Images of America - Framingham Massachusetts $11.95
Laurie Evans-daily Daly and David C. Gordon
Dover, New Hampshire: Arcadia publishing, 1997
(from the back cover) Framingham is a fascinating town whose rich history began in the 17th century.  Originally inhabited by the Nipmucs, this "wilderness land" was explored by English adventurers and soon after witnessed the fury of King Phillips war.  At first a haven for Salem families seeking refuge from the witchcraft hysteria, Framingham grew to become one of the most populous towns in America.
As an agrarian society transformed itself into a center for commerce and manufacturing in the late 18th and 19th centuries, the economic life of the town shifted from Framingham Center to sell Framingham.  The importance of the Boston to Worcester stagecoach stop faded as the railroad spurred new growth.  Rapid development of industry and infrastructure followed and Framingham became the home of many "firsts": the nation’s earliest teachers College and the first prison for women are both located here.  In 1951 one of the world's first shopping malls, Shoppers World was built along the notorious route 9, Framingham, a marvelous photographic history containing over 200 carefully selected images, explores the exciting evolution of this intriguing Massachusetts community.
Laurie Evans-Daly and David C. Gordon, along with other members of the Framingham historical Society, have combed files, photograph albums, special collections, and personal archives to bring to life the past of their town of this volume.  Framingham highlights the people, places, and events that built the town over the last 300 years, and will surely be treasured by generations to come.
128 pages, 6 X 9 softbound, good condition.

Manning's Framingham & Ashland Directory for the year Beginning January, 1957 $19.95
Springfield: H. A. Manning Company, 1957
Containing General directories of the citizens, classified business Directories, street and house directories and a record of the Town governments, societies, churches, etc, county, state and U.S. governments. Including citizens in service in armed forces of the United States with branch of service.
488 pages, good condition, corners bumped, shelf wear.

Holliston
Old maps of Hopkinton, Holliston, Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Eight framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Hopkinton (whole town), Hopkinton (North part), Hopkinton (South part), Woodville (Hopkinton), Hayden Row (Hopkinton), Holliston (whole town), Holliston Village, Holliston (Metcalfe's) (East Holliston).
Eight, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Hopkinton
Old maps of Hopkinton, Holliston, Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Eight framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Hopkinton (whole town), Hopkinton (North part), Hopkinton (South part), Woodville (Hopkinton), Hayden Row (Hopkinton), Holliston (whole town), Holliston Village, Holliston (Metcalfe's) (East Holliston).
Eight, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Hudson
Bicentennial Scrapbook (Hudson, Mass)  $10.00
By The Hudson Historical Society 1976
I - Indian Heritage
II  - Early History    
III - 1866 and After  
IV  - Town Meetings  
V   - Industries  
VI  - Public Buildings  
VII  - Transportation
VIII - Entertainment
IX   - Contributors to Hudson's Development
X    - Hudson Contributors to Society
XI   - Reminiscences
XII  - Bits and Pieces
XIV  - Hudson Historical Society
XV   - Bicentennial in Hudson
An Appreciation
Map of Feltonville - 1853  
Odds and ends of Hudson's history. Includes map of Feltonville in 1853. I saw this for $20.00 in a used bookstore a few towns away.
189 pages 6x9 softbound, crease on spine some cover wear. remnants of price sticker on cover.

1875 Map of Town of Hudson, Massachusetts $15.00
This maps shows house locations and the names of the owner. Reproduced from the 1875 Beers Atlas of Middlesex County
11x14 in a 16x20 matt Navy blue or light blue, reproduction reprinted in black ink on natural-color parchment, slightly reduced in size from the originals.

Hudson, Massachusetts $18.99
Lewis Halprin and the Hudson Historical Society
Arcadia Publishing, 1999, 2000
This fascinating photographic history tells the story of Hudson, a peaceful New England town with a rich history. The first resident, John Barnes, came to the area in 1698 and built a gristmill by a waterfall on the Assabet River. Later, a sawmill was built, followed by several small industries that huddled around the mill. By 1850, railroads came to the area, now called Feltonville, as did many factories. In 1886, the area became the Town of Hudson, and it continued to grow with modern factories, a more diversified industry, banks, schools, and a wonderful new town hall.
The people of Hudson have always had an exemplary pride and courage in times of struggle. During the Civil War, several local homes were stations in the Underground Railroad, and many Hudson men took up arms to defend abolition. In 1894 disaster struck when a fire grew into an inferno and destroyed more than 40 buildings in the heart of the town. The same citizen zeal and courage that originally built the town built a new town to rise in place of the ashes...
128 pages, 6x9 softbound, new

Lexington
Lexington, Mass - A Century of Photographs $19.95
Beverly Allison Kelly
Lexington Historical Society 1980
This is a representative portion of the  Lexington Historical Societies photo archives. A nicely done book.
Table of Contents: Neighborhoods & farms, Homes of Distention, Early Churches and Schools, Lexington park, Central Business District, East Village.
138 pages, hardbound, dust jacket

Lexington, Mass. and Concord, Mass. in Color    $9.95
Text by Stewart Beach and Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain
See description under Concord.
94 pages, hardbound, dust jacket, (new book)

Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Vol. II 1890-1899 $32.00
Lexington, Mass: Lexington Historical Society, 1900
Table of Contents: The First English Proprietors of the Site of Lexington Village, Lexington Sixty Years Ago, Elias Phinney, The Military Organization of Lexington, Kite End, Solomon Brown, Some Account of Lieut. John Munroe, His Family and His Farm, History of the Stone Building, Early Schools and Schoolmasters, Reminiscences of the Fur Industry, The Milk Business and Milk Men of Earlier Days, Work of Lexington Women in the War of The Rebellion.
214 pages, hardbound, minor wear on cover.

Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Vol. IV 1905-1910 $32.00
Lexington, Mass: Lexington Historical Society, 1900
Table of Contents: The Early Schools of Lexington, The Battle of Lexington in England, The Ant-Masonic Movement, Particularly in Lexington, The Existence and the Extinction of Slavery in Massachusetts, Diary and Letters of Claira Robbins, 1794-1881, The Rev. Jonas Clarke, Minister and Patriot, Extracts From Letters of Miss Betty Clarke, Written in 1841, Samuel Adams, Architectural Yesterdays in Lexington, Historical Events Leading up To the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Some Memories of the Baptist Church in Lexington, Growth of the Baptist Church, Obituaries: Hannah McLean Greely, Elizabeth W. Harrington, Cornelius Wellington, James Smith Munroe.
191 pages, hardbound, minor wear on cover.

The Day of Concord and Lexington $25.00
Allen French
Reprint circa 1970's, 1925
Table of contents: The 19th in History, The General Situation, Boston in 1774-1775, American Preparations, Flintlocks and Marksmanship, Both Sides Make Ready, Gage and His Problem, The Evening of April 18th, Paul revere and William Dawes, Revere's Ride, The News in Lexington, The Firing at Lexington, American Testimony on Lexington, British Statements, Doolittle's Picture and British Tactics, The Provincials retreat Before the British, The Regulars in Concord, The Search for Military Stores, Concord Fight, British tactics Again, William Emerson at the Fight, The Americans on Jones Hill, The boy and His Hatchet, Merriam's Corner, Smith's Desperate Case, The Rescue, Percy's Hill in Lexington, The Fight in Menotomy, The American Fire, Pickering's Chance, The British Reach Safety, Summary, Bibliography, Index.
295 pages, hardbound red cloth, very good condition.>CON

The Lexington-Concord Battle Road $7.50
The First National Bank of Boston, 1975, 1960
Interesting chronology of the events that took place along the battler road on April, 19, 1775
74 pages, 6x9 softbound, good condition.

Old maps of Lexington, Winchester, Belmont, Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Nine framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Lexington (whole town), Lexington (detail), East Lexington (detail), Winchester (whole town), Winchester (detail), Belmont (whole town), Belmont (detail), Belmont (Mt. Auburn), Belmont (Waverly).
Nine, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Lincoln
The View From Lincoln Hill $10.00
Paul Brooks
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1976
In telling the story of his hometown of Lincoln, Massachusetts, Paul Brooks touches on many themes that are vital today. An old town suddenly become a suburb, Lincoln faces a common problem. Yet Lincoln has been widely cited for maintaining rural values against mounting urban pressure - it has controlled its growth, preserved open space, and resisted ruthless exploitation. How has this come about?
The story goes back to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and of Concord, the first inland settlement, of which Lincoln was then a part. It describes the surprisingly "modern" views of Governor Winthrop and his contemporaries on what would today be called "planned development." It traces the evolution of that unique institution, the New England Town Meeting: the "school of democracy" where so many of the leaders of the American Revolution got their first training in political action. From hitherto unpublished records, it paints a vivid picture of how the war itself looked to the citizens of this little village, beginning with the dramatic events of April 19, 1775.
A long chapter is devoted to the cultural revolution that took place some sixty years later in neighboring Concord - a war of literary independence against both the stifling traditions of Europe and the crass materialism of a newly industrialized America. Writers like Emerson and Thoreau, Hawthorne and Alcott, found freedom and inspiration by turning to the land, to the world of nature. As it entered the twentieth century, Lincoln was still a small town. With the explosive growth of the suburbs, it was able to maintain its character and identity while playing its part in the larger community. The final chapter, "Room for Living," outlines the specific methods by which this has been accomplished.
Though the focus is on the land itself, The View from Lincoln Hill also encompasses many of the lighter aspects of New England history, its people and its way of life. The author's charming pen-and-pencil drawings give us an intimate, visual introduction to the country about which he writes.
273 pages, hardbound, good condition, dust jacket has some light marks and is a little ragged top & bottom of spine.

