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Death At an Early Age
by Jonathan Kozol
In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.
Massachusetts Books & Ephemera
Paul on Mars Hill: Or, A Christian Survey of the Pagan World. A Sermon, preached at Newburyport, June 21, 1815, at the Ordination of the Reverend Messrs. Samuel J. Mills, James Richards, Edward Warren, Horatio Bardwell, Benjamin C. Meigs, and Daniel Poor, to the office of Christian Missionaries
by Samuel Worcester
Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1815. Very Good. Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1815. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 44pp. (collated complete). Light foxing and dust-soil to margins, else a Very Good and sound, partly unopened copy. Congregationalist minister's assessment of Ancient Civilization, warning his listeners that, "Dazzled with the splendours, particularly of ancient Greece, we are apt to perceive but very imperfectly the moral darkness, in which she was enveloped" (p. 17). SHAW &...
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$150.00
A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Isaac Story, to the pastoral care of the Second Church in Marblehead, in conjunction with the Reverend Mr. Simon Bradstreet, May 1, 1771
by Ebenezer Pemberton
Salem: Samuel Hall, 1771. Very Good. Salem: Samuel Hall, at his Printing-Office near the Exchange, 1771. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 27pp. ([A]3 B-C4 D2, collated and lacking half title page but otherwise complete). Final leaf dampstained with two small holes mid-leaf affecting text without loss of meaning, else Very Good and sound. Sermon delivered at the ordination of Isaac Story as pastor of the Second Church in Marblehead, the orator urging the congregants "Despise not his youth, but receive...
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Inspiring Reform: Boston's Arts and Crafts Movement
by Marilee Boyd Weber
Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. First Edition of 4000 copies. Folio (14.25" x 9"); 247p. Illustrated translucent dustjacket over blue cloth boards with blindstamped patter and bronze lettering. Jacket rippled with light edgewear, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are clean with front board bowing outward a bit. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library.
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$35.00
1832 Autograph Letter Signed from Perez Morton, Revolutionary War patriot and Boston Lawyer, to Colonel James T. Austin
by Morton, Perez (1751-1837)
[Boston] January 9, 1832. Bifolium, wove paper, [1]p., 8vo.,docketed. Traces of old mounting to verso, short split to one fold, two letters in small recent ink to verso. About 75 words, an autograph letter signed from Revolutionary War patriot and Boston lawyer Perez Morton (1751-1837) written to Colonel James T.[recothick] Austin (1784-1870). Austin is perhaps best remembered as the biographer of Elbridge Gerry. In this letter, Perez Morton is writing as Massachusetts Attorney General. He requests...
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New England Chronology: From the Discovery of the Country, by Cabot, in 1497, to 1800
by Alden Bradford
Boston: S.G. Simpkins, 1843. Very Good. Boston: S.G. Simpkins, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 202 pp. Brown boards with paper label to spine. Boards worn at extremities with bumping and chipping to corners, split with loss to crown. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket "Kowalczyk Bros" to rear pastedown, and "1800" in title scribbled over, but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good. [Sabin 7226].
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$125.00
The Two Olive-Trees; or, Zerubbabel and Joshua. Religion the Leading Qualification of Civil Rulers and Christian Ministers, Illustrated in a Sermon Preached at Hatfield, Nov. 4, 1804. Being the Day Preceding the Choice of Electors in Massachusetts. Also God the Sure Foundation of Confidence and Joy; a Thanksgiving Sermon Delivered Nov. 29, 1804
by Joseph Lyman
Northampton, MA: Printed by William Butler, 1804. Very Good. Northampton, MA: Printed by William Butler, 1804. First Edition. Octavo. 29 pp. Printed wraps, removed. Light toning and rubbing to pages. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of a scarce pamphlet from the long-time Hatfield minister.
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$100.00
HISTORY OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS 1862-1865
by By A Committee of the Regiment
Octavo (9 by 6 inches) Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1884. First Edition. 405 pages, "Roster and Record," index, original brown cloth binding with gold emblem on the front cover, and title in gilt on spine, both covers decorated with bands in blind, very good condition (mild shelf wear to edges, not affecting contents).
