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Sherwood Anderson. The Face of America-Home Town. Alliance Book Corporation, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Some chipping to dust jacket, small tears present - still a sound copy. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
Seller: Green Apple Books and Music, san francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1940. First Edition. Quarto (10.25" x 7"); [ii], 145pp. Gray cloth with green lettering. Missing dust jacket. Boards toned along edges and down spine, Endpapers rather heavily toned as well, with some biopredation along edges of rear free endpaper. A few sparse instances of toning through text, but all legible and unmarked. Binding is sound. Photos throughout by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, and series editor Edwin Rosskam. [SHEEHY & LOHF 61].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photos, 10.25 x 7", cloth, 145pp + list of photographers, covers rubbed, spotted and toned, spine yellowed and soiled, endpapers toned; still, a good, usable copy of the FIRST EDITION. Photos by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Dorthea Lange, Marion Post, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon, etc.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Endpapers foxed.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Home Town (The Face of America). Alliance Book Corp., New York, 1940.
Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original cloth. Scattered foxing, mostly to cloth, edges, and endpages; edge soiled. Cloth faded. The DJ in mylar is toned, mildly nicked/edgeworn. ; Farm Security Photographs; quarto; 145 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Home Town: The Face of America. Alliance Book Corporation, 1940.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover without dustjacket, 146 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Home Town. Alliance Book Corp, New York, 1940.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Text by Anderson with numerous photographs from Farm Security Photographers such as Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Marion Post, Arthur Rothstein and many others. A very good copy with some of the usual darkening to the endpapers and some sunning and foxing to the edges of the boards in an about very good dust jacket that has numerous edge chips and tears and wear. Still, a very presentable copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Home Town. Alliance Book Corporation, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing of the volume in "The Face of America" series. Jacket is tanned, chipped and missing a fair amount along the top edge, front and back. Book as tanning to boards along top 1/5 inch. Beautifully printed photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and others. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Home Town. Alliance Book Corporation, New York, 1940.
Price: US$174.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition with no additional printings noted. Heavily illustrated with photograhs by the Farm Security Photographers including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Very light edgewear to unclipped DJ with small 1/2" closed tear on rear panel. Some light dusting to DJ edges. Very slight edgewear to binding with minor fading to top edge of boards. A few minor glue stains to outer cloth of rear hinge. Book remains an exceptional copy, tightly bound with unmarked contents.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy with a touch of sunning to the top edge of the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel and missing a piece from the bottom edge of the rear panel. In the small town, where everybody knows everybody's first name where everybody knows everybody's business, Sherwood Anderson sees the foundation and the test stone of democracy. The Farm Security Agency is well known for the influence of their photography program, 1935-1944. Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. The Information Division of the FSA was responsible for providing educational materials and press information to the public. Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks were three of the most famous FSA alumni. This portrait of small town America is more nostalgic than investigative and features photographs by Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Marion Post, Russell Lee, John Vachon and Dorothea Lange. 145 pages.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: First edition; 8vo (255 x 174 mm, 10 x 6¾ in); black-and-white photographs by FSA photographers printed in gravure, note about the photographs by Edwin Rosskam, production crease to one leaf; cream endpapers with light toning at gutter, light blue cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in green on spine and upper side, lightly faded with spotting along joints, photo-illustrated yellow dust-jacket, printed in green and black, light wear to extremities, tiny chips to head and foot of spine, short tear to bottom edge upper panel and upper spinefold, shallow crease to spine, small bookselller's label to front free endpaper, near-fine; [iv], 145, [3]pp. Home Town comprises photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) by Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Edwin Rosskam, John Vachon, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post, Carl Mydans, selected by FSA editor Edwin Rosskam, paired with a series of essays by Sherwood Anderson reflecting on life in small American towns. It was published shortly before Anderson departed for Latin America on assignment for Reader's Digest, where he was also travelling as an unofficial goodwill ambassador for the U.S. State Department as the threat of war intensified for the United States. Edwin Rosskam began working for Roy Stryker as a visual aid specialist in 1938, designing layouts for the Farm Security Administration and making photographs for Stryker's Standard Oil project. The following year, he made another book using FSA photographs, 12 Million Black Voices (1941) with Richard Wright. Photographers of the FSA P2.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Alliance Book Corporation. 1940. 145 pgs. Illustrated with numerous photographs from Farm Security Photographers such as Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Marion Post, Arthur Rothstein and many others. First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Sherwood Anderson on the FFEP. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (chips and missing pieces present to the extremities of the DJ). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. In the small town, where everybody knows everybody's first name where everybody knows everybody's business, Sherwood Anderson sees the foundation and the test stone of democracy. The Farm Security Agency is well known for the influence of their photography program, 1935-1944. Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. The Information Division of the FSA was responsible for providing educational materials and press information to the public. Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks were three of the most famous FSA alumni. This portrait of small town America is more nostalgic than investigative and features photographs by Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Marion Post, Russell Lee, John Vachon and Dorothea Lange. E-68; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. Home Town. New York Alliance Book Corporation 1940, 1940.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. This was the office file copy of Sherwood AndersonÕs agent, Harold Ober Associates, sent to them by Mrs. Sherwood Anderson (Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson), and is inscribed by her in pencil on the front flyleaf: ÒReturn to Mrs. Sherwood Anderson, Marion VA.Ó Very good copy in a heavily chipped and torn tape-repaired dust jacket missing a number of pieces at the spine. Illustrated with photographs by the Farm Security Photographers.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.