MASSACHUSETTS from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Markham, VA: Apple Manor Press, 1862. PB. good++, wraps (softcover). Quality reprint of the original edition, on the shelf and read to ship. "With Various Notices Relating to the History of Worcester, County." 448pp.

Eastern National, 2015. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0806109572 First published in 1957. "The Lynn and Braintree Ventures of the Company of Undertakers of the Ironworks in New England." The ironworks, constructed in the early 1640s, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was truly the forerunner of American 'big business.' It was also, perhaps, the most… Read more

Boston, MA: Glove Newspaper Co, 1972. PB. good, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. Large folio supplement for the newspaper. 64pp.

Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc, 2000. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0788416138 First published in 1913, this is a reprint of the original. 366pp.

Boston, MA: William White, Printer, 1859. HC. good original black cloth (hardcover) WEAR - SEE NOTE. Nice clean and tight book block. Bottom of spine worn with one chip lacking, wear on rear board, and outside gutter of spine. State report followed by Abstract of School Reports, and last An Abstract of school returns for the School Year… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0374351104 59pp.

Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Pub, 1992. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0898658268 The story of the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts and the people who have lived there. The Pioneer Valley is along the Connecticut River and embraces the counties of Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden. 152pp.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 073856284X 128pp.

New Bedford, MA: Reynolds-Dewalt Printing,Inc, 1969. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. First published in 1947, this little volume rambles about the streets of this old town as well as through the by-ways of its history. 92pp.

New York: Atheneum, 1973. PB. good, wraps (softcover) foxing on edges of book block. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0689701993 First published in 1962. LIGHT FOXING EDGES OF BOOK BLOCK. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how. Included here is a new introduction that considers the present suburb/city dichotomy and suggests what we can… Read more

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) faint dampstain. B&W illustrations. Nice bright stampings on the cloth - NOTE - very, very faint dampstain top corner of last ten pages. 96pp.

Groton, Mass: published by the author, 1883. HC. original green cloth (hardcover) wear to cloth and spine. Some light edgewear, and at top of spine. Signed and inscribed by the author. 214pp.

Boston, MA: Old Colony Trust Company, 1957. PB. good, wraps (softcover) some cover wear, light bumping. B&W and color illustrations. Some light edgewear and bumping. 61pp.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0316304255 Being an Account of Life Among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Wealthy, Eccentric and Ordinary, 1823-1890. 409pp.

Waban, MA: The Modern Press, 1944. HC. good, blue cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. The following history is dedicated to the memory of my father, William Chamberlain Strong. He chose Waban for his home on account of its natural beauty and he did much to enhance its attractiveness by laying out suitable streets and planting trees and flowers." 294pp.… Read more

Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 1997. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0752405659 128pp.

Rockland, MA: Press of Rockland Standard, 1898. HC. good, black cloth (hardcover). 319pp.

Belmont Historic Dist. Comm, 1984. PB. good, wraps (softcover) faint bump bottom corner. B&W illustrations. Faint bump bottom corner, and light wear to covers. 116pp.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998. PB. good+, wraps (softcover) faint stain on foredge couple pages. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0752413457 Faint stain foreedge of book block on a few pages, hard to notice. 128pp.

Athol, MA: Miller River Publishing Co, 1985. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0912395044 128pp.