New York: A Guide to the Empire State (American Guide Series)
- Hardcover
- New York: Oxford University Press, 1962
New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Eighth printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 782pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light blue cloth over boards. Extremities moderately rubbed and bumped. Several tiny stains to the fore-edge of the text block. In the price-clipped dust jacket, with light edge wear, including a 3/4" closed tear along the bottom edge of the front panel. The jacket is actually quite attractive. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York. Sponsored by New York State Historical Association.
From the dust jacket-
"The history of New York State is closely paralleled by the history of the nation in all its stages- its assimilation of the peoples of many lands, its problems of transportation, legislation, conservation, the emergence of commerce and industry as an urban civilization evolves. The writers of this Guide have done a magnificent job in organizing and presenting the vast amount of information at hand, summarizing the growth and development of the Empire State from the days of the West India Company to the present.
From the dust jacket-
"The history of New York State is closely paralleled by the history of the nation in all its stages- its assimilation of the peoples of many lands, its problems of transportation, legislation, conservation, the emergence of commerce and industry as an urban civilization evolves. The writers of this Guide have done a magnificent job in organizing and presenting the vast amount of information at hand, summarizing the growth and development of the Empire State from the days of the West India Company to the present.