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This work is a condensation in book form of the 90,000 entries which form the shelf list of the Local History section of the Library of Congress. The first four volumes are arranged by geographic regions and include details on all local history books received by the Library of Congress up to 1972. The fifth volume is a supplement listing U.S. local histories received between 1972 and 1976. It also includes the index to all five volumes, and corrects errors in the first four volumes. Included in the bibliography are citations to monographs, periodicals, gazetteers, guidebooks, collective bibliography, state and regional histories, city directories, county histories, and histories of towns and cities. Each region and state is preceded by the LC classification schedule, and followed by a supplementary index of places.