Atlantique

1938 · 006220 — New York:: M. Barrows and Company 1938. A square tight copy. Minor browning to endpapers along gutter glue offset but all text remains fresh and crisp -- No foxing. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. This is Selvaggio's "probable second issue" with NO printers' union logo on the copyright page; instead the logo has been replaced by "Sole Distributors Rademaekers Newark New Jersey." Selvaggio speculates that Rademaekers may have handled the distribution of this variant to non-commercial markets such as schools and libraries. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Bound in the original pictorial yellow cloth printed in bright blue with a map of New Jersey pinpointing the locations of many of the state's historic attractions. From the title page: "Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey." Dykes 201: "Quite scarce. It seemed that I'd never find this one." Selvaggio 383. Powell 1039. Roos 1679. First Edition Probable Second Issue. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No jacket. 8vo. 422pp. M. Barrows and Company Hardcover