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According to Longfellow, Paul Revere visited "every Middlesex village and farm" in one night, but with this booklet, you can forgo the haste as well as the horse -- and discover the county at your leisure! Middlesex, Massachusetts USA is printed on 8 1/2 x 11" 60# bond paper, with the front cover protected by a vinyl sheet. Comprised of excerpts taken from the vintage WPA book, "Massachusetts, a Guide to its Places and People", the booklet is a delightful 110 page medley of history and trivia. Obviously, you may get lost if you follow the 1940 routing directions, but "what the heck?" Live a little! The booklet is filled with clues to the past. Be opened to new adventures... go on a scavenger hunt for an old tombstone inscription, make a nostalgic return to the 1930s, develop a new appreciation of colonial architecture, or imagine the days when witches and ghosts weren't just Halloween fun. The print has been enlarged to better fit the page and for easier… Read More

Somerset Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Good. 10x7x2. ***Please Read*** Ex-library copy - English edition - Book shows moderate wear and no DJ - sticker residue on front cover - my shelf location 16-B-31*

Houghton Mifflin , 1937. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. In blue cloth. Clean ex-lib with couple small numbers on spine of book and jacket, and single stamp to front end paper. Scuffing to front paste down. Previous owner name in ink. Light edge wear to jacket. Price-clipped. .

North American Book Distributors, LLC, December 1939. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Houghton, 1937. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Edge wear and couple small chips to jacket. $5.00 price on jacket. Circa 1940's. No map or pocket in rear. In light blue cloth. Later printing..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. Endpapers browned. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Spine a bit faded. Front hinge weak; Early reprint. No date to title page; Photographures; 8vo; 675 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1937. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit faded ; Early edition, bowdlerized by Governor Hurley and other hyper-patriotic politicians who felt that too much space was devoted to labor issues and the Sacco and Vanzetti case, among other things. No folding map in rear pocket, no date to title page. Beautiful photogravures ; Photographures; 8vo; 675 pages .

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1937. First. hardcover. near fine/good. Illustrated with black and white photographs; folding map in back pocket. 657 pages. Thick 8vo, dark blue boards, d.w. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, (1937). First Edition.<br/> <br/> American Guide Series. The price-intact dust wrapper is rather worn at the edges.<br/> <br/>

North American Book Distributors, LLC. hardcover. New. 7x1x10. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth, very good. Dust jacket has price intact, wear to the edges, very good. First edition. The Massachusetts guide is one of the best and most comprehensive in the series. There is a funny introduction called One Moment, Please! that talks about trying to fit the mass of information into one volume. The quality of the writing and editing is excellent. The photographs are arranged in a logical and thoughtful manner. There are a number of prints showing the state in pre-photographic times. There is a useful list of 50 books about the state. The volume has one the most comprehensive tour schemes of any of the guides.

Houghton Mifflin Co. First Printing. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear. Fine folding map in rear pocket. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1937.

Houghton Mifflin Co. First Printing. Clipped DJ in archival cover, chips, wear to the spine and extremities. Inscribed to the Leontiefs by the author, Ray Billington, for the use of their home. Ray BIllington would go on to write many important books about the United States West and Western Expansion, in such works as "Westward Expansion," a massive work that first appeared in 1949 and subsequently in new editions, and"Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher." He worked on this volume directly after his PhD from Harvard. Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief, was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input-output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors; he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, Fine folding map in rear pocket. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1937.