A chronicle of the IX Corps, written by seven different veterans. The name of a former owner is written in a neat hand on the front fly leaf: "Serg. John A. Fisher Northfield... Read more about this item
A chronicle of the IX Corps, written by seven different veterans. The name of a former owner is written in a neat hand on the front fly leaf: "Serg. John A. Fisher Northfield... Read more about this item
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$165.00
![The Nature & Necessity, of an Habitual Preparation for Death & Judgment. A sermon preach'd at King's-Chapel in Boston, November 21st. 1758. Upon occasion of the death of Charles Apthorp, Esq [Half title: Mr. Caner's Sermon Occasion'd by the Death of Charles Apthorp, Esq.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/247/353/1519353247.0.b.jpg)
The Nature & Necessity, of an Habitual Preparation for Death & Judgment. A sermon preach'd at King's-Chapel in Boston, November 21st. 1758. Upon occasion of the death of Charles Apthorp, Esq [Half title: Mr. Caner's Sermon Occasion'd by the Death of Charles Apthorp, Esq.]
by Henry Caner
Boston: John Draper, 1758. Very Good. Boston: John Draper, [1758]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); later stiff black wrappers; 24pp. (A-C4, including half title); woodcut vignette at head of p. [5]. Slightly ex-New Haven Colony Historical Society with their pressure stamps to first three leaves including upper cover, upper cover additionally creased, else a Very Good, internally fresh and sound copy. Extraordinarily incongruous eulogy delivered upon the sudden death of Charles Apthorp (1695-1758),...
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$750.00
Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses of Lowell, Massachusetts
by Grace H. Ziesing, Mary C. Beaudry Stephen A. Mrozowski
1996 hardcover as pictured. An interesting monograph on archaeological work done in Lowell, Massachusetts. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping are faded at spine and top edge. Text is clean and unmarked. Includes many illustrations and photographs. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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$15.00
Nantucket Island.
by Gambee, Robert
New York. : W.W. Norton. , 1986.. First edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). . 4to.. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.
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$55.00
1834 Collectible Full Leather Third Edition. Town Officer: Or, Laws of Massachusetts by Isaac Goodwin. Worcester: Dorr, Howland and Co
by Goodwin, Isaac
Dorr, Howland and Co, 1834. Third Edition. leather_bound. Good-. . 0x0x0. GOOD-. full leather, bagged for protection, 4-1/2'' x 7'', rubbed through corners and edges, heavy cracks/creases to spine leather, shallow hinge splits interior and exterior of front boards, book is bound but fragile, paper has spotting and foxing, browning edges..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.
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$68.25
Massachusetts Beautiful
by Nutting, Wallace
Framingham, MA: Old America Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed, cup ring on front . boards.. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 304 black and white illustrations and photographs. This portrait of Massachusetts, part of the author's States Beautiful Series, presents and all-encompassing north to south look at the Bay State. Green cloth binding. ; States Beautiful Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 302 pages .
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$20.00
The plain Truths of the Gospel... A Discourse Deliver'd at Hanover, December 1st. 1756. When the Reverend Mr. Samuel Baldwin was Ordained Pastor of the Church there
by William Cook (1696-1760)
Boston; New-England, Printed by Green & Russell at their Office in Queen-street, M,DCC,LVII. [1757]. First Edition. 27, [1 (blank)]pp. Small 8vo. In contemporary, homemade, two-piece coarse paper cover with annotations; hand-stitched. Ownership inscriptions: on upper homemade cover, "Lydia Studley Her Book", and on verso of final leaf, "Lydia Studley." Cover and all pages with rounded corners; foxing and minor soiling; without half-title, else very good. Colonial Boston sermon given on the occasion of...
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$450.00
Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth from 1602 to 1625 now first collected from original records and contemporaneous printed documents
by Alexander Young
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. Very Good. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. First Edition. Octavo; 20th century black library cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; xvi,504pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Light dust-soil to cloth, frontispiece a bit foxed, ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in serviceable and sturdy binding. HOWES Y14; SABIN 106053.
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$150.00
THE KNAVE OF BOSTON & Other Ambiguous Massachusetts Characters
by Russell, Francis
Quinlan Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Edgeworn and foxed DJ with small edge tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .
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$14.00
God the Judge, putting down One, and Setting up Another. A Sermon Upon Occasion of the Death Of our late Sovereign Lord King George, and the Accession Of his present Majesty, King George, II. To the British Throne
by Thomas Foxcroft
Boston in New-England: Printed for S. Gerrish at the lower end of Cornhil, 1727. Very Good. Boston in New-England: Printed for S. Gerrish at the lower end of Cornhil, 1727. First Edition. Octavo. [2], v [i.e. iv], 39 pp., lacking half title and with p. iv mislabeled v. Printed wraps, disbound. Light chipping to edges of title leaf, else Very Good. Begins with a dedication to William Dummer, who served as lieutenant governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1716 to 1730. Foxcroft weaves...
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$650.00
The State Teacher College at Westfield
by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Massachusetts
[Boston?]: State Teachers College at Westfield, 1941. Very Good. [Boston?]: State Teachers College at Westfield, 1941. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth; 114pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of photographs printed on rectos only. Light shelf wear and minor soiling, spine gilt a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound.
