Category: Massachusetts

Octavo, softbound (slick, stiff, photo. illus. cream wrappers), 125 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: North Adams is nestled in a comfortable valley in the northern Bershire Mountains. It exhibits a rich diversity of character, mirrored by its textured and varied environment. The city's history goes back to the 1700s, with a military encounter during the French and Indian War that set the tone for future challenges. Through vintage postcards, North Adams reflects the unique history of this city. The postcards represent what is essentially a highlight tour of North Adams, a journey th...
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A History of the Town of Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, from 1669 to 1859.

By: Clark, George Faber.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1993. Facsimile Reprint of Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, and the Author at Norton, 1859.

Seller ID: qms1061

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xxv + 550 pp. Fine (As New).
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The Gosnold Discoveries... in the North Part of Virginia, 1602, Now Cape Cod and the Islands, Massachusetts, According to the Relations by Gabriel Archer and john Brereton, Arranged in Parallel for Convenient Comparison.

By: Dexter, Lincoln A., comp. and ed.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Brookfield, Mass.: By the Author, [1984].

Seller ID: m2359

2nd printing (both the 1st and 2nd printings were produced in print runs of 500 copies each). Signed by the author. Quarto, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, vi, 66 pp. Maps, photos, illus. Near-Fine.
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Three Generations.

By: Elliott, Maud Howe.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1923.

Seller ID: m2113

1st edition. Octavo, cloth, 418 pp. Frontis., portraits. Very Good in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Images of America: Worcester, Volume II.

By: Kamp, Barton.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, (1998).

Seller ID: 8657bd

Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), 127 pp, [i]. Near-Fine. From lower cover: In Worcester Volume II, local author and historian Barton Kamp invites you to further explore the history of the city during the period from 1890 to 1930. Discover Lower Front Street, Salisbury Street, and Newton Square as they were at the turn of the century. See how the residents lived -- from those in the well-to-do mansion at 23 Chestnut STreet, to the workers in the triple-decker on Cambridge Street, and to the wandering souls in the hotels and rooming houses like the Devens. In this volume Ka...
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Fifty Years.

By: Lawrence, William, D.D., LL.D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, (1923).

Seller ID: 12351scs

Duodecimo, paperbound (stiff blue wrappers), 97 pp. Very Good+, with small chip to tip of spine. Friends have told me that I have been Bishop of Massachusetts thirty years. i can hardly believe it. Assuming the fact, however, my memory runs back through thirty to fifty years. hence, in writing an address which my loyal Diocese asked me to give in the Cathedral on the Anniversary Day, October 5th, I have included the half-century from 1873 to 1923, in order to sketch the movement of my thought anf faith from early manhood on; for my experience is typical of thousands of others; and the you...
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A Constitution or Frame of Government Agreed Upon by the Delegates of the People of the State of Massachusetts Bay in Convention, Begun and Held at Cambridge, on the First of September 1779, and Continued by Adjournments to the Second of March, 1780. With the Amendments Annexed.

By: Massachusetts.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1833.

Seller ID: 3062qs

Octavo, stringbound, 90 pp. Good+, with edgewear and foxing (age darkened spotting).
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The Colonial Epoch in America. April 18, 1975 - January 4, 1976.

By: Reutlinger, Dagmar E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art Museum, 1975.

Seller ID: 28362

Octavo, softbound, 79 pp. Illus. Near-Fine.
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Laurenus Clark Seelye, First President of Smith College, by His Daughter, Harriet Seelye Rhees. With a Foreword by William Allan Neilson.

By: Rhees, Harriet Seelye.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mmifflin Company, 1929.

Seller ID: vas802

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, ix, 342 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear; in a Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping. The life story of the first president of Smith College, a pioneer in the higher education of women.
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John Saffin: His Book, 1665 - 1708. A Collection of Various Matters of Divinity Law & State Affairs, Epitomiz'd Both in Verse and Prose. With an Introduction by Caroline Hazard.

By: Saffin, John.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York: Printed at the Harbor Press, 1928. Number 246 of a Limited Edition of 500.

Seller ID: 50478bd

Octavo, beige cloth backed boards (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, xv + 199 pp. Near- Fine. The note book of John Saffin, born in 1632, of a Devonshire family in England, the eldest son of Simon Saffin, merchant of Exeter, and Grace his wife, only daughter of Mr. John Garret of Barnstable. When ten years old he was in Scituate, Massachusetts, where at the age of twenty-one he was elected a selectman. In 1658, he married Martha, the daughter of the worshipful Thomas Willett, a Magistrate of Plymouth, and the first Mayor of New York. He was married to her for twenty years of happy marriage u...
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Tufts University.

By: Sauer, Anne.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC: Arcadia, (2001). College History Series.

Seller ID: 3824bd

Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 128 pp. Photos. Fine.
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Report of the School Committee of the Town of Boxford, for the School Year of 1864-5.

By: Town of Boxford [Massachusetts], School Committee.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: [Salem, Mass.]: Printed at the Salem Gazette Office, 1865.

Seller ID: 800079m

Octavo, self-wrappers, 8 pp. Short tears along upper edge of front cover, not effecting text.
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Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Boxford for the Year Ending Feb. 21, 1868.

By: Town of Boxford [Massachusetts].

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Haverhill: E. G. Frothingham, Printer, Gazette Office, 1868.

Seller ID: 800078m

Octavo, self wrappers, 8 pp. Lacks upper fore-edge corner of front cover, not effecting text.
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Annual Reports of the Town Officers of the Town of Barnstable for the Year Ending December 31, 1960.

By: Town Officers of the Town of Barnstable.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hyannis, Mass.: The Patriot Press, 1960.

Seller ID: 90075sc

Octavo, softbound (stiff white printed wrappers with interior staples), 348 pp + index. Good, with light soiling to lower portion of cover and speckling to title page. Covers decorated with b&w photos of the Kennedys during JFKs Acceptance Speech at the Armory in Hyannis on Novermber 9, 1960. ÒBarnstable's most notable event of 1960, and possibly of its entire history, was the election of a long-time summer resident of Hyannis Port, John F. Kennedy, to the Presidenc of the United States...Ó
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Recollections of Stow.

By: Warren, Francis W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Stow, Massachusetts: Stow Historical Society Publishing Company, (1990).

Seller ID: 9910gcs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff gold photo. illus. wrappers), x, 132 pp. Near Fine. Contents include: Foreword; Pilot Grove Farm Owners from 1782 to 1990; Introduction; The People Who Came: The English; Revolutionary War Prisoners Who Stayed; The IRish; The Danes; The Norwegians and Swedes; Returned Loyalists; More English, Scots, and Irish; The Finns; The Poles; The Greeks and Albanians; The Canadians; The Germans; Farming in Stow: Dairy Farming, Princeton Pasture, Orchards, Marketing Produce in Boston, Haying, Hay Crops, Market Gardening, Poultry Farming, Horses, Sleigh Bells, Veterinarians, ...
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In and Around Cape Ann. A Handbook of Gloucester, Mass., and Its Immediate Vicinity. For the Wheelman Tourist and the Summer Visitor. With Eleven Illustrations.

By: Webber, John S., Jr.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Gloucester, Mass: Cape Ann Advertiser Office, 1885.

Seller ID: 17391scs

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 97 pp +10 pp ads. Very Good, with speckling to upper cover and a small dark spot on the edges of pages 87-89. Photographs gladly provided upon request.
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The Woman Who Saved a Meeting House: A Biography of Elizabeth Crocker Jenkins of West Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1874-1956.

By: Williams, J. Harold.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: West Barnstable, Mass.: The West Parish Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1971.

Seller ID: 90086sc

Signed by the Author. Octavo, stapled stiff printed wrappers (paperbound), 48 pp. Very Good+. The West Parish Meetinghouse was built in 1717 by the Congregation which was gathered in London in 1616; moved to Scituate, Massachusetts in 1634 and founded the Town of Barnstable in 1639.
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Images of America: Worcester.

By: Yeulenski, Lois R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, (1999).

Seller ID: 8656bd

Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), 127 pp, [i]. Near-Fine. From lower cover: Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camaera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and asense of history. In this fascinating visual history we see Worcester through the eyes of those who have lived, worked, and played there for the last 120 years. We are led on a journey down Main Street of the past, and watch it grow and exp...
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Category: Massachusetts