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Lost Boston
by Jane Holtz Kay
LOST BOSTON is a visual feast, a stunning presentation of a city's physical development, and an eloquent appeal for the preservation of what makes the city special. Bringing history to life with more than 350 photographs and prints, Jane Holtz Kay traces Boston's evolution brick by brick and block by block, creating what THE WASHINGTON POST hailed as "an elegant architectural history, excellently illustrated."
Death At an Early Age
by Jonathan Kozol
In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.
The Maritime History Of Massachusetts 1783-1860
by Samuel Eliot Morison
From jacket: "Here is the first adequate account of the seafarers of the Old Bay State..."
Massachusetts Books & Ephemera
Tales of the Observer; Centennial History of the Jordan Marsh Company, Boston MA, 1851-1951
by Edwards, Richard H., Jr
Boston / Clinton MA.: Jordan Marsh Company / Colonial Press., 1950. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 1 Gold spine lettering: Jordan Marsh Centennial, 1851-1951. Front bold gold book title w/ trim-corner hat, long clay pipe, spyglass. 116 p. 22 cm. Illustrations, Portraits. Light blue end papers, decorated. Eben Dyer Jordon who at 14 came to Boston from Danville, Maine in 1836, and soon found a job at a Roxbury small farm. Two years later, he was working in a dry goods store as an errand boy. At...
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The Wayside: Home of Authors
by Lothrop, Margaret Mulford
New York: Cincinnati [etc. ]: American Book Company., 1968. Reprint from 1940 original; this edition printed posthumously.. Trade paperback. Very good. Spine creasing. Light page block soiling.. Brinkley, D. Putnam (Illustrated by).. 1 Oversized trade paperback. Light tan sturdy paper covers. Brown spine and cover titles; diamond front title box, decorated. 6x9 in. xii, 202 p. 23 cm. Pen&Ink artwork, Portraits. In Concord, Massachusetts, the Wayside, an early 18th century home (by 1717), became a...
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THE CASE OF SATAN'S FIERY DARTS IN BLASPHEMOUS SUGGESTIONS AND HELLISH ANNOYANCES: AS THEY WERE CONSIDERED IN SEVERAL SERMONS, HERETOFORE PREACH'D TO THE CONGREGATION IN BRATTLE-STREET, BOSTON, MAY 1711. AND LATELY REPEATED TO THEM IN MAY 1743. AND NOW PUBLISH'D AT THE DESIRE OF SOME, WHO HAVING SUFFER'D BY SUCH TEMPTATIONS, WOULD THUS (BY THE WILL OF GOD) MINISTER TO THE DIRECTION AND SUPPORT OF OTHERS IN LIKE SPIRITUAL TROUBLE AND DISTRESS
by Colman, Benjamin
Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, for J. Edwards in Cornhill, 1744. 95, [1 blank] pp, but lacking the half title. Light scattered spotting. Good+ in modern cloth. Colman was Senior Pastor of the Brattle Street church, one of the most prolific and best known of 18th century sermonizers and ministers, and "a strong believer in the evangelistic movement known as the Great Awakening" [DAB]. This is the Sermons' first publication. Colman explains that God, evidently responding to a "greedy" Satan, "was...
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A$1,316.99
The Devil's Shadow; The Story of Witchcraft in Massachusetts
by Alderman, Clifford Lindsey
New York.: An Archway paperback / Washington Square Press by arr. w/ Messner., 1970. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Minor cover soiling.. 1 Mass-market paperback. Yellow spine, black titles. Lighter yellow page block dye. 182 p. 22 cm. Illustrations, Maps. Bibliography. Index. Audience: Children/juvenile. Salem, Massachusetts, 17th century history. A small group of girls was strangely afflicted by a sickness, making strange sounds, falling to the floor. Charged with witchcraft, thee women were...
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A$9.30
Famous New England Lighthouses.
by SNOW, Edward Rowe
First edition, so stated, octavo, pp. 457, [1]. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontis and many other illustrations, perfect with the Table of Contents. Old bookseller ticket near bottom edge of rear pastedown. A FAIR only copy at best. Spine ends and board tips frayed and rubbed heavily. Lettering on spine and upper board worn away. Front hinge very tender. No dust jacket.
