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100 Paintings from the Boston Museum


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Softcover. Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Perfect binding, illustrated with 100 full color plates, introduction by Perry T. Rathbone, index of artists. Light rubbing to covers, crease to bottom front right corner from bending of cover; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806282


Price: $15.00 

 

Affirming Limits - Essays on Morality, Choice, and Poetic Form


Pack, Robert

Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, hardcover. Light dust jacket edgewear, fade to spine.

Record # 602551


Price: $20.00 

 

Affirming Limits: Essays on Mortality, Choice, and Poetic Form


Pack, Robert

Hardcover. Amherst, Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. light sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458541


Price: $25.00 

 

Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman


Carey, Richard Adams

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd Printing, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 381 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457048


Price: $12.00 

 

American Art at Harvard


Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Softcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Monotone illustrated covers, perfect binding, red titles, 1500 copies published on occasion of exhibition, 176 b&w plates with accompanying descriptions, preface by Benjamin Rowland, Jr., introduction by Kenyon C. Bolton, III. Light rubbing to coves, clipped article from unknown periodical on exhibition included; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806254


Price: $30.00 

 

American Landscapes in the Wake of French Impressionism


Trapp, Frank Anderson

Softcover. Amherst, Massachusetts, Mean Art Museum, Amherst College, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Light pink covers with red titles, 6 b&w plates, checklist of exhibition. Light rubbing to covers; catalog in great condition.

Record # 806015


Price: $8.00 

 

Andrew-Safford House, The


Ward, Gerald R.W.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, One in a series on historical Massachusetts Houses; yellow covers with b/w plate on front; almost no wear to covers. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. Postcard of the house inside front cover. 8 b/w plates of house, with extensive text on architecture, history, design and inventory of items in the house. 34 pages.

Record # 808362


Price: $20.00 

 

Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce


Robin, Richard S.

Hardcover. MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear and sunning and a small sticker-stain to front cover.

Record # 855910


Price: $100.00 

 

Annual of The American Institute of Graphic Arts, The


Brown, David R.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs and reproductions. Included in this volume are: The Cover Show, AIGA Medalist Saul Bass, The AIGA Design leadership Award: Massachusetts Intitute of Technology, Communication Graphics, and much more. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603802


Price: $22.00 

 

Antique Blob Top Bottles, Central and Southern New England


Lincoln, Gerald David

Softcover. Massachusetts, Gerald David Lincoln, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. White covers with black titles and b&w illustration, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates of bottles and accompanying descriptions. Rubbing to covers, spine slightly discolored, previous owner's pen inscription in blue ink to top right corner of title page; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806468


Price: $20.00 

Appletons of Beacon Hill, TheTharp, Louise Hall

Appletons of Beacon Hill, The


Tharp, Louise Hall

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 368 pages. B&W illust. The life and times of a celebrated 19th century Boston family. Ex-lib with light stamping residue. Dust jacket edgeworn, heavily chipped. Cover boards show heavy fading along top edges, spine cocked.

Record # 300703


Price: $15.00 

Architectural Records in Boston: A Guide to Architectural Research in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity (Garland reference library of the humanities)Schrock, Nancy Carlson

Architectural Records in Boston: A Guide to Architectural Research in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity (Garland reference library of the humanities)


Schrock, Nancy Carlson

Hardcover. US, Garland Publishing, reprint , 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine. Includes glossary of terms. Light foxing to top and fore edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 467081


Price: $75.00 

 

Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide


Tolles, Jr. & Tolles, Bryant F. & Carolyn K.

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Reference guide to historical architecture in Salem, Massachusetts, with reviews of over 350 buildings. 311 pages, fully illustrated with black/white photographs and maps. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no internal marks; dust jacket has wear at the corners and on the ends of the spine, two rips along the top edge.

Record # 804857


Price: $51.00 

Architecture of Historic Nantucket, TheLancaster, Clay

Architecture of Historic Nantucket, The


Lancaster, Clay

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very light wear, small scuff to back cover otherwise clean and tight copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower edge of front end papers.

Record # 2230910


Price: $25.00 

Art and Perfume or Did Mondrian Use Masking Tape? - Paintings, Assemblages, Objects and Prints by Richard Merkin - November 7 to December 2, 1969 - Hayden Gallery at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, OnMerkin, Richard/Hayden G

Art and Perfume or Did Mondrian Use Masking Tape? - Paintings, Assemblages, Objects and Prints by Richard Merkin - November 7 to December 2, 1969 - Hayden Gallery at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, On


Merkin, Richard/Hayden G

Softcover. Cambridge, Hayden Gallery/MIT, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover exhibition catalog. Black & white illustrations. Tender spine with separation at center of catalog, with pages likely to come loose in time. Clear unmarked pages. Some fading and minor soiling to covers.

Record # 614107


Price: $63.00 

 

Art Museums of New England, The: New Hampshire, Vermont & Maine


Faison, Jr., S. Lane

Softcover. Boston, Massachusetts, David R. Godine, 2nd, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reference guide to New England art museums in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. 463 pages plus an index. Illustrations include three black/white maps and 103 black/white photographs. Very good condition, slight edge wear and few scratches to the back cover.

Record # 805376


Price: $13.00 

 

Arts in Boston, The: an Outsider's Inside View of the Cultural Estate


Taper, Bernard

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, b&w maps. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606406


Price: $12.00 

 

Arts in Boston, The: an Outsider's Inside View of the Cultural Estate


Taper, Bernard

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 170 pages, b&w maps. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. White pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges, price clipped, old price covered with black ink on front fly leaf, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606394


Price: $12.00 

 

Aspects of the 70's


various authors

Softcover. Massachusetts, multiple publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six art catalogs published together in a white slip case. "A collaboration among six museums in the Boston area, consists of six separately conceived exhibitions...". Sizes of catalogs differ so that edges stagger to reveal all six titles from front of slip case. Text by James Sheldon. Catalog titles: "Directions in Realisms," "Mavericks," "Painterly Abstraction," "Sitework," "Spiral: Afro-American Art of the 70's," and "Photography: Recent Directions." Light wear to slip cover edges, discoloration to revealed edges of catalogs; otherwise a very clean, tight copy of a unique set of exhibition catalogs.

Record # 806053


Price: $80.00 

 

Aspects of the 70's


various authors

Softcover. Massachusetts, multiple publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six art catalogs published together in a white slip case. "A collaboration among six museums in the Boston area, consists of six separately conceived exhibitions...". Sizes of catalogs differ so that edges stagger to reveal all six titles from front of slip case. Text by James Sheldon. Catalog titles: "Directions in Realisms," "Mavericks," "Painterly Abstraction," "Sitework," "Spiral: Afro-American Art of the 70's," and "Photography: Recent Directions." Light wear to slip cover edges, discoloration to revealed edges of catalogs; otherwise a very clean, tight copy of a unique set of exhibition catalogs.

Record # 806055


Price: $80.00 

 

Assembly House, The


Ward, Gerald W.R.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, One in a series on historical Massachusetts houses; red covers with b/w plate on front; hardly any wear to covers. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. Postcard of house inside front cover. 8 b/w plates of house and blueprints, extensive text on history and architecture. 31 pages.

