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The Used Book Lover's Guide to New England $4.95
reduced from $16.95
By David S. and Susan Siegel
NY: Book Hunters Press, 1995
This is a comprehensive guide to more than 750 used book stores in Massachusetts, Maine,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire. The authors have turned their love
of used books into an easy to use guide.
Each state starts with an alphabetical list of dealers followed by an alphabetical listing
by location. The bookstore listings are divided into the categories open shops, by
appointment and mail order dealers. The bookstores are then described by name, address,
hours, phone, how many books they have, what kind of collection, specialties, services, a
map reference, do they take credit cards, owners name and year established. In the back of
the book is a specialty index.
I consider myself an expert on used bookstore locations and I was surprised to find some
near by that were unknown to me. I highly recommend this book.
383 pages, 6x9 softbound (new book) NE NA
The Old
Post Road $24.95 (Out of Print)
Stewart H. Holbrook
McGraw-Hill 1962 8th printing
(from the back cover) "In this richly detailed account—the
second volume in McGraw-Hill's American Trails Series—Mr. Holbrook tells
the stories of the three original roads that were to become the famed Post
Road. It was a road traveled by nine generations of his own ancestors, and
by him, as he wrote this book, searching to capture not only the full
drama and importance of the thoroughfare in a young America, but to
uncover the forgotten tales and Historical anecdotes of great
personalities who journeyed along, and quite literally created, the Old
Post Road."
On January 22, 1673, a postrider carrying the first mail in North America
was dispatched from New York City and arrived in Boston a fortnight later.
The route this ride took-by way of New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut,
and Springfield, Brookfield, Worcester, and Cambridge, Massachusetts-has
since been known as the Boston Post Road. Retracing the route south from
Boston's Scollay Square as it was in the nineteenth century, this book is
an excursion into 300 years of American Historyory, ending up in New York
during the week of George Washington's inauguration as first President of
the United States. There are many stops along the way, and anecdotes about
famous people who traveled the Post Road are uncovered, as well as the
unique contributions of forgotten men and women to the road and the
bustling young country it served.
This richly detailed book tells the story of the Post Road up to the
present day-capturing the full drama of the first major achievement of the
greatest road-building nation since Ancient Rome.
The late Stewart H. Holbrook came from an old New England family and was a
newspaperman, a semi-pro baseball player, and an actor before he began
writing books. He was the author of Holy Old Mackinaw, Ethan Allen, The
Yankee Exodus, The Age of the Moguls, The Golden Age of Quackery, and a
number of other books on the American scene.
273 pages, hardbound, very good condition
New England Hurricane $19.95
Written & Compiled by members of the Federal Writer's Project of the WPA
Boston, Mass: Hale Cushman & Flint (5th Printing Dec. 1938)
500 pictures of the hurricane of 1938.
(from the back cover) THIS book is a factual, pictorial record of the worst disaster that
has ever struck New England. The facts acts have been gathered together from all over the
stricken areas and sent to Boston, where they have been whipped into shape for
publication. In selecting the pictures the publishers in conjunction with the editors have
gone over literally thousands of photographs from all sections of the New England region
to pick out about five hundred that, in their opinion, gave the best composite idea of the
disaster itself, as well as the effects of the storm. Such a feat has been made possible
only because newspapers all over New England, Wide World and Pathe News Services, private
business organizations such as the telephone and electric light companies and the
railroads have made available without charge their complete photographic libraries of the
hurricane, its destruction, and the early efforts toward rehabilitation. The W. P. A.
alone submitted over 3,000 pictures.
Needless to say, this compilation has in itself been a most fascinating experience. Every
person involved authors, editors, publishers, compositors, printers, papermakers, and
binders-have personal reminiscences that are exciting, hair-raising, in some fortunately
few cases, even tragic. They are no exception to the rule, however, for wherever the
hurricane struck, it left freakish disaster in its wake.
Although New England is rebuilding quickly, it will not forget easily. Some of its scars
will remain as silent witnesses to buttress these stories which we shall hand down to our
grandchildren.
224 pages, hardbound, no dj, covers are lightly stained, good condition.
Pettigrew's New England Medical Professional Directory
1904 $95.00
Richard R. Pettigrew, M.D.
Boston: The Garden Press, 1904
Containing a Directory of Physicians and Information regarding the
Hospitals, Societies, Dispensaries, and Training Schools of New England
and other Information of Interest to the Medial Profession.
422 pages, 6x9 hardbound, good condition, shelf wear corners bumped,
light scratches on covers and a few small spots.
Army
Engineers in New England, 1775-1975
$18.00
Aubrey Parkman
1978. United States Army Corps of Engineers - New England Division, Waltham,
Mass
Table of contents:
Foreword
Preface
Narrow Redoubts and Granite Casemates
Civil Works Begin
The Districts and the Division
Navigable Rivers and Safe Harbors
The Cape Cod Canal
New Harbor Defenses
A Larger Military Mission
Flood Control
Designs for Hydroelectric Power
New Challenges and Tasks
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
259 pages, 6x9 hardbound, Appendix, 22 pages. Notes, bibliography, index,
Condition: Ex-library; Text block stamps, call number, sticker on cover.
Price reflects condition. M
Taverns and Stagecoaches of New England Volume II $12.00
The State Street Bank 1954
Table of contents: travel in the early days, taverns and their landlords,
some taverns of old Boston, Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Boston, Green Dragon
Tavern, Boston, Stavers starts Boston’s first stagecoach line, White
Mountain coaching parades, Eagle Tavern, East Poultney, Vermont ,
Shelburne, Vermont museum and its stagecoach inn, Red Lion Inn,
Stockbridge, Mass, Eagle House, Haverhill, Mass, Horse Marine News,
Publick house, Sturbridge, Mass, Groton Inn, Buckman Tavern, Lexington,
Mass, Munroe Tavern, Lexington, Mass, pistol ornamentation of stagecoach
days, Punch Bowl Tavern, Brookline, the "Old Ordinary," Hingham, Mass, The
Tree of Knowledge, Duxbury, mass, Doty Tavern, Ponkapoag, Canton, Mass,
the Morse and other early taverns of Walpole, Mass, Israel Hatch,
stagecoach and tavern mogul, Cherry Tavern, Ponkapoag Canton, Mass., rare
tavern signboards, some Connecticut tavern stories, other new England
signboards, the coming of the iron horse.
124 pages, 6x9 softbound, good condition
Meeting
House & Church in Early New England $20.00
Edmund W. Sinnott
New York: Bonanza Books 1963
In this beautifully and profusely illustrated volume, Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott describes the
character and history of some two hundred of the most interesting and important of the
meeting houses and churches built during the first two centuries after the settlement of
New England. He discusses the religious climate in which their architecture developed, the
characters of the men who built them and who preached or worshipped in them, together with
the historical events in which they had a part. In addition, all the surviving
ecclesiastical structures built by 1830-more than 500 in all-are listed in an Appendix,
giving the more important facts about each. The cut-off date of 1830 allows inclusion of
the buildings of the Federal period and a few examples of the Greek Revival.
This book will be of great value to any reader interested in antiquities, and of
particular importance to all concerned with American architecture, with the development of
its ecclesiastical forms, and with New England history in general.
The complex character of the new England Puritan, says Dr. Sinnott, is illuminated by a
knowledge of his meeting house, the building in which both church services and town
meetings were held. At first these buildings were very plain structures, but reached a
high degree of architectural excellence in the typical white steepled churches of the
first third of the nineteenth century.
Dr. Sinnott shows that the architectural evolution of these buildings clearly reflects the
changing life and thought of the Puritans during their first two centuries in New England,
and the development of the Puritan Tradition, which has had such an important influence in
American history. Though most of the building are of the dominant Congregational order,
the contributions of other religious bodies, especially Episcopalians, Baptists, and
Quakers are also described. One chapter is devoted to a description of the many changes
which these old structures have undergone and the reason for such changes.
Dr. Sinnott's pages are lively in style and reflect both his interest in the changing
cultural and religious patterns of New England life and his antiquarian's concern for the
valuable heritage represented by these buildings. Over the years, fire, wind, decay, and
'changing architectural fashions have resulted in the loss of many old churches, and it is
important that the remaining ones be carefully preserved. In Meetinghouse and Church in
Early New England, Dr. Sinnott shows not only their architectural and historical
importance, but their significance in our history.
243 pages, hardbound, good condition, dust jacket has edge wear.
Saco-Lowell Shops Annual Reports 1924-1960
$45.00
These annual reports give an interesting insight into the history of the
Company which manufactured textile equipment, originally with plants in
Bitterford and Saco Maine, Lowell, Massachusetts Newton Upper Falls,
Massachusetts and Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The main offices were in
Boston. Starting out with very plain balance sheet's in 1921, in 1926
adding more narrative detail to 1951 which started the inclusion of
photographs.
8x12 hardbound, very good condition
Susan Mahnke, Senior Editor
Dublin, N.H.: Yankee, Inc., 1979.
CONTENTS: Introduction. And Thanks to. How to Use This Index. How to
Obtain Reprints. A Brief, If Irreverent, Two-Part History of Yankee, Inc.
Index, 1935-1978.
301 pages; hardbound, no d/j; front matter with b/w photos; ex-library.
Yankee
Homecoming, 1958. Official Sketchbook by Jack Frost. $12.95
Pub. by New England Electrical System 1958
Classic New England sketches by one of my favorite artists, with a pitch
to bring in 2 million tourists to the area in 1958.
96 pages, 7 x 10 hardcover, pictorial binding; b & w line drawings by Jack
Frost; good condition, light foxing, wear to edges and corners of cover
France and New England
Volume II $12.00
Allen Forbes and Paul F. Cadman
Boston, Mass: State Street Trust Company 1927
Being a further account of the connecting links between that Country and New England
Herein is an account of bits of France in Boston. Incidents of the French stay at Newport
with a description of Franklin in Passy and Paris touching also upon Hartford and
Wethersfield where Washington and Rochambeau met in conference together with the story of
the discovery in Paris of the remains of Admiral John Paul Jones and the founding of the
Society of the Cincinnati with other interesting facts to which are added many views and
reproductions of old prints and things of interest.
183 pages, 7 ½ x 10 softbound, some fading of covers, wrinkles on spine, corner wear.
water stained on back cover, small stain on back cover.
France and
New England Volume III $12.00
Allen Forbes and Paul F. Cadman
Boston, Mass: State Street Trust Company 1929
Being a further account of the connecting links between that Country and New
England
Containing an account of Champlain's three voyages along the New
England Coast with a description of the ships of Champlain, De Monts and
their followers. Also the stories of the French at Lake Champlain and Saint
Croix Island. The First French Jesuit Missionary Colony in New England. The
Birthplace of Champlain and the naming of America to which are added
reproduction of rare prints and maps
97 pages, covers are faded, corners show wear, tape on spine, 1 inch tear,
covers are intact but show wear.
New England Aviators 1914-1915 $59.95
Penn: Shiffer, 1997
Each aviator has a wartime biography and most have a picture.
Table of Contents: List
of Aviators
Introduction: By A. Lawrence Lowell
The Faces Of The Aviators. By Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
First Pursuit Group. By Lieutenant James Knowles, Jr.
First Day Bombardment Group
Twentieth Aero Squadron, First Day Bombardment Group. By Lieu tenant Karl
C. Payne
A Bit Of Unintentional "Acrobatics." By Lieutenant Samuel P.
Mandell
The Last Raid. By Lieutenant Gardiner H. Fiske
Ninety-Sixth Aero Squadron, First Day Bombardment Group. By Lieutenant
Arthur Hadden Alexander
Eleventh Aero Squadron. By Lieutenant Paul S. Greene
Aviators.
472 pages, 6x9 hardbound, new. NE/MIL
Indian Wars of New England, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. $199.95
Herbert M. Sylvester.
Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1998. A facsimile reprint of the 1910 edition.
(two of these volumes are out of print)
(from the back cover)
Volume I: The first of three chronologically arranged volumes, Volume 1 begins with a description of the Indian tribes of New England, discusses the early settlers and their relations with the Indians, and covers the Pequod War and the wars of the
Mohegans.
The Indians are described in general terms regarding religion, art, language, agriculture, etc., as well as by
specific tribe. The early settlers, the Pilgrims and the Puritans, had friends among the Indians-Massasoit and Squanto, for instance-but, in the main, relations were bloody between natives and newcomers. The lengthy section on the Pequod War begins with the rising tensions caused by Dutch and English encroachment onto Pequod lands, and covers the ensuing fighting, the tribe's fall from power and influence in the 1630s, and the final dispersal of the few remaining members into other tribes. The section on the wars of the Mohegans, in the 1630s and 1640s, focuses mainly on the conflicts between that tribe and the Narragansetts but it also covers the increasing conflicts between the Mohegans and the white settlers.
Well written and heavily footnoted, this book is an informative narrative of the Indian wars of New England. #S949
Volume II: This profusely annotated work is an indispensable resource
for the serious scholar. Volume II is divided into four sections: The Land
of the Abenake, The French Occupation, King Philip's War and St. Castin's
War (also known as King William's War.).
The first section begins with Cartier's exploration along the St. Lawrence
River in 1534, followed by Champlain's probes along the coast of Maine in
1604. This section is rounded out with detailed descriptions of the
geography, Abenake culture and relations with the Europeans.
The French Occupation deals with the continuing expeditions of Champlain
and other explorers, and with French efforts to attract settlers,
establish Jesuit missions and develop the fur trading economy. France
endeavored to spread her influence in the New World and solidify her
alliance with the Indians as England threatened to gain control.
Disputes between the European powers in addition to encroachments on
Indian lands led to the uprisings known as King Philip's and St. Castin's
Wars. Background information relevant to these hostilities is discussed in
depth, including the names of the major players and accounts of many
individual incidents.
Volume III: This is an especially valuable work for students of the French and Indian War. The notes alone provide an abundance of further research materials.
As the European powers struggled for control over the New World, the colonists endured wave after wave of brutal Indian attacks. This final volume of the series contains flour separate sections: Queen Anne's War, Lovewell's War, Governor Shirley's War and the French and Indian War.
Queen Anne's War was known in Europe as the War of Spanish Succession. It lasted from 1704 to 1713. Accounts of numerous Indian attacks are given in this section, which is very detailed with names and places of the victims.
Lovewell's War, 1722-1726, came about as the militant Jesuit missionary, Father Rale encouraged Indians to raid the English. Settlers, in retaliation, collected up to £100 for bringing in the scalp of an Indian.
The French again declared war on England in 1744. Governor Shirley's War was known by these other names: the Spanish or Five Years' War, War of Austrian Succession and King George's War. Funds were appropriated for forts along the frontier, but attacks on the colonists continued as in the previous wars.
The "final" French and Indian War was officially declared in 1756, Major events included the attack on Fort #4 (Charlestown, NH), the capture of Forts Frontenac and Niagara, the second fall of Louisbourg, the climactic battle for Quebec upon the Plains of Abraham, and the decimation of the St. Francis Indian village by Robert Rogers and his Rangers.
This is a fascinating chronicle of important turning points in American
History. The exhaustive notes in this volume are as interesting as the main narrative.
Volume 1: 528 pages. Volume 2: 625 pages. Volume 3: 703 pages. Paperbound.
No DJ. New Condition.
