Massachusetts

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts 1784-1984

A Mission to Remember, Proclaim, and Fulfill

by M.J. Duffy

Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 1984

hardcover, 737 pages

pages are crisp and without highlights or notes

water mark towards bottom of some of the pages

causes a light staining but the book provides an

excellent reading copy

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Massachusetts - Off the Beaten Path

A Guide to Unique Places

by Barbara Radcliffe and Stillman Rogers

Fifth Edition - great resource

Globe Pequot Press, 2003

softcover, 232 pages, like new condition

no writing or underlining on pages,

$3.75 plus media mail shipping

Frommer’s Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard

by Sandy MacDonald

Macmillan, 1997

softcover-  good condition

294 pages - crisp and clean

our price:  $1.95 plus media mail shipping

The Family Guide to Cape Cod - What to Do

When You Don’t Want to Do What Everyone Else Is Doing

by Bernice Chesler and Evelyn Kaye

Barre Publishing, 1976

vintage softcover

310 pages - no writings or markings

corners of cover are slightly bumped and tiny corner of first pages are slightly curled

front cover shows wear

our price:  $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Exploring Nature on Nantucket - 20 Expeditions on the Faraway Island, With Related Art and Science Projects

for All Ages

by Corinne and Kim Roosevelt

Kerriermuir Press, 1993

plastic comb spiral binding - softcover-  excellent condition

100 pages - crisp and clean

our price:  $13.50 plus media mail shipping

Frommer’s Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard - 2003

by Laura M. Reckford

Wiley Publishing, 2003

softcover-  good condition - no foldout map

306 pages - crisp and clean

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Fifty Hikes in Massachusetts - Coastal Walks, Inland Treks, and Mountain Hikes From Cape Cod to the Berkshires

by Paul and Ruth Sadlier

New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1975

vintage softcover - front cover is worn as shown in photo and first few pages show wear

no markings or highlighting - acceptable reading copy

great maps

166 pages

$3.50  plus media mail shipping

Massachusetts Family Adventure Guide - Great Things To See and Do for the Entire Family

by Kelly Spencer

Globe Pequot Press, 1997

softcover, excellent condition, 159 pages

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Massachusetts Family Adventure Guide - Great Things To See and Do for the Entire Family

by Kelly Spencer

Globe Pequot Press, 1997

softcover, excellent condition, 159 pages

remainder mark on bottom of book

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Insiders’ Guide

Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard - Fifth Edition

by Dick Hilmer

Falcon Publishing, 2000

softcover-  very good condition -

555 pages - crisp and clean

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Favorite Places of Worcester County - A Guide to Shopping, Dining, Recreation, Sightseeing, History, Facts & Fun in Central Massachusetts

by Larry Abramoff, Gloria Abramoff, Ann Lindblad

Databooks, 1995, NEW BOOK!

softcover, 380 pages

our price:   $14.50 plus media mail shipping

History of Haverhill

1776-1976 United States Bicentennial

originally published in 1832 - 227 pages in original

by B.L. Mirick

reprinted by the Haverhill High School Student Council in 1974

no writing or underlining on pages,

former owner’s name on back cover and inside front cover

$19.95 plus media mail shipping

Aspects of Boston

by William Berchen

text by Ursula and William Berchen

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975

vintage softcover,  128 pages

many interesting black and white and color photos

no writing or highlighting - pages are clean

fairly good condition considering age of book

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

Plug Uglies

A Scrapbook of Boston Organized Crime

by Howie Carr

Frandel LLC, 2014

hardcover, 255 pages

NEW BOOK!!

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Short Bike Rides in Eastern Massachusetts

by Howard Stone

Globe Pequot, 1995

First Edition, Second Printing

softcover-  good condition

390 pages -

our price:  $5.95 plus media mail shipping

Tales of the Observer

by Richard H. Edwards, Jr.,

Jordan Marsh Company, 1950

First Edition

Memoir of Boston Century Club Observer

good condition considering age

vintage hardcover, 116 pages

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Martha’s Vineyard Cookbook

A Diverse Sampler From a Bountiful Island

by Louise Tate King & Jean Stewart Wexler

Illustrations by Grambs Miller

Globe Pequot Press, 1971, second printing

vintage softcover -  308 pages

very good condition

slight stain on outer edge of the pages of the book

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

The Boston Globe Historic Walks in Old Boston

Second Edition

by John Harris

softcover -  very good condition

Globe Pequot Press, 1989

346 pages   

our price:   $7.95  plus media mail shipping

Boston - Our People

Coming to America - An Anthology

Sponsored by the Boston Public Library Association in Collaboration with the Boston Public, Parochial, and Private Schools

