Publisher:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1967].
Seller ID: 40021s
Octavo, blue cloth & decorative board, gilt letters, 344 pp. B & w illus. throughout. Near-Fine with light foxing, in a like dust jacket. ÔThis obsorbing book describes the origins and early history of the great seaports of America. To each of a dozen ports Robert Carse gives a life of its own, an identity. He also connects them in an account of the first age in American maritime history, which closed with the War of 1812...Cotains more than fifty illustrations.' View More...
Publisher:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition.
Seller ID: 9862gcs
Octavo, gold illustrated cloth (hardcover), 251 pp + [xvi] pp ads. Good, with edgewear that includes fraying to tip of spine, small chip to spine, excised ffep. From Preface: This little book is intended to meet, so far as it may, the want of brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country. It aims to occupy a place between the larger and the lesser histories, -- to so condense, or eliminate from, the exhaustive narrative as to give it greater vitality, or so extend and elucidate what the school history too often leaves obscure for want of space as to supply the deficien... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1987]. First Edition, As Stated.
Seller ID: 70570s
Signed and inscribed by Author. Octavo, green cloth, gilt letters, x, 261 pp. Near-Fine, with bumped corners, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with slight edgewear. Ò...The captivating and moving memoir of a larger-than-life American family. Judson Hale was born into Boston's very proper Brahmin world, the son of a wealthy father...But readers expecting a conventional account of New England privilege will be delightfully surprised. The fate of Hale's older brother, Drake, led his parents to embark on a dramatic, extravagant, and visionary undertaking that changed the family's history and broug... View More...
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), 472 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. ÒReproduced with illustrations from the actual turn-of-the-century New England magazines in which they first appeared, these articles by the well-known authors of [the turn of the century] bring the magic of the New England Coast to life a no modern-day author can achieve.Ó View More...
