Arizona State Guide by Workers Writers Program (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. Fifth Printing. xvi, 510pp+ map and index. Address label on verso of front free endpaper, offsetting to prelims, else very good in publisher's dark red cloth; lacking the jacket.

"First published in April 1940" (stated at top of copyright page). xxvi, 530 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Tan cloth; brown lettering to spine and front board; spine has two-line "Federal | Writers' Project" above center; mild staining to rear board; boards' bottom fore-edge corners bumped with interior leaves affected likewise. Past owner's personal bookplate affixed atop ffep map; old tape repair to tear at bottom of Geronimo photo in book's third plate section with slender peeled adhesion to preceding recto; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.

Hardcover; Second Printing. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Excellent photos and text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 530 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hastings House January 1940 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. Sixth printing. Octavo, 530pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, about fine, with previous owner's bookplate on a preliminary leaf. In a nicer than usual example of the brittle dust jacket; very good or better, with a chip at the crown affecting part of the title, and a thin partial split at the rear flap joint. Uncommon in appealing condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Hastings House Publishers, New York. 1940. Hardcover. Stated First Published in April 1940. Boo is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light dust soiling to textblock top; light shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($2.50); wear and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; light rubbing to panels. Tan linen cloth boards and spine with dark brown lettering on the spine and front board. Maps as endpapers. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. This book is much more than a Guidebook to Arizona, it a whole library of information on the history, geography, people and culture of Arizona. The book has 64 pages of photographs and many road and city maps with suggested motor trips and tours. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

First Edition. 530pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth with the title stamped in brown on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Sponsored by the Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff (present day, Northern Arizona University). Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs and maps. Touring map on the front pastedown and endsheet, and a transportation map on the rear pastedown and endsheet.The essay section, entitled 'Arizona's Background,' includes essays on 'The Indians' as well as 'Indian Arts and Crafts.' Illustrations arranged in eight sections: Indians, The Desert, Territorial Days, The Mountains, Architecture, Mining, Agriculture, and Recreation. Works closes with a selective bibliography. Dykes 5. Herd 43. Powell 24. Scharf/Schoyer 22. Six Guns 30.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fifth printing. Like new in rust-colored boards, covered in a barely worn jacket. A lovely copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. American Guide Series edition. Original price of $2.50 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket 1/2 of Arizona missing in chip to head, archival repaired tears along with edgewear now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking.