Hardcover. Montpelier VT, Walton's Steam Printing Est., 1st, 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Brown cloth w/ lettering and Vermont seal in gilt on front. Border design embossed on front and back covers. "Containing Together with the Constitution of the State and that of the United States and a List of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Departments of the State, State Institutions, their Locality and Officers, and Other Historical and Statistical information. Rules and Manual the Rules and Orders of the Senate and House 1867." Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dated 1867. Binding still tight and straight, pages also in excellent condition relative to age. Great fold-out map of the state of Vermont on title page. Red ribbon bookmarks w/ b/w etchings of sailboat, horse glued on tucked into front. White ribbon bookmark w/ red lettering "Reunion 1885" tucked into pages 48, 49.
Softcover. Burlington VT, self-published, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 7 3/4 X 10 3/4", 32 pages, stapled binding. Photo-essay of flood damages from mainly mid-state North of Rutland- Bellows Falls axis. Mostly urban areas, and very little rural. Floods of 1927 where state suffered $ 25 million in property damage. Paper tanning, soiled and spotted, otherwise solid.
Hardcover. Montpeiler, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners ID stamp on front flyleaf. Color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. Dark red cloth cover boards (light moisture damage to bottom right corner of front cover, and bottom left corner of back cover), gilt title on spine and front cover board. Light tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean. Binding good. Spine straight. A touch of moisture damage (very minimal-see image) to bottom corner of edge. History of Medical College in Woodstock, VT.
Hardcover. Salisbury, Keewaydin Camp, 1st Thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 67 pages plus section of black & white group camp photographs from 1912 to 1958. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ABBOTT FENN ON DEDICATION PAGE. Updated and corrected edition of the original 1959 'The Story of Keewaydin'. Dust jacket with wear to edges, tape repaired closed tears - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Mountain Sports Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 180 pages. Since the 1950's, Stowe has been called the "Ski Capital of the East." Peter Oliver's stunning coffee-table book is the story of Stowe's past and present, the mountain, the village, and the people who helped it grow and made it famous.
Softcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont life Magazine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Fading to spine. Front wrapper turned up on top, otherwise clean tight copy. Color pictures throughout by Paul Boisvert.
Hardcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gold lettering, design on front cover, 62 pages. Dean was a Professor at the University of Vermont who taught ceative writing. He was the author of many works of historical fiction, including stories about Vermont heroes John Stark and Ethan Allen, and was the founder of the Green Mountain Folkore Society. Two small notations on prelim pages, bookplate on front fly leaf.
Softcover. Williston VT, privately printed, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wraps, 74 pages, b&w illustrations. Due to cheap binding several pages in rear loose. Book bright and clean.
Softcover. Rutland VT, self-published, 2nd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red paper covers stamped with a black title and cartoon portrait of author. Yankee humor in the form of short sketches originally published in the Rutland Herald. The author (pictured in a photo on the first inside page) was a member of the Vermont legislature. Several cartoons by George Randall embellish the 90 pages of text. Ads in rear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a monumental road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America. From a chance meeting with an angry moose in northern New England to late-night walks on the wildest sides of America's largest cities, The Great Northern Express chronicles Mosher's escapades with an astonishing array of erudite bibliophiles, homeless hitchhikers, country crooners and strippers, and aspiring writers of all circumstances. Full of high and low comedy and rollicking adventures, this is part travel memoir, part autobiography, and pure, anarchic fun. From coast to coast and border to border, this unforgettable adventure of a top-notch American writer demonstrates that, sometimes, in order to know who we truly are, we must turn the wheel towards home.
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.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 133 pages. In 1968 the photographer Richard Brown fulfilled a romantic childhood dream when he moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life that was fast disappearing, a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and small family-run farms far removed from the industrial Northeast. Determined to record it before it disappeared, he saw a pastoral vision where, "for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past" granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man? "was made palpable." He saw the land and also a people whose "endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity" and who believed their "age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself " labors that might just hold modernity at bay." And Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10" large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and "did so with great but fierce attachment." This is a great ode to an America that has passed before our eyes almost without comment or notice. It is a valiant, indeed a brilliant, effort to make the past tangible, to bring it back to life. Clean copy.
Softcover. self-published, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green stapled wrappers. 52 pages. Originally published in 1974 by the Vermont Historical Society. Thompson began his diary as a lad of 17 and continued to be a diary-keeper for 69 years. His jottings provide a telling portrait of himself and the world he lived in. Clean copy.
Softcover. Mayfield NY, DreamChase Features, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages plus an extensive index, bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos, drawings. SIGNED BY COOK on the title page. Like new condition.
Hardcover. The McKernon Group. Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages. Jack McKernon has created an easy-to-read guide for those about to embark on the adventure of building or renovating homes of their own. Pulling together details from his own experiences and those of his colleagues at the design-build firm he founded in Brandon, Vermont, he takes the reader through the process of creating a home that evokes the past but lives in the present. Illustrated with over 290 color photographs, the book offers narrative advice on finding and working with the right design-build contractor, siting the home on the property, incorporating elements of the Vermont vernacular farmhouse, ensuring convenience and comfort in the home, building responsibly, and designing a space that incorporates one's personal desires.
