Livingston: The Story of a Community
USA: Progress Printing Company, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Sponsored by the Township of Livingston.
Maroon Cloth with lettering stamped in gilt; 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; viii, 166 pages. with an index and appendix. 24 pages of illustrations bound between page 86 – 87.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Minimal shelf handling wear with an address label on the verso of the title page. Lacking the front-free-endpage.
The Mylar protected dust jacket is unpriced as printed. is lightly handled, modestly age-toned with minor spine tip wear.
A detailed history of a small community.
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, #205; Hunter, 16
Item #19210
Price: $95.00
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