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Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors

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Author: WPA – Federal Writers Project; American Guide Series

Publisher: The Wiesen-Hart Press

Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Sponsored by the City of Cincinnati. Taffeta-Style Brown ribbed cloth with gilt titles and decoration in smooth boxes; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Previous owner’s address label on the verso of the front endpage. A very good hardcover. The Mylar protected dust jacket is price-clipped; minimal age-toning with  corner rubs, light wear with a small chip over the ‘A’ on the front and professionally repaired spine tips. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; xxiv, 570 pages; Photographs and maps gathered into eight sections; With thirty maps in-text; Map on the front endpages.. 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: Hunter 19 ; Scharf & Schoyer, #486