Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. New England's tradition of forested communities stretches unbroken to the 17th century, when the earliest settlers worked common wood lots or set aside timbered public lands to support residents, churches, and schools. The history of these reserves offers insights into the debate over the benefits of preservation over economic development. Clean copy. Record # 33687
Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, The Elm Tree Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 233 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with edge wear concentrated near the spine and a few closed tears. Green cloth covers with gilt titles are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This memoir details life in a typical Vermont village. The work places and stores, the sports and pastimes, the landscape, and most of all the people are affectionately recalled in a Proustian feat of memory and imagination. Clean copy. Record # 34154
Softcover. Boston, Ginn & Company, Reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, soft cover. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in the 17th century United States, and was the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s. This reprint is a tiny edition, only about 4 inches tall. Clean copy. Record # 33864
Softcover. Claremont, NH, The Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, plus 44 pages of vintage advertisements. Covers and interior pages have light foxing and some open tears. Binding is delicate but pages still turn well. Small-form book. Includes fold out map of New Hampshire and Vermont from 1877, which is missing the top piece. Also includes an extensive business directory. This almanac is an annual publication listing a set of events forthcoming in the next year, such as moon phases and eclipses. Almanacs are among the oldest periodicals continuously published in the United States. Own a piece of Vermont history. Memoranda section has extensive writings in pencil by previous owner. Record # 33862
Softcover. New York, Metropolitcan Museum of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 large color and b&w plates, stapled covers with full color illustration, catalog by Natalie Spassky. Very light wear to covers; a very clean, tight copy. Record # 805805
Softcover. Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White wrappers with large color plate to front, perfect binding, foreword by John Hoverson, essay by Henry Cobb with 4 b&w plates, essay by John Wilmerding, 16 full-page color plates. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight catalog. Record # 808108
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, Viking, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Light fading to dust jacket edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 325 pages. Record # 467516 Record # 467516