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
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, No date [c. 1940s]. Staplebound. 12mo; 61, [3]pp; stiff pictorial glazed wrapper printed in green; two staple binding; half-tone b&w photographic illustrations throughout text; fine. Booklet covers equipment needed for hiking and climbing, and local accommodations. Includes a chart of named mountains, local towns with..... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, 1955. Stiff wraps. 4to; [34pp]; color pictorial stiff wrapper with title on front and back; two staple binding; both black and white and color photographic illustrations; light shelf wear and soiling; very good plus. This edition located in only two WorldCat libraries. Colorful tourism pamphlet..... More
Bath, Maine: Patten Free Library, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; vii, [i], 312pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped spine; b&w illustrations in text; unclipped pictorial glazed dust jacket, lacking price; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-9620401-0-X. The history of Bath, Maine and the ship building industry. More
Bar Harbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing Company, 1997, June. Frederic Edwin CHURCH. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 8vo; 175pp; sepia stiff glazed pictorial wrapper; 28 b&w illustrated plates on thick glazed stock; fine. ISBN: 0-934745-25-0. Edited by Anne Mazlish under the auspices of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. The..... 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
New York: A Studio Book, The Viking Press, 1963. Cloth. 4to; 178pp; half-bound in mint green cloth with marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine; green endpapers; Christmas card with inscriptions to ffep; gift inscription to ffep dated “Christmas 1983”; both b&w and color illustrations of art; price clipped color pictorial dust jacket..... More
New York: A Studio Book, The Viking Press, 1963. 1/4 cloth. 4to; 178pp; quarter-bound pale green cloth, grey marbled paper over board, gilt stamped spine; grey end papers; front of a Christmas card pasted to ffep with gift inscription, gift inscription in red ink to half-title; photographic illustrations both in..... More
Boothbay Harbor, Maine: “Published Privately”, 1949. Comb-style plastic wraps. 8vo; [46pp]; pictorial vignette to black stiff board; comb style plastic binding; b&w frontispiece; vignette of lighthouse to title page, and lobster trap to copyright page; b&w pencil sketch-style illustration to each page on stiff textured stock with titles; card of..... More
Brunswick, Maine: Published by the H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906. Cloth. 8vo; 284pp; dark green buckram over board, title stamped in black to front; scuffing to boards, light soiling throughout, damp-staining to top edge but no odors, lightly shaken; good plus. An interesting reference of history, events, government offices, Civil War..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947. W.N. WILSON. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 97pp; blue lighthouse scene stamped on tan buckram over board, title, author and publisher in gilt and blue on spine; coast of Maine map in sepia for endpapers; illustrated in color and black..... More
Portland, [Maine]: Printed for the Society (The Society of the Colonial Dames of America Resident in the State of Maine). Cloth. 8vo; 28pp; gilt stamped title on pebbled brown cloth over board; owners bookplate to free front endpaper; light glue burn on endpapers; near fine. Not recorded. History of Sir..... More
Scarborough, Maine: Harp Publications, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xiv, 209 [1]pp; green cloth over board, gilt titles to spine; map of Bangor front endpapers, map of Portland rear endpapers; b&w illustrations; clipped pictorial dustjacket, light sunning to spine; fine in near fine dj. ISBN: 0-9626389-0-0. The story..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Thayer BERRY. First Edition. Cloth. Thayer BERRY, woodcut illustrations. First edition. 8vo; xiii, 399pp; bright blue linen over board with anchor and pine boughs stamped in black to front and title, author, publisher and decoration to spine; color illustrated map of Penobscot Bay Region as..... More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1924. Cloth. Modern reprint. 8vo; 302pp; bright green buckram over board, title to spine in black; pictorial title page; b&w drawings and photographic illustrations throughout text; light foxing and shelf soiling to top edge; unclipped green, heavy glazed b&w dust jacket with light foxing to edges;..... More
Framingham, Massachusetts: Old America Company, 1924. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Tall 8vo; 302pp; green cloth, gilt stamped title an author to front and spine; vignette illustration to title page; 71 half-tone photographic illustrated plates printed recto & verso; b&w illustrations in text; unclipped pictorial dust jacket in b&w, lacking..... More
Hallowell [Maine]: Calvin S. Spaulding, No. 5, Kennebec Row, 1824. Second Edition. Full leather. Second edition. 12mo; 324pp; brown calf over board with gilt stamped rulings on the spine and black calf label titled, “Town Officer”; glue burns to endpapers; shelf scuffing to edges, spine head chipped, age-toning of paper..... More
No place listed: No publisher listed, 1986. Stiff wraps. [SIGNED by AUTHOR]. 4to; iv, 152pp; dark blue stiff wrapper, b&w illustration to front; spine labeled “Vol. 1”; author signature to title page; b&w photographic illustrations of maps and documents; light scuffing to cover edges; near fine. A detailed look at..... 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
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
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. Charles PRATT, photographs; Harold S. Van DOREN, drawings. First Edition. Linen. First edition. 8vo; 178pp + [24pp] b&w photographic illustrations with titles; grey linen over board, title stamped in white on spine; grey-green mottled endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout; light foxing to upper and..... More
No Place [Bar Harbor, Maine: Publicity Committee Bar Harbor, Maine, No date [c. 1919]. First Edition. Stiff wraps. 8vo; [28pp]; pictorial stiff wrapper printed in blue and black with the title on the front; wood-cut illustration to wrappers; 2 staple binding; 2pp text followed by 22pp black and white photographic..... More
Farmington, Maine: Press of Knowlton, McLeary & Co., 1889. Cloth. 8vo; v, 204pp + [1] errata; green cloth blind stamped borders, gilt-stamped title to front; b&w frontispiece with tissue guard; lithographic plate in sepia with portraits of four principals mounted on stiff board; scuffing to board edges, with some fraying..... More
New York: A Regions of America Book, Harper & Row, 1964. Aldren A. WATSON. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xvi, 302pp+ 1 author’s biography; green cloth over board; color map of Maine endpapers; fold-out color illustrated map of the state of Maine; unclipped glazed color pictorial dust jacket, crease..... More
Canton, Oxford County, Maine: The Richardsons, 1923. Stiff wraps. 16 mo oblong; [40pp]; brown craft stiff paper, relief printed front wrapper with two people on horseback in the woods; text in sepia; 13 tipped-in Woodbury type illustrations of the camp; fine. Only one located in WorldCat libraries for the year..... More