The River

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Heavily illustrated from film stills as well as a few photographs by Charles Krutch of the Tennessee Valley Authority and Ewing Galloway of the American Red Cross. Slim quarto. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, and several nicks and short tears.… Read more about this item

(New York): Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc, 1974. Softcover. Fine. First edition thus with new preface by the author. Octavo. 24pp., frontispiece photograph. Stapled decorated wrappers. A trifle soiled on the wrappers, still easily fine. Signed by the author. Lorentz was a documentarian, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, and New Deal activist who was known as "F.D.R's Filmmaker." This pamphlet… Read more about this item

Stackpole Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Stackpole Sons, 1938. Quarto. Blue boards stamped in black. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is good with shelf wear, edgewear and tears. Book placed in custom acetate… Read more about this item

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. (60pp). Map, numerous illustrations. Very good/good. Jacket lacks rear inner flap and is edgeworn and chipped, but overall attractive. First edition. A handsome copy of what the jacket touts as "A National Drama in Pictures and Sound," this photo essay follows Lorentz's documentary "Rich Land, Poor Land"… Read more about this item

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. A Good copy in blue hard covers, in an edge-worn Fair dust jacket with mends made with archival tape, and a few older tape mends, all on the verso of the jacket. Edge-rubbing to the covers. A clean/unmarked copy within, and not ex-library. Photography of the Mississippi River.… Read more about this item

New York: Stackpole, 1938. First. hardcover. fine/very good(-). Profusely illustrated with black & white photos.. 4to, blue cloth, d.w.(edge-chipped). New York: Stackpole, (1938). First Edition.<br/><br/> "In dramatic pictures and in sonorous text, the tragedy of the Mississippi River unfolds.... Based on his brilliant motion picture....here is an education in national geography and economic engineering, strikingly presented".<br/><br/> … Read more about this item

NY 1974 National Resources Defence. Octavo wraps. Fullpage photo portrait of Lorentz. 24p. Ltd to 2000 copies. ***Signed by Lorentz beneath the portrait. FINE except for faintest residue of removed price tag on front cover (almost invisible) Lorentz was Pulitzer prize winner. This booklet contains "prose-poetry of the first narrative section" of his 1938 documentary film on the environment. .… Read more about this item

New York: Stackpole and Sons, 1938. First Edition. Contemporary owner’s inscription; very good plus in dust jacket. The book prints narration and stills from the moving film, documenting the Mississippi’s devastating power.

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Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. ARC Advance Review Copy . Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Strong Very Good. See scans and description. New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. ARC [Advance Review Copy]. Quarto, unpaginated, no dustjacket as issued; jacket accompanied final first editions, which were of course subsequent to this ARC.… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.