The Floods of Johnstown
Johnstown, Pennsylvania: Mayor's Committee of the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, (1939). Softcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 36, [2]pp. Illustrated from drawings, map. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine. More
Johnstown, Pennsylvania: Mayor's Committee of the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, (1939). Softcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 36, [2]pp. Illustrated from drawings, map. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine. More
New York: Hastings House, (1949). Hardcover. Third edition. A bit soiled, very good or better without dustwrapper. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with Peter Taylor's ownership signature. Also laid in is a leather bookmark, inscribed..... More
Washington, D..C. United States Government Printing Office, 1937. Hardcover. First edition. Very thick octavo. 1140, [2]pp. Illustrated. Two large folding maps in rear pocket. Private owner's small shelf number on spine, and a small ink number on the half-title, a little cocked, but otherwise tight and very good or better..... More
(Bayonne, NJ): The New Jersey Commission to Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement by the Swedes and the Finns on the Delaware (Jersey Printing Company), 1938. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Dr. Amandus Johnson. Octavo. 165pp. Map endpapers. Many plates. Small owners label front pastedown, some foxing on first..... More
(Elizabeth, New Jersey: Colby & McGowan), 1938. Hardcover. First edition. With an Introduction and Notes by Amandus Johnson. Tall octavo. 387pp. Blue cloth gilt. Small owner label front pastedown, topedge a trifle soiled near fine in very good dust jacket with a few old tape repairs. Scarce in jacket. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1937). Hardcover. Early reprint. Octavo. 675pp. Illustrated with photographs. with map in a pocket on the rear pastedown. Ownership signature of author and Nobel Prize-winner Alexis St. L. Leger (better known as Saint-John Perse) on front fly. Neat underlining and notes, likely in the hand of..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, (1984). Softcover. Reprint. First Pantheon Books edition. Introduction by Alfred Kazin. Trade paperback. xxii, 26pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Drip-stain inside front wrapper and on top edges of preliminary pages, corners lightly curled, spine a touch sunned, about very good. Originally published in 1938..... More
New York: Direction, 1938. Softcover. Octavo. Illustrated wrappers. With eight prints by Federal Art Project. Stain on foredge, encroaching a little on the margins of some pages, crease on rear wrap, very good. Contributors include Kenneth Rexroth, Weldon Kees, Harry Kemp, and many others. More