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
Montreal: Baron de Montreal, [no date]. Pinback Button. 1.75 inch diameter pinback button, white text and helm on black field, very good. Maine Leather/Levi club. More
Cat.No: 226448
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
Biddeford, ME: Franco-American Genealogical Society, 1984-97. First fourteen issues of the newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, neatly hole-punched at left for storage in binder. Essays and short research articles on the ties between France and Nouvelle France, with much overlapping discussion of Quebec. Emblem on cover is a triangle linking outlines of..... More
Cat.No: 196191
Portland, ME: Maine Gay Task Force, 1976-1978. Newsletter. Twenty-two issue broken run of the newsletter, various pagination, 7x8.5 inches, news, events, services & resources, very good in stapled wraps. New England Gay & Lesbian organization. With vol. 4, #1 the newsletter changed the name to Mainely Gay. Issues include: vol..... More
Cat.No: 305875
Old Town, ME: Old Town Hospital Company, 1905. Ticket. Receipt for a payment in advance of $3.00 for "board, washing, nursing, medicine, medical and surgical treatment during any disability or sickness (except venereal disease or any disease contracted previous to the purchase of this ticket)" within six months after issuance..... More
Cat.No: 253449
Sinclair, ME: T. B. C. Publications, 1976. 20p., 3.75x7.5 inches, personals brochure, a few illustrations, a few bracketed ads, otherwise very good in stapled blue pictorial wraps. Gay personal ads and resources in Maine. More
Cat.No: 122235
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
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
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Paperback. xvi, 296p., wraps, front., illus., very good condition. The working class in American history. More
Cat.No: 103398
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
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub./A Merloyd Lawrence Book, 1994. Hardcover. xviii, 397p., introduction, prologue, notes, bibliography, index, 12p. of glossy b&w photos, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. Radclyffe Biography Series. Biography of the 19th Century lesbian author. More
Cat.No: 246107
[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
Portland ME; Madison WI: Communicating Vessels, 2002-2004. Six issues of the staplebound photocopied zine, very good; numbers present are vol. 1 nos. 6-10 and 15. A handwritten note laid into no. 6 from Mutual Aid Portland, signed "Anthony," indicates that older issues were re-photocopied when the need arose. More
Cat.No: 257922
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