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Hardcover. np, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Folded map laid in, index. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Clean copy.

Softcover. Freetown MA, Freetown Historical Society, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers, 327 pages. John Milton Deane (January 8, 1840 - September 2, 1914), was an American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and a major in the United States Army. Deane was born in Assonet, Massachusetts to John and Lydia (Andros) Deane. The diary he kept is here type-written out in chronological order. B&w photo of Deane as a Lieutenant in 1863. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Stonham MA, G.R. Barnstead, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 235 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. The history and folklore of the Cape Cod region. Many b&w illustrations, photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Helburn, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth stamped in dark green, 135 plates. B&w photos of homes including exterior and interior views, detailed drawings in rear section. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 280 pages. The Ninth Massachusetts Infantry, which saw duty with the Army of the Potomac, was composed primarily of Irish immigrants and their descendants who hailed from Boston. One officer, Patrick R. Guiney, eventually rose to command the regiment as a colonel prior to suffering a service-ending wound in 1864. He left a full record of his men's activities in his letters to his wife, Jeannette; the letters also reveal that Guiney's political views, which leaned toward Lincoln and the Republicans, were not shared by most of his fellow officers or men. Editor Samito has provided a rather detailed prolog and annotation for the letters, which tell us as much about Guiney as a husband as they do about matters at the front. Among the numerous collections of Civil War letters that appear in print, these are distinguished for the author's forthright discussion of political and military affairs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with red printed titles to spine. Dust jacket in very good condition. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 516 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This volume documents Fenn's prolific career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his adventurous sketching trips in the western United States, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the nation was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 516 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This volume documents Fenn's prolific career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his adventurous sketching trips in the western United States, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the nation was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 250 pages, photos, notes, bibliography. An influential ornithologist, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History; expert on the birds of Central and South America, New York City and Massachusetts, Griscom was influential in the shift to modern "binocular" birding and mentored a generation of notable ornithologists. Draws on Griscom's writings and those of his contemporaries. Clean copy.

Softcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 452 pages. This book covers the Massachusetts Convention of 1820-21; New York State Convention of 1821; and the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, along with numerous tables. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 117 photographs are grouped by chapter, depicting T Wharf and its successor the South Boston Fish Pier; schooner construction at Essex, Massachusetts; outfitting for voyages; departures and arrivals; discharging dish; the passing of the fishing schooner; the emerging steam trawler fleet; and the Italian boat fishermen. Published here for the first times, these photographs are now in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Betty Allen Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 233 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, light fading to edges, spine. Previous owner's signature, address on front fly leaf.

Softcover. Eastham Tercentenary Committee, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in heavy blue textured wrappers, stamped with gilt titles and design. 184 pages illustrated with black and white photographs, with an introduction by Henry Beston. This copy is in very good condition, tight and unmarked.

Softcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. These poems chronicle the waxing and waning of the seasons from one winter to the next in the area around Egg Island, the dunes near a small seacoast town on the outermost reaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Galvin's training as a naturalist and environmental writer is evident as his practiced eye roves the waves, marshes, and forests, finding meaning and beauty in the smallest detail-- bird-watching, rebuilding a woodpile, or the flight of bobwhite quail. Other poems recall the poet's affectionate memories of his deceased wife and the life they shared together, acknowledging grief without veering into the maudlin. Always present beneath the surface is the question of where humans fit into this wild, ever-changing landscape. Mild crease to front cover otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, library binding. Black & white illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Massachusetts and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Wright & Potter/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 202 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth binding with gilt decoration. Some rubbing, light residue to covers, back hinge partially cracked. Interior very good.

Hardcover. Everett, City of Everett, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Preliminary ad pages with darkening, light soil. 2.5" horizontal closed tear on foredge of pages 45-48. Moderate wear to black cloth covers. Clean, unmarked text. Scarce.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Cambridge City Council/Charles Sever, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 163 pages, 9 b&w plates. Brown cloth with dark brown and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Bright, clean copy with just a little edgewear to rear cover edge.

Softcover. Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Softcover. B/w and color illustrations throughout. Wrapper has some age wear. Clean inside, binding tight. In good condition.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Hyman Edelstein. Preface by Archibald Macleish. Clean, tight copy. Price sticker on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Henry M.Burt, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 473 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front. Map in front. Light foxing throughout the pages, light corner bumping. Gutter cracked on copyright page, otherwise binding is tight.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 62 pages illustrated in b&w by Jules Gotlieb. The story of ten year old Jody from Provincetown Massachusetts and his first trip aboard the trawler, The Flying Codder, to Georges Bank and, afterwards, to New York's Fulton Fish Market. Two small smudges to front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Bulfinch , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages includes index. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A graceful, lively memoir by photography's first historian, with accounts of his friendships with many of the century's great photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Newhall (1908-93) wrote the now-standard History of Photography (1937) and founded the photo collection at the Museum of Modern Art; as much as anyone, he helped photography gain acceptance as art. This memoir, finished shortly before his death, includes an account of his boyhood in Lynn, Massachusetts; of his training in art history at Harvard; the important early exhibits he organized at the MOMA; and the contributions of his wife, Nancy, to both the field and his own accomplishments. A long section describing his work as a photoreconnaisance expert in Egypt and Italy during WW II, though not closely related to his career, is also highly interesting. In addition, Newhall offers detailed accounts of various important photographers' working methods, as well as of discussions carried on among them about their work.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket. 167 pages illustrated by Ruth Sheetz. The Morse's became innkeepers on Martha's Vineyards, leaving city life in New York. This is the story of Beach Plum Inn. Light tanning to front fly leaf where newspaper clipping was laid in, otherwise clean.