Delaware: A Guide to the First State by Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Delaware - 1938

New York: The Viking Press, 1938 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. xxv, 549 pp. Illustrated. With 9 maps in text; tour key map on front end-papers; Pristine large colored fold-out map (with transportation and recreation maps on verso) in pocket at back. Sponsored by Edward W. Cooch, Lieutenant Govenor. American Guide Series. First Edition: June, 1938. Typical of the American Guide Series books published by Viking, with illustrations placed throughout the book and printed on same pages as text rather than arranged in thematic sections typical of other guides. Also, on Viking-issued guides the map pocket is placed on a stub rather than glued to the rear paste-down. Most photographs take by Willard S. Stewart, photographe for the Delaware Writers' Project, with four other photographs from the Farm Security Administration. Also many attractive pen-and-ink drawings contributed by John Moll of the Federal Arat Project in Delaware. Lightly age-toned gutters, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue coarse-weave cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine..