Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Hardcover. 12mo (7.25 x 5"), blind-stamped maroon cloth. Vignette title, [i-iii], iv-v, [vi-viii], 225 pp. Inscribed in pencil on flyleaf "Henry to Cynthia, Jany 1st, 65," but not by Longfellow. Early pencil inscription reading "Ruth Del Dotto" on inside of coated front endpaper. CONDITION: Good, light wear to corners and lower hinge, head and foot of spine chipped, 1.5" split to fabric along upper edge of hinge at lower cover, spine faded, lettering almost illegible, binding tight; very occasional foxing to interior, pencil marginalia on 3 pp., contents generally clean and tight. First edition, later printing. Contains the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the first book printing of the Children's Hour.
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Hardcover. 12mo, original gilt-stamped green cloth. [7], 213 pp., [2] pp. publ. ads. CONDITION: Good, spine sunned, but gilt still bright, lightly rubbed at the extremities, small dent to front edge of spine, slight fraying to foot of spine,lacking front free endpaper, clean and tight copy. First published in 1896; this is an 1897 printing.
Softcover. 24mo (5.25" x 8"), printed tan wrappers, red tie at spine. [24] pp., plus covers. Illus. Faded stamp on front-wrapper, "For rates etc. address A. E. Holcomb, 30 Ashley St. Hartford, Conn.". A scarce pamphlet promoting Block Island as a summer resort destination. Block Island, Rhode Island-located just fifteen miles south of mainland Rhode Island-was dubbed during its heyday "the Bermuda of the North." "There has ever been a peculiar charm about the islands of the sea," so begins the text which covers Block Island's bathing beach, climate, fishing, amusements, recreations, and includes a section entitled "Why I Summer at the Hygeia." Photographic reproductions show the island, its beaches, harbor, and lighthouse. The new Hygeia hotel on the island is extensively detailed; images show the hotel, its grounds, and relation to the harbor, as well as the hotel's veranda, dining room, and music room. Also provided are a floor-plan of the hotel, a plan of the island's golf course, and a map of Block Island itself. The hotel's orchestra gave concerts every day. Listed are dozens of "references" (former guests of the hotel), and information is given on routes and transportation to the island and cottages for rent. OCLC records just one copy, held by the Island Free Library. CONDITION: Very good, light toning to covers; contents very good.
Barker, F.C., Captain
Hardcover. 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), pictorial green cloth. Frontis. port., [4], 230 pp., 15 b&w plates. Original dust jacket with recent dj cover.CONDITION: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition, later printing (but same year). This work is based on Barker's time as a steamboat captain, sporting camp owner, river driver, etc. in Maine's Rangeley Lakes region. Chapters include "The Indian Chief Metalluk," "First Experience in Logging," "Guiding Days," "Camp Bemis and the Birches," "Experiences on the Ice," "Camp Life as it Was," and "Some Old-Time Lumbermen's Songs." Barker also wrote Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River (1882).
Farrar, Capt. Charles A.J.
Hardcover. 12mo (7.5" x 5"), blue-green cloth, with color illustrations at front-cover and spine. 332 pp. [6] pp. of ads., illus. Front endpaper inscribed in pencil, "Christmas 1903. DeForest from Auntie." CONDITION: Good, spine cocked, fading to spine, light wear to covers; contents good with occasional small stains. An American Boy's Series edition. Up the North Branch is the fourth and final volume of Capt. Farrar's four-book series on sport and adventure in the Maine wilderness, the first three titles being Eastward Ho!, Wild Woods Life, and Down the West Branch. These works feature a "party of Boston boys" who are members of the "Lake and Forest Club." The most prolific 19th century writer on the Maine woods, Farrar began his literay career in 1876, with the publication of his Guide to Rangeley, Richardson, Kennebago, Umbagog, and Parmachenee Lakes, written to promote his Richardson Lake properties and commercial transportation company. REFERENCES: Williamson, A Bibliography of the State of Maine, #3276; Thompson, Edward V. Important Maine Maps, Books, Prints and Ephemera. Orono, 2003.
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Hardcover. 12mo (8.5" x 5.5"), blue cloth, design at front-cover, gilt-title at spine and front-cover. viii, 81 pp. CONDITION: Near fine in very good dust jacket with moderate creasing, rubbing, and soiling. Third printing. Chapters include "The Indians," "The European Discovery," "Mount Desert as a Landmark," "The New England Settlement Begins," "The People of Mount Desert," "The Rusticators," "Yachting," etc.
4to, burlap cloth with paper title on cover and paper title "Nine Wine Labels" on spine. 23 pp. with 9 wood engravings on facing text. Title and text printed entirely in red. Colophon: "22 copies of this book were designed and executed by Gillian Tyler at the Cricket Press in Thetford, Vermont / copy 1." CONDITION: Very good, slight loss to corner of spine label. The text of John 2, in which the water that Jesus turned into wine is brought to the wedding feast, with wood engravings of animals opposite each of nine passages. Each illustration is loosely intended as a "wine label" and all are captioned accordingly, e.g, "elderberry flower," "dandelion," "fox grape," etc.
