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[Profusely-Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Activities of Joseph Accurio, a Young Italian American Serving in Soil Conservation Service Company 297]

[Profusely-Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Activities of Joseph Accurio, a Young Italian American Serving in Soil Conservation Service Company 297] by [Soil Conservation Service]. [Civilian Conservation Corps]. [Accurio, Joseph]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
[Profusely-Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Activities of Joseph Accurio, a Young Italian American Serving in Soil Conservation Service Company 297]
Author
[Soil Conservation Service]. [Civilian Conservation Corps]. [Accurio, Joseph]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[Various locations in New York and Oregon, 1937. Very good.. [25] leaves, illustrated with 176 vernacular photographs, between 2 x 2.5 inches and 3.5 x 5.5 inches, in mounting corners, plus a few ephemeral items, all artfully arranged and profusely annotated in white ink. Oblong folio. Contemporary light brown cloth with decorative blind-stamping and front cover stamped in silver, "Photographs," string tied. Moderate rubbing and edge wear. Light wear to contents. An excellent primary source providing an intimate look at a New York unit of the Soil Conservation Service in training and service in the mid-1930s through the eyes of a young Italian-American from New York named Joseph Accurio. At the time, the S.C.S. and C.C.C. worked closely together in the west, with the former group providing engineering and supervision for the latter, working on erosion control and other issues related to soil conservation. The young compiler of the present album, Joseph Accurio is identified in several photographs and the album includes a meal coupon issued to him. The annotation on the inside front cover reads, "N.Y. Picture Album of Co. 297 S.C.S. at Kanona, New York," with a photograph of Accurio and a friend posed with an S.C.S. truck. Company 297 began at Camp Kanona and later moved to Heppner, Oregon in late-1936. The present album documents both aspects of the unit's service, as well as the interim period while the unit was moving; the images here picture stopovers in Denver and Boone, Colorado. For most of the album, the annotations often identify both subjects (often with names and/or nicknames) and locations. The images feature Accurio and his fellow corps members in camp, traveling by train, at work and play, posed in front of trucks and camp buildings, laying dams and bridges, cutting wood, digging rocks, preparing meals, posed with their "company pets," and more. Most of the album features the company in Oregon, though a healthy percentage shows the company in New York and along the way. In addition to the images of the subjects, the photos feature the campsite they worked in, with a few excellent shots of the camp at Heppner, Oregon. Other photographs out west feature Heppner High School, American Falls in Idaho, Boone High School in Colorado, and other locations. An unusually well-conceived and captioned C.C.C. album documenting a significant period in a single company's history.
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Puteshestvie s Charli: V Poiskakh Ameriki [Travels with Charlie: In Search of America] by Steinbeck, John

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Seller: ZH BOOKS
Title
Puteshestvie s Charli: V Poiskakh Ameriki [Travels with Charlie: In Search of America]
Author
Steinbeck, John
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Moscow: Progress, 1965. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. [4], 5-255; beige cloth over boards illustrated in brown and black; minor fading and age-toning to spine; very light forward slant to spine; very good to near fine. A beautiful edition of John Steinbeck's classic on his road trip across the United States.
The Bartenstein Mystery

The Bartenstein Mystery by Fletcher, J.S. (Joseph Smith)

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books
Title
The Bartenstein Mystery
Author
Fletcher, J.S. (Joseph Smith)
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo., 211pp. Solid First Edition. Bound in yellow cloth with titles in red on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with no toning or foxing to pages. Mild wear to edges and tips. Soiling to cloth boards. Unfaded red top-stain though it is possible it was re-touched. Gorgeous unclipped dust-jacket, ($1.75), has a tiny closed tear on the top front edge that is almost unnoticeable. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or toning. Remarkably well-preserved. A very pretty collectable copy and quite uncommon in any condition and scarce in such a stunning dust-jacket. (Hubin, p.145).

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