Key West, Florida

WPA - Federal Writers Project; American Guide Series

Edité par Hastings House, New York, 1941

Sponsored by the Florida State Planning Board. Aqua-blue cloth covered boards with stamped titles in white. Map endpages. Illustrated through-out with period b/w photographs. Bindings square and tight. Text clean, with previous owner's address label stamp on the verso of the front free endpage on front endpage; offsetting to preliminaries. The Dust jacket presents well, price-clipped, darkened spine; small closed tear on the top rear panel near the spine. 122 pages with index. 8.25 inches tall. Extensive Bibliography. Illustrated with endpage maps; photographs and b/w reproductions of artwork. Notable for the selection of essays on the 'contemporary scene', history, industry and commerce and fishing followed by "Points of Interest'. The appendices include chronology, bibliography, and index.11 of the photographs are by Rothstein of the Farm Security Administration and 10 etchings by F. Townsend Morgan, director of the Key West WPA Community Art Center. 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, 143; CBH, 9. N° de réf. du vendeur 19037

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Key West, Florida
Éditeur : Hastings House, New York
Date d'édition : 1941
Reliure : Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good