The Romance of New England Antiques $14.50
Edwin Valentine Mitchell
NY: Current Books, Inc., 1950
(from the end flap) In this fascinating volume, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, New England
folklorist and History of the quaint and unusual, takes the reader behind the scenes of
the antique world into the shops of the master craftsmen, through picturesque old New
England villages, and into Historic old homesteads whose attics still house many relics of
the glorious New England past. His book is a rich collection of fact and legend that
recaptures the very breath of life of former days. There is the salty smell of the seaport
towns and all their strange assortment of oriental curiosa; the sound of the
peddlers’ cries as they hawked the clocks, the pewter, the pottery from the busy
little workshops of Connecticut and Massachusetts. There are thumbnail portraits of such
men as Deming Jarves, maker of Sandwich glass; Eli Terry, clockmaker par excellence; Lambert
Hitchcock, whose chairs are still being manufactured, and many others.
Table of contents: The Romance of Collecting, Old Curiosity Shops and Antique Dealers,
Going Going Gone: Town and Country Auctions, Reproductions, Fakes, and Thefts, Secret Hiding Places, Antiques with a Pinch of Salt: The Seaport Towns and
What to Look for There, Yankee Whittlers, Tinware and Yankee Peddlers, Timepieces,
Concerning Chests, Chairs, A Silvery Metal Called Pewter, Silverware, Old New England
Glasshouses, New England Pottery, The Story behind Them.
265 pages, hardbound, good condition, browning inside front cover, dj is price clipped,
chips top edge, bottom spine, some wear edges of spine.
Connecticut River Valley doorways: an 18th-century flowering $12.00
Amelia F. Miller
Boston: Boston University for the Dublin seminar for New England folk
life. 1983
Inventory and introduction of Connecticut River Valley doorways with
descriptions, some with photos.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Guidelines to the Checklist
Checklist of the Doorways:
Scroll Pedimented Doorways
Triangular Pedimented Doorways
Segmental Pedimented Doorways
Flat Top Doorways to
Appendixes:
Reproduction Doorways
Joiners
Glossary of Him Provides Architectural Terms
Similar Features
Abbreviated Used in the Text
List of References Cited
Index
Photo Credits
Note about the Author
148 Pp., 6x9 soft bound, good condition
Preserving Historic New England $25.00 (list: $39.95)
James M. Lindgren
NY: Oxford university Press: 1995
The story of the preservation movement of the first years of the 20th century and the
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
244 pages, 6x9 hardbound, dust jacket, new
It's An Old New England Custom $14.00 (Out of Print)
Edwin Valentine Mitchell
New York: Bonanza Books 1956
Mitchell's books are always a good read. (from the end flaps) "It's and
old New England Custom to delight in the fine old institution which
is New England itself. From Maine through Connecticut, New England
continues its adulation of New England weather, haunted houses, strange
gods, longevity and New England's gift to all the states of the
Union--turkey and cranberry sauce. But although it is difficult to admit
that some of the good things in life have passed, we can still hark back
with Mr. Mitchell to the glorious days of pie for breakfast, giant cheese,
bundling and the glorious world of as we were."
277 pages, hardbound, dust jacket has some wear and rips
Murder in New England Tales of Passion, Murder and Detection $8.50
Edited by Eleanor Sullivan & Chris Dorbandt
NJ: Castle Books, 1987
These are fictional tales from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine concerning New England.
Table of contents: New England Equinox, Isaac Asimov, The Sisterhood, Gwendoline Butler,
Something Like Growing Pains, Lika Van Ness, That Day at Connally, Stanley Cohen, The
Problem of the Boston Common, Edward Hoch, Off the Interstate, Brendan DuBois,
Unacceptable Procedures, Stanley Ellin, Death of a Harvard Man, Richard M. Gordon Lizzie
Borden in the P.M., Robert Henson, The Chalk Line, Ryerson Johnson, A Tasty Tidbit,
Janwillen van de Wettering, Mifflin Must Go, Shannon O’Cork, The Day the Children
Vanished, Hugh Pentecost, The Rhode Island Lights, S. S. Rafferty, The Problem of
Santa’s Lighthouse, Ed Hoch, The Stone Wall, Steve
Sherman, A Quick Learner, Brendan DuBois, Nice Well Meaning Folk, N. Scott Warner, A
Ticket Out, Brendan DuBois.
