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1 WPA ALABAMA a Guide to the Deep South
New York Richard R. Smith 1941 First Edition Green Cloth Very Good- Price-clipped Dj Photogravures, Maps 
Much on architecture and all of the peoples of this state, with special attention to folklore and its music. The dust jacket on this copy is from the 1949 edition published by Hastings House. 004863 
Price: 150.00 USD
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2 WPA. Colby, Merle ALASKA A Guide to the Last American Frontier
New York Macmillan 1939 First Edition Blue Cloth Very Good Price-clipped Dj Photogravures, Maps 
A most unusual WPA guide: the state tours focus on railroad routes and fares (there being so few paved highways in this large state). It describes the Six Alaskas, popular misconceptions. Also much fun in the Chinook vocabulary list ( Wonder why Iditarodders tell their dog teams to "mush"? The answer is within). The only Guide with a single author credited on the title-page. Inner maps, endpaper maps, and folding map in the rear pocket. Peach color on spine has faded, inked name on half-title page. 004864 
Price: 100.00 USD
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3 WPA COLORADO A Guide to the Highest State
New York Hastings House 1948 Fifth Printing Cloth Very Good Chipped Dj Maps on Endpapers 
511 pages. Price-clipped dj. 005046 
Price: 20.00 USD
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4 WPA DELAWARE A Guide to the First State
New York Viking 1938 First Edition Blue Cloth Very Good  Short Tears in Dj Photogravures, Maps 
Comprehensive? This is 549 pages devoted to the second-smallest state. Front hinge cracked. 004870  
Price: 50.00 USD
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5 WPA IDAHO A Guide in Word and Picture
Caldwell, Idaho The Caxton Printers 1937 First Edition Pictorial Cloth Very Good Fair DJ Photogravures, Maps 
Curiously, this is the first American Guide published. It was edited by Vardis Fisher. [Howes F153]. There are two essays on Idaho Indians by Ruth E. Lyon . Other chapters on ghost towns, folklore, anthropology, hunting & fishing, etc. Folding Map inside. Front hinge cracked, inked name on endpaper. The scarce photographic jacket is taped and repaired, lacks lower two inches of top cover. 004871 
Price: 300.00 USD
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6 WPA Maryland
NY Oxford University Press 1940 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine  Near Fine History 
Lovely copy in first edition. 002574  
Price: 200.00 USD
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7 WPA MARYLAND A Guide to the Old Line State
New York Oxford University Press 1940 First Edition Cloth Very Good  Spine Chipped at Heel Photogravures, Maps 
Map on endpapers, and in rear pocket. Famous for its cuisine and Chesapeake cooking, this work provides the definitive recipes for Maryland's fried chicken, stuffed ham, terrapin, planked shad, crab, beaten biscuit, and apple toddy. 004868  
Price: 100.00 USD
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8 WPA MASSACHUSETTS A Guide to Its Places and People
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1937 Revised Edition Blue Cloth Very Good  Price-clipped Dj Photogravures, Maps 
Slightly smaller than the Michigan volume (696 vs. 675pp.) it was earlier expected to be 2000 pages or more. After the first printing, its coverage of the Sacco and Vanzetti Case was reduced to one paragraph -which is one paragraph more than the Boston Red Sox got ! Map endpapers, folding map in rear pocket. DJ is chipped at extremities, inked price on endpaper. 004866  
Price: 70.00 USD
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9 WPA MICHIGAN A Guide to the Wolverine State
New York Oxford University Press 1941 First Edition Green Cloth Very Good  Good + Photogravures, Maps 
Map in rear pocket, and on front endpapers. 696pp. - one of the longer and more comprehensive of the American Guides. Jacket is nearly complete, but with some tape on tears. 004862  
Price: 150.00 USD
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10 AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES. WPA MISSISSIPPI A GUIDE TO THE MAGNOLIA STATE
New York Viking 1943 Second Printing Cloth Very Good Very Good Photographs By Eudora Welty 
"Main emphasis has been placed upon the typical and average people of the State, rather than the exceptional elements. Thus the two essays on folkways deal almost wholly with the Mississipi farmer -the whites of the Central and Tennessee Hills, the Negroes of the Delta - Preface." 005232 
Price: 175.00 USD
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11 WPA Montana
New York Viking 1939 First Edition Boards and Cloth Fine  Close to Fine 
bEAUTIFUL COPY. 001515  
Price: 175.00 USD
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12 WPA New Hampshire
New York Houghton Mifflin 1938 First Edition Boards and Cloth Close to Fine  Minor Chipping, Else Near Fine Non-Fiction 
A beautiful copy of this first edition guide. 001513  
Price: 125.00 USD
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13 WPA NEW JERSEY
New York Viking 1939 First Edition Blue Cloth Very Good  Chipped Dj 
The metropolitan maps are on the reverse of the folding state map in the rear pocket. Inked numerals on free endpaper. 004869  
Price: 50.00 USD
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14 WPA Rhode Island
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1937 First Edition Hardcover Very Good  Very Good 
001443  
Price: 100.00 USD
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15 WPA Tennessee
New York Viking 1939 First Edition Hardcover Very Good  Very Good 
001445  
Price: 150.00 USD
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16 WPA UTAH A Guide to the State
New York Hastings House 1941 First Edition Black Cloth Fine  Chip on Front Cover Photogravures, Maps 
Chapters on Mormons, mining, and irrigation. Part IV covers the national parks and primitive areas of Utah. 004865  
Price: 100.00 USD
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17 WPA VERMONT A Guide To the Green Mountain State
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1937 First Edition Green Cloth Good  Lacks Jacket Photogravures, Maps 
Essay on "Vermonters" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, who contributed much more besides. Front hinge cracking. 004867  
Price: 15.00 USD
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