Maine Books from Trench Books

Garden City: Doubleday, 1956. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Good/Good. Wear to top edge of front cover, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, fraying at lower spine.

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1996. First Edition . Black Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Minimal wear, unmarked. Jacket shows light rubbing, no price. "Selected Civil War Papers of Major General Joshua Chamberlain". B&W photos.

New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1954. First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. L.L. Avery. Light soiling to covers, text clean and unmarked. This is a thirty-two page booklet. "Major Jonathan Loring Austin (1748-1826) A Kittery Merchant on a Secret Misssion to London For Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

New York: Newcomen Society of England, 1950. Second Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Minimal wear/soiling to covers, date stamped on back. Twenty-four page booklet; a reprint of the Newcomen Address given at the Hotel Lafayette in Portland, in 1950, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Burnham & Morrill Co. Nicely illus with sketches and… Ler mais sobre este item

Camden ME: Down East Books. Soft cover. Very Good. This is a collection of DOWN EAST MAGAZINES. Well over 600 copies, the earliest being issue #4, 1954, up through the early 2000s. Not a complete run by any means, although some years are complete. Some inevitable duplication. Condition of the majority is very good to excellent, alot being… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge, MA: Berkshire, 1953. Spiral - Metal. Very Good. Light wear to covers; name on title page, a few entries. This is a small (6x7") weekly appointment book, such as you would keep on a desk. Each week features a nice B&W scene of Maine, along with a quote from a Maine author. Only two entries.

New York: Morrow, 1948. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Tan Cloth. Good+/Good+. Light soiling to covers, inscription on flyleaf. Jacket shows wear and chipping to edges. The story of rebuilding a Maine farmhouse after it's loss to fire.

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Lucy Reeves Trowbridge. Minimal wear, name and date on flyleaf. Jacket somewhat worn, lighly soiled. True story of a family that buys a seven acre island off the coast of Maine.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1957. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light foxing to covers and endpapers, inscription on flyleaf; signed by the author on the title page. Jacket shows edgewear. Novel from a popular Down East author.

Dendrite, 1994. Photo/wraps. Very Good+. Light wear, sound unmarked copy. "Playing Like a Girl: Cindy Blodgett and the Lawrence Bulldogs Season of '93-'94". This is a 44 page booklet created and written by Tabitha King about the 1990's Maine high school girls basketball star. Cindy later went on to play for the University of Maine and… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Macmillan, 1950. First Printing . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Poor. Light wear to spine ends, clean and unmarked. Jacket quite worn, pen writing front and back, chipping to edges. "...a perceptive and stirring study of a troubled small boy". Uplifting story from a well known Maine author.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1877. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Heavy rubbing/wear to covers, binding loose but holding together well, extensive pencil notations inside front and back covers, and throughout. Signed by original users, various high school girls in coastal Maine in the 1880s. "Combining oral and written exercises in a natural and logical system of instruction". I bet a… Ler mais sobre este item

Greenville, ME: Moosehead Communications, 2009. Second Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket-as Published. Suzette M. East. Minimal wear/soiling to covers, sound and unmarked. A collection of stories, articles, and photos; all about Schoodic Lake in Maine. Various authors.

New York: Morrow, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. F. Wenderoth Saunders. Light wear, clean and unmarked. Price clipped jacket shows minor wear, light soiling. A "genial excursion into the state of culinary artlessness in America today". Popular Maine author.

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1938. Navy Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Light wear to corners, minor rubbing at edges, clean and unmarked. Jacket worn, complete, in pieces; not price clipped. "A Chronicle of The Province of Maine And of The Secret Expedition Against Quebec".

New York: Henry Holt, 1932. White Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light edgewear. Jacket shows minor wear/chipping to edges. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. ALSO, the prev. owner (apparently) created a very good pen and ink drawing on the flyleaf that portrays a home library and is dated 'Christmas, 1935'. The artwork on the flyleaf and the bookplate appear… Ler mais sobre este item

Kennebunk, ME: Star Print Inc. Original Wraps. Good+/No Jacket. Two different annual reports for the town of Kennebunkport, 1926-27 and 1928-29 (89 pgs each). Wear and soiling to covers, unmarked and in one piece. Lists all expenditures, receipts, property owners, deadbeats, and do-gooders. Among the non-resident taxpayers listed is George H. Walker, father and grandfather of of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Freeport ME: L.L. Bean, 1950. Ninth Printing . Flexible Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Minimal wear, yellowing to a few pages, clean and unmarked; flexible burgundy colored covers. Mapped endpapers, one of Baxter State Park, the others shows the 1949 deer kill, by town. Many B&W photos.

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1963. First Edition . White Cloth. Good+/Good+. Light soiling to edges, faint pencil erasures on flyleaf, otherwise sound and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, moderate soiling. Sentimental journal of life at Bates College in the 1920's.

Freeport ME: Bond Wheelwright, 1972. Trade Paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear/soiling to covers, inscription on flyleaf. A Mainer writes about "Our Life in the Theater Around the Turn of the Century". Numerous B&W photos.