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American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, a Man Who Turned Disaster into Destinyby: Kilborne, Sarah S.  - Product Image

American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, a Man Who Turned Disaster into Destiny
by: Kilborne, Sarah S.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 437 pages, in a bright dust jacket. The story of the rebuilding of Skinnerville, Massachusetts destroyed in a dam failure and flood along with Skinners silk thread factory in 1874. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Record # 359029

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Boston Prints & Printmakers, 1670-1775by: NA - Product Image

Boston Prints & Printmakers, 1670-1775
by: NA

Hardcover. Boston, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor nicks and wear to back cover and edges). pp. xxv, 294; frontispiece portrait, title-page vignette, and 143 illustrations throughout the text, many full-page.

Record # 805355

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Bread and Roses: Mills Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream (SIGNED COPY) by: Watson, Bruce  - Product Image

Bread and Roses: Mills Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream (SIGNED COPY)
by: Watson, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY WATSON on title page. A history of the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts that began when thousands of workers stormed out of the massive textile mills that lined the Merrimack River north of Boston. After receiving their paychecks that morning, they were protesting a pay cut, but were really on strike for their lives. Black and white photographs. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 381190

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Cradle of Violence - How Boston's Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolutionby: Bourne, Russell - Product Image

Cradle of Violence - How Boston's Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolution
by: Bourne, Russell

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.

Record # 751107

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Down On The T Wharf:  The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisherby: German, Andrew W - Product Image

Down On The T Wharf: The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisher
by: German, Andrew W

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.

Record # 352317

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Early Northamptonby: N/A - Product Image

Early Northampton
by: N/A

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.

Record # 405085

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Equestrian Statue of Major-General Joseph Hooker, Theby: N/A - Product Image

Equestrian Statue of Major-General Joseph Hooker, The
by: N/A

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.

Record # 405470

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Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridgeby: Clapp (Ed.), Robert P. - Product Image

Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge
by: Clapp (Ed.), Robert P.

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.

Record # 605718

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First Century of the History of Springfield, The: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736 With an Historical Review and Biographical Mention of the Foundersby: Burt, H - Product Image

First Century of the History of Springfield, The: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736 With an Historical Review and Biographical Mention of the Founders
by: Burt, H

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.

Record # 354138

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Greenfield, Mass. Directory - 1904-5 - Vol. VI, Theby: Greenfield, Massachusetts - Product Image

Greenfield, Mass. Directory - 1904-5 - Vol. VI, The
by: Greenfield, Massachusetts

Hardcover. Greenfield, Raymond & Co., 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Hardcover. Directory of Greenfield, Massachusetts for the years 1904-1905. Features Advertising, Events Calendar, Streets, Avenues, Roads, etc., Greenfield Resident Directory, Greenfield Business Directory, and more. Staining, soiling to covers. Rubbing along leather spine. Pages are clean, unmarked. Good reference copy.

Record # 613011

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Growing Up Fastby: Lipper, Joanna - Product Image

Growing Up Fast
by: Lipper, Joanna

Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Price blacked out. Minor stains on fore edge. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy. Growing Up Fast tells the life stories of Shayla, Jessica, Amy, Colleen, Liz, and Sheri--six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were enrolled at the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Less than a decade older than these teen parents, she was able to blend into the fabric of their lives and make a short documentary film about them. Over the course of the next four years she continued to earn their trust as they shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed post-industrial landscape of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Record # 852277

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Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its History, Its Famous Dead, and Its Quaint Epitaphsby: Perkins, Frank H. - Product Image

Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its History, Its Famous Dead, and Its Quaint Epitaphs
by: Perkins, Frank H.

Softcover. Plymouth MA, Rogers Print, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, stapled booklet, many b&w illustrations, including tombstones. Previous owner's signature on index page. Minor wear.

Record # 359789

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History of Pittsfield, MA (2 vols)by: Smith, J.  - Product Image

History of Pittsfield, MA (2 vols)
by: Smith, J.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, G.W. Bryan, 1st, 1869/1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol #1 1734-1800: spine frayed, corners worn G+/ Vol 2: 1800-1876 VG w/fold-out map, hinges cracked, tear to top of spine, chipping to top & bottom, internally VG, original black cloth covers.

