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Covered Bridges of the Northeast
Brattleboro, Vermont: Published by Stephen Greene, Brattleboro, CR 1957, CR 1957, 1st edition, 121 pages w/index. Dust jacket tears o/w all else good+. Complete story of covered bridges in words and pictures. Connecticut, New England, covered bridges, wooden bridges.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$30.00
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Old Sturbridge Village. A Camera Impression
Published by Hastings House CR 1951 with 68 pages. Unpaginated. Dust jacket slight rubbing and tears, price clipped, covers green with gilt lettering, all good+. Black and white photos w/text. Ink inscription front endpps. Has a copy of "The Massachusetts Spy & Village Courier" newspaper dated August 1953 with 4 pages. New England, Massachusetts, Sturbridge Village.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$14.00
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Clad in Doublet and Hose
Published by Bingham Press, CR 1835 wutg 181 pages. Group of stories published previously in other books,magazines, of Colonial Times. All very good. Connecticut, New England, Colonial times.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$20.00
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One American Town. A Relic of the Past
New York: Published by Simon & Schuster, CR 1972, 1st printing with 222 pages. X-library with numbers, etc. Dust jacket slight tears and pasted to front and back covers o/w good. New England, Americana, History.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$10.00
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West of Boston
New York: Published by Viking, CR 1956 with 95 pages. Dust jacket has tears, price clipped, o/w all good+. Yankee Rhymes and Doggerel. New England, Yankees, Boston, Massachusetts.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$15.00
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The Sabbath in Puritan New England
Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers Dust jacket with mylar over black covers, all very good condition. Inscription front endpapers "Presented in grateful appreciation to Richard Amacher adviser, teacher, frind - Jerry Wilson November, 1972". 1969 title date, CR 1969, this is a reprint of the original from 1891. 335 pages with index. No illustrations. One of the most accurate and thoroughly engrossing account of church customs in America during the 17th century. Virrtually very facet of religious customs, traditions, and rituals is described. The Church Militant, Old Fashion Pews, The Noon-House, New England Meeting House, The Interruption of the Services, Puritan Pulpit, etc.. Reprint of Original 1891 Edition.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$24.00
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A New England Sampler
Published by Waverly House, CR 1940, 1st edition, 372 pages. Dust jacket is bad, covers and content good. B&W sketches. Covers New England from Anne Hutchinson to Cal Coolidge from Witches to Ward Eights, from New Bedford Whalers to Newport snobs. I believe that covers everything. New England, whaling, Newport, Rhode Island.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$12.00
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Handicrafts of New England
Published by Bonanza, CR 1949. Reprint with 374 pages with index. Dust jacket has tears, remainder mark on end of bottom pages o/w good. B&W photos. Divided into 4 sections: Background of NE crafts, NE Today, Significant influences, and values of NE crafts. New England, crafts, handicrafts.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$24.00
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Seeing The Eastern States
Published by Lippincott, CR 1922, 1st edition with 244 pages w/index. No dust jacket, covers illustrated w/lighthouse picture, x-library with stamps and numbers, pocket torn out in back. Illustrated spine, covers show wear, corners bumped. Frontis color and 91 doubletone illustrations. New England, travel.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$20.00
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Beginings of New England
Boston: Published by Houghton Mifflin CR 1897, 1889, 296 pages with index. This is 16th thousand. Red covers, slight wear o/w good+. Fold-out map of "Epitomized Map of New England in 17th Century" in color. Puritan theocracy in its relation to civ il and religious liberty. New England, History, Americana, religion, Puritans.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$15.00
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France and New England
Story of Lafayette's visits to Boston and New England and his life in France. Published by State Street Trust co., CR 1925, 189 pages. PAPER covers, volume 1 only. Black and white illustrations. Spine loose, small piece missing on back cover. Also covers the landing of Rochambeau in Newport, R.I. New England, Rhode Island, Rochambeau, Lafayette, France.. Slipcase & Dust Jackets, HC. (more information)
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$18.00
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Fancy This - A New England Sketchbook
Published by Waverly House, CR 1938, this is the 2nd printing, approx. 50 pages. Dust jacket is bad, covers and content good+. Intro. by John P Marquand. Illustrations and text unearth pertinent info and make the subjects unique and worthy of attention. A sketch book. New England.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$15.00
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Highways and By-Ways of New England
New York: Published by Macmillan, CR 1915, 1st edition, 299 pages with 3 pages ads. Covers dark, slight wear o/w good+. Covers all New England States. Travel, New England.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$30.00
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New England Colonial Life