Record # 808365


Price: $20.00 

Ball's Bluff-an Episode and Its Consequences to Some of UsPeirson, Charles Lawrence

Ball's Bluff-an Episode and Its Consequences to Some of Us


Peirson, Charles Lawrence

Hardcover. Salem MA, Salem Press Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 54 pages, b&w frontispiece "Field and Staff of Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861". Previous owner's sticker with name on front fly leaf, rear fly leaf removed. Otherwise clean.

Record # 415263


Price: $63.00 

 

Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection


Warren, David B.

Softcover. Boston, Massachusetts, New York Graphic Society Ltd., rep, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Collection of American domestic art in the Southwestern United States. 192 pages, fully illustrated with many black/white and color photographs, some full-page. Book is in very good condition, dust jacket is in good condition with some edge wear and rips on the top edge on the back.

Record # 805172


Price: $10.00 

 

Beckman Gillespie


Beckman, William and Gregory Gillespie

Softcover. Waltham, Massachusetts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Stiff textured light brown covers with blind stapled titles and folded flaps, acknowledgments and introductory essay titled "The Art of William Beckman and Gregory Gillespie" by Carl Belz, catalogue of the exhibition,16 color and b&w plates by each artist. Slight rubbing to covers, tiny brown marking to lower right edge of front cover, slight break to upper portion of spine; otherwise a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806163


Price: $64.00 

 

Belmont Hill School 1923-1998: An Anniversary Album


Prenatt, Harold

Hardcover. Massachusetts, Belmont Hill School, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Some foxing to cover boards. Clean inside. in honor of the 75th anniversary of the celebrated Massachusetts prep school, including a full history.

Record # 30351


Price: $75.00 

 

Berkshire Lost


Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Softcover. Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Historical catalog. White stapled wrappers, profusely illustrated with large b&w plates of historical buildings, acknowledgments by Paul Ivory, introduction by Cornelia Brooke Gilder, roster of historical architecture lost since 1900 within 100-mile radius of Chesterwood. Small light brown markings to front, pages very crisp; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807927


Price: $12.00 

 

Beyond New England Thresholds


Chamberlain, Samuel

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on front board still quite bright, spine gilt slightly faded. Decorated endpapers. Agewear to dust jacket, but still intact. Boards just slightly faded with age, but no tears or fraying. Spine broken at page 48, but pages still attached. Considering age, clean inside with only a bit of yellowing. Illustrations of the interiors of New England houses.

Record # 30497


Price: $25.00 

 

Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States - Volume I, Volume II, Volume III


Forbush, Edward Howe

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts Department of Agriculture , Reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I - 481 pages. Illustrated with full color plates and black & white photographs. Interior hinge tender at page 18. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Covers show light wear. Clean, unmarked copy. Volume II - 461 pages. Illustrated with full color plates. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Covers show light wear. Clean, unmarked copy. Volume III - 466 pages. Illustrated with full color plates and black & white photographs. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609582


Price: $100.00 

 

Body Blows: Poems New and Selected


Bagg, Robert

Softcover. US, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1988-06-21, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to wrapper with slight tearing to lower edge of spine.

Record # 465756


Price: $19.00 

 

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin


Lepore Jill

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Light green cover boards, dark green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. The life story of Benjamin Franklin's sister, Jane Franklin.

Record # 31776


Price: $19.00 

 

Borough and Town: A Study of Urban Origins in England


Stephenson, Carl

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 236 pages. Some pencil underlining. Some soiling to covers. Rubbing to spine and corners. Top corners bumped.

Record # 506939


Price: $13.00 

 

Boston A to Z


O'Connor, Thomas H.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456845


Price: $18.00 

 

Boston and the Boston Legend


Beebe, Lucius, Illust. by: E.H. Suydam

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton - Century Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages, hardcover. Pastedown illustration & gilt titles. Illustrated, with color frontis by E.H. Suydam. Fading, bumping and edgewear to spine. Mild age toning to text block. Light edgewear and soiling to boards. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951431


Price: $31.00 

Boston Bohemia: 1881-1900 Ralph Adams Cram: Life and ArchitectureShand-Tucci, Douglass

Boston Bohemia: 1881-1900 Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture


Shand-Tucci, Douglass

Softcover. Amherst, Mass, University of Massachusetts Press , reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 569 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w images throughout. Some fading to spine. Corners of front cover are creased. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855852


Price: $15.00 

 

Boston Days


Whiting, Lilian

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 485 pages. Teal cloth, gilt lettering, green & white floral decor. Top edge gilt. Full page b&w photographs, including frontispiece. Original dust jacket with chipped edges.

Record # 40019


Price: $51.00 

 

Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810-1840


Feld, Stuart P.

Softcover. New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly color illustrations, with a few black-and-white illustrations. A little wear around corners and spine. Some scratches on covers. Bottom corner of pages lightly creased. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856449


Price: $31.00 

Boston Irish, The: A Political HistoryO'Connor, Thomas H.

Boston Irish, The: A Political History


O'Connor, Thomas H.

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern, May 4, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages, several b&w illustrations. Sticker residue on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452907


Price: $10.00 

 

Boston Marathon: The First Century of the World's Premier Running Event (Centennial Race Edition)


Derderian, Tom

Softcover. Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics, 1st, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers in great condition, some foxing on edges. Otherwise clean inside.

Record # 30886


Price: $13.00 

 

Boston Tradition, The: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Troyen, Carol

Softcover. New York, American Federation of Arts, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, includes catalog and index, reproductions of Boston paintings from 1720-1920. Illustrated in b&w with some plates in color. Very good, clean copy. The color is scratched away in a small place on the outside edge of the front cover. Small dent on back cover.

Record # 805204


Price: $26.00 

 

Boston, A Topographical History


Whitehill, Walter Muir

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Green cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, b&w frontispiece and 16 b&w photographic plates. Slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808311


Price: $15.00 

 

Bostonians, The: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930


Fairbrother, Trevor J

Softcover. Boston, Mass., 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Edge wear, rubbing to wrappers and spine. Front cover slightly bent near spine. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451267


Price: $30.00 

 

Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street


Clarke, Norma

Hardcover. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the back cover: "With its broad tableau and vividly drawn cast of characters, this book is a genuinely accessible and enlightening account of the working lives of Grub Street authors."

Record # 30312


Price: $23.00 

 

Bulfinch's Boston, 1787-1817


Kirker, Harold & James Kirker

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. Pictorial endpapers. Pictorial blue cloth with black title to spine. Blue dust jacket with light wear to edges and spine and a few closed tears to spine and front cover. Overall a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605855


Price: $11.00 

 

California Sabers: The 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil War


McLean, James

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Story of the California Hundred and Battalion, the only organized group of Californians to fight in the East during the Civil War. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951213


Price: $19.00 

 

Cameo Diner


Miller, Matt

Softcover. Lowell, Massachusetts, Loom Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 pages. Covers illustrated in b&w, perfect binding. Covers and pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 807090


Price: $20.00 

 

Cape Cod Ballads


Lincoln, Joe

Hardcover. Trenton, Albert Brandt, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages plus 2 pages of ads. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 612831


Price: $75.00 

Cape Cod Canal, TheFarson, Robert H.

