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Jean-Michel Place, 1999. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover corners are worn. Cover is tanned with some very light stains and smudges, not affecting legibility. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

Oakland CA and New Haven, CT: Oakland Museum and Yale University Press, 1969. First edition thus. Oblong softcover. 145 pages. A revised and expanded edition of one of the best books to come out of the FSA experience, that shows the grim resolve and the conditions in the late 1930's dust bowl. Text by Taylor and powerful black and white images by Lange. This edition includes additional images by Lange and text by Taylor as well. An about very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear and some tiny indentations to the front cover that extend to the first few pages. Still a solid copy of this surprisingly uncommon version.

Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1999-10-15. paperback. Like New. 7x0x10. As new clean tight and bright oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. First Edition second issue. Hardcover. very good/good. Small quarto. 10 1/4" x 7 1/2". 158pp. Blue cloth. Photographically illustrated dust jacket. Bookplate on front endpaper. Price of $2.75 on bottom dust jacket flap. The second issue dust Jacket with rear panel showing the quotation from Voltaire. Bottom of cloth has some light edge wear. There is some loss to dust jacket at top of spine and front cover. Light fading to spine of dust jacket. Roth The Book of 101 Books pg 102,103.

Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. First edition, Second printing. Seminal piece and as stated, a record of human erosion. Rarely has the camera been used so beautifully and effectively as a documentary tool to convey an understanding, easily, clearly and vividly of what Steinbeck also showed in The Grapes of Wrath. Post-American depression migration of Americans moving in hardship through the 1930s finding a place. Near fine blue boards with gilt titles in very good illustrated (Lange) front cover with its pronounced Voltaire quote on the back cover. Top edge and only parts of the bottom edge have been reinforced. The book is in mylar protective cover. The full dignity of the front cover comes through quite nicely

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. First Edition. Royal octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 158 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges, light spotting to half title and title; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. Photographs gladly provided upon request.

Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1999. First printing of this edition, originally published by Reynal and Hitchcock in 1939. Husband and wife team Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor were hired by the Farm Security Administration to document the 300,000 strong, Depression-era exodus, and the struggles theses migrant workers overcame in search of basic necessities. Near Fine in wrappers (softcover). Sticker shadow on the front wrapper, light soiling on the rear, and light shelfwear.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in moderately worn jacket with chip to jacket spine head and at lower left corner of jacket rear panel. Quarto, original navy blue cloth with gilt titles, 158 pp., illustrated with black and white photos throughout, jacket. (Jacket rear panel with Voltaire quote). The compelling visual chronicle of America's great migrations of 1939: the exodus of Black day laborers and tenant farmers from the deep South and the flight of drought-stricken farming families from the mid-continental dust bowl.

NY: Reynal & Hitchcock. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth, print- patterned endpages. First edition, first printing in first issue DJ (lists "Mein Kampf." ) Points lightly bumped, foxing to text block edge, mild foxing to endpages. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is foxed, a bit edgeworn. ; quarto; 158 pages .

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 158 pages. One of the best books to come out of the FSA experience, that shows the grim resolve and the conditions in the late 1930's dust bowl. Features text by Paul Schuster Taylor and powerful black and white images by Lange. An about very good copy in blue cloth boards with some light wear to the spine ends and corners and some foxing to the pages but with the rubberstamp ownership stamp of Henry Holmes Smith to the half title page and in a very good second issue dust jacket (Voltaire quote on the rear panel) with some small chips to the spine ends and corners, a small chip to the base of the front panel and some other edge tears and wear. Still, a solid copy of this classic with an excellent provenance. (Roth 102-103, Parr & Badger v1, 142-143).

Clean, tight book with gilt on boards intact and no noteworthy flaws. Price-clipped dustjacket shows edgewear with loss at front corners and spine tips. White rear panel soiled, spine sunned. Despite the flaws described, a better-than average copy Reynal Hitchcock New York 1939 1st Edition Hardback Cloth, large 8vo. 158 pp. Blue linen, gilt spine and front board. Endpapers have printed passages from the book. Pictorial dustjacket. Four years of photographs showing the migration westward of Americans forced off their land by drought, depression, and mechanization. Roth 102.