Published by Cosmos Press, Title date 1927, Cambridge, CR 1927, 1st edition, 276 pages with index. Red covers, all good+. Frontis only. Covers Pioneer Life, Indians, Animals, travel, Old Boston, Railways. New England, Colonial life, Americana, history.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$25.00
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Salts of the Sound
Brattleboro, Vermont: Publshed by Stephen Day, CR 1939 with 247 pages w/index. B&W photos, all very good. Chronicling glorious chapter in American marine history of "Sound Lines". Steamboats, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New England.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$40.00
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Salts of the Sound
Published by Stephen Daye Press, 1939 Cloth. Revised & enlarged Edition, 1957. 1957 for revised and enlarged edition. Dust jacket has slight tears overall good+. Black and white photos. Colorful saga of steamboating and the famous skipper s who sailed Long Island Sound. The era of New England steamboating and the vigorous capable skippers who sailed the queenly ships are recalled vividly in author's nostalgic history of a golden age. Steamboats, Long Island Sound, New England steamboats.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$30.00
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Spring Tide
Boston: Published by Houghton Mifflin, CR 1965, this is the 2nd printing, 80 pages. Covers have slight discoloration, o/w good. Sketches by Samuel H. Bryant. New England.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$15.00
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New England Flavor
Published by Norton, CR 1961, this is the 3rd edition, 249 pages. Dust jacket bad, all else good+. B&W sketches by Leonard Vosburgh. Memories of a Country Boyhood. New England, biography.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$18.00
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Silver Fields
Boston: Published by Houghton Mifflin, CR 1921 with 261 pages. Small book, gray covers w/silver lettering, slight wear, good+. Sketches of a farmer, sportsman, fox hunting in New England, bass fishing in Sungahnetuk, trapping, etc. New England, biograp hy.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$22.00
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Mad and Magnificent Yankees
New Hampshire: Yankee Books A New England Portrait Gallery, Title page CR 1973, 319 pages, black and white photos and illustrations. Stories about New England characters, including Prudence Crandall of Connecticut, James Fiske of Vermont, Mildred Jewett, Tom Thumb, Fanny Farmer, etc. Dust jacket and book very good, it is price clipped. True stories about new England geniuses, eccentrics, odd-balls and characters of unusual accomplishments.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$16.00
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The Counselors
Published by Expo Press CR 1968, stated 1st edition, 142 pages with index. Dust jacket and book very good. B&W illustratons. Courts and Crimes of Colonial New York. An informative fast-paced narrative covering an early era of New Yor k History. New York, law, New England.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$10.00
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New England Saints
Michigan: Published by Univ. of Michigan, CR 1956 with 192 pages. No dust jacket, all good+. Two strains of New England characters, Yankee traders and Yankee saints, this is devoted to saints. New England, Yankees.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$25.00
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Travels in New England
Published by Barre Publ., CR 1972, 1st edition, 160 pages with index. Dust jacket and book very good. Volume 1 - Based on Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York. Photos by Katherine Knowles. New England, New York, Travel.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$22.00
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Travels in New England
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishing Photos by Katharine Knowles. This is based on Timothy Dwight's "Travels in New England and New York.". Mylar over dust jacket, all very good condition. Volume 1 was originally published by Barre Publishing in 1972. Volume 2 was never published. This is the first edition of the 2 volumes combined, CR 1977. 315 pages with index of photos and index. Remainder mark on bottom edge of pages. Timothy Dwight was President of Yale in 1795-1817. He traveled everywhere in New England. This is a photographic journey of his travels. Volume 1 - Maine to New Haven to Berwick. Volume 2 - traces 1803-1815, near mouth of Connecticut River northward to its source, overland to Vermont, Main and New Hampshire.. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$30.00
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The Birth of New England
Framingham, MA: Privately Printed The Story of Its Descendents and Settlement. Enlaraged Edition, illustrated. CR 1962, 3rd printing. 102 pages with museums and shrines listed and 17th Century Structures. Slight soil, white with blue covers, good+ Approximately 20 pages.. PAPER BOOK. (more information)
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$10.00
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Walking Tours of New England
New York: Dolphin Books, Doubleday Title date 1980, CR 1980, stated first edition. X-Library with stamps, numbers and pocket in back. Gray covers with white lettering on spine. All good+. Apparently the library pasted the front and back cover of the dust jacket into the front and back endpapers of the book - they did a very good job. 447 pages with index, black and white pictures, maps, library sticker on spine is half removed. A footloose guide to Historic Mansions and Museums, Village Ghosts and Greens, and Yankee Dreamers and Doers. A new kind of travel guide that introduces natives and newcomers to the scenic wonders, historic sites, and special places of New England.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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$15.00
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