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Hard cover, 8vo in blue paper-covered boards, titles in gold to spine, with the original pictorial dustjacket featuring a Currier and Ives print, 479pp. CONDITION: Near Fine, (pages lightly are age-toned, two more so) in a Fine d/j. An anthology of various stories of New England originally published in various illustrated magazines in the nineteenth century, or turn of the twentieth century, including Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Scribner's Monthly Magazine, The Outing Magazine, The New England Magazine and others unattributed. Authors include James P. Baxter,Frederick Booth, C. Seymour Bullock, R.G.F. Candage, J.R. Chapin, James B. Connolly, Thomas Fleming Day, Walter Deane, Julia C.R. Dorr, Caroline Harwood Garland,Henry F. Jenks, A.E. Marr, Harry E. Miller, Charles E. Perry, Arthur Pierre, Victor Slocum, Winfield M. Thompson, Holman Douglas Waldron, and others unattributed. Partial contents include: "Huntsman of the Sea," on American whaling, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1874. (Excerpted from W. Morris Davis, "Nimrod of the Sea; or The American Whaleman," (New York: Harper & Brothers); Thomas Fleming Day's , "Running the Rips," about sailing through gales around Martha's Vineyard, from The Outing Magazine, 1907; "A New England Village," from Harper's New Monthly Magaine (1874) about Stockbridge, in the Massachusetts Berkshires; R.G. F. Candage's " Boston Light and the Brewsters," appearing in The New England Magazine (1895); "Knocking About Cape Cod," The Outing Magazine, (1905); an excerpt from James P. Baxter's "The Story of Portland," (1895); "A Summer in Nantucket," from Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1860) and similar. Other items include articles about Gloucester Fishermen, Block Island, Rutland, Vermont, and Old Dover New Hampshire, Black Bass Fishing in Maine, The Development of Steam Navigation in Connecticut etc. The book is without a good table of contents or index, nonetheless, a good tableside-read with plenty of vintage illustration and photographs, many of which are also unattributed.
Ref: AMER 9366
$35.00