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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States. Wear and tear to edge of D/J.Reading marks to D/J. Slight foxing to end inside covers. With a Foreword by Wayne C. Grover. The National Historical Publications Commission is charged by Congress with responsibility for planning and recommending the publication of historical documents and for collecting and preserving such documents. To further these aims the Commission has prepared a complete guide to all depositires of archives and manuscripts in the United States, with summary descriptions of their holdings. The Guide covers more than thirteen hundred depositories and twenty thousand collections of personal papers and archival groups, located in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone, and ranging in time from Babylonia clay tablets to 1960. Some of the important types of records briefly deascribed are business account books, diaries, sermons, church registers, war documents, personal correspondence, memoirs, municipal transactions, and legal records. There is a 132-page index and full citations to all pertinent inventories, guides, and published accounts of the various categories and individual subjects. 775 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).