[Rarebooks] fs: WPA guide books

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(No. 8844 )  Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration 
for the State of Massachusetts [WPA]. MASSACHUSETTS: A GUIDE TO ITS PLACES 
AND PEOPLE (AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. First printing, Full cloth, Octavo, 
xxxvi, 675 pages, black & white photographs, maps. Good in a Good, 
Price-Clipped Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      First edition, first printing of the classic WPA Guide to 
Massachusetts, with large two-sided folded map in pocket on rear pastedown. 
Typical of these acclaimed guides, there is much detailed information on the 
history and character of the state, its government, architecture, 
literature, culture, and more. Some of the text herein was later changed 
after a controversy erupted over its coverage of the Sacco and Vanzetti 
Case. Includes driving tours, a chronology, a bibliography of 50 books about 
Massachusetts, and more. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with front 
endpaper map and map in pocket on rear pastedown. The map has short tears 
along two folds. Minor extremity rubs, shallow bumps. Hinges remain strong 
and sound. Jacket has some edge chips, tears, and rubbed wrinkles. A nice 
copy....... $75.00
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(No. 9379 )  Workers of the Writers' Program, Works Projects Administration 
in the State of Ohio. THE NATIONAL ROAD IN SONG AND STORY.
[Columbus, OH]: [Stoneman Press], 1940. First printing, Wrappers, Octavo, 48 
pages, drawings, centerfold map. Good.
      Brief historical narrative followed by several poems, published to 
commemorate the centennial of the completion of the "National Pike" across 
Ohio. The centerfold map shows the road's progress across the state by year, 
with an inset map showing the road spanning the modern United States as US 
Route 40. Text is illustrated throughout with drawings by Arthur Griffith. 
Ends with a chronology. BREWER #737. Bound in printed paper covers over a 
saddle-stapled binding. Rubs and browning to covers with a 1.5cm area at top 
fore corner of front cover where top layer of paper has been lifted off as 
if by adhesion. Top fore corners of last 4 leaves mis-trimmed, otherwise 
interior is near fine. Nice copy of an uncommon WPA booklet....... $75.00
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(No. 6718 )  [WPA] Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects 
Administration. KANSAS: A GUIDE TO THE SUNFLOWER STATE (AMERICAN GUIDE 
SERIES).
New York: Hastings House Publishers, (1949). Second printing, Full cloth, 
Octavo, xxii, 538 pages, Black & White photographs, maps. Near fine in a 
good, price-clipped dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      The WPA guide with characteristically well-written essays on Kansas's 
culture, history, Indians, architecture, agriculture, journalism, 
transportation, cities and towns, etc. The famous editor of the Emporia 
Gazette, William Allen White, contributes to this volume. Includes a 
chronology, excellent bibliography arranged by topic, and complete index. 
Bound in brown cloth over boards with black stamped spine and upper board 
lettering and rule, endpaper maps. Light extremity rubs. Jacket has a bit of 
fading to spine, an almond sized and shaped hole at lower part of spine, and 
minor edge wear....... $50.00
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 Wierzbicki, F[elix]. P[aul]. (1815-1860) (Introduction by George D. Lyman). 
'California as it is, and as it may be, or, a Guide to the Gold Region.'
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