Record # 803

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How to See Boston: A Trustworthy Guide Bookby: Moses King (Ed.) - Product Image

How to See Boston: A Trustworthy Guide Book
by: Moses King (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, Macullar Parker & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages with 250 photographs and maps, including a color fold-out map in rear. Blue cloth with bright gilt on front cover. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page.

Record # 404493

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Mapping Boston by: Krieger, Alex ; David Cobb ; Amy Turner - Product Image

Mapping Boston
by: Krieger, Alex ; David Cobb ; Amy Turner

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.

Record # 380832

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Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoalsby: Laighton, Oscar - Product Image

Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals
by: Laighton, Oscar

Hardcover. Andover, MA, Andover Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 167 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light edgewear, soil and chipping to dust jacket with small chunk missing from rear cover. Clean, Tight Copy.

Record # 856812

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Photographs In + Out City Limits Bostonby: Rauschenberg, Robert - Product Image

Photographs In + Out City Limits Boston
by: Rauschenberg, Robert

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.

Record # 354016

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Photography in Boston: 1955-1985by: Nagler, Gillian (Editor)/Rachel Rosenfield Lafo  - Product Image

Photography in Boston: 1955-1985
by: Nagler, Gillian (Editor)/Rachel Rosenfield Lafo

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.

Record # 352436

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Photography in Boston: 1955-1985by: Nagler, Gillian (Editor) - Product Image

Photography in Boston: 1955-1985
by: Nagler, Gillian (Editor)

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.

Record # 352437

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Summer Magic A Memoir of Childhood Summers on Cape Ann by: Wallace, Mary - Product Image

Summer Magic A Memoir of Childhood Summers on Cape Ann
by: Wallace, Mary

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by Ray Cruz. Clean.

Record # 374398

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The Other Islanders: People Who Pulled Nantucket's Oarsby: Karttunen, Frances Ruley  - Product Image

The Other Islanders: People Who Pulled Nantucket's Oars
by: Karttunen, Frances Ruley

Softcover. New Bedford MA, Spinner Publications, 1st, 1005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages, b&w illustrations. A detailed history of the diverse ethnic groups who contributed to Nantucket Island's culture. Clean copy.

Record # 371033

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The Shady Hill School: The First Fifty Yearsby: Yeomans, Edward - Product Image

The Shady Hill School: The First Fifty Years
by: Yeomans, Edward

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Windflower Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Gray clothbound hardcover with dust jacket, 124 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of Shady Hill School, founded in 1915 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's policies reflected much of the contemporary thought about teaching and learning, but they also reflected the priorities of the scholarly community which sustained it. Nourished by these influences, and by a number of extraordinarily gifted teachers, the school became unique among the progressive schools of that period. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 379519

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Trip Around Cape Cod, A: The South Shore and Historical Plymouthby: Perry, E. G. - Product Image

Trip Around Cape Cod, A: The South Shore and Historical Plymouth
by: Perry, E. G.

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.

Record # 806239

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Vineyard Voices: Word, Faces & Voices of Island Peopleby: Linsey Lee/Mark Lennihan  - Product Image

Vineyard Voices: Word, Faces & Voices of Island People
by: Linsey Lee/Mark Lennihan

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.

Record # 374311

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Vital Records of Bellingham, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850by: Woods (Editor), Henry Ernest - Product Image

Vital Records of Bellingham, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850
by: Woods (Editor), Henry Ernest

Hardcover. Boston, NEHGS, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Genealogical reference. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Spine age darkened with foxing to cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609487

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Walden - Then & Now - An Alphabetical Tour of Henry Thoreau's Pondby: McCurdy, Michael - Product Image

Walden - Then & Now - An Alphabetical Tour of Henry Thoreau's Pond
by: McCurdy, Michael

Hardcover. Watertown, Charlesbridge, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white woodcut illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Bright, clean copy.No dust jacket

Record # 611661

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