Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with red lettering, 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim-page. Slight wear and soil to covers, internally very good
Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Brings together for the first time all of Stock's extant papers-his will, one lengthy letter to his brother, various newspaper notices concerning him, and his remarkable journal written sometime after 1846. In addition, it includes reproductions of all known surviving Stock paintings. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. yellow pictorial dust jacket, minor wear to spine. Like new. A very nice, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Lynchburg VA, TLC Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, in glossy illustrated paper covered boards. 152 pages illustrated by maps, photographs, some in color, map endpapers. Very nicely produced pictorial but with plenty of text. Clean, bright, sound and unworn. Published without a dustjacket as usual for this publisher. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages including publisher advertisements. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Decorated ribbon bookmark, no longer attached, but laid in. Black cloth cover boards, gilight title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges, otherwise unmarked.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common.In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Shelburne, Vermont, New England Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 349 pages. Volume I covers Addison Railroad to the Hardwick & Woodbury Railroad, 27 railroads in all. Red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, dust jacket illustrate with color watercolor by Laura Brown, textured decorated endpapers, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Stapled notes on Addison Railroad included. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean covers, crisp, unmarked pages; a beautiful neat, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page & Co., 1st impression, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages, b&w illustrations, illustrated end paper. Gray covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Gilt top edge. Rough-cut pages. Light edge wear to covers. Sticker inside front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Daye Press, 2nd Printing, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 39 pages, dust jacket edge fade and small chunks missing, otherwise, internally very clean and tight.
Hardcover. Rutland, Sharp Offsett Printing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in bright dustjackets. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Includes parts 1 and 2. Approx. 400 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Rail map laid-in to part 1. Black pictorial covers. Pen mark on bottom edge of part 2. Overall, a clean, tight set.
Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 16 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as the Georgian Period edited by Professor William Rotch Ware. 224 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st Edition, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled edges. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Some tanning to edges, lighter tanning to pages, though unmarked. Gray cover boards, blue quarter cloth. Slight agewear. Autobiography of childrens' author.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Red cloth cover with embossed title and gilt lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, 301 illustrations with 100 in full color. Book in excellent condition.
Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages. Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich, a Massachusetts village a long day's sail north of Boston. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner, setting up shop in the heart of the village. During his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. Today, connoisseurs judge his elaborately carved furniture as among the best produced in seventeenth-century America. Robert Tarule, historian and accomplished craftsman, brilliantly recreates Dennis's world in recounting how he created a single oak chest. Writing as a woodworker himself, Tarule vividly portrays Dennis walking through the woods looking for the right trees; sawing and splitting the wood on site; and working in his shop on the chest-planing, joining, and carving. Dennis inherited a knowledge of wood and woodworking that dated back centuries before he was born, and Tarule traces this tradition from Old World to New. He also depicts the natural and social landscape in which Dennis operated, from the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial Ipswich and its surrounding countryside to the laws that governed his use of trees and his network of personal and professional relationships. Clean copy.
NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge. The early mills were an experiment in benevolent enlightened social responsibility on the part of the wealthy owners, who belonged to many of Boston's finest families. But the fledgling industry's ever-increasing profits were inextricably bound to the issues of slavery, immigration, and workers' rights. William Moran brings a newsman's eye for the telling detail to this fascinating saga that is equally compelling when dealing with rags and when dealing with riches. Clean copy.
Softcover. Littleton,MA, Flying Yankee Enterprises, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color pictorial wrappers, 113 pages. Illustrated by photographs, some in color. More than a pictorial, this is a local history of the Suncook Valley (more or less between Concord and Portsmouth), in southeast New Hampshire, Clean copy.
Hardcover. Salem, MA, The Essex Institute, 2nd pr., 1922, Book: Good, Hardcover, 122 pages. Ex-library copy with white tape on spine and small stamp on copyright page, otherwise clean. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. The second edition adds additional material and illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, AMS Press, Inc. , Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1936 edition. B/w illustrations (maps/diagrams). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding tight. Very good condition throughout. This volume is not only an admirable study in social and economic history, but a unique and valuable contribution to the history of American agriculture as well.
