Search Results: Maine Books from Trench Books

Freeport ME: Bond Wheelwright, 1970. Third Printing . Red Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lengthy inscription on flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light soiling. Everything you ever wanted to know about lobsters.

Freeport ME: Bond Wheelwright, 1967. Second Printing . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Clean and unmarked, minor bumps to spine ends. Light colored jacket in nice shape but lightly soiled. EVERYTHING you need to know about lobsters. Breeding, trapping, preparing, shipping, etc, etc. Numerous B&W photos and diagrams.

Bangor, ME: Bangor Publishing, 1996. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade paperback, 271 pgs. The story of the famed "troop greeters" who meet every troop flight from Iraq and Afghanistan at Bangor International Airport, the first US stop for most returning planes. Illus with many B&W photos. Signed by the author on the title page.

Kennebunk, ME: Star Print Inc. Original Wraps. Good+/No Jacket. Two different annual reports for the town of Kennebunkport, 1926-27 and 1928-29 (89 pgs each). Wear and soiling to covers, unmarked and in one piece. Lists all expenditures, receipts, property owners, deadbeats, and do-gooders. Among the non-resident taxpayers listed is George H. Walker, father and grandfather of of the Presidents Bush.

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1938. Navy Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Light wear to corners, minor rubbing at edges, clean and unmarked. Jacket worn, complete, in pieces; not price clipped. "A Chronicle of The Province of Maine And of The Secret Expedition Against Quebec".

New York: Macmillan, 1933. First Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Foxing to edges of pastedowns, slight wear and small stains at top edge of text block; stains have intruded into text 1/4" here and there; otherwise sound and unmarked. Price clipped jacket shows minor wear at edges, yellowing. Signed by the popular Maine author at the bottom of front flyleaf. "...a year in the life of a large New England family dependent upon the soil for its existence".

New York: Newcomen Society of England, 1950. Second Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Minimal wear/soiling to covers, date stamped on back. Twenty-four page booklet; a reprint of the Newcomen Address given at the Hotel Lafayette in Portland, in 1950, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Burnham & Morrill Co. Nicely illus with sketches and a few B&W photos.

New York: D. Appleton, 1932. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor wear at corners, bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown, clean and unmarked. A story of Maine, in the 1700-1800s.

Rockland, ME: Courier-Gazette, 1972. Green Cloth. Very Good+/Good. Minimal shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Jacket has cello tape reinforcement at each corner, discolored area on front flap. Running a smalltown paper on the Maine coast.

New York: Liveright Publishing, 1940. First Edition . Orange Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Gertrude Howe. Minor shelfwear at corners and spine ends, front flyleaf MISSING, clean and unmarked. Maine children's author.

Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2005. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. Near fine condition, minimal shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Set in 1912 Maine, an adventure story involving youngsters hopping trains to.....??

Garden City: Doubleday, 1956. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Good/Good. Wear to top edge of front cover, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, fraying at lower spine.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1934. First Edition . Black Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Moderate shelfwear/soiling to covers, bookplate on second free endpaper, sound copy. "A Chronicle of Arundel". Signed by the author on the title page: "With Best Wishes Kenneth Roberts".

New York: Macmillan, 1950. First Printing . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Poor. Light wear to spine ends, clean and unmarked. Jacket quite worn, pen writing front and back, chipping to edges. "...a perceptive and stirring study of a troubled small boy". Uplifting story from a well known Maine author.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1877. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Heavy rubbing/wear to covers, binding loose but holding together well, extensive pencil notations inside front and back covers, and throughout. Signed by original users, various high school girls in coastal Maine in the 1880s. "Combining oral and written exercises in a natural and logical system of instruction". I bet a HS grad today could not figure this book out.

Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2005. First Printing . Black Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Very minimal wear to covers, clean, bright, and unmarked. Jacket shows only light edgewear. "An Anthology of Short Stories" from numerous authors, including Stephen King and Carolyn Chute.

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Lucy Reeves Trowbridge. Minimal wear, name and date on flyleaf. Jacket somewhat worn, lighly soiled. True story of a family that buys a seven acre island off the coast of Maine.

New York: YMCA, 1904. Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. A Boy Who Won and the Secret of His Winning". Scarce title by the founder of the Good Will Home for Boys, in Maine. Only twenty-five pages, bound in a flexible red cloth cover, minor shelfwear, small stain in the very corner, upper right, first four pages. minor spot of foxing (fingerprint?) on page three. A sad/uplifting story of a boy taken in at the home who passed away seventeen years later. Photo of young Dan afixed to front cover.

Freeport ME: Bond Wheelwright, 1972. Trade Paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear/soiling to covers, inscription on flyleaf. A Mainer writes about "Our Life in the Theater Around the Turn of the Century". Numerous B&W photos.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Bros., 1949. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Very early printing. Slight bumps to corners and spine ends, clean and unmarked. Jacket is soiled, wear on spine at folds, and spine ends, orig price 2.50 on front flap. In keeping with Gunther's wishes that all profits from this book go to charity, the entire purchase price will be donated to the Pine Tree Camp for crippled children in Maine.