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Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 390 pages. Since World War II, an important transformation has occurred in American society as wives and others have increasingly taken jobs outside the home. American women has always worked, however - first almost solely in the home and later also as wage earners outside the home. Anthropologist Louise Lamphere here provides an analysis of both kinds of work and shows how they have been interconnected in the lives of women in the industrial community of Central Falls, Rhode Island. The author offers a dynamic picture of working-class women, one that sees them not as passive victims but as active agents who draw upon a range of strategies and behaviors both to deal with their employment and to help their families cope with the industrial order. The book will be engaging reading for anthropologists, social and labor historians, sociologists, political economists, and students of women's studies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Claremont NH, Tracy Kenney & Co., 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations, original embossed green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Pages have some foxing, bottom edges with light scuffing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to cover boards.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcopy. Gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Clean inside and out, in great shape. From the front flap: "At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. ...Goldengrove takes its place among the great novels of adolescence, beside Henry Jame's The Awkward Age and L. P. Harley's The Go-Between."

Hardcover. Worcester, MA, Clark Jillson, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth. 244 pages. Illustrated frontispeice. Illustrated chapter headings. B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing throughout, otherwise clean tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt, green and black on front cover and spine. Pages are deckle-edged with gilt on top. Frontis. illustration of Plymouth in 1622 with tissue guard. Information on Maine: Portland; Massachusetts: Rutland, Salem, Cambridge, Concord, Boston, Plymouth, Cape Cod, Deerfield; Rhode Island: Providence, Newport; and Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven. B/W illustrations. 599 pages, indexed. Extra illustrated by former owner with photo clippings tipped-in. Large folding map titled "Boston and its Environs in 1775" facing page 206. Fascinating histories of Early American towns, biographies of individual Pilgrims and settlers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Waverly, Everett C. Benton, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages plus section of ads. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Black & white illustrations. Four leaf clovers laid-in. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Vergennes VT, J. Shedd, 1st, 1831, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, original leather binding with spine label. Calf rubbed, edgeworn, Prelim page preceeding title page has piece cut out, small number on title page, spotting to edges of text block, otherwise clean, sound copy.

Softcover. Addison VT, Town of Addison, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Small stain and light foxing to covers. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Burlington, Chauncey Goodrich, 1st, 1842, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 652 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with minimal stamping. Library bookplate on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations plus 1 fold-out map. Brown cloth covers with surface rubbing, Hinges tender. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages plus 36 pages of ads. Hardcover. Front endpaper removed. Foxing to pages throughout. Area of soiling to foredge. Cloth covers with fading along edges and spine. Firm binding.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages plus 36 pages of ads. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Foxing to pages throughout. Small amount of cloth missing at very top of spine. Some minor chipping to cover cloth at edges. Clean, tight.

Hardcover. Weybridge, Weybridge Bicentennial Committee, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor residue from local historians sticker at bottom edge of covers at spine - not ex-library - no stamping or library marking. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. As the twentieth century dawned, the Boston & Maine Railroad Company controlled virtually all of the rail lines in New Hampshire, as well as much of the service in Maine and Massachusetts. Ultimately, the company operated more than 2,000 stations in northern New England. The train was the most important mode of travel, and the stations were the center of the community. Boston & Maine in the 20th Century continues the first pictorial history of the railroad company, entitled Boston & Maine in the 19th Century. With more than 200 rare images and historical narrative, the book details the trains and their destinations: the terminals, stations, depots, and whistle stops to which they sped. Times changed, and the railroad was passed by; however, its legacy lives on. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with silver lettering, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Softcover. NA, NA, 1st, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. No date or publication information. Library stamp at bottom left corner of front cover. Number stamped on reverse of title page. Text is clean, unmarked. Some light chipping to cover edges. The journal starts in 1848, with a voyage to Glasgow at fifteen years of age, for famine relief. Later voyages took Crockett to Paris, Russia, and Calcutta, Entertaining anecdotes about the passengers, his reading, and his wedding in Boston. The narrative is taken up later at his Golden Wedding. Entertaining and informative. Stapled in green wrappers.

Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Countryman Press, 4th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. Now largely forgotten, the massacres of 1675 to 1676, known as King Philip's War, ended the harmonious relations that had existed between native Americans and the colonists since their arrival at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Tensions had been rising as the number of settlers grew, and the pillaging of an outlying farm by affronted young braves escalated into open hostilities. Pitched battles were fought from Rhode Island to Maine. Hundreds of English died as farmers fled and cowered behind stockades or in the few port towns. Thousands of natives were slaughtered and the rest dispersed or sold into slavery in the West Indies. The savagery resulted in the clearing of the native populations from southern New England and the unopposed expansion of the New England colonies. It also became the brutal model on which the United States came to deal with its native peoples. King Philip's War tells the story with such close attention to detail that each ambush, each burned-out farm, becomes a vivid image. The authors make abundant use of maps and photographs of old sites to enable the reader to follow the course of the war: the book forms an exhaustive guide for the armchair historian or anyone wishing to visit the monuments and battlefields today. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED by author Arthur B. Cohn on title page. Dust jacket worn, with light sunning and tearing. Related article laid in. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Barre, Mass., Barre Publishers, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 281 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and small tear on top spine edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The story of the end of the windship era in New England waters, about the commercial sailing ships which were active from 1935 onwards. The book tells of the two-, three, four-, and five-mast schooners, the carriers of the heavy coal and lumber cargoes, and of the few remaining square-riggers which occasionally were seen during this period. Also the Brava Packets, little sailing passenger ships and a chapter is devoted to the last of the Grand Bankers, the great fishing schooners of yesteryear. Not forgotten are the small colorful 'dude schooners', the windjammers which even today still take vacationers on weekly cruises.

Softcover. Utica NY, North Country Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 155 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1965 as the initial book published by North Country Books. Rev. Frank Reed lived and worked in lumber camps for many years and was an eyewitness to the changes that occurres in the Adirondacks throughout the middle of the 20th century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 500 pages. "The Ecclesiastical History of New England from the First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord 1698." With reproductions of the title-pages from the 1702 edition. Edited by Kenneth B. Murdock, with the assistance of Elizabeth W. Miller. Clean copy.