The Shenandoah [Rivers of America] de Davis, Julia; Frederic Taubes [Illustrator] - 1/1/1945

Farrar & Rinehart, 1/1/1945. Hardcover. Good. 7x5x1. First edition, first printing with FR symbol on copyright page. Original cloth, dust jacket. Chipping, wear to edges of jacket. Foxing to inside flaps and top page ends. Price clipped. <br> The Rivers of America was conceived by Constance Lindsay Skinner. Skinner envisioned the series: "This is to be a literary and not a historical series. The authors of these books will be novelists and poets. On them, now in America, as in all lands and times, rests the real responsibility of interpretation. If the average American is less informed about his country than any other national, knows and cares less about its past and about its present in all sections but the one where he resides, it is because books prepared for his instruction were not written by artists." The series was widely popular and was extended to 65 volumes over 37 years.