Cape Cod Canal, The


Farson, Robert H.

softcover. Canada, Cape Cod Historical Pubns, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 177 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 468835


Price: $19.00 

 

Charles, The: Rivers of America


Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon , Illust. by: Ernest J. Donnelly

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart Inc. , reprint, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 356 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Chipping and edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857375


Price: $38.00 

 

Childs Gallery, Boston: Exhibition Chronology and Publications 1937-1980


Dratch, Gladys I.

Softcover. Boston, Boston Public Library, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 35 pages. Manilla stapled wrappers with b&w illustration. Extremely light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808168


Price: $8.00 

Civil War Boston: Home Front and BattlefieldO'Connor, Thomas H.

Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield


O'Connor, Thomas H.

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458593


Price: $13.00 

 

Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity


Tillery, Tyrone

Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 235 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 508133


Price: $18.00 

 

Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1870.


N.A.

Hardcover. New York, New York Historical Society, 1st, 1871, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Brown embossed cloth cover, gilt lettering, beveled edges, wear to corners and edges of spine. Some pages unopened. Volume III in the Publication Fund Series. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 853150


Price: $25.00 

 

Collegial Collectors: American Art from the Class of 1967


Eldredge, Charles C.

Softcover. Amherst, Massachusetts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 22 pages. Dark green stapled wrappers, lovely large color plate pasted to front, preface by Frederick D. Hill, essay by Charles C. Eldredge, 21 full color plates, checklist of the exhibition. Letter from director of Mead Art Museum laid-in. Clean wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog in excellent condition.

Record # 808203


Price: $19.00 

Colonial Architecture of Salem, TheCousins, Frank

Colonial Architecture of Salem, The


Cousins, Frank

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 282 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very light wear to edges and corners, protected by slip case. Edges and corners of slip case show some wear and staining, but case seems solid.

Record # 2230877


Price: $38.00 

 

Colonial Epoch in America, The


Reutlinger, Dagmar E.

Softcover. Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Exhibition catalog. Stiff color illustrated covers, dust jacket with similar illustration, over 100 b&w plates throughout. Light rubbing to dust jacket; otherwise a tight, clean copy in great condition.

Record # 806343


Price: $12.00 

 

Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers


Kane, Patricia E.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 1,241 pages. Biographies of almost 300 artisans with over 6000 examples of their work. Also 424 illustrations of their marks. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 804940


Price: $64.00 

 

Concord in the Days of Strawberries and Streetcars


Garrelick, Renee and William M. Bailey

Condord, MA, Town of Concord, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 225 pages. Light reside to front fly leaf where bookplate removed. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears, fade to spine.

Record # 65362


Price: $38.00 

Contemporary American PaintingsWorcester Art Museum

Contemporary American Paintings


Worcester Art Museum

Softcover. Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 15 pages. Softcover, pamphlet format. Slight crease to lower cover and spine.

Record # 2230802


Price: $15.00 

 

Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.


Poulet, Anne L. & Alexandra R. Murphy

Hardcover. Boston, MA, The Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 148 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Cover and spine slightly sunned, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 805716


Price: $64.00 

Cotton Mather: The Christian PhilosopherSolberg, Winton U. (ed.)

Cotton Mather: The Christian Philosopher


Solberg, Winton U. (ed.)

Hardcover. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows normal wear to spine and some fading. Light pencil marking in text.

Record # 2231012


Price: $35.00 

 

Courtship of Miles Standish, The


Longfellow , Henry Wadsworth , Illust. by: Howard Chandler Christy

Hardcover. Indianapolis, The Bobbs Merrill Company , reprint , 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Extensive b&w and color illustrations. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Decorated endpapers and flyleaves. Illustrated half title page. Faint foxing to front end paper. Else Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 857251


Price: $50.00 

 

Covered Bridges of Massachusetts: A Guide


Howard, Andrew R.

Softcover. Unionville, CT, Andrew R. Howard, 1st, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Red covers show very little wear, only a slight mark on the front. Paper wrappers tight, showing little wear. Pages clean and crisp. 9 b/w plates, one photograph for each bridge, are included with text describing each of the covered bridges in Massachusetts. Essays on the construction and types of bridges, as well as brief history of covered bridges, precedes this. 46 pages.

Record # 807815


Price: $20.00 

 

Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston Massachusetts 1860-1894-1941


Winship, George Parker

Hardcover. Rochester NY, The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 pages, b&w plates, black cloth covers, spine lettering faded.

Record # 407369


Price: $19.00 

Death in Belmont, AJunger, Sebastian

Death in Belmont, A


Junger, Sebastian

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469985


Price: $10.00 

 

Description of Trinity Church, A


Richardson, Henry Hobson

Softcover. Unknown, Unknown, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Yellow covers virtually free from wear, line illustration on front. Staple wrappers are tight, with very light wear. Short work describes the design and construction of Trinity church, including dimensions. Pamphlet from a Reverend of the church included inside the front cover. Pages are clean and crisp. 15 pages.

Record # 807646


Price: $12.00 

Down on T Wharf: The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. FisherGerman, Andrew W.

Down on T Wharf: The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisher


German, Andrew W.

Hardcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very light wear to edges and spine, otherwise very clean and tight copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower edge of front end papers.

Record # 2230908


Price: $19.00 

Downriver - A Memoir of Choate Island (SIGNED)Wonson, Mary and Roger Choate

Downriver - A Memoir of Choate Island (SIGNED)


Wonson, Mary and Roger Choate

Hardcover. Randolph Center VT, Greenhills Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some creasing on the top edge of jacket and slight foxing on inside covers. Inscriptions on front end paper. SIGNED on title page.

Record # 33520


Price: $250.00 

 

Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord


Cooke (Ed.), George Willis

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages, brown cloth with gilt and red design, top edge gilt.

Record # 900132


Price: $16.00 

 

Elmer: Edwin Romanzo Elmer As I Knew Him


Elmer, Maud Valona

Softcover. Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog by relative of Elmer. Red stapled covers, 7 large b&w plates, laid-in postcard from Smith College featuring "Mourning Picture" by Elmer. Crisp, clean covers and pages; a neat, tight exhibition catalog.

Record # 401218


Price: $8.00 

 

Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1892 - With Biographical and Historical Notes


Kingman, Bradford

Softcover. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Softcover. 2014 Library of Congress reprint. Black & white illustrations. Book measures: 7.24" X 11.5". Some curling to front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613827


Price: $38.00 

 

Equestrian Statue of Major-General Joseph Hooker, The


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Wright & Potter/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, 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


Price: $25.00 

 

Essays on Amherst's History


NA

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, The Vista Trust, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and small closed tear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855283


Price: $19.00 

 

Essex Institute Historical Collections, The: Vol. LXX, No. 4


the Essex Institute

Softcover. Salem, MA, The Essex Institute, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Quarterly catalog with gray covers, some sunning on edges, minor rubbing and edge wear. Paper wrappers. Several sections: first on cabinetmakers, second on portraits in the Essex Institute, and third on ship registries. A few b/w plates throughout, rest is text. Paginated from 323 to 459. Tight copy, clean interior.

