Genealogy & Town History from The Book Shed

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Light shelf wear to the book and jacket which is rubbed with a closed tear. John Bordon Armstrong was a professor at Boston University. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed… Read more about this item

Georgia Vt: Georgia Historical Society , 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book. First printing, no others noted. Scarce history of a small Vermont town. A sort of expanded town report for the year 1994 as well as items of town history and genealogies of several of the… Read more about this item

Cleveland: The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1959. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Lightest wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket, likely as issued. First printing,no others noted. An English translation of a work of local history originally published in 1889 as "Sandusky-Einst and Jetzt" by the German Verlangshaus Press, Cleveland OH. Dr. Ernst von… Read more about this item

Newfane, VT: Moore Free Library, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Lightest shelf wear to the book and jacket. First printing, no others noted. The history of the town told through its houses and buildings. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used… Read more about this item

Concord NH: Republican Press Association, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Lightly marked ex-library copy. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, faint label ghost to the spine, library bookplate to front endpaper,stamp to the title and last page. Fold out of the principal campus building at rear. Inscribed on the second blank page… Read more about this item

Concord NH: The Rumford Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket, as issued. Light wear to the book. A "Compliments of the School" card laid-in. "Harley Fish Roberts was a master at Taft from 1897 to 1930. In the early days of the school, he was Mr. Taft's main aid and colleague, in addition to being part owner… Read more about this item

Wellesley: Wellesley Historical Society, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, scattered embosses of the Wellesley High School and their bookplate; no jacket. Gamaliel Bradford (1863 – 1932), the "Dean of American Biographers", was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. In poor health for most of his life,… Read more about this item

Roxbury VT: Roxbury Bicentennial Committee, 1981. Staplebound. Good. Covers rubbed, soiled, front cover and first six pages dog-eared, notations to two pages regarding 19th century black residents of the town. First printing, no others noted. Scarce town history, not in Bassett. "Roxbury is a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States, created by Vermont charter on August 6,… Read more about this item

Camden ME : Penobscot Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/none as issued. About As New in all respects. First printing, no others noted. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member… Read more about this item

Cambridge MA: Crimson Printing Co, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, page edges spotted, page edges 51-100 bumped torn as a result of improper or careless shelving, text is not affected, spine is just legible; no jacket. Scarce class report. Books and other items ship promptly with a… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Tips, corners, and edges of the book show moderate shelf wear, spine legible, top edge dusty, previous owners' names, else clean and unmarked; no jacket. First printing of the revised and abbreviated version following the two volume edition published in 1901. From Wikipedia: "Phillips Brooks… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, corner crease to the title page; no jacket; two previous owner's inscriptions, both of the Opydcke family, long time summer residents of Bar Harbor a Mount Desert Island town. First printing, same date. Every effort is made to ship… Read more about this item

Bar Harbor, ME: Bar Harbor Record , 1896. Staplebound. Fair. Elephant folio sized (40 x 30 cm), 40 pages, staple bound town history published by the Bar Harbor Record, the town newspaper. Spine reinforced with clear tape, lacks rear cover, front cover is quite edge worn all around. Quite scarce, the WorldCat locates one copy which is… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Society For The History of Germans In Maryland, 1929. Paperback. Good. Ex-Library of Congress. Much wear to tips, corners, and edges, a notation on the front cover, a stamp, an LOC stamp to the first page. "as German-Americans we, in a certain sense, enter upon the inheritance left by those who came to this country before us… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket; remainder marked to page edges. First printing, stated. A prose "Spoon River Anthology" of upstate New York, specifically Washington County just west of the Vermont state line. Books and other items ship promptly with a… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Light shelf wear to the book and jacket, Stated first edition. Genealogy chart eendpapers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. A CrowNinshield family history. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used… Read more about this item

Providence: Privately Printed / Roger Williams Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, a bit more to the jacket, clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. The endpapers show off-setting from a tipped in newspaper article from the Providence Journal,1936 giving some history of Thomas Willett's substantial… Read more about this item

New York: New York Historical Society, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New, previous owner's bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Pebbled green and gilt cloth. First printing, no others noted. Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops. 1755-1764. The New Yorkers serving in the colonial era militia many of whom saw service in the French and… Read more about this item

New York: New York Historical Society, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes About As New, previous owner's bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Pebbled green and gilt cloth. First printing, no others noted. Revolutionary Muster Rolls Vol 1, 1775-1783. Contents are: Vol.1: Artillery; Canadian Troops; Connecticut Troops; Continental Infantry; Maryland Troops; Massachusetts Troops; New Hampshire Troops; New… Read more about this item

New York: New York Historical Society, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New, previous owner's bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Pebbled green and gilt cloth. First printing, no others noted. Revolutionary Muster Rolls Vol 2, 1775-1783. Contents are: New York Troops; North Carolina Troops; Pennsylvania Troops; Rhode Island Troops; South Carolina Troops; Virginia Troops. Index of… Read more about this item