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 about Swimming and LIfe-Saving
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 about The Works of Artistotle the Famous Philosopher in Four Parts Containing I. His Complete...
Augusta, [Maine]: Kennebec Journal Print, 1904. Cloth. 8vo; 95pp; blue cloth over board with black printed boarder and gilt stamped title to front cover; binder’s ink stamp to free front endpaper; light age toning of paper, light scuff to bottom cover corners and tail spine; near fine. Presentation slip from..... More about Aroostook War. Historical Sketch and Roster of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men called...
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 about Tate House. Crown of the Maine Mast Trade
[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 about Tercentenary of Martin Pring's First Voyage to the Coast of Maine, 1603-1903
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 about Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858, Volumes I and II
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 about Silent Spring
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 about Mark Twain's Autobiography, in Two Volumes
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 about Easy Lessons in Wireless, A Practical Course of Instruction on the Principles, Construction and...
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: [Commonwealth of Massachusetts], 1838. first Edition. Stiff wraps. Blair & Rives, printers. Map: MITCHELL, Jno. Extract from a map of the British and French Dominions in North America, Feb. 13, 1755. Drawn by S.L. Dashiell. Engraved by J.V.N Throop. Map: Map of the Northern Parts of the State..... More about Report and Resolutions from a Committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in relation to the...
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 about Fifty-Fourth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States with Official Numbers and...
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 about Maine's King Lobster
London: Longman, Green and Company, 1886. Half Bound Leather. 8vo; xi [i] 396pp; half bound in pebbled navy leather with 5 raised bands on the spine, marbled boards and gilts stamping; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Claud Lambton on the front pastedown; all edges marbled; 9 engraved illustrations including... More about Oceana or England and Her Colonies
Philadelphia: D. G. Brinton, 1883. Cloth. Map: The Huron-Iroquois Nations and the Surrounding Tribes. A.D. 1535-1780. First edition. 8vo; v, [1-9], 10-222pp; blind stamped border on brown cloth over board, gilt title to spine; one map; uncut bottom; sunning and spotting to cover and spine, bumping to cover corners, scuff with..... More about The Iroquois Book of Rites, Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature, Number II
London: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1825. Half Bound Leather. 8vo; vii, 408pp; half-bound with marbled paper over board, 5 raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and title; marbled endpapers; gilt tops; light shelf scuffing to bottom cover edges and bumping to corners with some loss, light... More about Historical Notes Respecting The Indians of North America with Remarks on the Attempts Made to...
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 about The Etcher's Handbook, Giving and Account of the Old Processes and Processes Recently Discovered
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 about A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX
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 about New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, The First Ever Published on the Grammatical System
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 about The Naturalist’s Guide in Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History, with a Complete...
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 about Printer's Abecedarium
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 about Thomaston Scrapbook, In Two Volumes
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1876. Staplebound wraps. 4to; [3] 242-280 [2]pp; printed paper wrapper; two staple binding; illustrated; light age toning of edges; near fine. The Centennial Edition of this periodical established in 1842. Filled with agricultural advice and tips as well as advertising, home tips, architecture, stories, puzzles... More about American Agriculturist, for the Farm, Garden & Household, July 1876, Vol. XXXV., Number 7
Hartford, Conn. Hartford Publishing Company, 1868. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, second state (BAL 19449). 8vo; xiv, 575pp, [3pp]; green cloth over board with gilt stamped author’s name to front cover; title, author and published stamped in decorative gilt to spine; ink inscription to front fly leaf dated April 1... More about Men of Our Times; or Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of...
[Lewiston, Maine]: The Lewiston Daily Sun and The Lewiston Evening Journal, 1936. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Long 8vo; [52pp]; tan faux-leather textured wrapper, oval opening exposes the photograph on title page; 50 full page black and white photographic illustrations; soiling to wrapper, small stain to title page bottom; some print... More about Fifty News Pictures of Maine's Greatest Flood, March 11-23, 1936
Washington DC: United States Government Printing OFfice, 1936, Later printing, c. 1939. Second Edition. Cloth. Inserted maps and charts, fold-out: Index Map: Coast and Geodetic Survey Charts, 1939; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Inside Route, Key West to Rio Grande, No. 1, 1936 [Florida and Gulf of Mexico]; No. 2... More about United States Coast Pilot, Gulf Coast, Key West to the Rio Grande, Second (1936) Edition, Serial...