Record # 808453


Price: $12.00 

 

Everett Souvenir


Bailey, Dudley P./Walter L. Colby/City of Everett

Hardcover. Everett, City of Everett, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Preliminary ad pages with darkening, light soil. 2.5" horizontal closed tear on foredge of pages 45-48. Moderate wear to black cloth covers. Clean, unmarked text. Scarce.

Record # 611826


Price: $125.00 

 

Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge


Clapp (Ed.), Robert P.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Cambridge City Council/Charles Sever, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 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


Price: $26.00 

 

Ezra Stiles Gannett: Unitarian Minister in Boston, 1824-1871


Gannett, William C.

Hardcover. Boston , American Unitarian Association, 3rd, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 572 pages, hardcover. Brown stamped boards with gilt titling to spine. Fading and spotting to spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Age toning to text block edges.

Record # 951991


Price: $19.00 

 

Fenway: An Unexpurgated History of the Boston Red Sox


Golenbock, Peter

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages including index. Illustrated with b&w Photographs. The dust jacket is in great condition with minor signs of wear. The front endpages have a cut otherwise great copy.

Record # 802496


Price: $10.00 

 

Figures of Dead Men by Leonard Baskin


Baskin, Leonard

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Hyman Edelstein. Preface by Archibald Macleish. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609726


Price: $35.00 

 

First Spring - A Martha's Vineyard Journal


Meras, Phyllis

Hardcover. Riverside, CT, Chatham Press, 2nd, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white drawings by Mary Lee Herbster

Record # 60842


Price: $19.00 

 

Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery & Cafe


Chang, Joanne

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st Edition, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Pages and edges clean and bright. Spine straight, binding tight. Decorated cover boards. In beautiful, like new condition. In this cookbook, Chang is thrilled to share dozens of Flour's most popular recipes, carefully reformulated to work successfully at home, along with other delicious baked goods.

Record # 32398


Price: $19.00 

 

Forgotten Cape: 1940-1960, The


Sicchio, Mary

Softcover. Charleston, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to covers. Lipstick kiss on inside of back cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612414


Price: $13.00 

 

Frank W. Benson, N.A. (1862-1951)


Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc.

Softcover. Boston, MA, Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12-page, staple-bound pamphlet. Exhibition catalog. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light tanning to rear cover. Small scratch to bottom edge. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856509


Price: $13.00 

 

Frederic A. Bosley, A. N. A. (1881-1942): A Painter in the Boston School


Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc.

Softcover. Boston, Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16-page, staple-bound pamphlet. Exhibition catalog. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Light sun-fading to covers. Bottom corners of covers and pages a little creased. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856542


Price: $13.00 

 

From Boston to the Berkshires: A Pictorial Review of Electric Transportation in Massachusetts


Carlson, Stephen P. , Thomas w. Harding

Softcover. Boston, MA, Boston Street Railway Association, inc., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. With fold out map attached at back endpapers. Wrapper excellent. Binding tight. Pages clean. In great shape.

Record # 31931


Price: $19.00 

 

From the Lower Deck: The Royal Navy 1780-1840


Baynham, Henry

Hardcover. Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Publishers, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Minor dust jacket spine and corner edge wear and rubbing. Price clipped. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy with b&w illustrations and photographs.

Record # 852381


Price: $12.00 

 

Frontier of Freedom: The Portrait of an Extraordinary Village, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts


Chamberlain, Samuel and Henry N. Flynt

New York, Hastings House, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 170 pages. Contains numerous black & white photography of inside and outside of houses in Old Deerfield. Some pages signed by current occupants (1958) of historic houses. Dust jacket with chipping, light soiling.

Record # 508681


Price: $20.00 

 

Furniture of Historic Deerfield, The


Fales Jr., Dean A.

Hardcover. New York, E.P Dutton and Company, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Previous owner inscription on front flyleaf. Dust jacket shows some age wear. Very light foxing to edges and a couple of pages, otherwise clean inside. In good shape.

Record # 30350


Price: $23.00 

 

Gardiners of Massachusetts, The: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career


Milford, T.A.

Hardcover. Lebanon NH, University of New Hampshire Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages, hardcover. The account of three generations of the Gardiner family during the Revolutionary era. Light rubbing to boards. Light pencil marking to rear endpapers. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951916


Price: $19.00 

 

Gazetteer of Massachusetts, Containing Descriptions of All the Counties, Towns and Districts in the Commonwealth; Also, of its Principal Mountains, Rivers, Capes, Bays, Harbors, Islands, and Fashionable Resorts. T which are added: Statistic

Hardcover. Boston, John Hayward, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Ex-library copy with bookplate on front endpaper, and envelope residue on inside covers. Black & white illustrations. Narrow crack in front cover hinge - approximately 1/2". Black cloth covers with blind stamped decoration. Title in gilt on spine. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 610396


Price: $50.00 

 

Genealogy of The Descendants of Nicholas Hodsdon-Hodgdon of Hingham, Mass and Kitter, Maine. 1635-1904


White, Almira Larkin

Hardcover. Haverhill, MA, Andrew Jackson Hodgdon, 1st, 1904, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 31721


Price: $125.00 

 

Glimpses of early Roxbury


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612969


Price: $25.00 

 

Gloucester Years - Grace Borgenicht Gallery - February 6 thru March 4, 1982


Grace Borgenicht Gallery

Softcover. New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Softcover. Ex-museum library copy with stamp at top right corner of title. Full color and black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613902


Price: $13.00 

Great Buildings of BostonCushing, George M.

Great Buildings of Boston


Cushing, George M.

Softcover. New York, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages, b&w photographs. Wrappers slightly warped.

Record # 451043


Price: $8.00 

Great Rivalry, The - The Yankees and the Red Sox 1901-1990Linn, Ed

Great Rivalry, The - The Yankees and the Red Sox 1901-1990


Linn, Ed

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos, Dust jacket price-clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 175854


Price: $12.00 

 

Growing Up in a Shipyard: Reminiscences of a Shipbuilding Life in Essex, Massachusetts (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Story, Dana A.

Softcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half title page. Light wear to edges of illustrated wraps. Faint foxing to top & small spot of soiling to right edge. Else clean with black & white illustrations.

Record # 751473


Price: $25.00 

 

Guide Book or Microcosmographia Religiosa


The Order of S. Anne

Hardcover. Boston MA, S. Anne's House, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages, hardcover. Describing the life and work of Saint John's house in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. Heavy fading and spotting to boards. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Slight bowing to front panel. Prelim page missing. Frontispiece intact. Fold-out map at rear intact. Minor age toning to text block edges. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952013


Price: $15.00 

 

Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries, A


Lambert, David Allen

Softcover. Boston, MA, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy color cover in excellent condition. Minor smudging on front and back cover. Pages have clear, concise listings of cemetery locations and are in excellent condition as well.

