[Rarebooks] F/S Scarce White Mountain Piece

[Garry Austin]

We offer for your consideration the following; Postpaid & net to all @$100.00

(Dean, Christopher C). A Memorial Of Pleasant Scenes. Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, and approved by the Committee of Publication. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1852. Only Edition. 16mo, pp. 108; frontispiece of a lake and mountain scene and a “finis” cut on the final page of text; black cloth, patterned in blind, yellow coated endpapers, with a gilt lettered and decorated spine; Very good with only minor wear. A bit of a White Mountains treasure, the second chapter pp; 33-48, “Tour Of The White Mountains”. It goes into great detail and discusses the principal places that are still visited in this locale today,  OCLC locates just two copies at Dartmouth and Southern Connecticut State and AAS holds two copies in variant bindings. Not in Bent. This copy bears a simple legend on the front free endpaper; “No. 79 S.S. Library, School Dist. 16”. A lovely addition to any White Mountains Collection, scarce & unusual.