Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. Second edition. Octavo. 256 pp. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket, map on endpapers. VG in VG- jacket. Small chip at top outer corner & crown of jacket, jacket split at edge of spine with no loss; former owner name on half title page. Chapters on Old Boston, Beacon Hill, Marblehead and Salem, Gloucester and Cape Ann, Cambridge, Lexington & Concord, Harvard and Sudbury, Plymouth and the South Shore, and Nantucket and the Cape. "Nobody writes better guide books than Eleanor Early - better, more interesting, more charming." [NYTimes review]. Second Edition. Very Good/Very Good.

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Bookseller: Carnegie Hill Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011753
Title: AND THIS IS BOSTON (and Seashore and Country Too)
Author: Early, Eleanor
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1938
Keywords: Travel Literature Nonfiction Boston
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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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