Burlington VT, Samuel Mills, 2nd Ed., 1809, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 2 volume set. Second Edition, Corrected and Much Enlarged, after the first edition of 1794. 487 total pages. Vol. 1 does NOT have the folding map frontis. The handwritten name of Peter Starr (1778-1860) appears on the title page of both volumes. He was the head of a prominent Middlebury family whose name now graces two buildings: Starr Hall and Starr Library (now home to the Axinn Center). Brown calf covers with some rubbing and chipping to edges, red morocco spine labels with gilt lettering. Clean, tight set.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing Co,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 87 pages, limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY NAY on the half-title page. "This is the real authentic story of an old Vermont country doctor written not as fiction but as the life of one of Vermont's oldest physicians....that beloved figure, the old-fashioned country doctor..." Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Shelburne VT, Red Barn Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 124 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The true story of an extraordinary children's summer camp during the 1920s and 1930s, where teenagers built and sailed their own 75 foot long "pirate ship" on Lake Champlain. Over eleven incredible summers, Francis Godfrey Baker, engineer, boat builder, and visionary, led groups of intrepid teenagers on an odyssey of life-changing experiences while traveling aboard their pirate ship, Aladdin. Baker believed that a little ingenuity and determination turned boys into men; he steered them on a course of events through raging weather and water, meetings with extraordinary people and self-sustainability. He showed them the amazing power that comes through teamwork and camaraderie. This is the first in-depth account of the Adventurers' Camp, and the first time rare photographs of the boys' activities have been presented. INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, St. Michael's High School, 1940-1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nine stapled softcover booklets, 44-60 pages each, b&w photos. A history of this Vermont high school during WW2 and the post-war years. A few with ink name on cover, otherwise clean.
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. Vermont Heritage Press, Revised Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a rubbed, edgeworn dust jacket. Pictorial end papers. B&w illustrations throughout. Intact foldout of "Shelburne Shipyard in Winter" in winter circa 1920. This new edition adds essays by Arthur B. Cohn, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, on Lake Champlain steamboats and ferries and recent developments in Champlain Valley Maritime archaeology. Clean copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission of Vermont, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible beige cloth covers, 167 pages plus pages of Press Comments. B&w illustrations. Museum bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.
 "State of Vermont. Annual Directory for the Use of the General Assembly... by: NA")
 "Stories and Pictures of the Vermont Flood, November 1927 by: Atwood, R.E.")
 "Story of a Country Medical College, The: A History of the Clinical School of Medicine and the Vermont Medical College, Woodstock Vermont, 1827-1856 by: Waite, Frederic")
 "Story of Keewaydin, The: 50 Years at Dunmore 1910-1959 by: Fenn, Abbott T.")
 "Stowe: Classic New England by: Peter Oliver and Billy Kidd")
 "Sweet Maple: Life, Lore & Recipes from the Sugarbush by: Lawrence, James M. ; Martin, Rux")
 "The Admission of Vermont into the Union by: Leon W. Dean")
 "The Brownell Family in Vermont by: Lincoln C. Brownell")
 "The Diaries of Sally and Pamela Brown 1832-1838/ Hyde Leslie 1887 by: Blanche Brown Bryant/Gertrude Elaine Baker")
 "The Gentleman from Hayville by: Howard L. Hindley")
 "The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home by: Mosher, Howard Frank")
 "The Hill Country of Northern New England: Its Social and Economic History 1790-1930 by: Wilson, Harold Fisher")
 "The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont's Past by: Richard W. Brown")
 "The Life of a Vermont Farmer and Lumberman: The Diaries of Henry A. Thompson of Grafton and Saxtons River by: Stuart F. Heinritz (Ed.)")
 "The Light-Keepers of Lake Champlain (SIGNED COPY) by: Cook, David E.")
 "The Master Builders' Guide to the Perfect Home: A Design-Build Approach to Living Vermont Style by: Jack McKernon")
 "The Natural and Civil History of Vermont by: Williams, Samuel")
 "The Old Country Doctor (SIGNED COPY) by: Winfield Scott Nay")
 "The Pirates of Dingley Dell: A True Swashbuckling Adventure at a Vermont Boys' Camp by: Corbin, Bret")
 "The Saint Michael's Banner - 9 High School Booklets from the 1940s by: N/A")
 "The Scalp Hunters: Abenaki Ambush at Lovewell Pond 1725 by: Kayworth Alfred E; Potvin Raymond G")
 "The Steamboats of Lake Champlain 1809-1930 by: Ogden Ross")
 "The Tercentenary Celebration of the Discovery of Lake Champlain and Vermont by: N/A")
 "The Two Brothers by: William Jaspersohn /Michael Donato")