Voiceprints of Lincoln, Mass. $35.00
Ruth Moulton Ragan
Lincoln, Mass: Lincoln Historical Society, 1991
(from the end flaps) 
"Here is history with more than the usual factual manner.  Rather, it is a personal account of some pivotal years in the evolution of Lincoln MA.  A pioneer in the field of land planning and conservation, as a change from farming community to unique suburb of the industrial age, and in that account the inner spirit of the towns captured.
For the use of oral history, 12 narrators reveal in this book their own personal memories of Lincoln from the 1880s to 1929.
Oral history, in its broadest terms, has been with us for eons.  Before the advent of the written word, it was through mankind's spoken stories and memories of the past that the links between the generations were forged.
At the dawn of the 20th-century the orator at the hundred fiftieth birthday of the town of Lincoln had this concept in mind as he stood before his audience. Speaker Charles Francis Adams Jr. was about to deliver an address some history of the town, but first he gave his audience a charge.
He told them they should leave a record of the everyday life and Lincoln for their descendants 150 years in the future, in the year 2054.  He deplored the fact that the early settlers of the town had left no such written record of their life.  He said: while we can send a message for, we cannot send one back….
One of the goals of this book is to help carry out that charge for future generations of systems.  But there's also a broader goal.  For along with details of daily life and Lincoln, there is a story of some pivotal years and Lincoln during late 19th-century early 20th-century unfold rural America was giving way to the new industrial America.
Numerous turn-of-the-century photographs and charming documentation this engaging work."
205 pages, hardbound, new.

Old maps of Concord, Lincoln, Acton, Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Ten framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Concord (whole town), Concord (detail), Westvale (Concord), Lincoln (whole town) for in the end of the, Lincoln (detail), South Lincoln, Acton (whole town), West Acton, South Acton, Acton detail and Whetherbees Mills.
Ten 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Lowell
Lowell, Mass. As It Was, And As It Is $29.95
Rev. Henry Adolphus Miles
New York: Arno Press, 1972, 1846 second edition
Fascinating glimpse of the early days of Lowell as a manufacturing center.
Table of Contents: Indian History, First Canal, East Chelmsford, Waltham the Parent of Lowell, Purchase of the Canal and Farms, Commencement of Operations, Reorganization, The New Manufacturing Village, The Town of Lowell, The City of Lowell, Locks and Canals Company, Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Appleton Manufacturing Company, Lowell Manufacturing Company, Middlesex Manufacturing Company, Suffolk Manufacturing Company, Tremont Manufacturing Company, Lawrence Manufacturing Company, Boot Manufacturing Company,, Massachusetts Manufacturing Company,, Smaller Manufacturing and Mechanical Establishments, Lowell in 1845, A Lowell Corporation, A Lowell Boarding-house, A Lowell Cotton Mill, Lowell Calico Printing, A Lowell Woolen Mill, A Lowell Carpet Mill, Hours of Labor, Wages, Provisions for the Comfort and Health of the Operatives, Moral Police of the Corporation, Boarding House Statistics, Mill Statistics, Moral and Intellectual Advantages, Churches, Schools, City Library, Lowell Offering, Savings’ Bank, Ministry at Large, Lowell Hospital, Lowell Dispensary, Howard Benevolent Society, Lowell Cemetery, Conclusion.
Appendix: Francis Cabot Lowell, Paul Moody, Kirk Boot, Warren Colburn, Luther Lawrence, Robert Means.
234 pages, 6x9 hardbound, good condition.

Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, Mass. 1821-1861 $39.99
Brian C. Mitchell
Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
There must be something I don’t know about this book. Other dealers are selling it for between $99.99 and $170.00.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction
2. The Early Immigrants, 1821-30
3. The First Years, 1831-35
4. Growing Pains, 1836-48
5. The Pattern of Employment, 1838-50
6. The Impact of Famine Emigrants, 1845-55
7. The Know-Nothing Crisis, 1847-55
8. Aftermath: The Meaning of Community, 1855-61 Tables and Figures
Notes
Bibliography
Bibliographical Essay
Index
155 pages. 6x9 hardbound, End Notes: 66 pages, Condition: Very good

Maynard
Old maps of Sudbury, Wayland, Maynard Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Eight framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Sudbury (whole town), Sudbury Village, South Sudbury, Wayland (whole town), Cochituate (Wayland), Wayland Village, Maynard (whole town), Maynard Village.
Eight, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Assabet Mills, Maynard, Massachusetts $18.99
Paul Boothroyd and Lewis Halprin
Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 1999
Images of America Series.
(from the back cover) The sleepy town of Assabet Village woke up very quickly when the Assabet Mills was built in 1847. Dams were constructed on the river, millponds were created, and large mills began producing yarn and carpets. Soon the village was turning into a town with stores, churches, schools, and government. As the mill grew, so did the town; the population grew to 7,000 people by 1905. During good times, the mill prospered, but during bad times, it faltered and had to re-invent itself. It had almost as many lives as the proverbial cat. The carpet mill faltered in 1857, but in 1862, the Assabet Manufacturing Company started producing woolen materials and blankets to support the Civil War. This mill faltered in 1898, but in 1899, the American Woolen Company bought the mills and greatly expanded them. In 1950, the woolen company faltered and shut down completely, but in 1957, Digital Equipment moved in. Digital faltered in 1997 and sold the buildings to Clock Tower Place, which is converting the mills into first-class industrial space. Today, the mills are attracting a new set of small industries.
This book is filled with images of the various "lives" of the mill complex. Photographs featured within these pages show mill employees at work and at play; workers' homes; the evolution of the mill buildings; and the products produced and sold by the mill. There is even a chapter that shows how wool products are produced.
Paul Boothroyd is the archivist for the Maynard Historical Society, whose archive has contributed most of this volume's images. Lew Halprin, also a member of the Maynard Historical Society, is the coauthor of four other Arcadia titles about nearby towns. Come along with Paul and Lew and share this visual life story of a mill complex and the ups and downs of the lives of its owners, its workers, and its town.
128 pages, 6½ x 9½ softbound, new

Methuen
Historical Sketch of the Town of Methuen, Massachusetts from a Settlement to the Year 1876 $46.00
Joseph S. Howe
Methuen, Massachusetts: 1876
Brief History.
48 Pages, Hardbound, Good Condition. <con>

The Catalog of Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground on Meetinghouse Hill in Methuen, Massachusetts $50.00 (rare)
Methuen, Massachusetts: Methuen Historical Society, 1897
(from the Introduction) In the year 1728 the town of Methuen voted: "that they should be a graveyard provided in the town somewhere near the Meetinghouse." They selected piece of land "20 rods and land by six or seven in width". This burying ground was the only one in the town for almost fifty years and was commonly used for 100 years or more, but within the last 40 years there'd been few intranets and it has gradually fallen into disuse and neglect.
At the annual meeting of the first church, in 1895, their attention was called to the neglected condition of the old burying ground with the gratifying result, -- that through the kindly interest and generosity of Mr. Edward Searles, and authority granted by the town, they've assumed its control and improvement.
The work is being done under the supervision of Mr. Charles Mann, to whom we are indebted for the copies of the epitaphs upon the old gravestones, which appear in the following pages.
Hundred and 16 pages, hardbound, back cover missing, front cover loose, spine worn, pages in good condition.<con>

Newton
History of the Early Settlers of Newton, Mass. 1639-1800 With a Genealogical Register of its Inhabitants Prior to 1800 $45.00
Francis Jackson
Heritage 1987 Facsimile reprint of 1854 edition
Table of contents: Name of the town, First Settlers, Early Grants and Boundaries, Early Conveyances, Highway, Separation of Cambridge Village from the Town of Cambridge, Education, Provisions for the Poor, Burying Grounds, The Common at Newton Center, Indians, Slavery, The Charles River, Mills and Factories at Upper Falls, the Lower Falls, Ponds and Brooks, First Grist Mill, Plan of Newton, Ecclesiastical History , War of the Revolution, Officers of Newton Who Served in the War of the Revolution, Newton Man Who Served More or Less in the War of the Revolution, Town Clerks and Treasurers, Selectmen., Annual Town Tax, Representatives to the General Court, Population, Direct Tax of the United States, 1798, Genealogical Register
About 2/3rds genealogical register of residents prior to 1800. Map and index.
555 pages, softbound, (New Book)

Pepperell
Pepperell, Massachusetts (Images of America) $9.50
Joanne Saunders Foley
Arcadia Publishing, 1996
(from the back cover) Settlers arrived in Pepperell as early as 1655, attracted by good farmland and the waters of the Nashua and Nissitissit Rivers. In a petition granted in 1742 by the general court, the area today recognized as Pepperell became known as Groton West Parrish. Eventually the town was named in honor of Sir William Pepperell of Kittery, Maine...
In this marvelous new photographic history, author Joanne Saunders Foley chronicles the development of Pepperell from mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Come along and enjoy vintage views of celebrations, parades and firemen's musters and read all about the "witch" of North Pepperell...
127 pages, good condition, covers have some light creasing.

Reading
At Wood End Reading, Mass. 1644-1994 A Pictorial History $45.00
Reading 350th Book Committee
Reading: Reading 350th Anniversary Steering Committee, 1994
Table of contents: A Village upon a Hill, A town of Homes, A Function of Government, The Growth of Education, Religious Freedom, Commerce & Industry, Around the Square, Transportation, Our Environment, Arts & Entertainment, Parks & Recreation, Clubs & Organizations, Miscellanea, References: Terms, Moved Buildings, Researching Reading, Additional Maps, Photo Credits, Key to Chapter 2 Photos, Index, Street Index.
9x12 hardbound, very fine condition.