Boston Library Foundation, 1996

very good condition

86 pages

our price:  $23.95 plus media mail shipping

Boston - Our People

Coming to America - A Pictorial

Sponsored by the Boston Public Library Association in Collaboration with the Boston Public, Parochial, and Private Schools

Boston Library Foundation, 1996

very good condition

103 pages

our price:  $23.95 plus media mail shipping

“Pa, Pa, Can You Hear Me?”

The Story of a Cape Cod’s Family Love

by Mary Edie Smith

Codfish Press, 2007

like new condition

gift inscription on first page

softcover - 191 pages

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Images of America -

The Jewish Community of the North Shore

by Alan S. Pierce and Avrom J. Herbster for the Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore

Arcadia, 2003

softcover, like new condition

128 pages -

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Marblehead from Hollyhocks to Hot Top

articles written by John D. Hill, Morrill S. Reynolds, Phyllis Laskey Marsters, Percy L. Martin

a series of articles about  Marblehead, Massachusetts with many historical photos

designed and printed by Wilkscraft Creative Printing

softcover - very good condition

180 pages   

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Old Marblehead - A Camera Impression by

Samuel Chamberlain

Revised and Enlarged by Narcissa G. Chamberlain

Hastings House Publishers, Inc., 1975

vintage hardcover,

very good condition, 89 pages

our price:  $14.95  plus media mail shipping

Broke in Boston - A Guide to Living Cheap in the City

edited by Andrew Brett Einhorn

2007 edition

softcover, 214 pages

very good condition

$3.50 plus media mail shipping

Nantucket Island

by Robert Gambee

introduction by Nathaniel Benchley

Hastings House Publishers, 1978, First Edition

signed by Gambee on front end page

vintage softcover-  fairly good condition

tiny thumbtack-like hole in first few pages

slight wave to the book

cover has discoloration line along edge due to age

pages are unmarked and intact

192 pages - black and white photos

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Boston - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Boston Athletic Association Marathon

by Hal Higdon

Rodale Press, 1995

hardcover-  very good condition

242 pages - crisp and clean and intact

our price:  $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Massachusetts Militia Companies and Officers in the

Lexington Alarm

edited by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe and Donna D. Smerlas

published by The Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Archives Division, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1985

softcover  - 72 pages -    like new condition

$24.95 plus media mail shipping

The Italians in Worcester County, Massachusetts

by Vincent A. Lapomarda

copyright @ 2015

softcover, 296 pages

excellent condition - pages are crisp and unmarked

small scratch on cover as shown in photo

$24.95 plus media mail shipping

Nantucket - Seasons on the Island

by Cary Hazlegrove

Chronicle Books, 1995

softcover - good condition

99 pages - crisp and clean

stunning color photographs

our price:  $5.95 plus media mail shipping

Images of America -

Arlington (Massachusetts)

by Richard A. Duffy

Arcadia, 1997

softcover, very good condition

128 pages -

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Plum Island - The Way It Was

by Nancy V. Weare

Newburyport Press, Inc., 1994

SIGNED BY AUTHOR!

softcover - very good condition

priceless historical photographs

100 pages

$34.95 plus media mail shipping

Boston Catholics - A History of the Church and Its People

by Thomas H. O’Connor

Northeastern University Press, 1998

like new condition - crisp and pristine pages

hardcover - 357 pages

dustjacket has tiny tear barely visible

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

As The Century Turned - Photographic Glimpses of Danver, Massachusetts   1880-1910

by Richard P. Zollo, Richard B. Trask, and Joan M. Reedy

A Centennial Publication of the Danvers Historical Society

The Donning Company, 1989

hardcover, 176 pages

like new pristine condition

insert signed by all three authors

our price:   $29.95  plus media mail shipping

Find Your Place - A guide to exploring more than 100 special places close to home and across Massachusetts

