New York: The Viking Press, 1938. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxv, 549 pages. B1-282. First edition. Edited by Jeannette Eckman, Anthony Higgins and William H. Conner. Written as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Well-illustrated. The map is present in the pocket in the back. Jacket chipped with tears and is price clipped. Spine of book is faded. Ink inscription on half-title.
framed, variously measured. Five frames holding a total of twenty bookplates from notable American industrialists. Industrialists include: the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Tobacco manufacturer Pierre Lorillard, banker and aviation consultant William A. M. Burden, iron ore conglomerate Samuel Mather, inventor King C. Gillette, mercantilist Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, industrial Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson, mercantilist W. Atlee Burpee, Jr., automotive tycoon Walter Chrysler, industrialist J. Ogden Armour, industrialist Henry Harkness Flagler, newspaper.....