Somerville
150 Years of King Solomon's Lodge A. F. & A. M 1783-1933 $ 15.00
Somerville, Massachusetts: 1933
History of the Lodge founded in the part of Charlestown that was later become Somerville. Includes a list of the Charter member is 1783, Masters, Treasurers, Secretaries, Members-1933, Bylaws of the King Solomon's Lodge., A. F. & A. M. A few photos and illustrations.
70 pages, 6 x 9 hardbound, good condition, some arriving on the covers, corners bumped.

Somerville, Massachusetts (Images of America) $5.00
Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Arcadia Publishing, 1987
(from the back cover) Once a part of Charlestown that could only be reached via "The Neck," Somerville became accessible from Boston with the construction of the Middlesex Canal and various rail lines in the mid to late nineteenth century. By 1842, Somerville's population had increased to the point that the town officially separated itself from Charlestown. Incorporated in 1871, the town was once described as "healthy, morally clean, comfortable, and convenient."...
Author Anthony Mitchell Sammarco's treatment of the city's past is the first photographic history of Somerville ever published. It combines informative text with more than 200 vintage images.
128 pages, fair condition, front cover is ragged on one edge, covers had pin holes and creases.

Sherborn
Old maps of Framingham, Ashland, Sherborn, Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Eight framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Framingham (whole town), Framingham Center, South Framingham, Saxonville (Framingham), Ashland (whole town), Ashland Village, Cutler's Mills (Ashland), Sherborn (whole town), Sherborn (detail).
Eight, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Stow
History of Stow - Tercentenary 1683 Edition 1983  $19.95
By Ethel B Childs
Stow Historical Society 1983
Table of Contents
Editors' Introduction Author's Preface
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1 The 17th Century Early settlers Establishing a Town Search for a Minister Life in the 17th Century The Regicide
Chapter 2 The 18th Century
The Period of John Eveleth
The Rev. John Gardner: a Period of Quiet Growth
Leading Toward the American Revolution
A New Minister-and the American Revolution
Chapter 3 The 19th Century
A Century of Growth and Change The Civil War 1861-1865
Some Outstanding Stow People of this Period
John W. Brooks
Alonzo Parks John Witt Randall Col. Elijah Hale Edwin Whitney
The Bicentennial of Stow
Chapter 4 The 20th Century World War I Immigrations World War II The Tercentenary
The Tercentenary Weekend
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Three hundred years of Stow history. Lots of photographs.
194 pages, hardbound, dust jacket is wrinkled and has a closed tear on the back, good condition.

Sudbury
Old maps of Sudbury, Wayland, Maynard Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Eight framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Sudbury (whole town), Sudbury Village, South Sudbury, Wayland (whole town), Cochituate (Wayland), Wayland Village, Maynard (whole town), Maynard Village.
Eight, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury Massachusetts $2.50 & $1.00 s&h
Carol J. Maconi in Collaboration with Barbara Deveneau
Southborough, Mass. Yankee Color Corp. the Printing: 1979.
Short History of the Inn with Some Nice Photographs.
26 Page Pamphlet, Good Condition.

Townsend
Voices, From their Times and Places (Townsend, Mass) 3.00 & $1.50 s&h
Townsend, Mass: 1992
Women of Townsend share their stories. An oral writing project produced by the Townsend Cultural Council.. Mary Teto, 50, Shirley Jamnback, 60, Millie Smith, 81, Marion Eaton, 86, Phyllis Josselyn, 62, Bernice Lothrop, 75, Beulah Greenough, 73, Pear Russell, 82, Florence Sullivan, 92, Katherine Frey, 75, Catherine Wilson, 72.
24 page 8x8  pamphlet, new

Wakefield
Wakefield, Mass. Inauguration and Dedicatory Exercises 1868  $25.00 
Boston: Warren Richardson, 1872
Inaugural exercises in Wakefield, Massachusetts, including the historical address and poem, delivered on the occasion of the assumption of its new name, by the town formerly known as South Reading, on Saturday, July 4th, 1868; Also the exercises at the dedication of Wakefield Hall, Wednesday, February 22nd, 1871.
 100 pages, 6x9 green cloth hardbound, top inch of the covers are rubbed and faded, small hole in cloth back cover, owners inscription inside front cover.

