Search Results: summer from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Dallas, TX: James P. Doolin, 1981. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0914626027 22pp.

New York: Times Incorporated, 1965. PB. good, wraps (softcover) - some light cover soiling. B&W and color illustrations. 280pp.

Oxford, UK: Shire Publications, 2013. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 9780747812524 64pp.

St. Andrews, N.B., Canada: Pendlebury Press, 2005. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the author. B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0973935804 Lovely history of the grand summer resort hotel and the developement of the tourist industry in area. 256pp.

Sudbury, MA: Porcupine Enterprises, 1988. PB. good+, wraps (softcover) owner's inscription. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0962197602 338pp.

Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 9781626193451 286pp.

Detroit, MI: Tower Books, 1971. HC. very good, black cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket. Originally published in 1939. No dustjacket (as republished?) 308pp.

Northampton, MA: New England Publishing Co, 1868. HC. good, salmon colored cloth w/light edgewear. B&W ill., fold-out map. CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF MOUNT HOLYOKE, MOUNT MANSFIELD, WHITE MOUNTAINS, LAKE MEMPHREMAGOG, LAKE WILLOUGHBY, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, &c." This guide follows the railroad routes (condensed time tables for 1867 on pages 8 to 18) throught the Connecticut Valley, to "assist the seeker after pleasure to obtain a more perfect knowledge of the grandeur and beauty of Connecticut Valley scenery and that bordering on it. Offered here is the second edition of this fascinating guide. This bookseller owns a First Edition in his own collection, and the First Edition has the copyright date of 1867 on both the title page and the copyright page. The first edition has 281 pages of text, followed by the same ads that appear in the Second Edition. In the first edition, page 281 discusses Brandon, Vermont, and Howe's Scales, pages 281 through 284 in this second edition discuss Missisquoi Springs in… Read More

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0813509866 First published in 1975. From its beginnings on the windswept New Jersey coast at the end of the 1860s, Atlantic City was a forthright monument to the pursuit of pleasure, the very first place in America devoted to the principle that there was nothing evil about having a good time. This history of Atlantic City is well-worth reading. 199pp, index.

Chicago, IL: C. Cretors & Co, 1985. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) faint corner bumps. B&W and color illustrations. A treasured popcorn book, wonderful history. I have my own copy with my 1902 Cretors No. 2 Sidewalk Machine. NOTE - faint corner bumps. 148pp.

New York: The American News Company, 1874. HC. good, decorated green boards (hardcover) edgewear. B&W illustrations. From New York to the White Mountains, Lake Memphremagog, Montreal and Quebec; via New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Northampton, Deefield, Greenfield, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Windsor, White River Junction, Wells River, St. Johnsbury, Stowe, Burlington and St. Albans." A wonderful travel guide detailing all to be seen and places to stop and visit while traveling this route by railroad or steamboat, including: New York, New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield Railroad; New York and New Haven Steamboat Company; Connecticut River Railroad; Central Vermont Railroad; Grand Trunk Railroad; Passumpsic Railroad; and, Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad. Over 20 pages of ads for lodging and travel; fold-out route map and timetable for the Connecticut River Railway Line; foldout illustration of "The New Steamer C. H. Northam, of the New Haven Line," and so much more. Our shop is along the… Read More

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0813519969 290pp.

Millville, NJ: South Jersey Publishing Co, 1979. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. 56pp.

Toronto, Canada: Maclean Hunter Publishing, 1967. PB. good, wraps (softcover) - COVER SOILING. B&W and color illustrations. SOILING TO THE COVERS. 352pp.

New York: The Caterer Publishing Co, 1904. HC. good, green cloth (harcover). 86pp.

Ticonderoga, NY: Fort Ticonderoga, 2001. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 1931606005 128pp.

Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1936. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. A fun read on an early travel trailer trip. 134pp.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. HC. good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. 252pp.

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1991. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0208022775 Blending research and recollection, David Thornburg, himself a trailerite born, takes us on a cultural, social, economic, and personal odyssey into the history of the house trailer and those adventure-some folk who left behind settlement and security to pursue a dream of freedom on the American highway. 198pp.

The Newcomen Society, 1969. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. 28pp.