267 pages, hardbound, dj worn top & and in spots some small closed tears, good
condition.
Hans Holzer
Dublin, New Hampshire: Yankee Books, 1987, third printing. Yankee Ghost, Go
Home! "Ocean Born" Mary (Henniker, New Hampshire) The Ghosts of Barbary Lane
(Rye, New York) The Ghost Clock (Milford, New Hampshire) Hungary Lucy
(Hell's Kitchen, New York) Proper Bostonian Ghosts The Ghost of Gay Street
(Greenwich Village, New York) When The Dead Stay on The Ship Chandler's
Ghost (Cohasset, Massachusetts) How Little Girl Ghost Was Sent out to Play
(Lansdowne, Pennsylvania) The Ghost Servant Problem That Ringwood Manor
(Ringwood, New Jersey Return to Clinton Court (Clinton Court, New York) The
Teenagers in The Staten Island Ghost The Phantom Admiral (Whitefield, New
Hampshire) The Somerville Ghost (Somerville, Massachusetts) Come and My
Ghost! (New York City) Country House Ghosts The Girl Ghost on Riverside
Drive (New York City) a Final Word
202 Pages,6x9 Softbound, Good Condition, Birthday Inscription on Title Page.
The Sabbath
in Puritan New England $19.95
Alice Morse Earle
Williamstown Mass: Castle House Publishers 1974
First published in 1891 The Sabbath in Puritan New England has been for many years one of
the most accurate and thoroughly engrossing accounts of church customs in America during
the 17th century. A life-long student of colonial times Agnes Morse Earle wrote
extensively on every aspect of early American social life and its institutions. In this
fascinating study she describes virtually every facet of religious custom, tradition and
ritual found in the North American colonies of the 17th century. Included are chapters on
The New England Meeting-House, The Church Militant, The Old-Fashioned Pews, The
Tithingman, The Length of The Service, The Noon-House, The Bay Psalm Book, Church Music,
The Interruptions of The Services, The Observance of The Day, The Authority of The Church
and The Ministers, The Ministers' Pay, The Puritan Pulpit, The Early Congregations.
335 pages, hardbound, dust jacket, price clipped, very good condition
Markers IX $25.00 (published at $37.00)
The Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies 1992
Table of contents: Recollections of a collaboration: A tribute to the art of Francis
Duval, The Mullicken Family Gravestone carvers of Bradford, Massachusetts, 1663-1768, The
Green Man as an emblem on Scottish tombstones, The Center Church Crypt of New Haven,
Connecticut: A photographic essay, Purchase delays, pricing factors, and attribution
elements in gravestones from the shop of Ithamar Spauldin, Silent stones in a potter's
field: Grave markers at the Almshouse burial ground in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Thomas
Crawford's Monument for Amos Binney in Mount Auburn Cemetery, " A work of rare
merit.", Acculturation and Transformation of Salt Lake Temple Symbols in Mormon
tombstone art, Language codes in Texas German Graveyards, The disappearing Shaker
cemeteries.
281 pages, softbound, new
The Puritan in England and New England $35.00
Ezra Hoyt Byington
Little, Brown Boston, MA 1897 3rd edition
Table of contents: The Puritan in England, The Pilgrim and the Puritan: Which?, The Early
Ministers of New England, William Pynchon, Gent., Religious opinions of the fathers of New
England, The Case of Reverend Robert Breck, of Springfield, The religious life in the 18th
century in Northern New England.
406 pages, 6x9 blue cloth hardbound, lettering a little faded, foxing, one of the pages is
1/4 cut and at that point a tear of an inch begins, 3 inch light thin line on back cover,
good condition for age, minor wear.