Wakefield, Mass: 350 Years by the Lake $48.75
The Wakefield 350 Writing Committee, Compilers. Nancy Bertrand, Editor
1994. Wakefield Item Press, Wakefield, Mass
Table of contents:
Foreword — John R. Galvin 
Acknowledgments     
The First Settlers — James W. Bradley         
The Seventeenth Century
"This Our Heritage," the Town's Settlement and First Sixty Years — Nancy Bertrand ..    
The Indian Deed        
"That Dark Time," the Witchcraft Panic in Redding — Nancy Bertrand     
The Eighteenth Century
Timeline: 1700 - 1774 — William E. Eaton   
Revolutionary Years — David Workman     
The American Revolution: General Benjamin Brown           
The American Revolution: Dr. John Hart      
Timeline: 1782 - 1799 — William E. Eaton, Lilley Eaton     
Colonial Officers of Reading — Tom Mullen           
Home Life in the Eighteenth Century           
First Parish in the late Eighteenth Century    
The Nineteenth Century
Timeline: 1800 - 1812 — William E. Eaton   
The Three Parishes of Reading and the
Birth of the Town of South Reading —Nancy Bertrand      
South Reading in 1812 — Lilley Eaton        
Timeline: 1813 - 1832 — William E. Eaton   
The Village of South Reading — Lilley Eaton         
Old South Reading Town House — Ruth Woodbury          
Burrage Yale — Doris DiGiammarino          
Timeline: 1833 - 1867 — William E. Eaton   
The Shoemaking Industry — Nancy Bertrand          
Slavery and the Anti-Slavery Movement — Nancy Bertrand             
South Reading and the Civil War — Peter Mathison
Journal of a South Reading Soldier, 1864     
Wakefield, Massachusetts, 1868       
Cyrus Wakefield — Jim Wulff          
The Wakefield Rattan Industry — John Wall           
Timeline: 1868 - 1900 — William E. Eaton   
Solon O. Richardson — John Wall    
The Lives of Franklin Poole — John Wall     
Wakefield Businesses in the 1870's and 1880's — Gene A. Moulton          
Wakefield in the 1880's — Alonzo Colson   
Clubs and Social Life in Wakefield, 1890 — Mary Thresher           
Wakefield's Ice Industry       
An Overview — Peter Stott
Cutting the Ice — Alonzo Colson
The Winship-Boit Knitting Mill — Doris DiGiammarino     
The Twentieth Century
Timeline: 1900 - 1914 —Joseph Bertrand     
The Rattan Factory Strike — Juliane Gerace
The First World War and the Homefront — Peter Mathison            
The Town That Will Never Forget Me — Lucius Morris Beebe       
Alcohol and Temperance — Paul Faler         
The Temperance Movement, a Social History — Peter Mathison     
Timeline: 1915 - 1929 — Joseph Bertrand    
Immigrant Life: An Oral History       
Remembering Shops and Stores: An Oral History    
Remembering Montrose         
Timeline: 1930 - 1939 — Joseph Bertrand    
Wakefield on the Homefront During World War II — Doris DiGiammarino          
Timeline: 1940 - 1949 —Joseph Bertrand     
A Wakefield Boyhood — David Hackett Souter     
The 1950's: Building Wakefield, Tearing Down Wakefield's Hall — Nancy Bertrand        
The Fifties — Beatrice Cassidy         
The Sixties — Kevin Kopp    
The Seventies — Marcia J. Phinney  
The Eighties — Nancy Bertrand       
The Nineties — Marcia J. Phinney and Nancy Bertrand       
Overviews
The Architectural History of Wakefield — Carol Huggins   
Population Growth and the People of Wakefield, 1830 - 1990 — Paul Faler          
Presidential Elections in Wakefield, 1832 - 1992 — Paul Faler        
Women in Wakefield — Nancy Bertrand     
Journalism in Wakefield — Robert D. Keohan
Wakefield’s Honored Sons Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice — Gene A. Moulton
The Wakefield High School Athletic Hall of Fame — Peter Mathison
A Brief History of Greenwood — Dana and Gray Goughenour Sawyer
Institutions
The Lucius Beebe Memorial Library — Charlotte Thompson
Wakefield Public Schools, 1693 - 1944 — Nancy Bertrand
Wakefield Public Schools, 1944 - present — Dr. Stephen F. Maio
St. Joseph's School     
The Wakefield Fire Department — L. Murray Young
The Wakefield Municipal Light Department — Jayne D'Onofrio
The Elizabeth E. Boit Home — Judi Eggleston
The Melrose-Wakefield Hospital — Nancy Bertrand
The Wakefield Police Department — L. Murray Young
Sites   
The Americal Civic Center — Cheryl Webb Scott
The Old Burying Ground — Nancy Bertrand
The Floral Way
The Hartshorne House — Nancy Bertrand
The Lafayette Building — Nancy Bertrand
The Bandstand — Nancy Bertrand
The Rockery — Nancy Bertrand and John Wall
The West Ward School — Nancy Bertrand
Remembering Lost Landmarks: An Oral History
Churches       
Organizations           
Biographies   
Town Government
Anniversary Celebrations   
Patrons                      
396 pages, 9x12 hardbound, very good condition, dj has some wrinkles on it.

