Antique & Vintage Books #375

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South Boston Books


(978) 331-0895
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The Black Arrow; A Tale of the Two Roses (1955)

Lot # 5      

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1955) good condition, the yellow end pages color is leaking on some pages (see pic). Decorated endpapers and pastedowns (a...morelso done by Wyeth). Illustrated with a pictorial title page and with fourteen color plates by N.C. Wyeth.

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The Lady Of The Aroostook (1879) by William Dean Howells

Lot # 6      

Published by Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879. Good condition if not better hardcover as shown....more

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Decorative 1843 New Testament

Lot # 7      

As shown, New York (1842) good condition very nice covers for shelf....more

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1940's Gilbert GAS BLOWING Booklet

Lot # 8      

As shown good condition with wear, cover looks like child is smoking out of a bong - but I digress....more

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Gil Elvgren: the Complete Pin-Ups - Large Hardcover

Lot # 9      

Published by TASCHEN, 2008. Hardcover very good condition. Called the Norman Rockwell of cheesecake, this little volume celebrates the work of Gil Elvgren. From the priva...morete collection of photographer, John Running.

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Ray Land of the Tank Corps U. S. A. (Better Little Book #1447)

Lot # 10      

Good+ condition with some cover wear. Published by Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, 1942....more

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Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of British Sport (1908)

Lot # 11      

Published by Fores, London, 1908. 8vo. original gilt pictorial crimson red cloth, all edges gilt, brown endpapers. With 32 tinted full page illustrations....more

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The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem: The Record of a Brilliant Era of American Achievement (1923)

Lot # 12      

Good condition, with some wear. Published by Charles E. Lauriat Co, 1924. "Tales of the American square-rigged sailing ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, w...moreorking out of Salem, Massachusetts."

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Smugglers and Smuggling by A. Hyatt Verrill (1924)

Lot # 13      

Published by Dunfield & Co., New York, 1924. Green cloth binding. Gilt title to front cover & spine. Raised embossed illustration of a small boat. 16 pages of illustratio...morens.

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RARE The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter (1923)

Lot # 14      

Published by Country Life, London, 1923. Good to very good condition hardcover. "Born in 1880, Bell left school at 14 to make his way to Africa on a cargo ship. After wor...moreking briefly on the Ugandan railway he was off to join the Klondike gold rush. After fighting with the Canadian volunteers in the Boer War he remained in Africa hunting elephants in the African interior until the First World War. It was then that he perfected the use of the high-velocity rifle. During the War he fought for the British as a fighter pilot. After the War he returned to Africa and continued to make a successful living out of elephant. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter is one of the great big game hunting books written by the greatest of all African hunters. "

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Home Memories; or, Social Half-Hours with the Household (1878)

Lot # 15      

Good to very good condition, hardcover. Features inspirational stories and poems. Illustrated with steel-engravings and images....more

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The Household Guide or Domestic Cyclopedia: Also A Complete Cook Book (c.1900)

Lot # 16      

Published by Coles Publishing, Toronto, c.1900. Has some exterior wear - the interior is very good....more

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ESSAYS. SECOND SERIES (1841) by Ralph Waldo Emerson with Additional 1844 Edition

Lot # 17      

As shown, both in very good condition. Smaller sized hardcovers. Very scarce....more

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The Works of Samuel Johnson (1787) TEN VOLUMES

Lot # 18      

Published by J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, 1789 As shown, all with some spine wear. Volume I has a loose board, and this eleven volume set is missing one. Volumes s...morehowing some general expected overall wear.

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A Deep Water Voyage by Paul Eve Stevenson (1897)

Lot # 20      

Good to very good condition, small hardcover. Published by J.B. Lippincott Co. 1st printing, Philadelphia, 1897....more

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Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson by WASHINGTON IRVING (1841)

Lot # 21      

Published by Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1841. Good condition hardcover, some spotting....more

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Scientific American BOUND (1866)

Lot # 19      

As shown, June to December 1866, filled with wood engravings and information. A couple of pages have a tear, otherwise very nice....more

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RARE A View of Society and Manners in Italy (1792) by John Means

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Published by Boston, 1792. Rebound professionally as shown. "The author describes his journey as well as visits to Venice (Island of Murano glass factory, St. Mark's Squa...morere, origins of Venice, gondoleers), Padua, Ferrara, Bologna, Ancona, Loretto, Rome (St. Peter's, Pantheon, Coliseum, Via Sacra, Tarpean Rock, Trajan's Column, being presented to the Pope, Roman women compared to those in England), Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Florence, Modena, Parma, Milan. Also interspersed with reflections on foreign travel, effect of the climate on the constitution of nuns, state of the common people, observations on pulmonary consumption, etc."

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SIGNED The Log of a Limejuicer: The Experiences Under Sail of James P. Barker, Master Mariner (1933)

Lot # 24      

Published by Huntington Press, 1933, good- condition because of wear on the covers, the interior pages are very good. he experiences under sail of James P. Barker, Master...more Mariner as told to Roland Barker.

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Martin the Skipper by James F Cobb (c.1890)

Lot # 26      

J.B. Young New York (c.1890) good condition, smaller sized hardcover. "A Tale For Boys And Seafaring Folk"...more

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The Blue Poetry Book (1891) by Andrew Lang

Lot # 22      

Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York, 1891. Edited by Andrew Lang. With Numerous Illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. Prints contributions b...morey Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Blake, Wordsworth, Burns, Shakespeare, Moore, Milton, Coleridge, Dryden, Keats, Shelley, and others. Good condition, the spine is faded (see pic)

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The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) Wheel Craftsmen in the Late 19th Century

Lot # 27      

Published by Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge, 1923. Good condition. Hardcover. Some light spotting. "George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as ...morea wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology"

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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside. With the Life of the Author (1804) Two Volume Set

Lot # 28      

Good condition, Collected poetry of English poet and physician. Includes Odes, Hymns, Inscriptions, and The Pleasures of the Imagination. Complete in two volumes. Small h...moreardcovers.

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RAREST The Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs (1675)

Lot # 29      

Published by Printed by E. Flesher, J Streater, and H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1675. Good to very good condition as shown. Early calf, gilt lettered, all edges marbled, t...morehe spine rubbed. "Final edition of the first treatise by a named author on the coroner and on the sheriff" Signed inside by someone in 1675, also stamped inside by Edward Wooler a antiquarian dealer who comes up on Wikipedia if you want to take a look. "The Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs. With Directions how and in what manner to execute the said Offices . . . Together with an easie and plain Method for the Keeping of Court Leets, Court Barons, and Hundred Courts."

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