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.
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.
Softcover. Canadaigua, New York, Granger Homestead Society, Inc., 1st, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Text by Mrs. Byron H. Delavan. White stapled wrappers with color illustration, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Slight wear to wrappers, pages crisp and ummarked.
Hardcover. Camden, Maine, Downeast Magazine, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages. Dark orange cloth cover, black spine with gilt lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 132 b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing to cover to dust jacket surface, small half inch tear to top front cover of dust jacket, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; overall a clean, tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Weslyan University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading to spine, bump to upper cover corner. Otherwise light normal wear. Clean and tight copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white photographs. Degree of darkening to spine cloth. Clean, unmarked pages.
Softcover. USA, Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages. Reports in Mackinac History and Archaeology, No. 8. White stapled wrappers with color illustration, profusely illustrated with sepia and b&w plates. Top edge of front cover discolored, otherwise covers very clean, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Rockland, ME, Red Barn Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, blue paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a story of theological debates, personalities important in American history, and some of the most important architectural achievements of the early Republic. It has been signed by the author, and his inscription includes his contact information. A couple pages have short notations or underlining in black pen, mostly a clean copy. Record # 34133