WPA - Federal Writers Project; American Guide Series

Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Sponsored by Governor of Connecticut, Wilber L. Cross.

Red fabricoid with lettering stamped in gilt; 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; xxxiii, 539 pages with an index and bibliography; With 23 maps in-text, a large colored map with three maps on the verso in the rear pocket, tour map guide on the front endpages, photo illustrations arranged in 8 sections focusing on architecture  .

The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with foxing on the preliminaries.

The Mylar protected price-clipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed and edge-worn, tiny spot of loss on the top of the spine.

This is the only guide top prominently feature the name of a single author. The guide was reprinted [13x] more than any other guide.

Background Information:
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: Scharf & Schoyer, #108;  Hunter, 6

Item #19183

Price: $175.00