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Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Lonesome Road: The Way of Life of a Hobo 0.39. Book.

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Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a small sticker shadow at the lower fore corner of the front cover, and some damage to the cloth at the tail of the covers. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Boy and Girl Tramps of America by Thomas Minehan, Grosset & Dunlap 1934. Condition: very good, sturdy, binding strong, endpapers foxed, pages clean. Good-Very Good all in all.

XVII, 267 S. Einband berieben, bestoßen, fleckig, mit Einrissen und etwas Verlust. Handschriftlicher Besitzereintrag auf fliegendem Vorsatz. Immer wieder etwas fleckig. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 20 x 14 cm, Leinen mit Kopffarbschnitt.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. Red boards with gilt title to front and spine. Boards are mildly worn. Moisture mark to front at bottom and at the spine at the tail. Moisture mark to top edges of half-title page, frontispiece and title page. Toning to endpapers. Dust jacket chipped at head and tail of spine; front flap fold torn; red moisture mark to inside, minor chips around all extremities.

Etat : New. In.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Blue/green cloth with gilt titling, tanned to spine and to margins of front and back, light age-soil, gilt at spine rubbed away, though the gilt at front is sharp and bright. Interior toned, free of markings.

Hardcover, 267 pages. Etat : Near Fine. Minehan, Thomas (illustrateur). Second Printing. Second Printing. Cloth bound with art and gilding on front board and outer spine. Very light bumping to top and bottom of outer spine. Light bumping to top right front board. Binding is tight. Nice copy!

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [somewhat worn copy, with rather severe fading to spine cloth, gilt lettering on both spine and front cover heavily rubbed, one-time owner's signature and date on front endpaper]. (B&W photographs) Classic Depression-era account of "wild boys (and girls) of the road" (to steal the title from the William Wellman-directed film about youthful hoboes that was released the previous year), illustrated with photograph taken by the author, a young sociologist who was then a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. In the early years of the Depression, he began hanging out with unemployed men in the city's mission district (presumably Minneapolis, although he doesn't actually say), and later living "in hobo railroad yard camps or jungles and river shanty-towns, [where] I found mor and more youths and not a few girls." As he got more and more involved, his plan "was to associate with as many homeless persons as possible under conditions of social equality, to experience their life, to record their stories, to ascertain in as scientific a manner as possible their opinions, ideas, and attitudes." At the conclusion of his research, which he conducted on weekend, holidays, and vacations, and more extensively during the summers of 1932 and 1933, he had compiled "a thick dossier full of notes and impressins, 500 life histories of boys and girls I had met on the bum, 1,000 samples of conversations, and over 2,500 opinions, ideas, and attitudes expressed by all classes of transients under all conditions." After beginning to organize all his gathered data in a systematic, scientific manner, however, he came to realize that "to describe their life in statistical terms was not only inadequate, it was untrue. Such a description omitted the most important phases of their lives, their strife against cold, their battle for bread, their struggle to obtain and repair clothing, their hates, their humors, and their loves. An artist -- not a scientist -- was needed to pain what I had seen, record what I had heard. And I was not even an amateur craftsman. Yet for the sake of the homeless thousands of boys and girls, I decided to try." This book was the result.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publishers pictorial boards, spine titles in black. A volume in the Way of Life Series. Cautionary tales of a sort aimed at young people to point out the perils of life on-the-road. 64 pages, illustrations throughout. Trivial rubbing at tips, a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition w/NAP, hardcover, has bumps to the spine ends and corners, faint sunning to the spine, some smudging and spots to the covers, and slight foxing to the head. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Near Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. "Illustrated with Photographs by the Author", 8.25 x 5.5", old red library cloth, 267pp with Glossary, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, EX-LIBRARY with usual markings, pp toned and worn with some finger soiling, edge-chips, and waterstaining to lower margins. SCARCE in any edition (this is a reprint of the Farrar and Rinehart edition).

Hardcover. Octavo. 64 pages. First Edition. The author spent time "on the road" himself to learn what happened to young people who were tramps and hobos. This down-to-earth story is the fruit of these efforts at gathering information on their thinking and way of life. Illustrated by Gregory Orloff. Fine. Bound in illustrated cloth over boards.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Pictorial boards (depicting a bindlestiff huddled against the cold with a boxcar in the background). 64pp., illustrated with drawings by Gregory Orloff. Some light foxing to the boards, else a very good plus copy. A book in the Way of Life Series, apparently intended for young people, this takes the form a novella of an orphan boy taking to the road. Attractive and interesting volume.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Pictorial boards (depicting a bindlestiff huddled against the cold with a boxcar in the backgroung). 64pp., illustrated with drawings by Gregory Orloff. Owner namestamp on front and rear pastedowns, a bit soiled and well-read but still a sound very good copy. A book in the Way of Life Series, apparently intended for young people, this takes the form a novella of an orphan boy taking to the road. Attractive and interesting volume.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering are Very Good for age with a bit of fading and light edgewear. A bit of tanning to front and read endpapers but, otherwise, text is clean, bright, and unmarked. Scarce copy in great condition. book.

Hardcover. Etat : very good. Etat de la jaquette : very good. Octavo. 22 cm. x 14 cm. 267pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. In color pictorial dust jacket. Price of $2.50 on dust jacket flap. Some chipping with a small tears at edges of jacket.