Toronto: William Briggs, 1889. cloth. SIGNED. 8vo; [i-vii], viii-ix, [3], 12-136pp; gilt stamped title and decoration on blue cloth over board, beveled board edges, blind stamped borders; inscribed and signed by author on free front endpaper; illustrated; scuffing and fraying to head and tail of spine, ½” scrape to mid..... More
New England: Printed for the Proprietor, 1813, February. Full calf. 12mo; 264pp; contemporary smooth brown calf, spine with onlaid gilt stamped black label; 4 woodcut illustrations of which 3 depict various conjoined twins and one with other genetic anomalies; damage to head and tail of spine, scuffing to edges, scrapes..... More
Portland, Maine: National Society of Colonial Dames of AMerica in the State of Maine, 1982. W. L. Frost. Limited Edition. cloth. Fold-out Map: FROST, W.L., Falmouth Neck and Stroudwater in the Time of the Tates, for the Colonial Dames, 1982. Fold-out Map: A Plan, of the Clear Inclosures in Brigadier Gen..... More
[Portland, Maine]: [Maine Historical Society], 1903. 1st Edition. Wraps. Cover title: Tercentenary of Martin Pring’s First Voyage to the Coast of Maine, 1603-1903, [Portland, Maine: Maine Historical Society], 1903. BAXTER, Hon. James Phinney. The Avant Couriers of Colonization. DENNIS, Prof. Alfred L.P. Captain Martin Pring, Last of the Elizabethan Seamen. THAYER, Rev. Henry..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, fourth impression, 1928 October. Two volumes. 8vo; gilt-stamped facsimile signature to front board navy ribbed cloth, gilt stamped spine; deckle fore-edge and bottom; Vol. I: xxviii, 607pp; photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard of Abraham Lincoln; 8 inserted b&w plates; a...... More
Boston: D. Lothrop, 1888. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 336pp + [1pp] advertising; gilt-stamped pictorial on royal blue cloth; 19 half-tone illustrated plates; vignette head-pieces at chapter start; inserted slip between pp314/15 with updated information; book-seller’s ticket to rear pd; light wear to boards with fraying at spine head..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. Cloth. 8vo; viii, 338pp; gilt and black stamped tan cloth, border of flowers and leaves to top, vignette of a horse in a horseshoe, gilt stamped spine; top edge gilt; green endpapers; b&w illustrated “Artotype” frontispiece, a collotype illustration process; light shelf wear, small..... More
Boston: Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1962. Lois and Louis Darling. 1st Edition. Cloth. First edition, first printing. 8vo; 368pp; gilt stamped dark green cloth over board with title on front cover and spine; decorative endpapers; illustrated; light scuff to spine tail; unclipped dust jacket; chipping and creasing to..... More
New York: Girl Scouts, 1944. Cloth. Printed from new plates March 1944. 8vo; xviii, 220 + [2]; gilt-stamped green cloth over board; b&w reproduced photographic images; light age-toning of paper, light shelf-wear; unclipped color dust jacket without price, b&w portrait of Juliette Low to front, chipping to edges with loss..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. Half Bound Leather. Married set in a custom binding. 8vo; Vol. I: [vi]-xvi, [2]-368 + 2 blank leaves; Vol. II: [viii], 365pp + 2pp advertisements and 2 blank leaves; Vol. I: First edition, H-Y (August 1924); Vol. II: K-Y (October 1924)..... More
London: The Soncino Press, 1960. Fourth Impression. Cloth. Fourth Impression. 8vo; xiv, 488pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped title on front in Hebrew, English title, author and publisher on spine; gift inscription to front pastedown; light age-toning of paper, lightly bumped bottom corners; dust jacket printed in navy with vignette..... More
New York City: Theo. Audel & Co., 1917. Cloth. Cover Title: Audel’s Easy Lessons Wireless Telegraphy. 32mo (5 ¾” x 2 7/8”); 242pp [14pp advertisements]; black cloth over board with gilt stamped title to front cover; edges stained red; soiling to cover with a few paint spots, bumping to cover corners..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922. Cloth. 8vo; vi, 580pp; tan cloth over board with stamped title and border stamped in black to front cover, title and publisher stamped to spine, stamped border to back cover; soiling to cover, light age toning to pages, short closed tear with crease to bottom..... More
