Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State

WPA - Federal Writers Project; American Guide Series

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1941

Sponsored by the Mississippi Advertising Commission. Red cloth with gilt titles The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Previous owner's name on the front paste-down with offsetting to the endpages. The Mylar protected dust jacket with the price of $2.75; darkened and rubbed has loss at the head and foot of the spine and front joint; the bottom corner of the rear flap chipped affecting the first words of the last four sentences. Some older tape reinforcement on the inside top edge. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; xxvi, 523 pages; With 7 in-text maps; tour key map on the front endpages; Large folded map of the state with two smaller maps on the verso. The first printing is reported to only be 10,000 copies. During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series. This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. Ref: Hunter 14 ; Scharf & Schoyer, #182. Seller Inventory # 19143

Bibliographic Details

Title: Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.