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
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
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: 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, 1970. Reprint. Faux leather. Faux leather over board with printed gilt banding on spine and facsimile title label; reproduced with the fold-outs, speckled edges and faux-foxing to the pages. Near fine. Facsimile reproduction along with the fold-outs of Van Winkle's... More
New York: W. H. B. Creagh, Publisher, No date [1895]. F. LUND, L. RENAULT. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; [1-4] 4-105 [13]pp; gilt stamped blue cloth over board; illustrated in the text; book plate to front pastedown, ownership in ink to front free endpaper; text followed by 11pp of... More
Augusta, Maine: The Maine Historic Preservation Commission and The Maine State Museum, 1980. Faux Leather. 4to; [16], 130, [10]; faux-leather over board; pictorial marbled end papers with facsimile book plates of the Willoughby’s; owner’s stamp to recto frontispiece; portrait frontispiece; facsimile of author’s hand- written 1892 pages and watercolor illustrations;..... More