n.p. (Livingston, NJ): Progress Publishing Company and sponsored by the Township of Livingston, 1939. First Edition. Very good+ in brick red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board together with a blind embossed town seal on the front board and with illustrated end papers. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with printed end sheets. There is a prior owner's name and address written at the lower corner of the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 166 pages including an index, text and illustrated with a section of black and white photographs and a map of the township. As stated on the title page this is one of the volumes from the WPA's American Guide Series and one which is extremely uncommon.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB33009
Title: Livingston The Story of a Community
Author: WPA
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Progress Publishing Company and sponsored by the Township of Livingston
Place of Publication: n.p. (Livingston, NJ)
Date Published: 1939
Bookseller catalogs: American Guide Series;

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