Waltham
Waltham Mass Vital Records to 1850 $49.95
Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1904
The town of Waltham, Middlesex County, was incorporated January 4, 1738, from a part of Watertown.
April 16, 1849, a part of Newton was annexed to Waltham.
The town of Waltham was incorporated as a city in 1884.
298 pages, hardbound, foxing on cover and spine, covers are rubbed, ex library with Library stamp inside front cover

Waltham, Massachusetts As A Precinct of Watertown and as a Town 1630-1884   $40.00
Edmund L. Sanderson
Waltham, Mass: Waltham Historical Society 1936
Table of contents: Waltham, 1630-1884, Early Visitors, Allotting the Land, Making Use of the "Waste Lands", The First Settlers and Their Homes, The Beginnings of a Town, More Growth and More Needs, The West Precinct, The Meeting-House, The Schoolhouse, The Making of a Town, The Town of Waltham, Early Events, The Revolution, The Coming of Industry, The Great Country Road, Continued Growth, Expansion and More Changes, The Civil War and After. Local Names, Waltham Families, 1738
168 pages, hardbound, good condition.

Waltham Mass. through the Eyes of Young Citizens $9.00
9^th Grade Civics Class, Waltham High School, 1955
Waltham seen through the eyes of Ute and Wilhelm Schmidt, orphans of World War II brought back to Waltham by a soldier.
Table of contents: Where to Find us, How we Grew, Our Many “Firsts:, Our Historic Landmarks, How Sections of Out City Were Named, How We Learn, How We Play, How We Earn a Living, How We Safeguard Our Health, How Our Government Serves US.
95 pages, 6x9 softbound, edge wear with some small closed tears, covers faded. Condition: Good.

Waltham Rediscovered: an Ethnic History of Waltham, Massachusetts $45.00
Kristen A. Petersen in collaboration with Thomas J. Murphy
Waltham Peter E. Randall 1988 1st edition
A beautiful book with lots of photographs.
Table of contents:
Preface
Introduction
The Yankee Community
The Irish Community
The Scandinavian Community
The French Community
The Jewish Community
The Italian Community
The Lithuanian Community
The Armenian Community
The New Wave of Immigrants
Moody Street
Waltham in the Wars of America
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Editor
628 pages, 9x12 hardbound, very good condition, cover has some fading.

Watertown
Great Little Watertown 1630-1930: A Tercentenary History $75.00
G. Frederick Robinson and Ruth Robinson Wheeler.
Watertown, Mass.: Watertown Historical Society; 1930.
Rival Claims To Watertown: The Indians, The Gorges Patent, John Oldham, Winthrop
Sir Richard Saltonstall Settles Watertown
George Phillips Separates From Bigotry
Watertown, Frontier Of The West
Getting Along In The Seventeenth Century
Watertown Refuses To Compromise
Revolutionary Watertown
Changes In Religion, Politics And Finance
The Country Village Of 1830
Literature, Art And Reform
A New Population And New Problems
Modern Watertown
Perkins Institution And Massachusetts School For
The Blind
Conclusion
Founders Of Watertown Our Honor Roll
150 pages; hardbound, no dust jacket, gilt title on front cover; illus. with b/ w photos; map of the original allotments in back of book.; good condition.

Wayland
Old maps of Sudbury, Wayland, Maynard Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Eight framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Sudbury (whole town), Sudbury Village, South Sudbury, Wayland (whole town), Cochituate (Wayland), Wayland Village, Maynard (whole town), Maynard Village.
Eight, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.

Old Time Wayland, Massachusetts $24.00
Alfred Wayland Cutting
Privately printed, 1926
Table of contents: Old Wayland Center, Division of the Church, The Old Graveyard, Childhood Memories.
Attached to the book with a paperclip: a photo of  a horse draw wagon and some people inscribed: A Souvenir of the Village Centennial, A clipping about Lydia Maria Child, A Service of Commemoration First Parish Sudbury, Obituary of Rev. Seth Curtis Beach. In the back of the book is a clipping from the Waltham News Tribune Friday Jan 12, 1940 titled: Wayland First Parish Church Notes it's 300th Anniversary.
51 pages, softbound, good to fair condition, paperclip has marked some of the pages and in one spot has worn a small hole in the page, Cover is edge worn and corners bumped.

