Portland, ME: Arthur Shirley, 1822. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 41pp. Some faint foxing to text block, contemporary ownership signature (illegible) at head of title page, neat 20th century ex libris to title page verso, else Very Good overall. Political pamphlet signed in text by Alford Richardson himself, regarding..... More
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New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in green pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [8],215pp. A hint of wear to jacket margins including a few tiny closed tears, corners nudged, gift inscription on front pastedown obscured by jacket flap, else..... More
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1968. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 190pp. Jacket margins rather worn and wrinkled, faint soil and toning to jacket and endpapers, spine slight cocked, heaving foxing to top textblock edge, else a...... More
Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1805. Slim octavo; contemporary black sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; viii,84pp. Boards and leather rather rubbed with some brief loss of paper to upper cover, preliminaries quite foxed, else Near Very Good, internally Near Fine. Didactic poem first published in 1744, the year the..... More
![Item #25022 [Sammelband] The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25022.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1672497173)
Two volumes in one; thick 12mo; contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in five compartments. Minor scuffing to extremities, long closed vertical tears across pp. 201/2 and 237/8 of the first title affecting text without loss of meaining, textblock uniformly finger-soiled, mid-20th century ownership rubberstamp to front..... More
Scarborough, ME: Harp Publications, 1992. First Edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Octavo. Black and white photographs, maps, and illustrations, including map endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket; blue boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket shows some light general rubbing. Boards show a touch of shelfwear..... More
Bath, ME: Apprenticeshop of the Maine Maritime Museum, 1980. First Edition, stated. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's cream photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 34pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of dust-soil and wear from handling, else Very Good to Near Fine. Short but informative monograph primarily devoted to the output of the late..... More
Washington, DC? s.i., 1862. First Edition. Octavo; 2pp. broadsheet (22.5x14cm) removed from larger volume. Margins toned, else Very Good. Speech delivered by the firebrand abolitionist and Senator from Maine Lot Myrick Morrill (1813-1883) regarding a bill providing for "the emancipation of the slaves in this District, with just..... More
New York: C.S. Hammond & Co., 1904. Fold-out map of Maine in red pictorial wrappers (33x26 cm). Wrappers gently creased and dust soiled with mild water damage and previous paperclip ghosting. Interior has calendars for 1905 and 1906 and another ad for R. M. Lewsen & Co, which matches the..... More
Portsmouth, NH: Nath'l B. March, n.d., ca. 1820. Small leather and wood trunk (25.5x11x12.5cm) adorned with brass rivets, scalloped edges to leather on lid, retaining original brass latch and handle, engraved ownership brass buckle of the original owner Jeremiah Emery of Shapleigh, Maine (1790-1838); interior lined with the original white..... More
Limerick, ME: Wm. Burr, Printer, 1833. First Edition. 16mo. 255pp. Bound in contemporary calf. Front hinge starting but form; mild scuffing. Binding sound. Lacks front free endpaper. Mild spotting and marginal chipping; overall Very Good and sound. At times poetic and sentimental, these poems from the Eaton, New Hampshire farmer..... More