Resultados de búsqueda: Boston from Respectful Exits

New York: Hastings House, 1960. Book. Illus. by Chamberlain, Samuel. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Hastings House, 1960. 8vo.Trade paperback, 127 pp., unmarked, in very good condition. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of Boston..

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1922. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Revised Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Revised edition. Revised by Leroy Phillips. 12mo. Cloth. 136.+ p. Color maps. Black and white illustrations and photographs. A charming little guidebook to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Gilt lettering and decoration on front. Fading to spine. Owner's name. Near fine..

Boston: Little, Brown, 1902. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo.. Boston: Little, Brown, 1902. First edition. 8vo. Green silk binding, decorated in dark green and white, titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. 485 pp. plus 4 pp. advertising. Illustrated with plates. Light soiling to boards, corner bumped, spine faded with wear top and bottom of spine. Good..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint. 12mo. Cloth binding, 195 pp. A sixties look at life in the intellectual hub of Harvard and M.I.T. Dustjacket edgeworn, price-clipped. Very good in a good dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Edition. Decorative cloth binding, 298 pp. ASSOCIATION COPY bookplate of William Sturgis Bigelow. Sears was a preservationist, historian, and writer. According to the Fruitlands Museum website, fascination with Bronson Alcott and his experiment win Transcendental living at Fruitlands led Sears to the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, whom she befriended and admired as much as Alcott for their ingenuity, spiritual devotion, and industry. When the Shaker community closed in 1917, Sears brought the eighteenth-century Shaker office to Fruitlands, furnished it with Shaker artwork, implements, and artifacts, many donated by the Shakers themselves. Subsequently, Sears enlisted the help of the Peabody Museum at Harvard to develop a small but exquisite Native American collection, and later still,… Leer más

Everyman's Library, 2011. Book. New. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Everyman's Library, Knopf, 2011. First combined edition of Pullman's His Dark Materials works. 1144 pp. New in new dust jacket. [b664].

Boston: Boston Marine Society, 1968. Ex-Library. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston: Boston Marine Society, 1968. 8vo. First edition, 1968. 369 pp. including index. Paper dust wrapper in very good condition. Cloth boards are bumped. Ex-library. A few stamps and markings, else in very good conditon. Only lightly read. Illustrated with black/white photographs. Great reading copy of this out-of-print book..

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Paper covered boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, limited to 200 copies, this being number 49. Two volumes, 8vo. Paper-covered boards over cloth spine, paper spine labels, top edge gilt, edges untrimmed. 557 pp. including index. Frontispiece portraits of Higginson, protective tissue. The regular edition was published the same year in one volume. This set was presented to noted Bostonian William Sturgis Bigelow by the author's wife, Ida Agassiz, daughter of Harvard professor Louis Agassiz. The envelope with her enclosed note and signature are pasted inside front board, along with the bookplate of William Sturgis Bigelow. Higginson was a noted American businessman and philanthropist, and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. In 1890, Higginson presented Harvard College a gift of 31 acres of land, which he called the Soldier's Field,… Leer más

Boston: Metropolitan Area Planning Council, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Draft Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Draft. 4to. Soft cover. 183 p. + appendices. Maps. A draft report on the islands of Boston Harbor, including overview of their background and history, analysis of recreation demand and standards, transportation and access, site analysis, Islands park system, flora and fauna, administration, etc. A fascinating study that contributes to the history of a vital city resource. Near fine..

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1992. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Cloth. 571 p. Index. Notes. Black and white photographs. The definitive biography of the larger-than-life James Michael Curley of Boston. Includes four newspaper clippings on Curley and the book. Fine in near fine dustjacket in mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1992. Book. New. Quarter Cloth. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green quarter cloth over gold-colored boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine, illustrated with black and white photographs, 271 pp. Dust jacket has minor rubbing and a few shallow scratches on rear panel, but still bright and shiny. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..