maine

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 395 pages. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Degree of darkening to spine cloth. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists. Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped with dark green design. B&W illustrations by Joshua Tolford. Ex-lib with stamping, light residue to end papers. Juvenile novel set in Maine about a 12-year-old mischief maker who decides to reform upon the arrival of his war hero uncle.

Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages, b&w photographs by Pierce. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 241 pages. Young adult adventure about the days of sail and a young girl's determination to find her parents, lost on a trip around the horn on the bark 'Pandora.' Set in a small town on the Maine coast, where the coming of the trading schooners was a celebrated event. Illustrated by Joshua Tolford with sepia toned illustrations. Light fade to spine, otherwise very good, clean.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When sixteen-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land. In his most ambitious novel to date, Newbery winner Paul Fleischman traces Brent's healing pilgrimage from Washington State to California, Florida, and Maine, and describes the many lives set into new motion by the ingenious creations Brent leaves behind. Clean copy.