by the Trustees of Reservations

Property Guide - Sixth Edition

softcover, 240 pages

like new condition

our price:   $14.50 plus media mail shipping

Lone Voyager - The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard Blackburn, Hero Fisherman of Gloucester

by Joseph E. Garland

Simon & Schuster, 2000

softcover - 330 pages

good condition

front cover has a small crease

our price:  $4.95 plus media mail shipping

The Boston See Party - A Walking or Riding Tour of Boston Freedom Trail, Charlestown, Harvard College, M.I.T., Lexington, Concord, Salem, Gloucester, Plymouth, Cape Cod

by Allan L. Dow, CPCU and Liberty Insurance Company, 1981, first edition

unique vintage softcover, 243 pages

two fold-out maps, excellent resource

good condition - tiny section of bottom corner

of front cover has been taped

front cover has a small crease

our price:  $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Red House - Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England’s Oldest Continuously Lived-In House

by Sarah Messer

Penguin Books, 2004

softcover, 390 pages

like new condition

no marks or notes

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

A Little Commonwealth - Family Life in Plymouth Colony - New Edition - Thirtieth Anniversary

by John Demos

Oxford University Press, Inc., 2000

softcover,  like new condition, 201 pages

pages are clean, crisp, and intact

$12.95 plus media mail shipping

Frederick Law Olmstead and the Boston Park System

by Cynthia Zaitzevsky

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

First Harvard University Press Paperback Edition, 1992

softcover, 262 pages

like new condition - no marks or notes

$24.95 plus media mail shipping

Sanctuary

Produced for Man & Nature - The Yearbook of The Massachusetts Audubon Society - 1977

edited by Wayne Hanley

Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1977

vintage softcover, 120 pages

good condition - no marks or notes

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

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Boston - A Topographical History

Second Edition, Enlarged

by Walter Muir Whitehill

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Eleventh Printing, 1996

softcover,  299 pages

very good like new condition

$12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Ghosts of Nantucket - 23 True Accounts

by Blue Balliett

illustrated by George Murphy

Down East Books, 1984

very good condition

softcover, 121 pages,

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Man & Nature - Land Use

The Massachusetts Audubon Society - 1975

edited by Wayne Hanley

Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1975

vintage softcover, 120 pages

good condition - no marks or notes

back cover has a crease

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

In the Footsteps of Thoreau

25 Historic and Nature Walks on Cape Cod

by Adam Gamble

On Cape Publications, 1997

like new condition

softcover, 270 pages,

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Chestnuts, Galls, and Dandelion Wine

Useful Wild Plants of the Boston Harbor Islands

by William D. Perkins

The Plant Press - Halifax, Massachusetts, 1982

vintage softcover, very good condition

128 pages

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Images of America - Pepperell

by Joanne Saunders Foley

Arcadia Publishing, 1996

softcover, good condition

cover has light creasing

128 pages -

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The Pilgrims of Plimoth

written and illustrated by Marcia Sewall

Atheneum, 1986

vintage hardcover, good condition

48 pages -

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Stronger

by Jeff Bauman

Grand Central Publishing,

First Edition, 2014

hardcover, good condition

NEW Book!

244 pages -

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Martha’s Vineyard

photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt

text by Henry Beetle Hough

Viking Press, 1970

vintage hardcover, good condition

title page has some toning

dustjacket has a tiny tear and shows light wear

70 pages -

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The Wayside: Home of Authors

by Margaret M. Lothrop

American Book Company, 1968

vintage softcover, good condition

202 pages -

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Arrowhead Farm - Three Hundred Years of New

England Husbandry and Cooking

by Pauline Chase Harrell, Charlotte Moulton

Chase, and Richard Chase

with Drawings by Lynda Diane Gutowski

The Countryman Press, 1983

vintage hardcover,

interior pages - very good condition - 222 pages

collector’s item -

our price:   $49.95 plus media mail shipping

Massachusetts Curiosities - Second Edition

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, & Other

Offbeat Stuff

by Bruce Gellerman and Erik Sherman

Globe Pequot Press, 2008

softcover, 243 pages

very good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Outermost House

A modern classic about a year of life on the Great beach of Cape Cod

by Henry Beston

The Viking Press, 1967

vintage softcover, 222 pages

good condition

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

Dark Tide - The Great Boston Molasses

Flood of 1919

by Stephen Puleo

Beacon Press, 2004

softcover, 273 pages

interior pages - good condition

corner of front cover is slightly curled

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Massachusetts Wildlife Viewing Guide

by William J. Davis

Falcoln, 1996

softcover, 222 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

The Proper Bostonians

by Cleveland Emory

E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955

vintage hardcover, 381 pages

good condition considering age of book

exposed webbing in back of book but all pages

are intact

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Art in Nature - The Clark Inside and Out

