Brunwick, Maine: The Dog Ear Press, 1988. Mary Beth OWEN. First Edition, second printing. 1/4 buckram. SIGNED. First edition, second printing. 8vo oblong; quarter-bound dark red buckram, red blind-stamped paper over board with a vignette of a caribou in the letter A; color patterned endpapers; author’s signature on title page;..... More
No date [c. 1953]. Staplebound. 16mo (5 7/8” x 4 ¼”); [30pp]; red and green pictorial wrapper, two staple binding; program notes and local ads; fine. Interesting look at a long running Maine coast festival celebrating the lobster and seafood industry. Local ads and photographic reproductions. More
Standard Oil Company of New York: Publishers Printing Company, 1925. First Edition. Staplebound. First edition. 12mo; 57, [7]pp; color pictorial map of Northeast U.S.A.- on stiff wrapper, 2 staple binding; 7 color maps; text in borders with color illustrations; light soiling to wrapper; very good plus. Tour of New York..... More
Augusta, Maine: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1864. Wraps. 8vo; 21pp; tan wrapper; ownership stamp to front wrapper and in ink to verso; light soiling to wrapper, light damp staining to upper corner through all pages, small chip bottom rear wrapper; very good. Review of the capital trials..... More
Augusta, Maine: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1859. Wrap. 8vo; 34pp; tan printed wrapper; creasing to wrapper corners, ownership in ink to front wrapper above the border, light soiling, small spot to title page; very good. Listed in WorldCat but no libraries shown to hold this publication. Interesting..... More
Augusta, Maine: Head Quarters, John L. Hodson, Adjutant General's Office, 1865, March 28. String. 8vo; 48pp; publisher’s tan wrapper, string binding; stab hole in upper left corner through wrappers and all leaves, 1” chip to rear wrapper, light soiling to wrapper, scattered foxing, light chipping to spine; very good minus..... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine Aeronautics Commission, State Airport, No date [c. 1940s]. 12mo; [4pp]; one leaf, vertical fold; green and black ink with relief printed vignette of an airplane to front; light creasing to corners; near fine. Blurbs on the Aeronautics Commission, Airfields, Safety, Legislation and Education for the Air Age..... More
No place listed [York County Maine]: Dorothy True, 1950. Stiff wraps. Cover title: York County Maine Welcomes You 8vo; 33pp [3]; mustard yellow textured stiff wrapper, relief vignette of a village to front, 2 staple binding; 4 maps; ads; light soiling to wrapper and a few pages; very good. One page..... More
Portland: The State of Maine Publicity Bureau, 1953. Staplebound. 8vo; 34pp; color pictorial stiff glazed wrapper, two staple binding; b&w illustrations including half-tone reproductions of photographs; light soiling to wrapper; very good. The State of Maine Publicity Bureau was “A privately supported, state-wide, non-partisan, non-profit organization for the promotion and..... More
Hallowell: Masters, Smith & Co., 1865. Cloth. 12mo; Vol. I: xii, 468pp + [30pp Index], Vol. II: iv, 472pp + [7pp Index]; blind-stamped decorative medallion to brown cloth, gilt title to spine; both volumes crisp and appear to be unread; fine. First published in 1865, this reprint is fine copy..... More
Portland, Maine: Chisholm Bros., Sole Agents for Chas. Frey's Original Souvenir Albums, No date [c. 1880s]. Boards. Map: Plan of the Village of Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Island. 12mo; [24pp]; gilt-stamped dark green pebbled boards with black cloth spine, blind stamped rear board; accordion folded 12 glazed chromolithographed panels printed in..... More
Augusta, Maine: G. W. Quimby, 1902. Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., photogravures. Silk Ribbon. 16mo oblong (5 ¼” x 7 ¼”); [32pp]; pictorial pale grey textured wrapper, 3 stab holes with mustard silk ribbon binding; printed recto only; one fold-out leaf; b&w illustrations by photogravure with titles; a few scattered light..... More
Bath, [Maine]: Times Company, No date [c. 1960]. Staplebound. 8vo; 18pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper, two staple binding; b&w illustrations; damp staining to bottom edge; very good. Introduction to the town of Wiscasset including a brief early history, and information on the current educational system with a sketch of the..... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, No date [between 1937-1941]. Cloth. 8vo; [24pp]; color pictorial stiff wrapper, 2 staple binding; verso front and recto rear wrapper printed decoratively with title; vignette of state seal to title page; b&w half-tone photographic illustrations with titles; message from Governor; faint vertical fold; near fine..... More
No place listed but University of Maine, Orono: Mainiac Publishing Association, 1921. Sidney OSBORNE, staff artist. Staplebound. 4to; 16pp; stiff pictorial wrapper printed in black & red, two staple binding; ad to rear; 7 full and one partial page of Maine ads; illustrated in cartoon style; general wear to cover..... More
Document no binding. Irregular shaped, trimmed paper, top portion measuring 8 1/2:” x 9 ½”, a section on the left extending another 8 1/8” x 2 ½”. Hand-written in neat ink listing of names; sunning to corners with chipping, neat fold lines, some ink fading and one name affected by..... More
1832. Document no binding. 7 ½” x 12 ½”. Printed sheet with hand-written details filling in the spaces. State of Maine Head-Quarters, Augusta Sept. 24, 1832. The Commander in Chief has accepted the RESIDNTAION of Lieutenant John Mayo of the Second Regiment, in the First brigade, and Fourth Division of..... More
September 1832. Document no binding. 30 ¼” x 13 3/8”. Printed sheet with hand-written details and lists of names; chipping to edges, staining, folds, holes at fold intersections, edge chipping affects the hand-written names of 10 men listed as Privates; fair. Roll of the Company of Infantry in the third..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. Polly WARREN. First Edition. Boards. First edition. ISBN: 0316769673. 8vo; 353pp; gilt-stamped title to pale green buckram; green printed map of Maine as endpapers; b&w pictorial title page; b&w vignette on chapter divisions; light foxing to bottom boards, scattered foxing to edges, no bad..... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, No date [c. 1940s]. Staplebound. 4to; [32pp]; sepia pictorial stiff wrapper; two staple binding; sepia photographic illustrations every page with text; penciled date on front wrapper of “1942”, sunning to front wrapper, light scuffing to edges, creasing along spine; very good. Nice photographic tour of..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Robert McCLOSKEY. Cloth. First edition. 4to; 64pp; grey buckram over board illustrated in white with flying seagulls and a rising sun over water; green and blue pictorial endpapers; pictorial title page; illustrated in navy with text; unclipped color pictorial dust wrapper, chipping to spine..... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine: State Park Commission, 1924. Staplebound. 8vo; 22pp; white glazed stiff-wrapper, 2 staple binding, front printed in black with seal of the State of Maine inside triple border; map Location of Fort Knox as fp; b&w photographic illustrations; light soiling to wrapper, staples rusted but holding; very good..... More