State House, Augusta, Maine: Dept. of Sea and Shore Fisheries [Maine], 1958, July. Wraps. 8vo; 43pp; ivory color illustrated wrappers with title and publisher on front cover, State of Maine seal to back cover; illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings; scattered foxing to top of title page and..... More
Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1942. Cloth. 4to; 509pp; gilt-stamped black cloth over board; ownership to endpapers; illustrated within text; scuffed cloth, small tears to cloth on front joint, wear to edges, light stain to bottom edge; foxing to endpapers; good plus. Seventh edition, published in 1942, as a...... More
Boston: Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1912. W.E. BEECROFT and Edward Howe FORBUSH. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xvi [ii], 622pp; forest green ribbed cloth over board with blind-stamped border, gilt-stamped spine; 37 b&w half-tone photographic plates including frontispiece and b&w wood-engraved illustrations in text; scuffing to boards, bumping..... More
London: Charles Roberson & Co., 1875. Second Edition. Cloth. Second edition. 12mo; viii, 94 and 33 [1]pp; 34 pp of advertisements follow the text; gilt stamped green cloth over beveled board; 6 etched plates with tissue guard; bookseller’s label to front pastedown; scuffing and some fraying to head and tail..... More
Cambridge, [Masschusetts]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, Hilliard & Metcalf, 1815. Full calf. First edition. 8vo; vi, 676pp; brown calf with gilt stamped black label to spine; foxed; wear to cover, front cover split at gutter but holding; lacking free front end paper; front hinge split, cover sewing holding but fragile..... More
Nashville, Tenn. Samuel I. Jones, 1932/36. 1/4 cloth. 12mo; x, 340pp; quarter-bound smooth red cloth, red pebbled gilt-stamped cloth, vignette of a nut with numbers to front; scuffs to boards, light bumping to corners; very good. A serious book with math problems including word problems, set in a somewhat humorous..... More
New York: Leavitt & Allen, No date [c. 1852]. Cloth. Three parts bound into one. 12mo; 213pp; blind-stamped decoration within triple border to blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped title and decoration to spine; bookseller ticket to rear pastedown; binding tight; all text set into double borders; one engraved illustration of a...... More
Quebec: Leger Brousseau, 1884. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; [1-5], 6, [7-10], 11-230pp; decoratively stamped tan cloth with title, author and printer to front cover and spine; typed errata sheet laid in, with 2 additions hand written; light foxing to cover cloth, light age toning of paper; very good..... More
Boston: S. E. Cassino & Co., 1883. E. L. [Edwin Lord] WEEKS. Cloth. 12mo; ix, 203pp; brown cloth over board with gilt stamped title and stamped decorative cover and spine; decorated endpapers; stamp to free front endpaper indicating the book was a gift from Rotarians sometime during the Eisenhower administration;..... More
No Place Listed: No Publisher Listed, 1901. Cloth. 8vo; 502pp [1]; gilt-stamped green cloth, patriotic color shield onlay featuring McKinley’s portrait to front board; ownership in ink to ffep dated 1901; b&w photographic reproductions throughout; schuffing and spotting to boards, rubbing to edges, interior tight and clean; very good minus..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First American printing. 4to; [60pp]; navy cloth over board with gilt stamped spine; illustrated endpapers in red and blue alphabet; address label to front pastedown; illustrated in red and blue; unclipped dust jacket; light foxing to top edge; small closed edge tears..... More
Thomaston Historical Society, Rockland, Maine: Courier-Gazette, Inc., 1977. Cloth. 4to; Vol. I: 245pp; Vol. II: 242pp; green pebbled green cloth over board with blind stamped border and gilt title to front cover and spine; illustrated endpapers; near fine both volumes. History of the town "That Went to Sea", Thomaston, Maine..... More