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Williamstown, Massachusetts

text by Timothy Cahill

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005

softcover, 128 pages

excellent condition

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Fast and Able

Life Stories of Great Gloucester Fishing Vessels

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Commonwealth Editions, 2002

by Gordon W. Thomas

softcover, 317 pages

NEW BOOK!!!!

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Our First Hundred Years 1878-1978

Church of the Annunciation

Florence, Massachusetts

edited by Eileen Mahar, 1979

vintage hardcover, 136 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Pioneers of Massachusetts

A Descriptive List Drawn From Records of the

Colonies, Towns and Churches, and Other

Contemporaneous Documents

by Charles Henry Pope

Heritage Books, 1991

softcover, 554 pages

very good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Soundings East

Vol. 11 No. 1   Spring/Summer 1988

Students of Salem State College

Salem, Massachusetts

vintage softcover, 71 pages

very good condition

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Soundings East

Vol. 12, No. 1   Spring/Summer 1989

Students of Salem State College

Salem, Massachusetts

vintage softcover, 62 pages

very good condition

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Soundings East

Vol. 11, No. 2  Fall/Winter 1988

Students of Salem State College

Salem, Massachusetts

vintage softcover, 72 pages

good condition

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Bricks and Bats - Professional Baseball:

Lowell, Massachusetts

by Chaz Scoggins

Lowell Historical Society, 2002

signed by author

softcover, 192 pages

very good condition

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Soundings East

Vol. 10, No. 1   Spring/Summer 1987

Feature Poet: Robert Cooperman

Students of Salem State College

Salem, Massachusetts

vintage softcover, 72 pages

very good condition

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An Island Summer

A warm, wise and entertaining chronicle of

a happy family holiday on Martha’s Vineyard

by Walter Magnes Teller

vintage hardcover, 222 pages

Alfred A. Knopf, 1951

good condition considering age of book

dustjacket shows wear

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Take a Walk Through Time

A Very Personal History of the 20th Century

Stories Shared by the Families and Friends of the Fessenden Lower School

A Gift from One Century to the Next, from

One Generation to Another, 1999

plastic comb softcover, 222 pages

edited by Nancy Prince Anschuetz,

Marie Kieran Stufano, Linda Regan

good condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Wakefield - 350 Years by the Lake

compiled by The Wakefield 350 Writing

Committee

edited byNancy Bertrand

Wakefield Item Press, 1994

oversized hardcover, 401 pages

interior pages - very good condition

dustjacket shows wear

our price:   $35.95 plus media mail shipping

Lynn, Massachusetts

Diane Shephard for the Lynn Historical Society

The Postcard History Series

Arcadia, 1998

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

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Discovery at Walden

Roland Wells Robbins’ fascinating story of his

discovery of Thoreau’s Walden Pond hut site

illustrated with the exclusive photographs of

Thoreau’s chimney foundation and other excavations

George R. Barnstead & Son, 1947

vintage hardcover, 61 pages

dustjacket shows wear

a few pages are loose but the book provides a

good reading copy

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...As They May Need - A History of the Addison

Gilbert Hospital

by Laurence F. Brooks and W. Warren Babson, MD

Phoenix Publishing, 1989

hardcover, 346 pages

good condition

dustjacket shows very light wear

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Skiing in Massachusetts

Images of Sports

by Cal Conniff and E. John B. Allen

Arcadia Publishing, 2006

gift inscription by author written on title page

signed by author

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

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Images of America - Provincetown - Volume I

by John Hardy Wright

Arcadia Publishing, 1997

gift inscription by author written on title page

signed by author

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

What They Never Told You About Boston (or what they did that were kies)

by Walt Kelley

Down East Books,  1993

softcover, 112 pages

some highlighting

our price:   $4.50 plus media mail shipping

A Little Commonwealth

Family Life in Plymouth Colony

by John Demos

Oxford University Press, 1970

vintage hardcover, 201 pages

good condition considering age of book

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

The Massachusetts Atlas and Gazetteer

Second Edition

DeLorme Mapping,  2002

softcover, 80 pages

good condition

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The Characters in Tales of a Wayside Inn

by John Van Schaick, Jr.

