The American Shakers; a celibate, religious community [postcard]
Sabbathday Lake, Maine: [The Shakers of Sabbathday Lake], nd. Postcard. 3.5x5.3 inch postcard; faintly toned, slightly creased. Good. More
Cat.No: 310670
Sabbathday Lake, Maine: [The Shakers of Sabbathday Lake], nd. Postcard. 3.5x5.3 inch postcard; faintly toned, slightly creased. Good. More
Cat.No: 310670
[Augusta, ME?]: [publisher not identified], [1880]. Staplebound. 30, [2]pp., wraps. 8.5 x 6 in. A summary report on the Greenback Controversy, in which voter fraud was alleged in the contested Maine state election of 1879. Alonzo Garcelon, a former Republican and opponent of “radical Republicanism”-turned-Democrat, contested the results of the..... More
Cat.No: 302972
2012-2015. Newsletter. 16p., illus. & cartoons, folded newspaper brochure, in very good condition on newsprint. Issues included: vol. 38, no 1-2 (2012-2013); vol. 39, no. 1-2 (2013-2014); vol. 40, no. 1-2 (2014-2015). Only the first issue from 1974 is listed in OCLC (10/2021). Founded in 1974, the newsletter initially addressed..... More
Cat.No: 273175
Boston: the company, 1947. Magazine. [32]p., printed on alkaline still-bright paperstock, double-column text filled with vignette photoportraits of employees and officers. A staplebound magazine in 9x6 inch decorated self-wraps. B&W photographic cover is an outdoor scene, ice breaking up on a river. Slight external signs of handling, cover bears a...... More
Cat.No: 224466
Wiseasset, Maine: Margaret Fuller Womens History Research Center, 1984. 39p., very good in staplebound wraps. Second edition. Booklet celebrating the poet and early feminist activist, a Maine native. More
Cat.No: 194689
Augusta ME: Published by William M. Ladd, 1825. Leather Bound. xii, 240p., hardbound in full calf; a small book, 7x4 inches, the hide is tree calf with back board restorable to very presentable condition, while front cover is scuffed with a branded area probably on the live cow. Front cover..... More
Cat.No: 232586
Norway, Maine: Advertiser Print, [pre-1934]. Paperback. 69p., wraps, 4.25x6.5 inches, previous owner's inscription dated 1933. Tramp poetry. "[P]ublished under the auspices of the William Henry Stone Post No. 82 of the American Legion at Norway, Maine." Signed and inscribed by the author. More
Cat.No: 77798
Portland, Maine: Astarte Shell Press, 1992. Paperback. 149p., two lengthy personal inscriptions to the author's neighbors, signed twice by her and with annotations in a different ink on the inscriptions, old price sticker on rear wrap, else very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Third in a series..... More
Cat.No: 180360
Portland, ME: The Forest City Printing Company, sponsored by the City of Portland, 1940. Hardcover. xlv, 335p., preface, forewords, general info., selected reading list, index, illustrated with 152 photos, 27 maps & line drawings, very good first edition in oat cloth boards with green titles, in a price-clipped edgeworn dj..... More
Cat.No: 283399
Rockland, ME: Courier-Gazette Press, 1946. Pamphlet. [12]p., portrait, wraps. 6.25 x 3.75 in. Author’s presentation inscription on inside of front cover, dated “Thanksgiving 1947.”. Early volume by the Maine poet. The poems are about seasons, faith, and patriotism. A portrait of the artist as a young man is on the..... More
Cat.No: 307298
San Francisco: Robert D. Reed Pub. 2002. Paperback. 206p., signed on title page by the author, very good first edition trade paperback in black pictorial wraps. Lesbian romance. Debut by the Maine author. More
Cat.No: 235161
Boston: Radical Historians Caucus, 1972. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 105949
Providence, RI: Rhode Island Black Studies Consortium, 1989. 84p, 6x9.5 inches, staplebound with white illustrated covers; minor smudging on front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Contains "Jews in the Evolution of Jamaican Political Culture" by Rhett Jones, "The Black Population of Maine, 1764-1900" by Randolph Stakeman, "Martin Delaney, A...... More
Cat.No: 342039
Ellsworth, ME: Backwoods Broadsides, 2005. Pamphlet. Eight panel pamphlet folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, limited to 750 copies, personal inscription to Bob & Nona signed by Jack May Day 2005 on front panel else very good. Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series #90. More
Cat.No: 316710
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1978. Hardcover. xiii, 197p., illus. (diagrams), very good condition in in good dj with slightly darkened spine. More
Cat.No: 32709
East Detroit: Michigan Liberal League, [194-?]. 4-panel brochure, 6x9.5 inches, small dampstain at top edge else very good condition. Freethought viewpoint. More
Cat.No: 47182
Portland, ME: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, 2002. Paperback. xv, 56p., profusely illustrated with vignette-size b&w reproductions (cover title in dark blue, otherwise no color at all) and a few fullpage plates, presswork on matte alkaline paperstock amid double-column texts, a very pretty catalogue in reasonably..... More
Cat.No: 327636
[New York]: [Times Square Mission], n.d. Pamphlet. 16p., pictorial wrappers, 4x5 inches; illus., minor soil on front wrapper, else in very good condition. Rear wrapper indicates Hildegard Junge is a director and soloist for the Times Square Mission church. More
Cat.No: 281156
Orono, ME: University of Maine, 1988. Paperback. 128p., wraps, very good condition. Northeast Folklore XXVII. Biography/oral history of the author's grandfather, who worked in Maine lumber camps as a teenager. More
Cat.No: 129912
Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, [circa 1972]. Pamphlet. Promotional four panel brochure, illustrated, minor staining, creased horizontally as issued, along with a single sheet printing on both sides with a list of available books by the Nearing, and singled sheet printed on onside only reprinting a review of Scott Nearing's..... More
Cat.No: 294189
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. Hardcover. 269p., bibliography, notes, index, illustrations, warm personal inscription signed by the author on the flyleaf, very good first edition stated in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 248307
Lewiston, Maine: The Co-operative Association of American Press, 1901. Hardcover. 42p. original wraps rebound in a library bindings, ex public library with period bookplate and glue remnants from removed library label on front cover otherwise in good condition, two small works from the Association bound in rear. Uncommon, as of..... More
Cat.No: 347919
Boston: GCN Collective, 1987. Newspaper. 16p., very good folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, opinion, articles, events, ads, photos, services. Cover story on the three year anniversary of the murder of Charlie Howard in Maine by three homophobic teens. Boston's LGBTQ newspaper which started in 1973. More political than entertainment..... More
Cat.No: 337027
Portland, ME: Contraband Press, 1979. Pamphlet. [44p] 7x8.5 inches, personal inscription signed by the Portland, Oregon poet on inner front cover, light soiling else good first edition chapbook limited to 500 copies in stapled white pictorial wraps. Raphael edited NRG magazine. More
Cat.No: 302738
Lexington, KY: Self-published by the author, 2011. Paperback. 318p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. The author's mother was a French-Canadian who immigrated to Lewiston, Maine in the 1890s. More
Cat.No: 265655