Yeats, William Butler
Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75 x 5.25"), orig. blind-stamped blue cloth. ix, 101, [1] pp. In dust jacket. CONDITION: Near fine, front pastedown and ffep toned, bookplate in upper left corner of front pastedown reading "From the Irish Books of Proinnsias O Brian" (Francis O'Brien, the esteemed antiquarian bookseller of Portland Maine); both corners of front flap of dust jacket clipped and flap re-priced "$2.50" with stamp, spine of jacket toned to brown. First American trade edition. Includes such notable works as Dialogue of Self and Soul, Byzantium, and After Long Silence.
Emerson, Walter
Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 5.75"), green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover, blind-stamped silhouette of Maine on upper cover. Frontis., xi, 229 pp., numerous illus. In original pictorial dj. With pencil note on front paste-down of esteemed Portland, Maine antiquarian bookseller Francis O'Brien (1908-1994) reading "Only copy I have seen in dust jacket." CONDITION: Very good, spine a bit cocked; dj good+ with moderate wear and soiling. First edition. In scarce original dust jacket. A very nice copy of a classic guide to Maine, touting the coastal sailing, inland camping and hunting, and recreational and business opportunities. Numerous photographic reproductions.
Springer, John S.; F. Hedge, C.T. Jackson, illustrators
Hardcover. 8vo, original green cloth, with gilt-stamped image of lumberjack felling tree on upper cover, same image blind-stamped on lower cover, gilt title and decoration to spine. 259 pp., frontis. wood-engraving, 19 additional wood engravings. CONDITION: Good, rubbed and faded covers, foxing throughout. A respectable copy of a book that is difficult to find in decent shape. First edition of this "pioneering primer of the Maine forest and timber harvesting" by lumberman John Springer. Alongside Thoreau's The Maine Woods, this is one of the great classics of the Maine woods. REFERENCES: Williamson 9433; Mirror of Maine 22; Thompson 340.
Springer, John S.; F. Hedge, C.T. Jackson, illus
Hardcover. 8vo, original burgundy cloth, with gilt-stamped design of lumberjack felling tree on upper cover, same image blind-stamped on lower cover, gilt title and ornament at spine. 259 pp., frontis. wood-engraving, 19 additional wood engravings. Early owner's name in ink on preliminary leaf. CONDITION: Good, minor fraying at head of spine, spine sunned, corners slightly rounded, moderate foxing, gilt cover still bright. First edition of this "pioneering primer of the Maine forest and timber harvesting" by lumberman John Springer. Alongside Thoreau's The Maine Woods, this is one of the great classics of the Maine woods. REFERENCES: Williamson 9433; Mirror of Maine 22; Thompson 340.
Barker, F.C., Captain
Hardcover. 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), pictorial green cloth. Frontis. port., [4], 230 pp., 15 b&w plates. CONDITION: Near fine in very good dust jacket with some fading and toning at edges and a few small losses at corners. First edition, later printing (but same year). This work is based on Barker's time as a steamboat captain, sporting camp owner, river driver, etc. in Maine's Rangeley Lakes region. Chapters include "The Indian Chief Metalluk," "First Experience in Logging," "Guiding Days," "Camp Bemis and the Birches," "Experiences on the Ice," "Camp Life as it Was," and "Some Old-Time Lumbermen's Songs." Barker also wrote Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River (1882).
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Hardcover. 12mo (7.25 x 5"), blind-stamped green cloth, gilt stamped spine, t.e.g. Vignette title, [i-iii], iv-v, [vi-viii], 225 pp.; 21 pp. publ. ads. CONDITION: Very good, light wear to corners, light foxing to first leaf, one gathering 5 sprung but holding firm, contents clean and attractive. First American edition, first printing. With publisher's catalog A, as described in BAL: "On p. 11 Tales of a Wayside Inn is unpriced and described as Nearly ready." Contains the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the first book printing of The Children's Hour. BAL 12136.
Knowles, Joseph
Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 5.5"), green cloth, gilt stamped title,black-stamped image of pine trees on upper cover. Frontis., [12], 295 pp., 23 b&w plates, early gift inscription on free endpaper. CONDITION: Good, moderate rubbing to covers, gilt-title at spine faded; contents clean. Joseph Knowles's account of living alone in wilderness on the Maine/Canada border for two months. At the same time Knowles was claiming to have become "in truth, a primitive man. I had gone back from the land of civilization to the forest of antiquity," a Boston paper revealed him as a fake, outlining how he had spent "most of those two months sleeping in a comfortable log cabin, dodging reporters, drinking beer, eating canned food, doing calisthenics, and working on his tan" (Moor, "The 1913 'Nature Man' Whose Survivalist Stunts Were Not What They Seemed," Atlas Obscura 7 July 2016).
Stephens, C[harles]. A[shbury]
Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 7"), pictorial gilt and black stamped red cloth, plain lower cover, pictorial color endpapers. [13], 239 pp., b&w illus., 8 b&w plates. Pencil gift inscription dated 1882 on preliminary. CONDITION: A very good, bright copy; toning to two preliminaries from card once laid in, a few small stains to margins of a few pages, but generally quite clean throughout. First edition. A beautiful copy of this Maine woods adventure novel for boys, in a delightful publisher's binding. REFERENCES: Williamson 9487.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Motte
Hardcover. 16mo (6.5 x 4"), recent full calf, raised bands, 6 compartments, gilt spine title on red lettering-piece, gilt borders. Frontis. engraving, [i-xviii] lix, 535 pp., [28], fold-out map, 11 plates, text in French. Original flyleaf with early owner name laid in. CONDITION: Very good, light occasional foxing throughout.
Giovanni, Nikki
Softcover. 8vo (8.5" x 6.5"), pictorial wrappers. 36 pp., 2 pp. publ. ads. First edition, first printing. A celebrated Black Power activist and poet during the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni (1943-) awakened a generation to the sensibilities of being black in America, embracing self-pride and militancy as the only way forward. In Black Judgement, Giovanni embraces the Black Liberation Front efforts in "Liberation" with "Dykes of the world are united / Faggots got their thing together / (Everyone is organized) / Black People these are facts / Where's your power. / Honkies rule the world / Where's your power Black people." Giovanni speaks to disillusionment in "Adulthood" with : "I usta wonder who i'd be . began to believe that all good people could get together and win without bloodshed / then hammarskjold was killed/ and lumumba was killed/ and diem was killed/ and kennedy was killed/ and malcolm was killed and evers was killed." Reflections continue on the assassinations, riots, elections, Vietnam, growing up black and female, and other issues. CONDITION: Detached front wrapper, owner inscription on title page, repaired tears on back wrapper, clean interior.
Farrar, Capt. Charles A.J.
Hardcover. 12mo (7" x 5"), brown cloth, gilt-title at spine.pictorial black stamped on upper cover. Frontis., x, [1], 14, 364 pp., [9] pp. of ads. CONDITION: Good, spine cocked, some spotty discoloration to spine; contents good, occasional pencil markings. First edition. Eastward, Ho! is the first volume of Capt. Farrar's four-book Lake and Forest Series on sport and adventure in the Maine wilderness, which also included the titles Wild Woods Life, Down the West Branch, and Up the North Branch. These works feature a "party of Boston boys" who are members of the "Lake and Forest Club." The most prolific 19th century writer on the Maine woods, Farrar began his literay career in 1876, with the publication of his Guide to Rangeley, Richardson, Kennebago, Umbagog, and Parmachenee Lakes, written to promote his Richardson Lake properties and commercial transportation company. REFERENCES: Williamson, A Bibliography of the State of Maine, #3271; Thompson, Edward V. Important Maine Maps, Books, Prints and Ephemera (Orono, 2003) #324A.
Cross, John T.
12mo (12 x 20 cm), stiff marbled paper covers, dark blue leather spine. 36 pp. Early owner's name ("Waller") in ink on front past-down and title page. CONDITION: Good, wear at extremities, interior clean and sound. An index to John Cross's map of Pike County, Pa. listing land holders and holdings from 1814 to 1856 in Blooming Grove, Delaware, Dingman, Greene, Lackawaxen, Lehman, Milford, Palmyra, Porter, Shohola, and Westfall Townships in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania. Revised from the 1814 edition.
Jorgensen, Frederick E.
Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 6"), gold cloth, gilt lettering on spine and fish on upper cover, original pictorial green and brown dj. [1-10], 11-161 pp., with [7] pp. charts, 17 b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good, spine cocked, head of spine frayed; dj good+,moderately chipped and toned. In mylar dj cover. Jorgensen, originally from Sweden, engagingly recounts his life and adventures leading up to and during his tenure as game warden in Maine, and reflects: "I have seen the forces of conservation increase and the Department of Inland Fisheries and Game develop into an organization fitting the requirements of modern times." The text includes "A Record of Conservation in the State of Maine" between 1830-1936.
Stevens, Wallace
Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.5"), yellow paper over boards with cream paper title label affixed to spine. viii, [1]-61 pp., early ownership inscription at front free endpaper: "Isabel S. de Bustamante 1948." In dust jacket. CONDITION: Good, a few small spots to back cover, some toning and foxing to pastedowns, ffep, and terminal leaf; spine of jacket rubbed and browned, dampstains to jacket along edges of spine. Stated first edition, sometimes described as the first trade edition, but actually the second edition (see Edelstein), after the signed, limited first. In Edelstein's third binding with yellow paper over boards and title label at spine. REFERENCES: Edelstein A 2.b.
Lee, William [Burroughs, William S.]
Softcover. 16mo (6.25" x 4.2"), pictorial covers, dos-à-binding. 149 pp., [2 pp. ads]. [bound with] Helbrant, Maurice. Narcotic Agent. 169 pp. CONDITION: Good, spine and covers rubbed, with some creases and minor surface loss, mainly at edges, a few small gouges to rear cover (Narcotic Agent) with a bit of loss to surface, contents toned as usual. First edition, first printing of Burroughs's first book.
