first edition
1940 · New York
by WPA
New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. First Edition. Very good in decorated gray cloth covered boards with dark red text and decorations on the spine and front board with map end sheets. An octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with wear and rubbing to the cloth at the corner of the spine and to the lower tips of the boards. The front paste down has a name of a prior owner Missing its issued dust jacket. One of the later volumes in American Guide Series and one which is repeatedly given high praise for its coverage of the state. 660 pages including an index, appendices, and illustrated from photographs, maps and with map front end papers. In the pocket at the rear end sheet is the fold-out map (Schoyer, 523; Brewer, 765; Dykes, 278) (Inventory #: TB33549)