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A$19.29
Martha's Vineyard History-Legends-Stories
by Henry Franklin Norton
Oak Bluffs: Oak Bluffs Homemakers Club, 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. A reprint of the 1923 edition. 8vo., 94pp., illustrated with many photographs. Wrappers. A near fine copy.
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A$30.99
A Treatise of Conversion, Faith and Justification, &c. Being an Extract of Sundry Discourses on Rom. V.5. Delivered at Oxford in the Latter End of the Years 1741, and Beginning of 1742
by Campbell, John
Boston: Printed and Sold by Rogers & Fowle Next to the Prison in Queen-Street, 1743. Good plus.. 215pp., final page misnumbered 115. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, blind ruled. Hinges cracked, but holding; boards scuffed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper and shelf label on spine. Light wear to edges of text block; some tanning and light dust soiling. A rare colonial American imprint comprising the collected thoughts on conversion and faith of John Campbell, a founder and the first...
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A$1,936.75
Program Guide for Gil Santos Night
by March 1 1975 Gaudette's Pavilion Aschshnet Massachusetts
New Bedford: Dartmouth Print Shop, 1975. Softcover. Very good. Four panel Program Guide for an honorary dinner given for Santos who was the long-time Voice of the [New England] Patriots. Has a couple of stains on the cover. OCLC lists no copies.
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A$100.71
Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New Hampshire & Vermont Almanack, with an Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1795: Being the Third Year after the Bissextile, or Leap Year, and Nineteenth of the Independence of United America; From Creation, According to the Scriptures, 5757. Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, but will serve without essential variation for the adjacent states; containing besides the more than usual astronomical calculations, a larger quantity and greater variety, than are to be found in any other almanack, of matters curious, useful, and entertaining
Worcester, (MA): Printed by Isaiah Thomas, 1794. 16mo. (48) pp. Evans 27052: "Isaiah Thomas announces in this issue that he has lately built a large paper mill in Worcester for the purpose of manufacturing all sorts of paper, particularly those kinds proper for printing the various sizes of Bibles." Drake 3538. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Some wear around the edges, but very good. (2476).
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A$387.35
The State House, Boston, Massachusetts
by Burrill, Ellen Mudge
Boston: Wright & Potter Co. State Printers, 1917. Sixth Edition. Wraps. Minor wear at spine foot else very good. Duodecimo; pp; 112, with an appendix of names, index; illustrated with a frontispiece and three additional plates; original printed pictorial paper wrappers;. Great tourist's guidebook or reference piece on the building.
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A$23.24
North Brookfield
by BEERS, Frederick W
New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1870. unbound. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 21 3/4" x 14 1/4"<br/> <br/> This 1870 map by Frederick W. Beers shows the town of North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Included in Beers' Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1870). <br> <br> Frederick W. Beers (flourished 1858-1929) came from a family of surveyors, cartographers and publishers originally from Newtown, Connecticut. F.W. Beers continued...
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A$232.41
Summer of '49
by David Halberstam
New York: William Morrow, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Baseball classic on the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.
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A$100.71
The Education of a Coach
by David Halberstam
New York: Hyperion, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Halberstam paints a dazzling portrait of a man and his profession, revealing the intimate world of Bill Belichick.
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A$61.98
The Captain's Daughters of Martha's Vineyard
by Macy, Eliot Eldridge (Edited by), and Sisters, the Eldridge (Nina, Mary, Ruth, Gratia, as recalled by)
Massachusetts.: A Chatham Press Press Book., 1978. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Single spine crease. Slight edge wear. Clean covers and interior.. McCabe, Elinor (Map art by).. 1 Trade paperback. 163 p. 21 cm. Light blue covers, white and black text. B&W cover photo group portrait; B&W photo plate section. The Eldridge daughters were born in 1878, 1880, 1883, and 1885, and urged by the next generation, they wrote their stories. A team of researchers, writers, staff at...
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A$80.57
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
by David Herbert Donald
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Softcover. Fine in color pictorial wraps.. 8vo. 392 pp. With black and white plates, Index.Ê b/w plates, index. Traces Sumner's life as the nation moved toward civil war.Ê Highly-regarded Pulitzer Prize-winning biography.
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A$54.23
Boston Ways: High, By, and Folk (Revised Edition)
by Weston, George F, Jr
Boston.: Beacon Press., 1967. 1st Revised.. Hard cover. Very good in fair dust jacket. Jacket has nice edges, front scuffing, back cover damp stain.. Varied photo sources.. 1 Black cloth, rust-red paper over boards. Gold spine titles, framed. Blind-stamped front city architectural graphic. Jacket: red w/ B&W photo grasshopper weathervane; white & black titles. xiv, 316 p. 23 cm. Numerous B&W photos: architecture, city scenes. Boston, Massachusetts: subtitle, "Expanded Edition,...
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A$12.40
Remembering JFK: The Words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Collection for the Anniversary of his Birth: May 29, 1996
by John F. Kennedy
1996. Softcover. Very Good. Eight [8] pp., Approx. 4" x 10." Contains quotes from Kennedy's life. Facsimile Ted Kennedy inscription and signature inside front cover. Very good condition with some light soiling to the covers.
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A$38.74
Death at an Early Age
by Jonathan Kozol
Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. 240 pages. Black dust jacket with blue lettering over black cloth. Clean pages with firm binding.Minimal tanning to pages throughout. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Minor soiling to DJ.
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A$10.85
Massachusetts
by BRADFORD, Thomas Gamaliel
Boston: T.G. Bradford, 1838. unbound. very good(+). G.W. Boynton. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 11 1/8" x 14 3/8".<br/><br/> Nice early map of Massachusetts divided into counties and townships showing major routes, railroads and geographical details. Minor tape residue to top and bottom edges. Full original margins. T.G. Bradford (1802-1887) was a Boston based publisher. He worked as assistant editor of the American Encyclopedia before entering the...
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BOSTON'S IMMIGRANTS: A STUDY IN ACCULTURATION
by Oscar Handlin
New York: Atheneum. 1968. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. Owner name inked on FEP. Foxing on text block edges. Very light shelfwear on spine crown and heel and panel edges. .
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A$69.03
Eldridge's New Chart of Boston Harbor; Compiled from the Latest Surveys, Boston, 1871
by ELDRIDGE, George
Boston: S. Thaxter & Son, 1871. Map. Engraving backed with linen. Measures 16 3/8" x 23 7/8"<br/> <br/> Rare and incredibly detailed sea chart of the Massachusetts Bay extending from Nahant Bay in the north to Cohassett in the southeast. The map shows sounding in fathoms, and includes banks, shoals, ledges, buoys, and rocks. Roads, lighthouses, utilities, lifeboat stations, and prominent houses and landmarks are labeled. Relief is shown by hachure, and towns are indicated with...
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Massachusetts Beautiful
by Nutting, Wallace
Framingham, MA: Old America Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed, cup ring on front . boards.. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 304 black and white illustrations and photographs. This portrait of Massachusetts, part of the author's States Beautiful Series, presents and all-encompassing north to south look at the Bay State. Green cloth binding. ; States Beautiful Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 302 pages .
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A$30.99
Plan Showing the Routes of the Boston Subway, East Boston Tunnel and Washington St. Tunnel
by Royal Commission on London Traffic
London: Weller & Graham, 1906. Map. Lithograph. Measures 13 1/4" x 19 3/4"<br/> <br/> Detailed map from the early 20th century highlighting the transportation network of Boston. Published in Volume IV: Appendices to the Report of the Royal Commission on London Traffic, this map appears in Appendix A: The New York Rapid Transit Board and The Subway, by Lynden Macassey, the Secretary to the Royal Commission; Plate 49, Boston Subway, East Boston Tunnel, Washington Street Tunnel....
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