Record # 806792


Price: $100.00 

 

Hampshire History, The: Celebrating 300 Years of Hampshire County Massachusetts


Wikander, Et.al., Lawrence E.

Hardcover. Northampton, MA, Hampshire County Commissioners, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Slight sunning to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855210


Price: $25.00 

 

Handbook of Old Burial Hill Plymouth Massachusetts - Its History, Its Famous Dead and Its Quaint Epitaphs


Perkins, Frank H.

Paperback. Plymouth, MA, Rogers, 1st wraps, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 49 pages. Paperback. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 208078


Price: $35.00 

 

Handbook of the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts


Springfield Museum of Fine Arts

Softcover. Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages. Burgundy stapled plastic wrappers, color frontispiece of detail from mural by Sante Graziani in museum library, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Very slight edgewear to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 807712


Price: $13.00 

 

Harvard Book, The: Selections from Three Centuries


Bentinck-Smith, William

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 8th Printing, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages, 3/4 red leather bound with gilt title and decoration. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854257


Price: $8.00 

 

Harvard College Class of 1915 Forty-Fifty Anniversary Report


n/a

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The Cosmos Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 854256


Price: $8.00 

 

Hazelford Sketch Book 1862-1869


Crane, Walter, Illust. by: Walter Crane

Hardcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, John Barnard Associates, Ltd edition, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white sketches by Crane. Nice condition: clean and new-looking. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Record # 109703


Price: $50.00 

 

Hearths and Homes of Old Lynn


Hawkes, Nathan Mortimer

Hardcover. Lynn, Thomas P. Nichols & Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover with title and decorations in gilt. Top edge gilt. Limited edition of 500 copies - this being #357. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Some light rubbing to cloth along front spine hinge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611978


Price: $125.00 

 

Heavier Than Air: Stories


Caspers, Nona

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 186 pages, like new in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY CASPERS on title page.

Record # 403284


Price: $15.00 

 

Highlights of the Sterling and Francince Clark Art Institute


Brooks, John H.

Softcover. Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Selected works from the collection of the paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. 97 pages with 43 illustrated entries. 13 black/white plates and 30 color plates. Near fine condition, no visible signs of wear.

Record # 805545


Price: $11.00 

 

Historic Hadley - A Story of the Making of a Famous Massachusetts Town


Walker, Alice Morehouse

Hardcover. New York, Grafton Press, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Front interior hinge torn at bottom approx. 3". Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Standard wear to cover.

Record # 607670


Price: $25.00 

Historic Mansions and Highways Around BostonDrake, Samuel Adams

Historic Mansions and Highways Around Boston


Drake, Samuel Adams

Softcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 page. Softcover with very minor foxing on top of text block. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230511


Price: $19.00 

Historical Report: Faneuil Hall, Dock Square and Merchants Row, Boston, Massachusetts 1742Amadon, Elizabeth Reed

Historical Report: Faneuil Hall, Dock Square and Merchants Row, Boston, Massachusetts 1742


Amadon, Elizabeth Reed

Softcover. Boston, MA, Architectural Heritage Inc., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 20 pages. Softcover report in clear plastic binder.

Record # 33522


Price: $44.00 

 

History of American Marine Painting, A


Wilmerding, John

Hardcover. Boston, The Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts; Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages. 168 full-page black-and-white illustrations and 16 color plates. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine and flaps, as well as minor chipping along edges and wear along spine. Dust jacket now protected by clear, plastic cover. Some soiling/staining on top and fore edges. A little sun-fading on front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856457


Price: $38.00 

 

History of Massachusetts - From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, The


Carpenter, W.H.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages plus 30 pages of ads. Part of Lippincott's Cabinet Histories of the States. Previous owners name on inside front cover and endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and half title pages. Cloth covers worn and faded with light rubbing to corners.

Record # 608598


Price: $30.00 

History of Nantucket Island, The: A Bibliography of Source Material with Index and InventoryCoffin, Marie M.

History of Nantucket Island, The: A Bibliography of Source Material with Index and Inventory


Coffin, Marie M.

Hardcover. Nantucket Island, MA, Nantucket Historical Trust, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Light normal wear to cover and spine edges, but otherwise very clean and tight copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in upper corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230916


Price: $15.00 

 

History of the Town of Carver Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910


Griffith, Henry S.

Hardcover. New Bedford, MA, E. Anthony & Sons, Inc. , 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Cover boards bound in dark green fabric, title on spine and front cover, including decoration stamped in gilt. Some chipping and rubbing (agewear) to top and bottom of spine and edges and corners of covers. Pages and edges have a bit of age tanning, otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. In great shape for its age.

Record # 31640


Price: $125.00 

Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's enforcer and the most feared gangster in the underworldCarr, Howie

Hitman: the untold story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's enforcer and the most feared gangster in the underworld


Carr, Howie

Hardcover. New York, Forge, 1st, 2011, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B&w photographs throughout. Some stains to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469503


Price: $38.00 

 

Images of Childhood: An Exhibition of Pictures and Objects from Nineteenth-Century New Bedford


Old Dartmouth Historical Society

Softcover. New Bedford, MA, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to blue wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850376


Price: $35.00 

 

Importation of English Furniture into Massachusetts: 1620-1775 - An honors paper for the Department of History - Bowdoin College 1970, The


Saunders, Richard Henry

Softcover. Bowdoin, R. A. Saunders, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages. Softcover binder. Honors paper by Richard Henry Saunders presented at Bowdoin College 1970. Binder with some wrinkling at bottom edges. Interior clean, unmarked.

Record # 611302


Price: $125.00 

 

In Berkshire Fields


Eaton, Walter Prichard

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Many pages unopened and uncut. Over 100 captioned plates and top edge gilt.

Record # 220783


Price: $26.00 

In the Country of the Enemy: The Civil War Reports of a Massachusetts Corporal (New Perspectives on the History of the South)Harris, William C.

In the Country of the Enemy: The Civil War Reports of a Massachusetts Corporal (New Perspectives on the History of the South)


Harris, William C.

Hardcover. Gainsville, FL, University Press of Florida, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in very good condition.

Record # 467967


Price: $15.00 

 

Introduction to Martha's Vineyard, An


Huntington, Gale

Softcover. Edgartown, Duke's County Historical Society, 2nd, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY HUNTINGTON on title-page. Black & white illust. 133 pages. Fold-out map in front. Light wear, soil to wraps.

Record # 63043


Price: $18.00 

Islands, The Alberts, Albert

Islands, The


Alberts, Albert

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, July 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 137 pages. Stain on bottom edge. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 454503


Price: $12.00 

 

John Ward House, The


Ward, Barbara M. and Gerald W.R. Ward

Softcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, One in a series on historical Massachusetts houses; red covers with b/w plate on front; minor wear to spine. Postcard of house inside front cover. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. 11 b/w plates of house and town, extensive text on history and architecture. 34 pages.

