying the Clark Mills equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in the Vieux Carre's Jackson Square; dust jacket well wrinkled with several short tears; front flap's top right corner scuffed but retains publisher's printed price. Aquamarine cloth with slight toning at edges. Slight toning to endpapers; interior leaves are clean. Binding is firm.

Hardcover. xxv, 530p., hardbound in tan buckram boards titled brown. Find endpaper maps, foreword, preface, general information, calendar of annual events, chronology, bibliography, index, illustrations, photos and maps. Second state of the first printing per our bibliography, with spine lettering reading American/Guide/Series on three separate lines. Casing is faintly dished, cloth bears mild general handling soil with spine panel less "mild" with a smudge next to title, hinges seem good but front hinge has been strengthened with glue applied to tunnel and book is now "tight-back". Endsheet gutters are a bit toned and the first dozen leaves, along with ffep, are bumped and damp-damaged (i.e., damp-stain mars these margins, texts remain easily legible). Fair to good copy. American Guide Series Illustratedbears.

Third printing (first published by Viking Press in May 1938). i-xxiv, 1-545 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Black cloth mildly mottled; spine slightly cocked; slight fraying at spine ends; board corners worn; spine's gilt stamping quite dulled; front board's gilt stamping remains reasonably bright but certainly not vibrant. Light foxing to text block's top edge; light stray ink mark on bottom edge. Some foxing/toning to endpapers; peeling and glue residue from removed bookplate on front pastedown with paper abraded at top margin obscuring an ink inscription; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Rear pastedown pocket lacks its foldout state map. Fourteen maps amongst text including tour maps for the towns of Columbus, Holly Springs, Natchez, and Vicksburg. Sponsored by the Mississippi Advertising Commission. Foreword by WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. Preface by State Director Eri Douglas and State Editor Gene Holcomb. B/w photographs throughout with images by Willa Johnston, Gene Holcomb, O.N. Pruitt, Earl M. Norman, and W. Lincoln Highton as well as three images by Eudora Welty: GATHERING FOR A POLITICAL RALLY on page 9, SHANTYBOAT LIFE on page 16, and A ONE-MULE POWER CANE PRESS on page 449. Concluding appendix section features Chronology, Bibliography, and Index. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {MS Shelf #22|NCE-009}.

First Edition, First Printing. -- Many photographs. Key to tours map on front endsheets, and transportation map on rear endsheets. -- Hardcover, black covers. Condition: very good minus (covers very slightly warped; cover lettering a little dulled; no jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION Very Good + hardcover Book (No DJ). Ex library from United Methodist Publishing House.Quarter inch closed tear to cloth on spine.No map in rear pocket.Shelf 592. Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No highlighting// Not remainder marked // Not a Book Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 2nd printing. Chipping to spine ends of jacket and to ends of flap folds, couple other quarter-sized chips. Price-clipped.

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, 538 pp. Near-Fine, with light edgewear; in a badly torn, mylar protected dust jacket. Kansas, United States History, U. S. History, American History, Americana.

Second printing with corrections (as stated upon copyright page; originally published 1940). xxxii, 782 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket toned, soiled, and chipped/torn; front panel and front flap detached but only subtly evident as dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right. Teal cloth. Text block edges toned; a few small stains to upper fore-edge. Some tearing to rear pastedown pocket which retains its color foldout map. Endpapers toned; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 526.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Cover cloth faded and soiled with a sun toned spine and curling corners. The binding feels slghtly loose in the hand with the rear hinge split about half way down from the top. The text is unmarked with light creasing to several pages. ; Original map is creased and has several small tears with a couple of longer (about 4") tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 538 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. A VERY GOOD HARDCOVER IN DJ.

First edition, early printing (but not a first printing for lack of "1938" at foot of title page per Houghton's contemporary practice). lxiv, 430 pages plus unpaged plates. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Blue cloth; usual slight fading to spine cloth with its gilt stamping a bit dulled but still legible; front board's gilt stamping remains reasonably bright. Text block edges toned. Light toning and a touch of soiling to endpapers; past owner's O'Casey family Mississippi and Ireland genealogical-themed bookplate affixed upon front free endpaper verso; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. City map illustration to front endpapers; foldout color map (lightly toned and, unfortunately, no longer following its original folds) present in rear pastedown pocket; brief Foreword by WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins; Foreword (introductory letter) by New Orleans Mayor Robert Maestri who was also the guidebook's co-operating sponsor; Preface by Lyle Saxon and Edward P. Dreyer; eight unpaged sections of b/w plates (mostly photos but including six illustrations by Caroline Durieux); b/w illustrations as chapter headpieces and/or tailpieces; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. Primary text divided amongst three sections titled as "New Orleans: The General Background," "Economic and Social Development." and "Sectional Descriptions and Tours" which feature numerous chapters including "History," "Racial Distribution," "Folkways," "Architecture," "Creole Cuisine," "The Carnival" (i.e. Mardi Gras), "Cemeteries," "Some Negro Cults," etc. Perhaps the best city guide published under the WPA auspices but, of course, New Orleans' insouciance provides content unique among American metropolises. Bibliographical references: Dykes #119; Powell #587; Bienes Catalogue #129; Scharf & Schoyer Catalogue #225-#233. Acquired from the estate of Birmingham, Alabama pathologist, bibliophile, and genealogist Dr. Albert Eugene Casey (1903-1982) who served as director of laboratories at Birmingham Baptist Hospitals from 1942-1972 with his aforementioned personal bookplate ffep verso. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller.