Search Results: Americana: New England from Mount Hope Books

Rhode Island Genealogical Society. 2010. Fine; Softcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; SIGNED by author with personalized inscription. Well-researched account of life and events in Providence Rhode Island in 1797. 234 pp in 232 pp. in wraps. As new; crisp, clean, tight, unmarked. ; Signed by Author .

Bethel Historical Society. 1974. Very Good+; Softcover; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 84 pages, mostly black and white photographs depicting the towns history, people, landmarks of Bethel Vermont. Bright, clean; showing only light wear. Previous owner's name, date written on on first blank page. .

Cranberry Knoll Publishers. 2004. Second Printing. Fine; Softcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164 page paperback. Crisp, clean, tight, unmarked. Appears unread. .

Self-Published. 1998. Reprint; Eighth Printing. Very Good; Plastic Comb; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 74 pp, plastic comb binding; several black & white photos. Clean & unmarked. Minor speckles at top of cover. Faint corner crease on back cover. Capsule histories of Fishers, Gardiners, Plum, Great Gull, Block, North Dumpling, Enders, Masons, and Ram Islands; The Ruins; Race Point, Montauk, Montauk Point, Latimer's Reef, Watch Hill, Little Gull, Block Island North, Orient Point, Pequot, and Noank Light Houses; Watch Hill Lifesaving Station; Fort Michie; Napatree Point & Fort Mansfield; and Spindles. .

Pettaquamscutt Historical Society. 1979. Fine; Softcover; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; Approximately 70 pages, bound in card covers, stapled binding. Identification of markers, names of deceased, location of marker, small sketch to detail position of marker. Pristine map stapled inside back cover. .

Eastham Historical Society. 1988. Very Good-; Softcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 82 pages. Tightly bound with short corner crease on front cover; light soil on cover. Interior clean, unmarked. Index of names, some inscriptions, gravestone placement. .

Self-Published. 1990. Fine; Softcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 65 pp, plus index, bound in blue pictorial wraps; illustrated with black & white photos. Bright, crisp, tight book. No names or markings. History of Three Rivers Mass .

Brewer & Tileston. 1864. First Edition. Very Good; Hardcover; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Boston; Hardcover. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Brewer & Tileston. Boston. 1864. First Edition. 156 pages.Tan printed boards, black cloth spine. .Early American spelling primer. In Very Good condition. Binding & hinges solid. Moderate wear to cover. Pages clean, bright, very legible. .

Scholar Select. 2015. Reprint. Very Good; Hardcover; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Facsimile Reprint. 473 pages, bound in blue glossy printed cover. Originally published in 1898 by author Henry M. Burt. Very Good book. 1/2" scrape on top edge of cover. Clean, tightly bound, crisp, unmarked pages. .

Poverty Ridge Stone Co. 1989. Near Fine; Softcover; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 79 pages, wraps. Vintage Postcards from the Southern Maine resort towns, Ogunquit, the Yorks, Wells and the Kennebunks. Pictorial history. About Fine with just a hint of shelf wear. Crisp,unmarked interior. .

Newport Savings & Loan Association. 1988. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Hardcover; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 177 pages in blue/gray cloth. Fine book, appears as new. Bright, crisp, tight. Free of names or markings. In About Fine dust jacket, crisp & clean with hint of shelf rubbing at head of spine. Gift quality.; Packaged with care. .

Kingfield History Book Association. 1981. Very Good; Softcover; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 176 pages, wraps. Faint yellowing to page edges. Clean, tight, unmarked. .

Moses King Publishers. 1879. -; Second Printing. Very Good-; Hardcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages, plus ad section; bound in brown cloth with beveled edges; elaborate gilt & black stamping. Well-illustrated. Crisp two page map of Boston designed expressly for the Hoosac Tunnel Route. Deatailed compendium describing streets, bridges, railroads, steamships, wharves, hotels, restaurants, government buildings, libraries, musical societies, scientific institutions,publishers, printers, bookstores, churches, charitable organizations, homes and asylums, playhouses, secret societies, insurance companies, banks, trade exchanges, merchants, and manufacturers. Clean cover with fraying & wear to card at bottom corners; shallow chipping at spine ends. Gilt bright & intact. Firm binding, seam at front end paper showing some wear. Interior overall clean, a few spots of soil; no names or markings in text. Packaged with care and shipped in a box.; Packaged with care. .

W.B. Clarke Co.. 1909. Limited Edition. Good+ with no dust jacket; Hardcover; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 380 pages bound in burgundy cloth; top edge gilt. Fifth and final volume of Maine Pioneer Settlements. Limited edition of 1000 copie, this copy not numbered. Nicely illustrated with line drawings. A Good only book due to scuffed and stained cover; small gouge in edge of front board; paper title label chipped. Firmly bound. Endpapers show light foxing; interior pages clean, bright, free of foxing. Packaged with care and shipped in a box. .

Thomas Y. Crowell. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 401 pages, boound in green cloth. Over 400 illustrations. Fine book, bright clean cover, tighty bound, sharp corners. Crisp, unmarked pages. In dust jacket well-rubbed on folds, edges; nicks at ends of flap folds; 1" tear & crease at corner of front cover. ; An Old Sturbridge Village Book Series .

PAL Publications. 2000. Good+; Softcover; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 305 page softcover; maps, photographs, charts. The expansion of solid waste disposal facilities at Rhode Island's Central Landfill in Johnston Rhode Island required the excavation of two cemeteries; Luther-Fenner cemetery and Kelton-Davis. This publication documents the archaeological investigation by PAL (Public Archaeology Laboratory from Pawtucket RI) conducted requisite to the excavation and removal of coffins and remains. Principle investigator James C. Garmen; Project Archaeologist Joseph N Waller Jr.; Principal Physical Anthropologist Thomas A.J. Crist; Project Physical Anthropologist Arthur Washburn; Contributing Authors: Lauren J. Cook, Claudia Milne, Paul A. Russo. Submitted to Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. Fascinating look at the families buried in the two cemeteries; family history; charts of grave placements; photographs of coffin and skeletal remains; analysis of nutritional… Read More

Boston University. 1995. Very Good; Softcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; From the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1994. 288 pages in pictorial wraps; Abundantly illustrated in b & w. Very Good book; light wear ends of spine, tips; firm binding; pages crisp, clean, unmarked. Contribution include: Emergence of the Portrait Miniature in New England; Brothers Blyth--Salem in Its Heyday; Frederick Mayhew, Limner Portraits of Early Nineteenth Century New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard; New England and New York Portrait Makers in Canada 1760-1860; 18063-The Year of the Physiognotrace; William J. Weaver's Secret Art of Multiplying Pictures; Facing Paintings and Painting Faces; Erastus Salisbury Field: Mezzographs and Other Experiments; and much more. .

Dover Publications. 1970. Reprint. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Depicts over 200 examples of pine furniture of early New England. 230 photographs, 55 line drawings, 477 pp. Bound in full brown cloth. Reprint of the original 1929 edition. Clean, bright cover; firmly bound. Sharp corner tips. Pages crisp, clean, unmarked. Jacket shows light wear top edges back panel rubbed. Protected in new clear mylar sleeve. .

Spinner Publications. 1998. Very Good; Softcover; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 287 pages, in wraps. Abundantly illustrated in black & white. Social life and customs, emigration, oral history, stories of immigration from Portugal to Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Very Good book with light wear to corner tips of cover. Pages clean, unmarked. Binding firm. .

Franklin Printing -- Pierce & Berry Printers. 1859. -. Good; Hardcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Providence, RI; Providence Preacher Volume 1, all 12 issues from 1859 bound together. 312 pages, bound in brown quarter cloth; green paper title label, green endpapers. Good only book. Light soil on boards; corners chipped & worn. Interior clean, only a few pages showing mild foxing. Pencil markings on rear endpaper. Binding firm, but starting at rear endpapers. Packaged with care and shipped in a box.; Packaged with care. .