[Rarebooks] FS: Kennebunkport Boarding House Guest Book

[Bob Petrilla]

Kennebunkport, Maine. BOARDING HOUSE GUEST BOOK, HANDWRITTEN ENTRIES,
1902-1909. Original manuscript. 30pp; one printed page and 14pp of
holograph entries on versos only. All of the remarks are complimentary.
Signers include: Eugene, Emma & Harold Boardman of Reading, MA; Clara
Adams, Dorchester; Albert Rogers, Dorchester, "Though living with a heavy
heart, I carry a sunny face," and his wife, Martha; George Hoyt of Canton,
IL; Frank & William Curtis, and Anna Turner, Roxbury, MA; Albert Madina,
Washington, DC; Rosamond Gould, Malden, "Arrival July 23rd 1909 - 7:30 (by
Motor)"; Regina Jones, Chestnut Hill, MA; Helen Leirseur, Boston; and
others. Bound in a hand-painted, pictorial linen album, showing a
well-dressed woman descending a staircase by candlelight; interior threads
gone. 9.25" x 7.25" Very Good. Pictorial Cloth.
An early memento of Kennebunkport's emergence as a summer resort in the
1870s.  $100.00

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