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Providence, RI: The Providence Journal Co., 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stiff printed paper wrappers, side-stapled, 296 pp. Covers soiled with a 1 cm chip from bottom of front cover near spine, moderately worn & bumped, a few internal leaves creased, staples rusty. A compendium of facts primarily about Rhode Island, including times of sunrise & sunset, tides, weather, election (1942), population, and economic statistics, short histories of the state and the major towns, lists of businesses arranged by location, industrial companies arranged by industry, sporting results, chronologies of the War and world events. Publication date inferred to be December 1943 since chronologies end Nov 30, 1943. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. G+/No dj. 18½ X 13½ cm.

Massachusetts Republican Publishing Committee, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn through folds in mostly black covers with yellow titles and color photo on front panel, 128 pp, color photos on most pages. Slight shelf wear. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No dj. Illus. by Photographs by Ted Polumbaum. 28 X 23 cm.

Privately Printed, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Looks to be photocopied or laser-printed on white paper with pale tan dividers and title sheet, with clear plastic covers, not paginated, about half a centimeter thick. According to the author, most of the 60,000 or so individuals in the United States named Morse, Moss, Mosse along with some other variant spellings, are descendents of five individuals who emigrated from England in the 17th century. These early Morses and their immediate descendents, mostly resident in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York, are the subjects of this genealogy. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Plastic comb bound. Fine/No dj. 11 X 8½ in.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Family Bookshelf edition. Blue boards, black spine with gilt titles, 251 pp, many b & w photos by John Schram. Has a few ink notations, bottom edge of front board bumped, clipping with Taber's Diary of Domesticity laid in. DJ has a 1½ cm tear to bottom edge of rear panel, slight rubbing to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Taber writes about life in and around her house on Cape Cod. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/VG. 22 X 15 cm.

Mount Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles & device on spine, mauve endpapers, viii, 472 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. For over forty years, Tom Kane wrote a weekly newspaper column about happenings current and historical in and around the tiny village of Truro on Cape Cod. This is a collection of those columns. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly blue pictorial covers, vii, 209, [2] pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, wood engraving in text, map, index. Shipping weight 1 lb.. 2nd ptg. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light blue cloth, black titles on spine, 141, [1] pp, dozens of photos (mostly by author), 4 old wood engravings (of whaling), 2 maps, index. Slight edge wear. DJ also has slight edge wear & closed tears up to 2.5 cm (not very noticeable in the Brodart archival cover). Coffee-stained coaster with the name "Coffin" (an old Nantucket family) laid in. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Boston, New York, Toronto & London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White boards, black titles on spine & blind device on front board, [ix], 326 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, index. Private library stamp on top edge, top corners bumped. DJ extremities rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Gaines tells how in the 1970s and 80s the nouveau riche invaded the Hamptons, upsetting the old-money Summer Colony. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

Lawrenceville, NJ: Township of Lawrence, NJ, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue laminated boards with town seal on front board & black titles, 236 pp, index. There is about a quarter-inch nick at bottom of front joint, else fine. Photos & brief articles, facsimile maps, and documents are arranged topically, covering early history, government, industry, transportation, schools, churches, neighborhoods, natural disasters, etc. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. . 28½ X 22 cm.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, yellow cloth spine with yellow titles, xvi, 393 pp, notes, index. Slight wear to tail of spine. DJ beginning to delaminate at spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. The authors discuss in detail the structure of New York City's government, its budgets, taxation, and services. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, foil titles on spine and initials on front board, [ix], 241 pp, 9 drawings. Minimal wear & soil to edges, else fine. Hough muses about life on Martha's Vineyard and its local history. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. Illus. by Donald Carrick. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Organizational Library. Black, white & tan pictorial covers, xiii, 382, [3] pp, b & w photos in text, bibliography, index. Slight rubbing to covers, defunct organization's name is rubber-stamped on title page and all three edges, has been read very carefully if at all. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 21½ X 13½ cm.

New York et al.: Harper & Row, 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards, gilt titles on spine, 287, [1] pp, pen-and-ink drawings. Christian Herald Family Bookshelf edition. Reprint of 1962 title. Brief ink notation on ffep, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This is Taber's diary of a year in Stillmeadow, her house in the Connecticut countryside. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Reprint. . Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Edward Shenton. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, gilt titles on spine, 256 pp, b & w line drawings. Family Bookshelf edition. Ink notations on a couple of pages, slight shelf wear. DJ has a 1-cm tear at head of front joint and some rubbing to top edge; in Brodart archival cover. This is Taber's journal of a year in Stillmeadow, her house in the Connecticut countryside. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/VG. Illus. by Sidonie Coryn. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: Hastings House, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter red cloth with blue pict. boards, 127 pp. Bottom corner of front board bumped, light wear to edges and ends of spine. DJ worn & rubbed at corners and spine ends, with a narrow red stain 2" long on rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. 60 reconstructed New York City street scenes from early colonial days up to about 1855, each with a brief historical note on the facing page. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. . VG+/VG+. Illus. by J. Ernest Brierly. 21 X 14 cm.

Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue-grey paper-covered boards, gilt titles on dark blue cloth spine, xii, 317 pp, 4 ff plates, notes, bibliography, index. Embossed owner's stamp on ffep, else fine. DJ has slight wear & two 5 mm tears to top of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "For more than a century Tammany Hall was so powerful and so all-pervasive on the New York City scene that its name became synonymous throughout the country and even the rest of the world with urban political corruption. The Tiger is the first complete history of this enigmatic institution." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter white linen with blue paper-covered boards, xi, 217 pp, map. Top corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, pp 49-50 dog-eared. DJ worn at extremities, with a few tears at top edge, the largest of which is about a quarter inch long; in Brodart archival cover. "This is a book about the Connecticut River the way Walden is a book about a pond in Concord...." Travel narrative about a trip up the Connecticut River by tugboat, canoe, train, and on foot, with discursions into the wildlife, plant life, and history of the river and its valley. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Shelburne, VT: The New England Press, Inc., 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. First New England Press Edition (reprint of 1969 Stephen Green Press title). White stiff paper with color photo of Vermont landscape on front, [xiii], 121, [4] pp. Covers browning at edges, corners slightly bent. From the blurb: "Maggie Wolf's sense of humor will keep you chuckling. Whatever she reflects upon becomes a subject for gentle hilarity be it growing pumpkins for the County Fair, installing the plumbing in an old farmhouse, learning how to drive a half-ton Ford pickup truck, or playing midwife for the family sow." Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. Illus. by George Daly. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York: Harmony Books (Crown), 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter dark grey cloth, grey paper-covered boards, blue foil titles on spine, blue endpapers, 239 pp, b & w photos on most pages. A bit of wear just visible on one corner of DJ, else fine in Brodart archival cover. Hundreds of wonderful street scenes illustrate this popular history of life in Brooklyn by the official Borough Historian. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 5th ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 20 cm.

Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, red titles on spine, xviii, 350 pp, 7 ff b & w plates with an 8th blank leaf, as issued, notes, index. One corner bumped, slight shelf wear, else fine. History of MIT from its founding in 1862 until it moved from Copley Square in Boston to nearby Cambridge in 1916. The author had been associated with MIT for 67 years as student, professor, and dean. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.