Record # 808367


Price: $20.00 

 

Jonny-Cake Papers of "Shepherd Tom": Together with Reminiscences of Narragansett Schools of Former Days


Hazard, Thomas Robinson, Illust. by: Rudolph Hazard

Hardcover. Boston MA, The Merrymount Press, 1st , 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages, hardcover. With biographical sketch and notes by Rowland Gibson Hazard. Illustrated by Rudolph Hazard. Gilted titling to spine and gilt top text block edge. Rough-cut fore and bottom edge. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Bumping to corners. Fading to prelim pages. Unmarked. Scarce, limited edition. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952217


Price: $75.00 

 

Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts


Holtzberg, Maggie

Softcover. US, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2008-05-31, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462515


Price: $19.00 

 

Labors of Hercules, The


Di Bassi, Pietro Andrea

Hardcover. Barre, Massachusetts, Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages, illustrated with facsimiles from the 15th century manuscript, translated by W. Kenneth Thompson. Minor rub and crack to slipcase, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 854474


Price: $40.00 

 

Laps (Juniper Prize for Poetry)


Blumenthal, Michael

Softcover. US, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1984-09-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 33 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465761


Price: $13.00 

 

Like Ghosts of Eagles


Francis, Robert

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Darkening to cover edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613156


Price: $15.00 

 

Llamarada: Nineteen Thirty Nine


N/A

Hardcover. South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Hardcover. Light water damage to some pages inthe back. Black and white pictures throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 2233518


Price: $38.00 

 

Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot


Auster, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Foxing on top edge.

Record # 510775


Price: $9.00 

 

Long View, The: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic craft


Pack, Robert

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight fading to dust jacket and a touch of foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30788


Price: $11.00 

 

Lost Country


Howell, Dan

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages.

Record # 603248


Price: $13.00 

 

Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914


Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 470 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 113 color and 206 illustrations. Still in original shrink wrap; book in excellent condition.

Record # 605467


Price: $51.00 

Magic of the many, The: Josiah Quincy and the rise of mass politics in Boston, 1800-1830 Crocker, Matthew H.

Magic of the many, The: Josiah Quincy and the rise of mass politics in Boston, 1800-1830


Crocker, Matthew H.

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean tight copy. . 222 pages. Record # 467524

Record # 467524


Price: $10.00 

Magnalia Christi AmericanaMather, Cotton

Magnalia Christi Americana


Mather, Cotton

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight wear to spine edges, significant bump and tear to spine, 1/4 inch on upper cover outer corner. Initials blacked out in front end papers and embossed seal on lower title page. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230969


Price: $50.00 

Man Who Died En Route, The Altizer, Nell

Man Who Died En Route, The


Altizer, Nell

Softcover. US, Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1st, 1989-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light edgewear to wrappers with small sticker scar to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 465024


Price: $10.00 

Map Showing Railroad Connections with the Works of The New England Gas & Coke Co.New England Gas & Coke Co.

Map Showing Railroad Connections with the Works of The New England Gas & Coke Co.


New England Gas & Coke Co.

Softcover. Boston, New England Gas & Coke Co., 1st, na, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Fold-out color map in softcover wraps of the Greater Boston, Massachusetts region as related to The New England Gas & Coke Company circa 1899. Booklet measures: 6.75" L X 4.25" W. Small tear in very center of map folds. Ex-museum library copy with "Gift of..." sticker at bottom of inside cover. Light wear.

Record # 613918


Price: $125.00 

Mapping BostonKrieger, Alex (Editor)

Mapping Boston


Krieger, Alex (Editor)

Hardcover. The MIT Press, 2nd printing, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Large heavy volume. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460496


Price: $50.00 

 

Massachusetts In the Rebellion - A Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth . . . in the Civil War of 1861-65


Headley, P. C.

Boston, Walker, Fuller, and Co., 1st , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 688 pages + ads in front of title-page. Black & white photos with tissue guards. Tissue guard on frontispiece removed. Heavy foxing to pages. Hinge separated from binding at front endpaper. Gold embossed decoration, lettering on front of cloth cover and spine. Spotting, fade to spine. Small hole to spine binding. Edgewear to bottom edges.

Record # 502901


Price: $80.00 

 

Massachusetts Review - Winter 1973, The


Williams, William Carlos

Paperback. Amherst, MA, Massachusetts Review, 1st wraps, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A garland for William Carlos Williams issue. Edited by Paul Mariani

Record # 65736


Price: $15.00 

 

Massachusetts: The American Guide Series


Federal Writers' Project

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 673 pages. B&W photographs throughout. Blue boards with slight soiling and sun-faded spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850419


Price: $20.00 

 

Merchant prince of Boston, Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854


Seaburg, Carl & Stanley Patterson

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. illustrated with a few plates in b&w. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Light overall wear and rubbing, else a very neat, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606348


Price: $90.00 

 

Merrimac River Shipping: Paper Read Before the Historical Society of Old Newbury


Coffin, Edward M.

Softcover. Newburyport MA, The Historical Society of Old Newbury, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled brown paper wraps, 24 pages, b&w frontispiece. From a museum library with light stamping. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411953


Price: $14.00 

 

MFA: A Guide to the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Softcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Color illustrated covers, perfect binding, entries by Gilian Shallcross Wohlauer, introduction by Malcolm Rogers, profusely illustrated with color plates. Extremely minor wear to cover; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806286


Price: $15.00 

Minute HandShore, Jane

Minute Hand


Shore, Jane

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on end paper otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470373


Price: $10.00 

 

Monuments, Tablets and other Memorials erected in Massachusetts to Commemorate the Service of Her Sons in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865


Roe, Alfred S.

Hardcover. Boston, State of Massachusetts, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 132 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. All edges gilt. Blue cloth covers with titles on cover and spine in gilt. Cloth along spine and edges darkened. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611791


Price: $100.00 

 

More Tales of Nantucket


Mooney, Robert F.

Softcover. Nantucket, MA, Wesco Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 461314


Price: $23.00 

 

Mostly on Martha's Vineyard - A Personal Record


Hough, Henry Beetle

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages.

Record # 63040


Price: $15.00 

 

Mother Church Extension, The


Williamson, Margaret

Hardcover. Boston, The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 pages, color frontispiece, b&w photographs. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Green and black covers with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Rough-cut edges. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808997


Price: $12.00 

 

Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993


Bowen, ed., Kevin/Nguyen Ba Chung, Bruce Weigl

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 266 pages, bilingual in English and Vietnamese, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800698


Price: $8.00 

 

Mr. Revere and I


Lawson, Robert , Illust. by: Robert Lawson

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company , 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. B&w illustrations by Lawson throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Illustrated frontispiece. Related articles laid in. Some stains to bottom edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857384


Price: $19.00 

 

Museum of Fine Arts, Second Edition: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Publication


Springfield Museum of Fine Arts

Softcover. Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, 2nd edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Dark blue plastic stapled wrappers, silver titles, full-page color frontispiece of "Study for the Portrait of Ludwig August" by Eugene F. V. Delacroix, profusely illustrated with full color and b&w plates. Crease to bottom of front cover from bending, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807713


Price: $10.00 

 

My Own Cook Book (SIGNED)


Taber, Gladys

Hardcover. US, Lippincott Company, 1st SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. A Cape Cod cook book. Light foxing to fore edge copy. Very small tear to dust jacket lower spine. Faint yellowing to rear dust jacket top edge. Decorative staining to top edge copy block. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951120


Price: $50.00 

 

My Pamet - Cape Cod Chronicle


Kane, Tom

Mt. Kisco, NY, Moyer Bell Ltd., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages.

