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Softcover. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 272 pages. Pages have clear, concise listings of cemetery locations and are in excellent condition as well. This one-of-a-kind guidebook provides genealogists and historians with a valuable reference for Massachusetts research. For the first time ever, a researcher can quickly gain information on: * cemetery names *year of consecration or the oldest known gravestone or burial * location of cemetery * printed and manuscript sources for the cemetery * contact information for the office affiliated with the cemetery. This book contains many previously undocumented burial grounds as well as citations to published transcriptions of gravestone listings in places such as the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and the official Massachusetts Vital Records to the end of 1850 series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to the spine. Photo frontispiece. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. The Johnny Appleseed Bookshop became one of the most beloved bookstores in the state. Started by Ruth Hard the daughter of Walter and Margaret it soon attracted a following of from Vermont and nearby New York and Massachusetts. Major literary figures of the day, Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Alexander Woollcott, Pearl Buck, all part time residents of the state, quickly became regulars. The store closed in 1980 after almost 50 years in business in Manchester, Vermont. Her bookshop sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, pages. "I write of peoples and of a struggle." So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, City Registrar's Office of Boston, MA, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Sixteenth Report of the Record Commissioners, 344 pages. Minor wear, chipping to spine cloth, gilt decorated binding. Special topics considered during this time period included "Schools, Inns, Faneuil-Hall Market, the Fire of 1760, Inoculation, Long Wharf, and Beacon Hill", plus the approval of Hancock's Hospital, etc. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise tight and clean.

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Timothy Connor, a rebel sailing on an American privateer during the Revolutionary War, was captured and imprisoned for 2 years; keeping a book of 56 "coarse sailor songs" he heard or read, and here are the lyrics! with an introduction on privateering and prison life "from the bottom up." 164 pages, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 4th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 370 pages. When fourteen-year-old Jen leaves her home in Massachusetts to visit her father, brother, and sister in Wales, she never expects anything but a normal winter break from school; until her brother finds the tuning key to Taliesin's harp. Author's first book, originally published in 1976. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Silver Newbery Medal emblem on the front panel.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 310 pages, 250 b&w illustrations. The life of one of America's major literary artists, Henry David Thoreau: , born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts: a schoolmaster, tutor, surveyor, mason, gardener, farmer, house painter, carpenter, day-laborer, abolitionist, pencil-maker. lecturer, naturtalist, writer. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G P Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 10 pages of b&w photos. The struggling New York/Massachusetts writer, lecturer, and young mother writes of her third venture into Africa in the 1930s. Spine cocked, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 437 pages, in a bright dust jacket. The story of the rebuilding of Skinnerville, Massachusetts destroyed in a dam failure and flood along with Skinners silk thread factory in 1874. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Hardcover. MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear and sunning and a small sticker-stain to front cover.

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oversize format, pictorial boards, 157 pages, color throughout. Continuing the Eisner Award-winning series of the rare Archie newspaper strips by Bob Montana, we turn our attention to his remarkable, full-color Sunday pages. Archie''s Sunday Best is the first-ever collection of the late 1940s and early 1950s Sundays. Montana is approaching the peak of his creative juices in these pages, which feature classic Archie themes and characters. The cartoonist draws on the facts, fantasy, feelings, and fun of his own high school days in Haverhill, Massachusetts. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONY.

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Reference guide to historical architecture in Salem, Massachusetts, with reviews of over 350 buildings. 311 pages, fully illustrated with black/white photographs and maps. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no internal marks; dust jacket has wear at the corners and on the ends of the spine, two rips along the top edge.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown, and Company, na, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of American artist William Morris Hunt. 219 pages with 16 black/white plates of Hunt's paintings. Cloth bound book is in good condition, some marks on the cover and corners slightly bumped. Some pages still uncut. Previous owner's name and date written in ink inside the cover.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Illustrated in full color. In a clean, bright dust jacket. A commercial artist who started out sketching in the 1930s for pulp magazines, Lovell advanced to the glossier "slicks" in the 1950s and has since specialized in Old West, Plains Indian, and Civil War themes. He here presents from that long career his best canvases, among them his famed depictions of Lee's surrender and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts' assault (in film, the climax of Glory). His spark of inspiration is usually to visualize an incident he has read of in the journals of the first white explorers and trappers, such as those of Lewis and Clark. Whether it's Clark firing his rifle or Indians encountering a cannon lost by Fremont, Native Americans are generally presented as wary but curious about the newcomers; Lovell puts the warfare outside of the frame. Themes aside, he works expertly with natural color, and though not a modern George Caitlin, his attention to the detail of Indian dress, carriage, and equipage is quite affecting, fully reflective of his respect for the cultures of Apache, Sioux, etc. A rich tribute to a captivating artist who evokes the West's vast landscape and its individual braves and traders in moods of exuberance and perseverance.

Hardcover. Nantucket MA, Nantucket Historical Association, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with color pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 269 pages illustrated with color and b&w plates. Number 1242 of 2000 copies. Introduction by Stuart P. Feld. Printed dedication to Walter Beinecke. No dust jacket, a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages, 68 color, 14 b&w plates. Indochina Arts Project of the William Joiner Foundation. Essays by Quach Van Phong. Tran Viet Son, Lucy R Lippard and David Kunzle. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Daylight Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages. Barmaid presents images by American photographer John Arsenault, who worked at the Eagle LA as a barback, or "barmaid," as Arsenault liked to refer to the position. The series consists of customer and employee portraits, interior landscapes from the bar, and self-portraits. These photographs reflect an insider view of the iconic bar.John Arsenault is a Los Angeles based photographer. His photography is internationally exhibited and is included in the Nerman Museum & Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.The Massachusetts native attended the School of Visual Arts, and since then has been lending his unscripted, unusual and totally authentic work to clients ranging from The New Yorker and Volkswagen to Goldman Sachs and Out Magazine

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university. On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never left the Medical School building alive.His shocking discoveries in a chemistry professor's laboratory engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. John White Webster. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbery, and dismemberment-of Harvard's greatest doctors investigating one of their own, for a murder hidden in a building full of cadavers-it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Paul Collins brings nineteenth-century Boston back to life in vivid detail, weaving together newspaper accounts, letters, journals, court transcripts, and memoirs from this groundbreaking case.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 485 pages. Teal cloth, gilt lettering, green & white floral decor. Top edge gilt. Full page b&w photographs, including frontispiece. Original dust jacket with chipped edges. Top chunk missing on spine.

Hardcover. Boston, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor nicks and wear to back cover and edges). pp. xxv, 294; frontispiece portrait, title-page vignette, and 143 illustrations throughout the text, many full-page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 143 pages with 111 b&w photos. "This book presents a collection of socially and historically relevant photographs of Boston and vicinity, taken between 1890 and 1920 by G. Frank Radway, a highly perceptive if unknown photographer...." From the Introduction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY WATSON on title page. A history of the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts that began when thousands of workers stormed out of the massive textile mills that lined the Merrimack River north of Boston. After receiving their paychecks that morning, they were protesting a pay cut, but were really on strike for their lives. Black and white photographs. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 344 pages. With a post-epilogue on Cape Cod Today by John Hay. illustrated with b&w photos plans, charts, endpaper maps and other maps in the text. Third printing of the second edition. Clean copy.