38. County Squire in the White House

Title: County Squire in the White House
Author: John T. Flynn
Year Published: 1940
Year Printed: 1940

Date Acquired: September 18, 2017
Where Purchased: Eleanor Roosevelt NHS, Hyde Park, NY
Price Paid: $3

Read Status: Read (May 27, 2018)

Notes/Thoughts

•  I said I wasn't going to get any more books outside the American Guide and Rivers of America series because my bookshelves are almost full, but I couldn't resist when there were several 1940s books being sold to support a historic site.

37. Rivers of America: The Wisconsin - River of a Thousand Isles

Title: The Wisconsin
Author: August Derleth
Year Published: 1942
Year Printed: 1942

Date Acquired: July 13, 2017
Where Purchased: Pages Past, Greensboro, NC
Price Paid: $20

Read Status: Read (March 31, 2018)

Notes/Thoughts

• Has book jacket

North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State

Title: North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State
Author: Federal Writer's Project
Year Published: 1939
Year Printed: 1939

Date Acquired: July 13, 2017
Where Purchased: Pages Past, Greensboro, NC
Price Paid: $15

Read Status: Read (March 27, 2018)

Notes/Thoughts

• Not a 1940s book, but part of the American Guide series and there doesn't necessarily appear to be a 1940s edition for this state and I have decided to focus only on WPA and Rivers of America books for now as I'm running out of bookshelf space.

36. Rivers of America: The Shenandoah River

Title: The Shenandoah River
Author: Julia Davis
Year Published: 1945
Year Printed: 1945

Date Acquired: June 20, 2017
Where Purchased: Gift
Price Paid: Gift

Read Status: Read (September 9, 2017)

Notes/Thoughts

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35. Doctor Dolittle's Circus

Title: Doctor Dolittle's Circus
Author: Hugh Lofting
Year Published: 1925
Year Printed: 1948

Date Acquired: April 9, 2017
Where Purchased: eBay
Price Paid: $12 (paid mostly with eBay Bucks, so only a couple dollars out of pocket)

Read Status: Read (June 12, 2017)

Notes/Thoughts

• I broke my rule of not buying online because I am trying to read the Dr. Dolittle series this year. I couldn't find an e-book version of this one and it made sense to just buy a 1940s edition since I couldn't get it much cheaper as anything else. Unfortunately, it ended up being pretty bad condition AND I found a Kindle version was just released. I guess at least I don't have to totally ruin this copy by reading it and will just read it on Kindle since I have free slow shipping credits that I never know what to use on anyways.

34. Modern English Usage

Title: Modern English Usage
Author: H. W. Fowler
Year Published: 1926
Year Printed: 1947

Date Acquired: March 26, 2017
Where Purchased: Southwest Library Book Sale, Washington, DC
Price Paid: Free (found it on the penny rack and they actually let you get them free or at least since I was buying another book for a whole quarter)

Read Status: n/a

Notes/Thoughts

•  Probably never going to actually read this book, but it's a good companion to my grandpa's 1940s dictionary for reference needs, I suppose.

33. Chicken Every Sunday

Title: Chicken Every Sunday
Author: Rosemary Taylor
Year Published: 1943
Year Printed: 1943

Date Acquired: January 3, 2017
Where Purchased: Bookmans Speedway, Tucson, AZ
Price Paid: $6

Read Status: Read (August 4, 2017)

Notes/Thoughts

• I really didn't expect to find a 1940s book in Bookmans much less the one I've been trying to find on my Tucson visits for years.
• p. 4 - "Uncle Harry, Father’s brother said, “I think you two are crazy to build so far out; the town will never catch up with you."
• Always funny when reading Rosemary Taylor and West University was considered "out in the country" and that's where we built a house as "downtown" when everyone was building in that time period's "out in the country" instead.