Author: Wpa [Federal Writers' Project],
Title: Cincinnati a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors.
Description: Cincinnati: Wiesen-Hart Press, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover; Second Printing. DJ spine sunned and with a couple of small, open tears. Back hinge started. ; Second state DJ with 'from 1788' under title and "second printing, May 1944" remark. The last significant guide produced under the Writers' project due to WWII. "Taffeta-Style" brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial design of the Cincinnati Fountain Square (Tyler Davidson Fountain). This is one of the three variants of the second-issue binding, the prettiest one in our opinion. Schoyer 489.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 570 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket.

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