Rivers of America: River of the Carolinas - The Santee

Title: River of the Carolinas: The Santee

Author: Henry Savage, Jr.
Year Published: 1956
Year Printed: 1956

Date Acquired: February 11, 2023
Where Purchased: Pequod Used Books, Rocky Mount, NC
Price Paid: $5

Read Status: Read (April 8, 2023)

Notes/Thoughts

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45. Mission San Xavier Del Bac: A Descriptive and Historical Guide

 Title: Mission San Xavier Del Bac: A Descriptive and Historical Guide

Author: State of Arizona Writers' Program of the Work Projects
Year Published: 1940

Date Acquired: June 26, 2021
Where Purchased: eBay
Price Paid: $40.95

Read Status: Read (August 21, 2021)

Notes/Thoughts

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44. My Friend Flicka

Title: My Friend Flicka
Author: Mary O'Hara
Year Published:1941

Date Acquired: October 2019
Where Purchased: Received as Gift
Price Paid: n/a

Read Status: Read (December 13, 2019)

Notes/Thoughts

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Washington: City & Capital

Title: Washington: City & Capital
Author: Federal Writer's Project
Year Published: 1937
Year Printed: 1937

Date Acquired: April 27, 2019
Where Purchased: Capitol Hill Books, Washington, DC
Price Paid: $150

Read Status: Read (April 25, 2021)

Notes/Thoughts

•  Probably way overpaid for this book and could've just got the one without the book jacket for $85 (still had map), but at least it's supporting independent bookstores in person (on Independent Bookstore Day, too) and maybe one day I still can complete the series buying them in person. Almost got a Rivers of America book, but put it back since it was a later 1960s one in that series and this has been my number one want for the American Guide series.
• "But the crises are not its own - it [Washington City] does no more than reflect (sometimes, it is true, with fringes of distortion) the advancing or retrograde movements of a country's civilization. Above and beneath its myriad illusive aspects, it is essentially the condensing-mirror of national conditions, sentiments and aspirations, the sounding-board of a national vox populi." - p.67

43. Green Grass of Wyoming

Title: Green Grass of Wyoming
Author: Mary O'Hara
Year Published:1946

Date Acquired: February 9, 2019
Where Purchased: The Book Stop, Tucson, AZ
Price Paid: $12

Read Status: Read (July 29, 2021)

Notes/Thoughts

• I have long been trying to find My Friend, Flicka for my 1940s collection as I remember my grandma talking about her horse Flicka, which we assume she named from the book. I didn't even realize it was a trilogy, but now I have all except the one I knew to look for.

42. Thunderhead

Title: Thunderhead
Author: Mary O'Hara
Year Published:1943

Date Acquired: February 9, 2019
Where Purchased: The Book Stop, Tucson, AZ
Price Paid: $6

Read Status: Read (June 6, 2020)

Notes/Thoughts

• I have long been trying to find My Friend, Flicka for my 1940s collection as I remember my grandma talking about her horse Flicka, which we assume she named from the book. I didn't even realize it was a trilogy, but now I have all except the one I knew to look for.

Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State

Title: Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State
Author: Federal Writer's Project
Year Published: 1938
Year Printed: 1938

Date Acquired: October 13, 2018
Where Purchased: Maxwell's House of Books, La Mesa, CA
Price Paid: $15

Read Status: Read (September 17, 2019)

Notes/Thoughts

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41. New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State

Title: New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State
Year Published: 1940
Year Printed: 1940

Date Acquired: October 13, 2018
Where Purchased: Maxwell's House of Books, La Mesa, CA
Price Paid: $72

Read Status: Read (April 21, 2019)

Notes/Thoughts

• Has book jacket
• Has map

40. Rivers of America: The Charles

Title: The Charles
Author: Arthur B. Tourtellot
Year Published: 1941
Year Printed: 1941

Date Acquired: October 13, 2018
Where Purchased: Maxwell's House of Books, La Mesa, CA
Price Paid: $25

Read Status: Read (November 10, 2018)

Notes/Thoughts

•  #230 of the Boston edition signed by the author

39. The Theatre Book of the Year 1945-1946

Title: The Theatre Book of the Year 1945-1946
Author: George Jean Nathan
Year Published: 1946
Year Printed: 1946

Date Acquired: May 18, 2018
Where Purchased: Larry Edmunds Bookshop, Los Angeles, CA
Price Paid: $6.95

Read Status: Read (March 30, 2019)

Notes/Thoughts

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Rivers of America: Suwanee River - The Strange Green Land

Title: Suwanee River: Strange Green Land
Author: Cecile Hulse Matschat
Year Published: 1938
Year Printed: 1938

Date Acquired: March 10, 2018
Where Purchased: Black Swan Books, Richmond, VA
Price Paid: $25

Read Status: Read (June 2, 2018)

Notes/Thoughts

• Not a 1940s book, but part of the Rivers of America series that I'm focusing on collecting along with the American Guide series.

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.

32. Plantation Parade: The Grand Manner in Louisiana

Title: Plantation Parade: The Grand Manner in Louisiana
Author: Harnett T. Kane
Year Published: 1945
Year Printed: 1945

Date Acquired: November 7, 2016
Where Purchased: Rhino Booksellers Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN
Price Paid: $8

Read Status: Read (August 1, 2017)

Notes/Thoughts

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31. The American Indian: North, South and Central America

Title: The American Indian: North, South and Central America
Author: A. Hyatt Verrill
Year Published: 1943
Year Printed: 1943

Date Acquired: November 2, 2016
Where Purchased: Burke's Book Store, Memphis, TN
Price Paid: $3

Read Status: Read (July 29, 2017)

Notes/Thoughts

• Found a signed copy of Southern Horizons here and was tempted to get it, especially since it had the book jacket and my copy was already falling apart when I bought it.