[Rarebooks] fs: A Whole Lot of Barbering Goin' On...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

There's a whole lot of Barbering
goin' on on our Just Catalogued pages-
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Todd, John M. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JOHN M. TODD (Sixty-two Years in a
Barber Shop) and Reminiscences of His Customers.

Portland (Maine); William Roberts Co.: 1906.

A Mainiac born in Durham "at the southwest bend of the Androscoggin
River", in 1821. These memoirs were "written and compiled during business
hours, between shaves and haircuts, and all the time that I stood at my
chair and earned my living, supported my family, wrote every week an
article for the 'Press', and arranged for the publishing of this book,
with but little capital, either mental or financial". There is much
material here on his customers, their attitudes, problems, etc. An
interesting and unusual item for the barbershop enthusiast.

In addition, there is a small amount of Shaker material, with notes by
Todd on the community at Alfred, Maine and a portrait of Elder John B.
Vance, as well as an excerpt from a lecture delivered at Sabbathday Lake,
and a poem by Martha J. Anderson of the Mount Lebanon community.
Hardcover. 5"x9", 322 pages, portrait frontispiece and 1 b/w plate. Light
wear, a spot here and there, but a very nice copy. [05764] $100.00

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