London: John Murray, 1829. Full leather. Two volumes. 16mo; ix, 372pp & 379pp; rebound by Bayntun in green stained straight-grained goat-skin with 5-banded spine with gilt-decoration, double gilt filet outside with a scallop design inside, decorative gilt corners; all edges stained and speckled; inside dentelles; marbled endpapers; free front endpaper..... 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
Austin-Dallas, [Texas]: Graphic Ideas, 1972. Cloth. 8vo; 288pp; color illustrated cloth over board with title and author to front cover and title, author and publisher to spine; front pastedown has printed school property student registration form; color illustrated; near fine. UNUSED school text book. More
Hartford: Wm. Jas. Hamersley, 1851. Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xxvi, 509pp; blind-stamped border to brown cloth over board, gilt stamped spine; frontispiece is fold-out map; 5 engraved plates; owner’s name to front pastedown; scuffing to cover with loss at corners, small splits to cloth..... More
Bath, [Maine]: E. Upton & Son, 1884. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo; [1-5] 6-24pp; grey wrappers with the title printed within a double black border and a small wood-engraving of a train; brown spot to back wrapper, bump to bottom tail of spine, light vertical crease through booklet; near fine. Rare;..... More
Augusta, Maine: [State of Maine], 1920. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xiii [i], 337pp, [1]; gilt-stamped title on dark green cloth over board, blind stamped pine boughs with needles and cones in a wreath to front board; 45 half-tone illustrations and one color plate; light shelf scuffing to boards..... More
Hallowell, Maine: Masters & Livermore, 1877. Second Edition. Cloth. MAP: EATON, Emily. Plan of the Town of Warren with the Lots as Originally Laid Out, 1851. Revised by L.E. EATON, 1876. Fold-out. MAP: St. Georges and Vicinity in Early Times, Fold-out. Second edition. 8vo; xvi, 680pp; quarter bound in gilt stamped..... More
Portland, Maine: Loring, Short & Harmon, 1881. Boards. 8vo; 142 + 16pp advertisements; stamped green cloth over board, title to front cover and spine, advertisements to back cover; endpapers illustrated with advertisements; illustrated with engravings; gilt edges; binding error includes multiple of several advertising pages; light scuffing of cover edges;..... More
Buffalo, New York: The George N. Pierce Co., 1908. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 12mo oblong; 72pp; grey kraft-style paper over board, title and vignette of car to front board; grey kraft endpapers; heavy glazed pages have double-ruled gold borders, full page b&w photographic illustrations with title, text on facing..... More
Chicago: Homewood Publishing Company, No date [c. 1904]. Cloth. 8vo; quarter bound red cloth, color illustrated paper over board with title on front cover; black and white illustrations; gift inscription with date of 1904; of printed on pulp paper; fragile front hinge, paper age toned, bumping to cover corners and..... More
Boston: Press of Stanley and Usher, 1886. Cloth. 8vo; 292pp; brown cloth over board with black stamped horizontal cover border, title in gilt to spine; portrait frontispiece; scuffing to head and tail of spine, lightly bumped cover corners, age toning of paper; foxing of endpapers, frontispiece and title page, scattered..... 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
Andover, Mass. The Andover Press, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 167pp; gilt stamped green cloth over board with title and author to front cover; black and white illustrations; ½” split to cloth in front cover gutter, book lightly cocked forward, light foxing to fly pages; very good. Interesting..... More
New York: Henry J. Johnson, 27 Beekman Street, 1877. Felix O.C. DARLEY. First Edition. Half Bound Leather. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo; 1866pp; half-bound in brown leather over brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped title to front and spine; 5 banded spine; marbled edges; marbled endpapers; sunning of spine and edges, scuffing..... 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
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
London: Macmillan & Co., 1892. Half Bound Leather. 8vo; [1] 2-300pp; half-bound in brown leather with brown speckled paper over board, five raised band and gilt stamped spine; brown and yellow marbled endpapers; gilt top; 2 maps present; scuffing and peeling of cover leather; very good. Map: Stanford’s Geography Established. A...... More
Portland, [Maine]: Chisholm Brothers, 1883. Cloth. 8vo; v [vi] 160pp; gilt stamped decorative border on brown cloth with title to front cover; title, author and publisher to spine; blind stamped back cover; 13 full-page heliotypes in sepia; decorative head and tail-pieces; light shelf wear to edges, bumped cover corners with..... 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
[Wiscasset, Maine]: Waldoboro-Boston Club, 1917. First Edition. Stiff wraps. 12mo; 35pp; tan stiff wrappers with title on front; 2 staple binding; small photographic illustrations; 17pp of members of the Boston area club of Waldoboro residents along with their occupations; light soiling to wrapper; near fine. Rare, not recorded. Collection 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