Westford
History of the Town of Westford, Mass 1659 - 1883 $35.00 (In print at $49.95) (New Book)
Rev Edwin R. Hodgman A. M.
The Westford Town Committee 1883 (Reprint)
Comprehensive history of Westford. Includes list of soldiers in the Revolution and Civil war and marriage and death records to the 1840s. In the back of  the book is a genealogy on the early families. Map of Westford in 1730 on inside front cover.
494 Pages, hardcover

Investigation of Water Supplying Capacity of Forge Pond, Westford, Mass. $30.00
This is an unusual item that concerns "practicability of increasing the supplying cavity of Forge Pond on Stoney Brook Watershed, Near Chelmsford, Mass., in order to increase the water power obtainable at the mill of the Abbot Worsted Company..". Includes Tables, photographs and drawings.
46 typewritten pages bound in 9x12 green hard cover, some wear along the edges, good condition

Weston
One Town in The American Revolution Weston Mass $18.00 (Out of Print)
Brenton H. Dickson & Homer C. Lucas
Weston Historical Society 1974
The story of Weston in the Revolution from the Stamp act through Shay's Rebellion.
Table of Contents:
210 pages softbound, good condition

Growing up in Weston, Massachusetts $29.95
Philip F. Coburn (inscribed)
Weston, Mass: Privately printed, 1981
Life in Weston @1905 -1920. The only other copy available online is going for $222.00 in Boston!
(from the Preface) "This pamphlet originated with a request from the Editor of the Weston Historical Society Bulletin, to write a story about Weston when I was a boy. I reached back in my past as far as I could remember and jotted down my experiences and impressions, without regard to sequence or order.
It became evident that twenty years could not be crowded into a few pages, so it was decided to print a story, for not only the townspeople, but for my neighbors who had heard me tell some of my anecdotes...."
56 pages, 8 1/2 x6 hardbound, good condition, light marks on the back cover

Wilmington
Yankee Drover $9.95
Asa Sheldon
University Press of New England 1988
Being the unpretending life of Asa Sheldon, Farmer, Trader and working man 1788-1870. He lived in the Wilmington area.
192 pages, softbound, new

Winchester
Winchester War Records - Civil - Spanish American - World $55.00
Published by the Town of Winchester 1925
Each section starts with a description of Winchester's participation in the war. Then follows a list of Winchester people who served along with various service information. The WW2 section lists parents names, birth dates and place along with the service record. Also included are a number of illustrations.
Table of Contents
184 pages, hardbound

History of Winchester, Massachusetts - Volume I $48.75
Henry Smith Chapman.
Drawings by W. H. W. Bicknell 1975. Haliday Lithograph Corp. Original Edition,1936
Table of contents:
The Prehistory of Winchester.
The Squaw Sachem and Her Red Men
CHAPTER II White Men on the Aberjona First Settlement at Waterfield Woburn Incorporated
CHAPTER III The Converse and Richardson Families
CHAPTER IV The Symmes, Gardner and Johnson Families
CHAPTER V Waterfield in the Sixteen Hundreds Church and State in Old Woburn
CHAPTER VI Colonial Militia and Primitive Schools
CHAPTER VII Eighteenth Century Memories The Black Horse Tavern
CHAPTER VIII Winchester in the Revolution
CHAPTER IX Winchester in 1798 The Middlesex Canal
CHAPTER X Men and Industries of a Century Ago The Railroad Comes to Town
CHAPTER XI The First Church Incorporation Agitated
CHAPTER XII The Town of Winchester is Born
CHAPTER XIII The Early Years of the Town, Fire and Flood, Social and Community Life
CHAPTER XIV Men and Events in the Sixties Winchester in the Civil War
CHAPTER XV Winchester in the Seventies, The Story of the Water System, The Banks
CHAPTER XVI History of the Churches in Winchester
CHAPTER XVII The Schools of Winchester
CHAPTER XVIII The Story of Winchester's Parks and Playgrounds
CHAPTER XIX Fire and Police Protection Town Hall and Public Library Growth and Progress
CHAPTER XX Men and Events at the Turn of the Century, A Growing Town. The Hospital, The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrated
CHAPTER XXI The Grade Crossing Controversy, Winchester in the World War, Tercentenary Celebration
CHAPTER XXII Clubs and Social Organizations of Winchester
EPILOGUE, APPENDIX A ,  APPENDIX B, NOTES AND COMMENTS, INDEX
401 pages, 6x9 hardbound, fair condition, covers and page edges have some stains, corners bumped.

History of the Winchester Mass. Fire Department $25.00
Boston, Mass: Boston Publishing Co. 1975
Interesting history of the Winchester Fire Department, many illustrations. Winchester business directory after page 71.
71 pages, 9x12 hardbound, cover has some pitting, good condition
192 pages softbound

Old maps of Lexington, Winchester, Belmont, Massachusetts 1875 $15.95
Reprint of town maps from the 1875 Atlas of Middlesex County.
Nine framing maps 11x14” on fine ivory, houses with family names.
Lexington (whole town), Lexington (detail), East Lexington (detail), Winchester (whole town), Winchester (detail), Belmont (whole town), Belmont (detail), Belmont (Mt. Auburn), Belmont (Waverly) Nine, 11X14 Maps, Good Condition.