The Universalist Publishing House, 1939

vintage hardcover, 199 pages

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket is worn with small tears and red stain

former library book

rare collector’s item

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Three Bricks and Three Brothers

The Story of the Nantucket Whale-Oil Merchant

Joseph Starbuck

by Will Gardner

signed by Will Gardner

Houghton Mifflin, 1945

vintage hardcover, 138 pages

interior pages - good condition -

tanned due to age of book

dustjacket is very worn as shown in photo

rare collector’s item

our price:   $45.95 plus media mail shipping

The Masts of Gloucester

Recollections of a Fisherman

by Raymond McFarland

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1937

First Edition stated

vintage hardcover, 268 pages

interior pages - good condition

no dustjacket

rare collector’s item

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Armenians of Worcester

Images of America

by Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell

Arcadia Publishing, 2000

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

our price:   $18.95 plus media mail shipping

Cape Cod and the Islands

The Geologic Story

by Robert N. Oldale

Parnassus Imprints, 1992

softcover, 208 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

My Long Journey Home

A Life Worth Living

by Bailey Norton

gift inscription signed by author

published by S. Bailey Norton

hardcover, 152 pages

like new condition

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Historic Deerfield

A Portrait of Early America

by Elizabeth Stillinger

Dutton Studio Books, 1992

hardcover, 206 pages

very good condition

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The Boston Italians

A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani

From the Years of the Great Immigration to

the Present Day

by Stephen Puleo

Beacon Press, 2007

gift inscription by author written in marker

on title page

softcover, 323 pages

good condition

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It Happened in Massachusetts

by Larry B. Pletcher

TwoDot, 1999

softcover, 107 pages

good condition

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It Happened in Massachusetts

by Larry B. Pletcher

TwoDot, 1999

softcover, 107 pages

good condition

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Timothy Dexter Revisited

by John P. Marquand

Little, Brown & Company, 1960

vintage hardcover, 307 pages

book shows wear -

former school library book

no dustjacket

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Quabbin - The Accidental Wilderness

by Thomas Conuel

Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1981

vintage softcover, 66 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass

by John P. Marquand

Minton, Balch & Company, 1925

vintage hardcover, 378 pages

book shows wear -

former school library book

no dustjacket

spine has been taped

book shows wear considering its age

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

Waltham Rediscovered

An Ethnic History of Waltham, Massachusetts

by Kristen A. Petersen

in collaboration with Thomas J. Murphy

Peter E. Randall, Publisher, 1988

oversized hardcover, 629 pages

very good condition

our price:   $28.95 plus media mail shipping

The Finest Kind

The Fishermen of Gloucester

by Kim Bartlett

W.W. Norton & Company

softcover, 251 pages

very good like new condition

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Annals of The Town of Concord, in the County

of Merrimack, and State of New Hampshire,

From Its First Settlement, in the Year 1726 to

the Year 1823.

by Jacob B. Moore

Concord: Published by Jacob B. Moore, 1824

special reprint

softcover, 113 pages

very good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Newburyport Memories of the Past

World War II - Volume 3

An Oral History Project

softcover, 96 pages

very good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Island Steamers

A Chronology of Steam Transportation to and

from the offshore islands of Martha’s Vineyard

and Nantucket

by Paul C. Morris & Joseph F. Morin

signed by both authors

Nantucket Nautical Authors, 1977

cover shows light wear

interior pages - good condition

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Massachusetts Militia Companies and Officers

in the Lexington Alarm

edited by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe and

Donna D. Smerlas

published by The Society of Colonial Wars in

the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth

of Massachusetts, Archives Division

The New England Historic Genealogical Society

Second Printing, 1985

softcover, 72 pages

very good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Nature Walks in Central Massachusetts

An AMC Nature Walks Book

by Michael Tougias and Rene Laubach

Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1996

softcover, 296 pages

very good condition

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Letting Swift River Go

by Jane Yolen

illustrated by Barbara Cooney

Little, Brown & Company, 1992

hardcover, 32 pages

very good condition

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Muskeget

Raw, Restless, Relentless Island

by Crocker Snow Jr.

