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Quite scarce, An example first belonging to Bonnie Russell (class of 1981) with many signatures and kind words of friendship and encouragement from classmates and teachers alike. About 180 pages of photos and other typical HS yearbook stuff! Also included are several pages/papers tucked into the rear, graduation invitations, announcements, old HS report cards, Roxbury College items from 1984-1988. I would like to see this go back to the family if at all possible, if you know either Bonnie or Nancy Russell please reach out with this listing.

Hartford, Connecticut: Baker & Tilden, 1869 6 maps measuring app. 15" x 18", minor edge chips, VG From Hartford City and County Atlas, Connecticut. Published by Baker & Tilden in 1869. NOTE: Please specify preference of shipping; flat, or rolled in a tube. MG

1919 Near Fine. pps 1057-1097 + title page. Original brown wrappers dated 1919 on title page.

New Haven: Mattatuck Historical Society, 1917 A first hardcover edition of this very scarce historical tome. 338 pages. Volume #Two only of 2. Lovely condition in the original navy cloth bds with gilt titles and the society's device on the FC and gilt titles on the spine.

All VG, but for issuue 1959 which has some odd rust-like stains coming through from the beck page to the membership pages & a bit wrinkled. Individual issues sold at 8 dollars each.

R. L. Polk & Co., Directory Office, Providence, R. I., 1953. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket; As Issued. This little book has moderate wear, small chip front cover corner. Includes: MAP OF THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND, published by Polk, Map app. 16" x 18" in good condition and in black line, scare: 2000 ft per inch. Arrow Street Guide for Providence, Cranston, Pawtucket, East Providence and Central Falls. 156 pp. NOTE: Map will likely be boarded with book in separate archival bag.

1919 The Brattle Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1919. Hardback. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, illustration of field cannon, in gilt, on front cover, 8vo, 269 pp. Covers the period from entering Federal Service in 1917 until demobilization in 1919. Frontis photo of a French 75 and many full page plates within text, including 8 double-page maps. Owned and signed/dated by enlistee 'Walter N. Thomas' who enlisted in 1932, reenlisted in 1935 and was discharged in 1938. Signed twice in ink on the front end papers. 2 illustration plates loose, else near fine condition.

Measuring approximately 21 inches wide by 14 inches high. Original vintage frame with new backing paper. Early (originally folded) Birdseye view of Boston Harbor and neighboring surrounding areas and cities towns. Published 1871 this is an original illustration published over 145 years ago, not a modern reprint. Very good condition with a few small holes around the center top and bottom now I look closely. Somewhat animated with sailing ships and steamers in the bay, construction areas here in there what looks to be like oarsman in boats along the Charles River, lots of smaller towns and ponds, Boston and Providence railroad, Boston and Worcester railroad, Fitchburg railroad, Boston and Lowell Road, Boston and Maine railroad, eastern railroad, old colony and fall river railroad, Dorchester in Milton Road, Boston Hartford and Erie where Road, possibly a few others. Tanners include Dorchester, Neponset, lower Mills, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Dedham, Midway, Wrentham, Roxbury, Auburn, Cambridge, Brookline,… Read More

Maker: Wm. J. Finn Union News Co., Boston, Mass., 1913 Circa 1910-1914. A Pictorial harbor excursion map showing steamboat routes from South Bay to Cape Cod Bay & Provincetown. Steamboat routes identifies Moon Island, Govenor's Island, Thompson Island, and Long Island. Dimensions: 16"H x 20 1/4"W Chromolithograph Condition. Folded as issued in original cover; colored; Near fine with a few small brown spots. It was not removed from the original stiff card folder covers. Dated in pencil from a trip in July, 1913.

Maker: Wm. J. Finn Union News Co., Boston, Mass., 1915 Pictorial harbor excursion map showing steamboat routes and South Boston, Nantasket Beach, Hough's Neck, South Bay, Pleasure Bay, Boston Harbor, Dorchester Bay, Quincy Bay, Hingham, Squantum, and Cape Cod Bay to Provincetown. Steamboat routes identifies Moon Island, Govenor's Island, Thompson Island, and Long Island. Dimensions: 16"H x 20 1/4"W Chromolithograph Condition. Folded as issued in original cover; colored; Near Fine with a few small and professionally mended tears, at folds. It was not removed from the original stiff card folder covers.

Boston: Old State House, 1919 NOT A REPRINT. 158 pages, likely unread as untrimmed edges contain many still hinged. Illustrated

Softcover Used. (MASSACHUSETTS). (NEWBURY). TOPPAN, Robert Noxon. Brief Biographical Sketches. Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Newbury. Newburyport, MA: Historical Society of Old Newbury, 1885. 1st ed. 134pp. Very Good, spine is clear taped. A collection of brief biographies.

Lowell MA,: Nathaniel and Dayton, 1851 Good, worn with most of the spine paper missing. 74 pages of Almanac info, memoranda pages for every week of the year of which many days are filled out, like a diary of the owner: i.e. "Worked for N. Robinson 1 day, $2.00" . Interesting.

Publisher: U. S. Government Printing Office Washington D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1913. First edition thus. Hardcover-cloth. Very Good. Part one only of two parts. Quarto, 10 3/4" tall, 544 pages + 3 fold out charts, 274 intertextual charts, maroon cloth. A very good, with some moisture staining and shelf wear.

Interesting and unique items included with this first edition including several news articles, a post card, and family photo of the interior of Mrs. Knowlton's home at Christmas time in 1958. Mrs Knowlton was the sister of Charles Dana Gibson and was the first 'Gibson Girl'. In a repaired but still very good original dust wrapper.

West Springfield, MA: General Committee of the CofC., 1924 48 photo illustrated pages. Good condition.

NY: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1916, 1916 Hard Cover. NF/NA. First. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. SCARCE: 224 pages, frontis portrait, TEG.

Whitman, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New Unclipped. First Edition. Photographer Nicholas Whitman. Pittsfield Massachusetts.

A nice example with hand-colored map folded into dark brown blind-stamped stiff bds. VG+ condition, bds are quite rough with wear, poor.

Brown and Parsons, 1850 208 pages + green end papers, in the original light brown blind-stamped cloth. Near Fine