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$75.00
Sermons on Various Important Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion; selected from the manuscripts on several ministers, members of the Northern Associations in the County of Hampshire
by Northern Association in the County of Hampshire
Northampton, MA: William Butler, 1799. Good. Northampton, MA: William Butler, 1799. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary sheep, red gilt spine label (half perished); vii,[8]-448,[2]pp. ([A]-3H^4 [3I]^1, collated and complete). Leather rather scuffed and dried, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, textblock complete but broken with leaves Z-3L^4 separated and a bit worn at extremities. A Good copy only. Printed errata and errata cancel to p. [449]. EVANS 35583; SABIN 72975.
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$125.00
Look Before You Leap Into Another Great Bore
by [Francis William Bird]
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. Very Good-. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 15pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their faint rubber-stamp to upper cover, stock a bit toned and very slightly foxed, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear two leaves not approaching text, else Good to Very Good overall. Former abolitionist legislator's polemic opposing a report on proposed state improvements to Cape Cod Harbor, concluding that "It is...
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A Discourse, Delivered to the Religious Society in Brattle-Street, Boston, and to the Christian Congregation in Charlestown, on April 5. 1798 Being the day of the annual fast in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
by David Tappan
Boston: samuel Hall, 1798. Good. Boston: Samuel Hall, 1798. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 31pp. (collated and lacking half title page). Light dust-soil and faint dampspotting to exterior leaves, signatures starting to separate, else a Good example. "The history of the antient Republics of Greece and Rome is...particularly instructive to the people of America. The prosperity, declension, and ruin of those states experimentally show that virtue is the soul of republican freedom" (p. 19). ESTC...
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A Sermon, Preached May 11, 1785, at the Ordination of the Reverend Joseph McKeen, to the Pastoral Office over the First Church of Christ in Beverly
by Joseph Willard
Salem, MA: Samuel Hall, 1785. Very Good. Salem, MA: Samuel Hall, 1785. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [2]-54pp. ([A]-G4, lacking half title page, otherwise collated complete). Old remnants of spine leather, very faint foxing to textblock, else a Very Good, fresh and sound example. Ordination sermon delivered by the President of Harvard Joseph Willard (1738-1804). Joseph McKeen would go on to serve as Bowdoin College's first president, from 1802 until his death in 1807. EVANS 19387.
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$150.00
From the Stage Coach to the Railroad Train and the Street Car: An Outline Review with Special Reference to Public Conveyances In and Around Boston in the Nineteenth Century
by George Glover Crocker
Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1900. Very Good. Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1900. First Edition. Octavo (25x16x1cm); 32pp with 21 additional unpaginated full-page B&W document reproductions bound in. Black card covers with silver stamping on spine and front cover. Textblock in sewn gatherings, the whole stab-bound with silk thread. Cover is erratically chipped around edges and cracking at stab binding-though still holding as of this writing. Untrimmed pages are unmarred and unmarked with the exception...
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Ministers Cautioned Against the Occasions of Contempt. A Sermon Preached before the Ministers of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, at their Annual Convention, in Boston; May 31. 1744
by Charles Chauncy
Boston: Rogers and Fowle, for Samuel Eliot, 1744. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, for Samuel Eliot in Cornhill, 1744. First Edition. Octavo; modern blue wrappers, upper cover title in calligraphic manuscript; 54,[2]pp. ([*]2 a2 B-G4, collated complete with half title and final blank). A Very Good, fresh and sound copy. From the title page: "N.B. The Things passed over for Want of Time, when the Sermon was preached, are inserted in their proper Places." Election Day sermon delivered by...
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City of Marlborough
by BIGELOW, Jas. F. C.E
Boston: Walker Lith. & Pub. Co. unbound. very good. Case Map. Lithograph with hand coloring. Image measures 17.5" x 16".<br/><br/> Colorful town plan of Marlborough in Middlesex County. Shows streets, notable buildings, rail lines and bodies water. From "Massachusetts Atlas" circa 1870. Repairs along original folds. Scattered tears to edges.<br/><br/>
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$300.00
![[Murder:] A Brief History of the Town of Stoneham, Mass. From Its First Settlement to the Present Time: With an Account of the Murder of Jacob Gould, on the Evening of Nov. 25, 1819](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/947/757/1447757947.0.b.jpg)
[Murder:] A Brief History of the Town of Stoneham, Mass. From Its First Settlement to the Present Time: With an Account of the Murder of Jacob Gould, on the Evening of Nov. 25, 1819
by Silas Dean (1815-1906)
Boston: Printed at S.R. Hart's, 1843. 36pp. First edition. 12mo. Original plain wrappers with chipping; spine reinforced and title page with expert tissue mends, resewn. History and a tale of mostly getting away with murder. Stoneham, Massachusetts was settled c.1645 and incorporated in 1725 after its separation from the Town of Charlestown. This scarce history focuses on the settlers (including a few Black servants-Simon and Cato), ministers, buildings, and roads. It concludes with the tragic story of...
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