Hardcover. Portland, Paul E. Merrill, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages plus additional 28 page pamphlet laid-in. Hardcover. Both hardcover and pamphlet illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Both book and pamphlet have musty odor. Dust jacket with wear and tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Ipswich MA, Ipswich Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 66 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos and drawings. The lively history of the summer camp founded in the early 1900s in North Belgrade, Maine. Dust jacket with mild wear. otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, 184 pages, illustrated with 4 b&w plates with tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Ogunquit, Maine, Barn Gallery Associates, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. A history and survey of the art and artists associated with the art colony at Ogunquit, Maine, looking at its origins and growth, the influence of art movements such as Modernism, etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Hallowell, Maine, Paul S. Plumer, Jr., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Historical and biographical volume on Maine gunsmiths. #733 out of 1500 copies of this edition. 209 pages. Black/white photographs and drawings throughout. Some bumping to head and foot of spine and fading to cloth covers, still very good. Dust jacket with some significant edge wear and and fading, wrinkling at the spine.
NY, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor, worn and chipped dust jacket. Bright blue cloth covers stamped with a treasure chest on the cover. INSCRIBED BY IVY BOLTON (SISTER MERCEDES) on the front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations by William M. Berger. When Captain Raeburn and his wife sail away on an important mission, their five children go to live with an uncle on the Kennebec in Maine. Lost treasure, mutiny on shipboard, French and Indian plots of war are woven into this historical adventure novel for young adults. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. In this unique collaboration Arturo Patten, one of the most important portrait photographers of our time, and acclaimed writer Russell Banks visit the hardscrabble north country of Patten, Maine, to study its inhabitants. Patten's haunting portraits of the town's residents evoke characters who exist in Russell Banks's fiction. Banks, the author of Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction, observes Patten's "characters" from his remote cabin in the Adirondack hills of upstate New York, where he surrounds himself with the thirty-seven portraits and contemplates what they tell us about Patten, Maine, about portraiture, and ultimately about ourselves.
Softcover. Bar Harboe ME, Arcadia Publishing, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, b&w illustrations. With original sketches and drawings by Frederic Edwin Church. It is the intriguing story of a small group of New York and Boston socialites who first explored the wonders of Mount Desert Island, among them the famous Hudson River School artist, Frederic Edwin Church. Their stories, and Church's artwork (well-reproduced in the book), made the island into the summer retreat of the wealthy and led to the establishment of Acadia National Park. The descendants of Tracy's party still summer on the island today.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Hardcover. No slipcase. SIGNED BY KENNETH ROBERTS AND N. C. WYETH. One thousand and seventy-five numbered copies of this Arundel Edition have been printed on all-rag paper, bound in natural finish cloths and autographed by the author and by the artist - this being hand numbered #147. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - illustrations are clean, and bright. Cloth covers with areas of strong fading. Spine cloth darkened, with some shallow abrading to leather title label. Interior is clean, and tight.