Record # 68748


Price: $20.00 

Nantucket: The Far Away IslandStevens, William Oliver

Nantucket: The Far Away Island


Stevens, William Oliver

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 2nd, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some rubbing to edges of spine and corners. Gutter cracked at title page. Spine slightly loose but text block holding. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230919


Price: $25.00 

 

Nantucket


Stevens, William Oliver

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead , Reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Black & white illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607575


Price: $25.00 

 

Natural History and the Topography of Groton, Massachusetts, The


Green, Samuel Abbott

Hardcover. Groton, Town of Groton, Massachusetts, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Pamphlet and ephemeral items laid-in. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610246


Price: $63.00 

 

Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals


Laighton, Oscar

Hardcover. Andover, MA, Andover Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 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


Price: $44.00 

 

Northampton: The Meadow City


N/A

Hardcover. Northampton MA, F.N. Kneeland and L.P. Bryant, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages, over 250 b&w illustrations. Two tone cloth (white and beige) with gilt design and lettering. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 405086


Price: $100.00 

 

Notebook of John Smibert, The


Evans, Sir David, John Kerslake and Andrew Oliver

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages, illustrated with b&w plates from the portrait painter's notebook. An important record of his itinerary and sittings. INSCRIBED BY ANDREW OLIVER TO JOHN WILMERDING, art historian and author in year of publication. Rust color cloth with gilt lettering. Lacks dust jacket. Like new condition.

Record # 401453


Price: $50.00 

 

Notebook of John Smibert, The


Smibert, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages, b&w illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. No dust jacket. In good shape.

Record # 605087


Price: $22.00 

 

Official Report of the Reunion of the Desendants of Governor Thomas Dudley


Dudley, Sanford H./Dudley R. Child/Albion M. Dudley

Hardcover. Salem, GTDFA, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609702


Price: $20.00 

 

Old Harbor Station - Cape Cod


Ryder, Richard G.

Softcover. Norwich, Ram Island Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 608064


Price: $25.00 

 

Old South Hadley Burial Ground 1976, a Conservation Project


Jesse Lee, Coordinator

Softcover. South Hadley, MA, South Hadley Bicentennial Committee, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. B/W illustrations, map and photographs. Spine paper coming unglued, still sound. Clean.

Record # 801933


Price: $64.00 

 

Olden Time Series Number Four, The - Quaint and Curious Advertisements


Brooks, Henry M.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover. Small brown cloth volume containing "gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts." Previous owner name in ink. Newspaper article laid in front end pages. Rubbing to corners.

Record # 501794


Price: $12.00 

 

Olden Time Series Number Six, The - Literary Curiosities


Brooks, Henry M.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover. Small brown cloth volume containing "gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts." List of other books in series laid in. Some wear to spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 501793


Price: $9.00 

 

On the Beach: Cape Ann People and Places


N/A

Softcover. Gloucester, MA, Cape Ann Historical Association, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 23 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w, paintings of the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts. Includes foreword and introduction, along with biographical essays about each artists showcased. In very good condition. White staple covers with full color illustration on front cover. Crease to front cover, tear to spine, and some edge-wear to the covers, otherwise a near catalog.

Record # 807977


Price: $16.00 

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD / 1951 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE ADillustrator- Harry  Anderson

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD / 1951 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE AD

illustrator- Harry Anderson

Art "One of the great moments of your life...", color art of marriage celebration by Harry Anderson. 10 x 13.5", very good.

Please note: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying this page only - not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending. Shipping is free and we will email a delivery conformation when your order is shipped.

Record # 414654


Price: $13.00 

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD/ 1950 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.illustrator- Norman  Rockwell

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD/ 1950 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.

illustrator- Norman Rockwell

Art "His first day at school", color art by Norman Rockwell. 10 x 13", very good.

Please note: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying this page only - not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending. Shipping is free and we will email a delivery conformation when your order is shipped.

Record # 414076


Price: $25.00 

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD/ 1951 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. ADillustrator- C.C.  Beall

ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD/ 1951 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. AD

illustrator- C.C. Beall

Art "Your first job", color art by C.C. Beall.. 10 x 13", very good.

Please note: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying this page only - not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending. Shipping is free and we will email a delivery conformation when your order is shipped.

Record # 414985


Price: $13.00 

 

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane at the Cape Ann Historical Association


Cape Ann Historical Association

Softcover. Gloucester, Cape Ann Historical Association, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Softcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611754


Price: $23.00 

 

Pastry Love: A Baker's Journal of Favorite Recipes


Chang, Joanne

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st edition, 2019, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 463 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Beautiful condition, looks nearly new. From Breakfast sweets, breads, and pies to show-off cakes and snacks, Pastry Love is full of recipes we all want to make, each written clearly and with love.

Record # 32401


Price: $23.00 

 

Pathways of the Puritans


Bell , N.S.

Hardcover. Framingham MA, Old America Company , 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Top edge gilt. Light fading to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857457


Price: $25.00 

 

Paul Revere's Boston, 1735-1818


Whitehill, Walter Muir

Softcover. Boston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Newspaper and magazine clippings laid in. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451325


Price: $20.00 

 

PIONEER IRON WORKS


Clarks, Mary Stetson, Illust. by: Joshua Tolford

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages. History of Saugus Iron Works of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Illustrated in b/w by Joshua Tolford. 8vo. Color pictorial and white cloth. Minor foxing to endpapers. Brown spotting in small section of spine. Very Good. Matching pictorial dust jacket. Tear in front near top of spine. Minor browning. Some wear and small tears around edges.

Record # 219860


Price: $13.00 

 

Play of the World, The


Hans, James S.

Softcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, First Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Scarce. Softcover with foxing top edge, small spots to right edge. Light wear to edges & one inch tear to heel of spine. Faint soil to preliminary pages. Else clean copy. Hans explores the cultural importance of play among a wide variety of fields, including language, history, aesthetics, socioeconomics and ethics.

Record # 751555


Price: $50.00 

 

Pop Wiener: Naive Painter


Block, Joanne

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 157 pages. Color illustrated dust jacket, 9 color plates, numerous b&w illustrations. Book still sealed in original plastic, never opened; in excellent condition.

Record # 512752


Price: $19.00 

 

Port of Gloucester, The


Connolly, James B., Illust. by: Max Kuehne

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards. With etchings by Max Kuehne. A history of the famous Massachusetts port. Mild bowing to front panel. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Rough cut fore edge. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951955


Price: $25.00 

 

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: 1953-1957


Massachusetts Historical Society

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 557 pages. Volume LXXI. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine, full page b&w frontispiece, 19 b&w plates. A very clean, tight copy; copy in excellent condition.