Snow Publishing, 2015

softcover, 113 pages

very good condition

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

The Best Care Possible

From Beverly Hospital to Northeast Health System,

1888-2005

by Gary Larrabee

privately published - Beverly Hospital

Beverly, Massachusetts, 2006

oversized hardcover, 265 pages

like new condition

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Short Walks on Cape Cod and the Vineyard

by Paul and Ruth Sadlier

signed by authors

The Pequot Press, 1976

vintage softcover, 96 pages

good condition

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

A History of Concord Academy

Concord, Massachusetts

The First Half-Century

by Philip McFarland

Concord Academy, 1986

vintage hardcover, 319 pages

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket shows wear

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

West End House  1906-1981

by Reed Ueda

West End House, 1981

vintage hardcover, 178 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

City in the Woods

The Life and Design of an American Camp
Meeting on Martha’s Vineyard

by Ellen Weiss

Northeastern University Press, 1998

softcover, 167 pages

interior pages - like new condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Plymouth County 1685
by Cynthia Hagar Krusell

published by the Pilgrim Society and the Plymouth

County Development Council, 1986

vintage softcover, 58 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

A Natural History of Boston’s North Shore
by Kristina Lindborg

signed by author

University Press of New England, 2007

softcover, 121 pages

interior pages - like new condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Gloucester Guide
A Retrospective Ramble

by Joseph E. Garland

Gloucester’s 350th Anniversary Celebration, 1973

vintage softcover, 139 pages

collector’s item

good condition - cover shows light wear

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

AMC Guide to Country Walks Near Boston

within reach by Public Transportation
by Alan Fisher

Appalachian Mountain Club, 1976

vintage softcover, 163 pages

good condition

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

History of Scituate Mass.

Bicentennial Edition published by

Scituate Historical Society, 1975

Limited Edition No. 925

by Samuel Deane

vintage hardcover, 408 pages

good condition

some light toning on outer edges of pages

and front endpage
rare collector’s item

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Princeton and Wachusett Mountain

Images of America

by Joyce Bailey Anderson

Arcadia, 2003

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Redeemed Captive

(A narrative of the captivity, sufferings, and return

of Rev. John Williams, minister of Deerfield,

Massachusetts who was taken prisoner by the

Indians on the destruction of the town - 1704)

By John Williams

edited by Edward W. Clark,

University of Massachusetts Press, 1972

vintage hardcover, 138 pages

good condition

rare collector’s item

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The First People of Cape Ann

Native Americans on the North Coast of

Massachusetts Bay

by Elizabeth Waugh

Dogtown Books, 2005

First Printing stated

softcover, 46 pages

interior pages - good condition

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West Roxbury

Images of America

by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

Arcadia, 1997

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

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Winchester

Images of America

Members of the Winchester High School

including Frank H. Sleeper

Arcadia, 1995

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Milton

Images of America

by Paul Buchanan and Anthony Sammarco

Arcadia Publishing, 1996

softcover- very good condition, 128 pages

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Haverhill Massachusetts From Town

to City

Images of America

by Patricia Trainor O’Malley

Arcadia Publishing, 1997

softcover- very good condition, 128 pages

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Pittsfield

Images of America

Berkshire County Historical Society

Arcadia Publishing, 2001

softcover- very good condition, 128 pages

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Bill Tague’s Berkshires

Images of America

by Tyler Resch

with an Introduction by George S. Wislocki

Arcadia Publishing, 2003

softcover- very good condition, 128 pages

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Bradford

Images of America

by Paul Buchanan and Anthony Sammarco

Arcadia Publishing, 1996

softcover- very good condition, 128 pages

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Mount Auburn Biographies

A Biographical Listing of Distinguished

Persons Interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery

Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1831-1952

by Foster W. Russell

by the proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, 1953

vintage clothbound hardcover with gold

embossing- very good condition,

216 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $28.95 plus media mail shipping

