[Rarebooks] FS: Sabbathday Lake Shakers & Barbershops...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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, Todd penned his memoirs “between shaves and haircuts”. In
addition to publishing his own book he also wrote a weekly newspaper
column, “with but little capital, either mental or financial”. Todd has
much to say about his customers, their attitudes, problems, and so forth.
He also discusses the Shaker community at Alfred, Maine and supplies a
portrait of Shaker Elder John B. Vance, 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.  [30378]  $75.00

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