Softcover. Bath ME, Anderson & Sons Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages, b&w illustrations. New England has been the birthplace of over 1100 major leaguers. In between the well-known and the unknown are several tiers of other ballplayers. This book pays tribute to those tiers closest to the top. Bright, clean copy.
Lebanon NH, University of New Hampshire Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 294 pages, b&w illustrations. Presents a succinct, articulate examination of the work of the pioneering but controversial archaeologist Roland Wells Robbins (1908-1987) and the development of historical archaelogy in America. In 1945, the self-taught Robbins discovered the remains of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. He excavated the site, documented his findings, and in 1947 published a short book, Discovery at Walden, about the experience. This project launched Robbins's career in archaeology, restoration, and reconstruction, and he went on to excavate at a number of New England iron works and other sites, including the Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills in New York, Stawbery Banke in New Hampshire, and Shadwell, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia birthplace. Although lacking academic training, Robbins quickly developed remarkably sophisticated techniques for the period. However, his "pick and shovel" methods were considered suspect and increasingly frowned upon by the emerging American historical archaeological establishment. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 3rd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 527 pages, b&w illustrations. No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings--especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century's bestselling book Uncle Tom's Cabin. But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father Lyman's Old Testament-style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament-based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity. By the 1850s, his spectacular sermons at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights had made him New York's number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed "Beecher Boats." SIGNED BY APPLEGATE on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large paper edition, dark blue cloth with moire pattern, leather label on spine with gilt lettering. One of 84 numbered large paper copies with additional print of William Burges' view of Boston harbor on fine paper as a second frontispiece. 394 pages with approximately 50 b&w plates and maps. Contains accounts of the beginnings of English piracy and the famed pirates Dixey Bull, John Rhodes, Thomas Pound, William Kidd, John Quelch, Samuel Bellamy, John Phillips, and Henry Morgan, among others. Minor wear to corners, top of spine. Light scatch to front cover. No markings.
Softcover. Wellesley MA, Branden Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, several b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY POTVIN on title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. A cook book interwoven with the author's typical New England lighthearted commentary. Written with her daughter, 234 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chevy Chase MD, Posterity Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulously researched account of the life of the prominent New England physician and churchman. Foreword by the Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, with a preface by the Reverend Charles H. Clark. Slight cocking to front panel. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.
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. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wear to dust jacket edges. Clipping to dust jacket folds. Previous owners inscription and minor soiling to front flyleaf. Some rubbing to dust jacket front and rear covers. Light foxing to fore edge of text block. Inside clean and unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. South Windsor, CT, Barney E. Daley, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300+ pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Bound in green cloth; gilt lettering & design on spine and front cover. From the introduction (Evan Lawn): "Whether one reads straight through or reads here and there in a checkered fashion, every reader will enjoy meeting Barney. ...And if the reader happens to be an historian, these memoirs will be prized as a treasure trove of living information about rural, daily life before electricity and indoor plumbing."
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 395 pages. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Degree of darkening to spine cloth. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
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. 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.
Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 7 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 238 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, b&w photographs and maps. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 446 pages, illustrated with black and white frontispiece, photographs in the text. Illustrated endpapers. Begins with 40 pages of text, consisting of an introduction by Frank Wood and a substantial essay by George Francis Dow. This is followed by 207 BW plate pages of illustrations, along with an index. A book all about whales, whaling, whalers, Jonah and the Whale, etc. A visual feast of whaling ships. Light fading to spine, Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I, in 2 parts, 559 pages total. Green cloth covers, dark green and gilt titles to spine, 180 color plates, endpapers decorated with map of U.S., profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear to covers, otherwise very clean, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff bindings; both books in great condition.