[Rarebooks] FS: Town Histories MA #2

[Clare Murphy]

1.  CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS COMPRISING A 
RECORD OF ITS CORPORATE PROGRESS FROM 1656-1876 WITH SKETCHES OF ITS 
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.  LOCAL AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. 
VALUABLE STATISTICAL TABLES, ETC, A. New York: Atlantic Publishing 
and Engraving Co, 1877. Illustrated by 23 engravings. First edition. 
4to. [252 pgs] Good. Original brown cloth binding with blind stamp 
design and gilt lettering/design on beveled boards.  Only a 1/3 of 
the spine cloth remaining to upper portion of spine. Can be repaired. 
Front board nearly detached.  Otherwise very nice commemorative issue 
with clean and sound contents. Scarce.  $125.00

2.  COFFIN, JOSHUA.  SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF NEWBURY, NEWBURYPORT, 
AND WEST NEWBURY, FROM 1635 TO 1845, A. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 
1845. Illustrated by ten b&w illustrations, including a map. First 
edition. Original brown cloth with blind embossed designs to boards, 
gilt lettering at spine. 9.5" x 6". [414 pgs] Very good. Mild 
scattered foxing to contents, with very light shelf wear to 
extremtities.  Binding is tight.  $175.00

3.  HADLEY, GEORGE. PLUMMER.  HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF GOFFSTOWN, 
1733-1920. VOLUME ONE ONLY. Goffstown, N.H: Privately Published, 
1922. Illustrated by 45 illustrations including 19 maps. Burgundy 
cloth with gilt lettering at spine. 9.25" x 5.75". [601 pgs] Very 
good. Previous owner's signature at ffep.  Binding is shaken, with 
some signatures loosening.  Otherwise contents are clean, and there 
is minor shelf wear to extremities.  $75.00

4.  LAMSON, REV. D. F.  HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MANCHESTER, ESSEX 
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. 1645-1895. Manchester: Privately Published, 
(1895). Illustrated by nineteen illustrations including a small 
fold-out plan of the "400 acres", and a large fold out map of the 
town. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering at spine. 9.25" x 5.75". 
[425 pgs] Near fine. Presentation inscription at ffep. Light foxing 
to end-papers.  Minor shelf wear to extremities.  Contents are tight 
and clean.  $125.00

5.  NEWHALL, JAMES. R.  HISTORY OF LYNN, ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS: 
INCLUDING LYNNFIELD, SAUGUS, SWAMPSCOTT, AND NAHANT. 1883 VOLUME. 
Lynn: Privately Published, 1883. Illustrated by b&w illustrations 
throughout contents, including portraits, homes, facsimile 
signatures. First edition. Purple cloth on beveled boards with gilt 
lettering at spine. 9.5" x 5.75". [327 pgs] Very good. Previous 
owner's signature at ffep.  Boards faded, with some shelf wear at the 
extremities.  Front inner hinge cracked, rear inner hinge starting, 
both intact.  Contents are clean and tight.  $100.00

6.  NOON, A.M, ALFRED.  LUDLOW : A CENTURY AND A CENTENNIAL, 
COMPRISING A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF LUDLOW, HAMPDEN 
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATION BY 
THE TOWN OF ITS CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY, JUNE 17TH, 1874. Springfield, 
MA: Privately Printed, 1875. Illustrated by four pages of portraits 
and the centennial program. First edition. 8vo. [208 pgs] Good. 
Boards show some wear at all edges, front board lower  quarter to 
corner worn through binding .  Previous owner's bookplate.  $75.00

7.  PAIGE, LUCIUS. R.  HISTORY OF HARDWICK, MASSACHUSETTS WITH A 
GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. 
Illustrated by a portrait frontispiece of author. First edition. 
Brown cloth with blind embossed rules, gilt lettering at spine. 9.5" 
x 5.75". [551 pgs] Very good. Some shelf wear at extremities, minor 
loss of cloth at head and tail of spine.  Contents are clean and 
tight.  $150.00

8.  PRINGLE, JAMES. R.  HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CITY OF GLOUCESTER, 
CAPE ANN, MASSACHUSETTS. Gloucester, MA: Privately Published, 1892. 
Illustrated by b&w illustrations throughout contents, includes 
several pages of local merchant advertisements at front and rear. 
First edition. Brown cloth with gilt design at front boards and gilt 
lettering at spine. 9.25" x 5.5". [340 pgs] Very good. Minor wear at 
extremities, interior hinge starting. Previous owner's bookplate at 
paste-down, and signature at ffep. Light stain at front board. 
Contents are clean and sound.  $85.00

9.  ROADS, JR, SAMUEL.  HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF MARBLEHEAD, THE. 
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. Illustrated by 10 plates. 
First edition. Brown cloth with black embossed rules on beveled 
boards with gilt lettering at spine. 9" x 5.5". [423 pgs] Near fine. 
Minor wear at extremities.  Mild scattered foxing, mostly at tissue 
protectors of plates.  Contents are tight and clean.  $135.00

10.  SMITH, MRS. E. VALE.  HISTORY OF NEWBURYPORT; FROM THE EARLIEST 
SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY TO THE PRESENT TIME. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL 
APPENDIX. Newburyport: Privately Published, 1854. Illustrated by 
three b&w plates. First edition. Brown cloth with blind embossed 
designs to boards, gilt lettering and design at spine. 9.5" x 5.75". 
[414 pgs] Fine. Tight, bright and sound.  $160.00

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