Record # 806113


Price: $40.00 

 

Puritan Republic, The


Howe, Daniel Wait

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover and name on front endpaper. Crease to top corner of page 211-212. Small area of sticker residue at bottom of spine. Minor rubbing to cover edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613519


Price: $50.00 

 

Quabbin Valley People and Places


Peirce, Elizabeth

Softcover. Charleston, Arcadia Publishing , First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with light wear to edges. Black & white photography throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750905


Price: $15.00 

 

Randolph Rogers: American Sculptor in Rome


Rogers, jr, Millard F.

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 237 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. The first comprehensive treatment of the sculptor's life and works, including a catalogue raisonne of over 100 sculptures. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket with slight edgewear, otherwise in good condition.

Record # 605131


Price: $22.00 

 

Readings in Economic Analysis: Volume One, General Theory


Clemence (ed.), Richard V.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Addison-Wesley Press Inc., 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Reddish-brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, volume of 16 selections by various authors. Faded spine, previous owner's signature to top right corner of endpaper in blue ink, pencil underlining to a handful of selections, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 807106


Price: $20.00 

 

Richard Smith, Recent Works 1972-1977: Paintings, Drawings, Graphics


Smith, Richard

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Hayden Gallery of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. Illustrated b&w stapled covers, two dozen b&w and color plates, text by Wayne Anderson. Light wear and rubbing to covers; overall, a tight, clean copy.

Record # 805778


Price: $8.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin


Lathem, Edward Cnnery and Lawrence Thompson

Hardcover. NY, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 1200. Printed by the Stinehour Press

Record # 109065


Price: $51.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin: The Beginning of a Literary Career


Connery Lathem, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with plastic protective cover. Ivory pages with illustrations in black and white. Clean, tight copy. Gilt top edge.

Record # 2233170


Price: $38.00 

 

Robert Lowell: A Biography


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. This definitive biography is the first extended study of the life and works of the poet Robert Lowell.

Record # 32455


Price: $23.00 

Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue LiteratureKinney (Editor), Arthur F., Illust. by: John Lawrence

Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature


Kinney (Editor), Arthur F., Illust. by: John Lawrence

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st Thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations by John Lawrence on coverboards and throughout. Minor foxing to edges. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750140


Price: $23.00 

 

Rowing Forward Looking Back


Macfarlane, Sandy

Softcover. Brewster, MA, Paraclete Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light ink mark on front wrapper. Shelf wear to rear wrappers. Light wear to spine. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951161


Price: $16.00 

Roxana's ChildrenBonfield, Lynn A.

Roxana's Children


Bonfield, Lynn A.

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, November 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages, b&w photographs. Minor wear to wrappers. Else very good.

Record # 454890


Price: $10.00 

 

Rules of the Game: Culture Defining Gender


Barter, Judith and Anne Mochon

Softcover. Massachusetts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue. White stapled covers with b&w illustrations, introductory essay, 16 b&w plates. Light wear and rubbing to covers; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805854


Price: $8.00 

 

Sailor's Songbook, A


Carey, George G. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851886


Price: $15.00 

SchoolColes, Robert, Nicholas Nixon

School


Coles, Robert, Nicholas Nixon

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Bulfinch, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, still in original publishers shrink wrap. A cross-section of American schoolchildren today, the students photographed by Nixon range from the profoundly challenged to the most gifted, in pictures taken at a Cambridge elementary school, the Boston Latin School, and the Perkins School for the Blind. The photographs are accompanied by quotations from the children and a three-part essay by Dr. Coles, himself a graduate of Boston Latin and intimately familiar with the other two schools.

Record # 2230528


Price: $19.00 

Scribe: my life in sportsRyan, Bob

Scribe: my life in sports


Ryan, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468853


Price: $13.00 

Secrets of the Water Rats, A Rhode Island Girlhood, 1930s-1940s (SIGNED)McCrosky, Jean C.

Secrets of the Water Rats, A Rhode Island Girlhood, 1930s-1940s (SIGNED)


McCrosky, Jean C.

Softcover. Massachusetts, Jean C. McCrosky, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages. Softcover. Signed by author with long inscription. B/w illustrations throughout. In good shape, clean inside. From the back cover: "Climb aboard for an exciting entertaining sail through the adventurous childhood escapades in the Pre-World War II coastal waters of Rhode island. It is a delightfully evocative journey. Take it from someone who was once aboard....and survived."

Record # 30252


Price: $31.00 

Selected Letters of Cotton MatherSilverman, Kenneth (ed.)

Selected Letters of Cotton Mather


Silverman, Kenneth (ed.)

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 446 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear,small tears and chipping to upper edges. Price clipped. Scrape to bottom end of text block. Slight foxing to top of text block, bend to lower cover. Name of previous owner in pen in front end papers.

Record # 2231056


Price: $23.00 

 

Shaker Furniture & Accessories


Shaker Workshops, Inc.

Softcover. Concord, MA, Shaker Workshops, Inc., 1st, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Original catalog of Shaker furniture from a Massachusetts workshop. White stapled covers with b&w illustration and red titles, illustrated throughout with b&w plates with accompanying descriptions. Light rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 805920


Price: $8.00 

 

Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators 1900, A5:36:34 PM Reminiscences of the Revolution


N/A

Stoughton, MA, A. M. Bridgman, 1st , 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white photos. 204 pages. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Front fly leaf missing otherwise VG.

Record # 66495


Price: $11.00 

 

Sporting Journeys In Asia and Africa


Crowe, Philip K.

Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Publishers, 1st, ltd., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages including index. Number 624 of a limited edition printing of 2500. Brown dust jacket shows very minor edgwear. Price-clipped. Previous owner name stamp on front inside cover. Otherwise very good.

Record # 501747


Price: $15.00 

 

Springboard in the Pond, The: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool


Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in teal cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new and barely read. Van Leeuwen Explores the human relationship to water from a variety of viewpoints: social, religious, artistic, sexual, psychological, technical, and above all, architectural.

Record # 32300


Price: $25.00 

 

Springfield, Massachusetts 1895


NA

Softcover. Springfield, M. D. Fletcher, NA, 1895, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Pages bound with string. Oblong. Covers soiled, darkened with chipping, tears to edges. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Stain at bottom edge pages throughout. Sold 'As-Is'.

Record # 612808


Price: $75.00 

 

St. John's Lodge - Ancient Free & Accepted Masons - Boston, Massachusetts - Bound Notices for the Years 1926 and 1927


St. John's Lodge A. F. & A. M., Boston, Massachusetts

Hardcover. Boston MA, Privately Bound, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Leather bound collection of lodge notices from St. John's Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, Boston, Massachusetts 1926-1927. SIGNED LETTER TO DAVID M. CLAGHORN (EXITING MASTER) FROM LODGE SECRETARY WALTER F. W. TABER AS DEDICATION PAGE - DATED CHRISTMAS 1927. October 1926 notice is missing 2 pages, with closed tears to November 5, 1926 - "Special Communication". Gilt decoration on spine and cover edges.

Record # 70592


Price: $200.00 


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