first edition Hardcover
1941 · New York
by Hunt, Dr. Lester C. (Secretary of State)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 490pp. Octavo [21 cm] Yellow cloth covered boards with brown ink stamped titles and vignettes on the spine and front cover. Map front endpaper. Spine a bit rolled back. Small soiled scuff mark to bottom fore-edge of text block. In a worn dust jacket, with 7 tape repairs to the reverse, and an open tear along the bottom edge of the rear panel, measuring 1 1/2 deep by 1/2 inch wide. Corners of jacket clipped, but $2.75 price intact. With the map in the rear pocket, in very good condition. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wyoming.
From the dust jacket-
"Full of the distinguishing flavor of the State, and important as American history, WYOMING is also a practical guide book, giving detailed information for the tourist on hunting and fishing laws, transportation, accommodations, equipment, sports, museums, tours,etc. The 64 pages of photographs, a most interesting and enlightening glossary of cowboy lingo, and many cowboy songs, the folk music of the plains, are added features. (Inventory #: 69266)
From the dust jacket-
"Full of the distinguishing flavor of the State, and important as American history, WYOMING is also a practical guide book, giving detailed information for the tourist on hunting and fishing laws, transportation, accommodations, equipment, sports, museums, tours,etc. The 64 pages of photographs, a most interesting and enlightening glossary of cowboy lingo, and many cowboy songs, the folk music of the plains, are added features. (Inventory #: 69266)