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Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An informative and beautiful exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. Clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. Orleans MA, Lower Cape Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches with map end sheets. 264 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of color and black and white photographs from the famed Life photographer. Clean copy.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes 391 & 392 pages. Volumes 1 and 2 complete, a facsimile reprint of the 1897 edition by Lippincott. This two-volume series takes the reader on a journey through the colonies of Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Carolina, and Georgia. The charm of the journey is in its variety, as the reader passes through communities of such striking individuality that they assume the character of different nations. Each colony has a set of opinions and laws peculiar to itself, and it is not uncommon to find the laws of one in contradiction with the laws of another. This text explores the settlement and history of each colony prior to the American Revolution. Topics include development of the colonies' government, laws, religion, schools, boundaries, industries, layout of the cities, fashions, homes, social activities, slavery, architecture, interaction with the Indians, and customs. At least one prominent person from each colony is discussed, amongst them, William Penn of Pennsylvania, John Smith of Virginia, George Calvert of Maryland, and General Oglethorpe of Georgia. Light sunning ti spines.Clean copies.

Hardcover. Boston, James Munroe, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with embossed design on covers, gilt title on spine. 252 pages. 2 volumes in one. A fictional account of Thomas Morton's "Merry Mount" community, arguably America's first notable contrarian movement: anti-Puritan, devoted to public sinning, and credited with erecting the first Maypole in North America. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Corners bumped. Rubbing to extremities. Chipping to spine cover. Light foxing to a few pages.

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 458 pages. This book argues that there was a middle-class democracy in Massachusetts even before the Revolution, which only removed British power from the area. Bump to top corner of volume causing a crease, remainder lines to bottom edge. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 241 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. A Cape Cod cook book. Light foxing to fore edge copy. Very small tear to dust jacket lower spine. Faint yellowing to rear dust jacket top edge. Decorative staining to top edge copy block. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. Nantucket MA, Tetaukimmo Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards stamped in black with black cloth spine that has gilt title. 225 pages, 2 fold-out maps. A detailed study of writings. maps and other material concerning Nantucket Island. Still the essential resource for books about Nantucket and its history. It reprints selections of rare texts and provides a bibliography of printed materials.Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Nantucket MA, The Inquirer and Mirror, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 60 pages, b&w illustrations. Some text, but Largely a collection of black and white historical photos of Nantucket Island shipwrecks and trains with captions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam"s Sons, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, pictorial label, top edge gilt, 377 pages. Tissued frontis, b&w plates plus text illustrations. Folding map. Sound and square. All very good, clean copy.

Globe Pequot Press , 1ST, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. In a series of colorful vignettes, a veteran newspaperman recreates a madcap era during which more than a dozen newspapers lived and died in 'the Row' on Boston's Washington Street. This is a story of fierce circulation competition and the often-outrageous journalism it inspired. Clean copy.

Softcover. Amherst MA, University Of Massachusetts , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. This study challenges the common view that Nietzsche passed through several discrete periods of thought, each based on a different set of values, and that his work can best be understood as a collection of isolated insights. Through close textual analysis, Robert John Ackermann exposes the underlying unity and consistency in Nietzsche's thought that has long been overlooked. Ackermann is to be highly commended for this clearly written introduction to Nietzsche. Light pencil underlining to several pages.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Great b/w illustrations by Deborah Kogan Ray. Tale of a young girl in Massachusetts during WW II, who moves to a French-Canadian neighborhood where she meets Kathleen O'Hara & learns about Catholicism. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 300 pages, b&w illustrations by Earl Thollander. Willard Espy's memoir is delightful, filled with memorable characters, with no celebrities, from his family trove of people over the centuries, from witches in Salem, Massachusetts, to pioneer oystermen on the Pacific coast of Washington state. Drawing on conversations with aged relations and friends, on historic letters and documents, Willard Espy reconstructs his own personal past to provide an account of his family that was born, grew up, and died, as the United States was being born, shaped, formed, explored, expanded.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press/Harvard, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 417 pages. As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever-expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing amount of correspondence. The majority of his letters were written to secure the facts that would enable this duty-ridden man to decide and act effectively on the issues being debated. Military affairs, a source of never-ending concern, provide some of the most fascinating subjects, including several accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill, assessments of various high-ranking officers, and complaints about the behavior of the riflemen sent from three states southward to aid the Massachusetts troops. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, 215 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. West Islip, ULAE Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Black & white photographs by Robert Rauschenberg. Softcover slipcase edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Remainder mark on top page block. Boston played a crucial role in the development of American photography, including criticism, collecting, and curating, in the second half of the twentieth century. This book accompanies a landmark exhibition at the DeCordova Museum that includes such important American artists as Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, Harold Edgerton, Nan Goldin, Jerome Liebling, Nicholas Nixon, Barbara Norfleet, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Purcell, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White.The period from 1955 to 1985 reflects photography's acceptance as an art form, the influence of modernism, and the coalescence of a unique constellation of educational institutions, museums, and technological development in the Boston area that directly influenced artistic options for photography. Minor White's arrival at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 to run the Center for Creative Photography and the Polaroid Corporation's innovative support of photographic art suggest how developments built upon one another to create a regional critical mass in photography.The book contains twenty-five color plates, sixty duotones, and essays by A. D. Coleman, Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Kim Sichel.

Hardcover. US, The MIT Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Remainder mark on top page block. Boston played a crucial role in the development of American photography, including criticism, collecting, and curating, in the second half of the twentieth century. This book accompanies a landmark exhibition at the DeCordova Museum that includes such important American artists as Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, Harold Edgerton, Nan Goldin, Jerome Liebling, Nicholas Nixon, Barbara Norfleet, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Purcell, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White.The period from 1955 to 1985 reflects photography's acceptance as an art form, the influence of modernism, and the coalescence of a unique constellation of educational institutions, museums, and technological development in the Boston area that directly influenced artistic options for photography. Minor White's arrival at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 to run the Center for Creative Photography and the Polaroid Corporation's innovative support of photographic art suggest how developments built upon one another to create a regional critical mass in photography.The book contains twenty-five color plates, sixty duotones, and essays by A. D. Coleman, Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Kim Sichel.

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. Color illustrated dust jacket, 9 color plates, numerous b&w illustrations. Book still sealed in original plastic, never opened; in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 225 pages. A history of old Nantucket before the island was discovered by "the summer boarders", as the author explains in his Preface. Gutter partially cracked at title page, owner's small embossed stamp on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 334 pages, b&w illustrations. Relying on original historical materials, an illustrated biography traces the lives of an influential pair of American socialists--he a wealthy journalist-activist, she an aspiring novelist. When they fell in love amid the tumult of the 1905 Russian revolution, they believed they were destiny's match: William English Walling, a wealthy American journalist-activist from the Midwest, an Anna Strunsky, an aspiring novelist from San Francisco. Vowing to dedicate themselves to socialist ideals, they soon became celebrities who moved in an elite circle of writers, journalist, and reformers. ultimately, both their marriage and their political commitment faltered, but not before they had participated in some of the most urgent social causes of their day. Drawing on archival sources and family materials, James Boylan creates engaging portraits of two striking figures. He reveals the details of Strunsky's intesnse involvement with Jack London and their troubled literary collaboration. He describes the creation of Walling's "revolutionary news bureau" in Russia under scrutiny of the czarist police, and Strunsky's harrowing journey to report on a pogrom. He also recounts the couple's dash to cover a race riot in Illinois, Walling's pivotal role in creating the NAACP and the disasterous schism between Strunksky's pacifism and Walling's bellicosity during World War I. Clean copy.