The Outermost House

A modern classic about a year of life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

by Henry Beston

Henry Holt & Company,  1992

softcover, 218 pages

good condition

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

The Bedford Sampler   1775-1975

Bicentennial Edition

compiled and edited by the

Friends of Bedford, Massachusetts, 1974

vintage softcover, 256 pages

good condition

crease on back cover

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Boston’s North Shore

Being an Account of Life Among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Wealthy, Eccentric

and Ordinary   1823-1890

by Joseph E. Garland

Little, Brown & Company, 1978

vintage hardcover, 409 pages

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

The Bend in the River

A Prehistory and Contact Period History of:

Lowell - Dracut - Dunstable (Nashua, New Hampshire) - Chelmsford - Tyngsborough

17,000 BP to AD 1700

by John Prendergast

gift inscription signed by author on title page

Merrimac River Press, 1992

softcover, 92 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Stories of Yesteryear

Horse & Buggy Days

by Harry H. Brown

Kemah Press, 1982

SIGNED BY AUTHOR!

softcover, 74 pages

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

 

Paul Brook’s The View From Lincoln Hill

Man and the Land in a New England Town

by Paul Brooks

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976

vintage hardcover, 273 pages

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

America’s Greatest Garden

The Arnold Arboretum

by E.H. Wilson

The Stratford Company, 1925

vintage hardcover, 123 pages

our price:   $13.95 plus media mail shipping

Massachusetts Horticultural Society

Books for Gardeners

Selected from the Society’s library of 31,000

volumes

vintage softcover, 1963

37 pages

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Dracut

Images of America

by John Pendergast

Arcadia Publishing, 1997

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

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Handbook of Old Burial Hill

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Its History - Its Famous Dead - And Its

Quaint Epitahs

by Frank H. Perkins

published by A.S. Burbank, 1902

book plate with former owner’s name

inside cover

vintage softcover, 76 pages

shows light wear

our price:   $21.95 plus media mail shipping

The Swedes of Greater Brockton

Images of America

by James E. Benson and Lloyd F. Thompson

Arcadia Publishing, 2001

softcover, 128 pages

very good condition

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A Singular School -

Abbot Academy 1828-1973

by Susan McIntosh Lloyd

published by Phillips Academy, Andover

vintage hardcover, 1979

very good condition

626 pages

our price:   $28.95 plus media mail shipping

Suckanesset - Wherein may be read

A History of Falmouth Massachusetts

by Theodate Geoffrey

printed at the Falmouth Publishing Company

vintage softcover, 1930

interior pages - very good condition

cover has been reinforced with tape

169 pages

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

The Paddy Camps

The Irish of Lowell 1821-61

by Brian C. Mitchell

University of Illinois Press, 1988

vintage hardcover, 247 pages

good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

New England Deaconess Hospital

A Century of Caring

by Carl Brauer

Deaconess Hospital, 1995

softcover, 224 pages

good condition

small crease in bottom corner of last few pages

and back and front cover

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Tyngsborough

Images of America

by Herbert Morton

Arcadia Publishing, 1996

softcover- very good condition, 128 pages

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Lowell

Images of America

by John Prenergast

Arcadia Publishing, 1996

softcover- very good condition, 128 pages

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Standish Shore

Duxbury, Massachusetts

A Commemorative History

Standish Shore Improvement Association,

75th Anniversary, 1991

softcover- good condition, 55 pages

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Keeping Hearth & Home in Old Massachusetts

A Practical Primer for Daily Living

compiled and edited by Carol Padgett, Ph.D.

Menasha Ridge Press, 2001

hardcover- good condition, 230 pages

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Boston

Engravings on Wood by Rudolph Ruzicka

With Text by Walter Muir Whitehill

David R. Godine Publisher, 1975

vintage softcover- good condition, 119 pages

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

 

Boston’s “Changeful Times”

Origins of Preservation and Planning in America

by Michael Holleran

The John Hopkins University Press, 1998

softcover- good condition, 337 pages

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

The Tercentenary of Harvard College

Harvard Tercentenary Publications

The Tercentenary of Harvard College

1636-1936

Harvard University Press, 1937

vintage hardcover- good condition, 492 pages

former owner’s name on front endpage

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Shallow Waters - A Year on Cape Cod’s

