Mississippi: A Guide To The Magnolia State (American Guide Series) Compiled And Written By The Federal Writer's Project Of The Works Progress Administration Americana,Business/Trade/Industry,Regional Histories

The Viking Press, New York. 1938. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the half title page from Biloxi, Miss (July 10th 1938). Book Condition: Good; suntoning to spine; light shelfwear to board edges; soiling to textblock edges; last blank page removed from rear. No DJ. Green tweed cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Front endpaper is a map; rear is blank. WPA map is present in rear (1938) and other tourist materials from the 1940s. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 544 pp 8vo. This is one book of the American Guide Series, a WPA project to help out of work writers and do something that had never been done before- to organize a travel and historical guide to all the states. This book goes beyond the limits of a conventional guidebook, first, in its attempt to picture and explain contemporary Mississippi by presenting its people, culture, physiography, politics, folkways, economics and industry in relation to the historical past; and, second, in its narrative a detailed description of points of interest. A clean presentable copy.