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Moffatt-Ladd House: Its Garden and Its Period:1763, The


Orcutt, Phiilip Dana

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, The New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Blue-cloth backed boards with black spine, laid in pamphlet on the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, numerous b&w plates. Wear to cover edges and spine, discoloration along cover edges due to age, light chipping to some pages; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806052


Price: $20.00 

 

New American Selection of Lessons on Reading and Speaking, A


Dana, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Thomas and Andrews, 3rd Edition, 1799, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Leather binding with red leather text block & gilt titles to spine. Gilt compartment lines to spine. Binding is worn and solid, intact. Soiling throughout as would be expected for its age, light pencil to last page. Copperplate engravings by Samuel Hill. Early colonial printing in good condition for its age.

Record # 6670125


Price: $75.00 

 

New England Girlhood, A


Larcom, Lucy

Hardcover. Glouster, MA, Peter Smith, Rep.rint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of a classic memoir of pre-Civil War days. 274 pages.

Record # 61236


Price: $15.00 

 

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion 1620-1860


McWilliams, John

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. College bookstore price tag on dust jacket back cover. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket back cover: "John McWilliams winnows through the history and myth of New England to recover the past on its own terms while simultaneously tracing its later refractions. The combination, across nine pivotal events in colonial and early republican history, gives us the changing face of New England through as never before."

Record # 30366


Price: $38.00 

Newport. Rhode Island Colonial Burial GroundsSterling, John Eylers
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Newport. Rhode Island Colonial Burial Grounds


Sterling, John Eylers

Hardcover. Hope RI, Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Extensive b&w maps and photographs throughout. Illustrated title page and frontispiece. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Some odor, otherwise clean, tight copy. Missing accompanying CD.

Record # 468681


Price: $63.00 

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's FoundingWilentz, Sean
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No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding


Wilentz, Sean

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light remnants of pencil marking in front end papers, otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231006


Price: $19.00 

 

Once Upon a Time in Rhode Island


Pyle, Katherine, Illust. by: Helen B. Mason

Hardcover. Rhode IIsland, Society of Colonial Dames in Rhode Island, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, hardcover. Stories of Rhode Island. Blue boards with titling intact. Illustrated by Helen B. Mason. Mild rubbing to boards. Fading to spine. Light bumping to corners and spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951807


Price: $15.00 

 

Out of the Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropics


Pakenham, Valerie

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial end papers. Small closed tear to upper edge of dust jacket's front cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810182


Price: $10.00 

 

Papers Relating to the First Settlement and Capture of Fort Oswego 1727-1756 (WITH FOLD-OUTS)


O'Callaghan, E.B.

Softcover. London, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This is 64 page extract from a larger volume (pages 443 - 506), possibly London Magazine. This is the original printing and features 4 fold-out plans and illustrations, all in excellent condition. Bound in a clear acetate folder.

Record # 407419


Price: $63.00 

 

Pilgrims, The


Noble, Frederick A.

Hardcover. Boston, Pilgrim Pr, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages, with b&w illustrations. Gilt titles and top edge. Ex-library residue on rear fly leaf and sticker on spine, light spine edge fray, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 4779


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, but in good shape. Red boards, with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing to edges, however pages clean.

Record # 31443


Price: $15.00 

 

Puritan in England and New England, The.


Byington, D.D., Ezra Hoyt

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 3rd, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Residue from sticker on spine, bumped edges. Fraying along spine and edges. Pages untrimmed. Ex-library with usual stamping and residue. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852610


Price: $20.00 

 

Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors


Rust, Val D.

Hardcover. Urbana and Chicago IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. History of the early Mormons and their origins in early American colonial history. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light fading to spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952512


Price: $31.00 

 

Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut, The


Mather, Frederic Gregory

Hardcover. Albany, F. G. Mather, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1204 pages. Black & white illustrations. Ex-museum library copy with minimal library marking. Moderate fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 610309


Price: $225.00 

 

Revolutionary New England 1691-1776


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, b&w illustrations, 469 pages. Cover has edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 207261


Price: $15.00 

 

Royal Navy in America 1760-1775, The: A Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution


Stout, Neil R.

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages. Minor fading and rubbing on dust jacket. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852387


Price: $18.00 

 

Savage Songs & Wild Romances: Settler Poetry and the Indigene, 1830-1880 (Cross/ Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English)


O'Leary, John

Hardcover. US, Rodopi, 1st, 2011-11-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Minor wear to illustrated covers with small tear to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464132


Price: $50.00 

Selected Letters of Cotton MatherSilverman, Kenneth (ed.)
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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 

 

Selling a New World - Two Colonial South Carolina Promotional Pamphlets


Greene (ed), Jack P.

Columbia, SC, South Carolina University Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages.

Record # 204838


Price: $15.00 

 

Selling a New World - Two Colonial South Carolina Promotional Pamphlets


Greene (ed), Jack P.

Columbia, SC, South Carolina University Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages.

Record # 204839


Price: $15.00 

 

Settlers on the Eastern Shore, 1607-1750


Scott, John Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light soiling of covers. A little spotting on bottom edge. Foxing on top edge. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856186


Price: $21.00 

 

Social Control in the Colonial Economy


Hughes, J.R.T.

Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 178 pages. Light rubbing to extremities. Slight warping to covers. Light soiling to covers.

Record # 506300


Price: $10.00 

 

Social New York Under the Georges 1714-1776


Singleton, Esther

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Bright gilt decorated covers

Record # 51304


Price: $65.00