Pleasant Bay

by William Sargent

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999

softcover- good condition, 139 pages

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Nantucket - The Life of an Island

by Edwin P. Hoyt

The Stephen Greene Press, 1980

softcover- good condition, 211 pages

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Boston Running News City Man

Running Guide to Boston

Running, Sporting and Health Information

by Mick Pope

City Man Enterprises, 1986

vintage plastic comb softcover, 257 pages

rare collector’s item

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Property Guide for Members of The Trustees

of Reservations

Explore and Enjoy Special Places Across Massachusetts, From the Berkshires to the North Shore and the Islands

Third Edition, 2001

softcover, 195 pages

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

History of the Greater Boston Track Club

by Paul C. Clerici

The History Press,  2013

softcover, 128 pages

New Book !!

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Wet Sneakers & Nets

The Children’s School of Science in

Woods Hole, Massachusetts Celebrates 100

Years of Summer Science Education

1913 -2013

edited by Charlotte Emans Moore

new softcover in unopened plastic wrap

softcover, 143 pages

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

The Urge to Create - 50 Vineyard Portraits

by Jane Dreeben

Tessam

softcover, 111 pages

good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Historic Salem in Four Seasons

A Camera Impression

by Samuel Chamberlain

Hasting House Publishers, 1938

vintage hardcover, 76 pages

includes five vintage postcards

dustjacket shows wear

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Tales From the Boston College Sideline

by Reid Oslin

Foreword by Doug Flutie

Sports Publishing, L.L.C., 2004

hardcover, 240 pages

good condition

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

The House on Nauset Marsh

by Wyman Richardson

illustrations by Henry Bugbee Kane

The Chatham Press, 1972

vintage softcover, 223 pages

good condition

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

Images of America -

The Jewish Community of the North Shore

by Alan S. Pierce and Avrom J. Herbster for the Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore

Arcadia, 2003

softcover, good condition

gift inscription on front endpage by Alan Pierce

128 pages -

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Sudbury 1890-1989

100 Years in the Life of a Town

by Curtis F. Garfield

Porcupine Enterprises, 1999

First Edition stated, 242 pages

softcover, like new condition

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Harvard

Images of America

by Michael Volmar

Arcadia, 2003

softcover, 128 pages

good condition -

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Merrimack College - The First Fifty Years

edited by Robert D.  (Bud) Keohan ’53

photography editor - Frank J. Leone, Jr.

softcover, 94 pages

good condition -

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Harvard

Images of America

by Michael Volmar

Arcadia, 2003

softcover, 128 pages

good condition -

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Westford

Images of America

The Westford League of Women Voters,

Ellen Harde and Beth Shaw

Arcadia, 1996

softcover, 128 pages

good condition -

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Lake Boon

Images of America

by Lewis Halprin and Alan Kattelle

Arcadia, 1998

softcover, 96 pages

good condition -

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Holliston

Images of America

The Holliston Historical Society

Arcadia, 1997

softcover, 128 pages

good condition -

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Holliston - Volume II

Images of America

The Holliston Historical Society

Arcadia, 1999

softcover, 128 pages

good condition -

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis

by Michael Rush, David Anfam

Harry N. Abrams, 2009

oversized hardcover, 288 pages

BRAND NEW! - still in unopened plastic wrap

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis

by Michael Rush, David Anfam

Harry N. Abrams, 2009

oversized hardcover, 288 pages

BRAND NEW! - still in unopened plastic wrap

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Hartwell Farm - A Way of Life

by Marion Fitch

published by George H. Jacques

vintage hardcover, 288 pages

First Edition - June 1974

dustjacket is worn and soiled

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Cape Cod and the Islands - The Geologic Story

by Robert N. Oldale

First Edition, 1992

Parnassus Imprints, 1992

softcover, 208  pages

excellent condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Outermost House

A modern classic about a year of life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

by Henry Beston

Henry Holt & Company,  1992

softcover, 218 pages

good condition

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

The Outermost House

year of life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

by Henry Beston

Henry Holt & Company,  1992

softcover, 218 pages

good condition

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

Images of America - Provincetown - Volume II

by John Hardy Wright

Arcadia Publishing, 1998

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping