Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 2nd pr., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with autographed sticker. SIGNED BY COLLINS on the title page. Inscribed by the author on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy. Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, young college baseball players showcase their talents in hopes of making it to the "show." A vicious filter, the league has produced one out of every six major league players, from Nomar Garciaparra and Todd Helton to Jeff Bagwell and Barry Zito.In this brilliantly crafted narrative, Jim Collins chronicles a season in the life of the Chatham A's, perhaps the most celebrated team in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Set against a seemingly bucolic backdrop--a well-heeled resort town on the bend of the outer Cape -- the story charts the changing fortunes of a handful of players, all of whom battle slumps and self-doubt in an effort to impress major league scouts and make the playoffs. Several players go home with career-threatening injuries; one blue-chip prospect fulfills great expectations while another is dubbed "the biggest disappointment on the Cape." A pitcher hides an arm injury while negotiating a minor league contract; another leaves early to tend to his dying father. And nearly all look to the following year's major league draft as a barometer of their worth.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Here is a story of Salem and the frightening time of the Witch Hunts emphasizing the role of John Alden, one of the unjustly accused "witches." Beautiful b&w illustrations throughout by Charles Mikolaycak.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown , 1st, 1971, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 280 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael McCurdy. A celebration of Cape Cod. The setting is an outland of pine, caramel sand and clean tidewater on Cape Cod, to which Allen returns each year in early autumn, to walk the Cape's beaches and marshlands, to sail in its shallow reaches, to mark sunrise and nightfall and the passage of the seasons. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Glendale CA, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 340 pages. A biography of Thomas Pownall (1757 - 1760) who was governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony during the French and Indian War and later a member of Parliament (1767 - 1780). Pownall had sympathies for the colonial grievances and institutions. This biography is based on a study of widely scattered documentary materials and provides insight into a man of complex and contradictory ideas and actions during the pre-Revolutionary period. Includes bibliography and index. Stamping to endpapers, from an academic library.
Hardcover. Boston, Chas S. Binner, reprint, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Red cloth covers with beveled edges and gilt titles, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Pages 13-18 separated from page block, light rubbing, spotting to covers, wear to cover corners and edges, small chunk missing from lower edge of faded spine.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth covers with gilt lettering. 580 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Reprint of a book first published in 1883 on Boston by Lothrop. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1st Edition, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Fore and bottom edges rough cut, gilt top edge. Green decorated cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Binding very good. Spine straight. Pages have some tanning, but unmarked and clean. Tight first edition. A heartfelt reflection on life, family, and community beneath the towering elms of Newton, Massachusetts. Claflin's evocative prose paints a vivid picture of a bygone era, capturing moments of joy, sorrow, and timeless memories in the shade of ancient trees that stood as silent witnesses to generations of American history.
Softcover. Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, b&w photos by Mark Lennihan. It is the people of Martha's Vineyard who give voice to the Vineyard "sense of place." Here, in their own words excerpted from interviews with oral historian Linsey Lee, are the photographed portraits and stories of seventy-five Vineyarders, chronicling the continuity and the changes of life on the Vineyard over the last one hundred years. We find farmers, fishermen, neighbors, boat builders and summer people. There are stories of shipwrecks, race relations, ice cutting, rum running, one-room schoolhouses, whaling captains and whaling wives, Portuguese customs, Wampanoag heritage and more, chronicling a way of life that has continued for generations and is fast disappearing.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, 292 pages, b&w plates. ISBN number on copyright page denotes a reprint. Clean, bright copy, lacks dust jacket.
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