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  • JANE'S ISLAND plus May 1931 issue of YOUNG WINGS. by Allee, Marjorie Hill
    Allee, Marjorie Hill
    JANE'S ISLAND plus May 1931 issue of YOUNG WINGS.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York & Boston: Junior Literary Guild / Houghton Mifflin Company 1931. dj. Hardcover - Set in Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Ellen, a 17-year-old college freshman, and 12-year-old Jane, the daughter of a marine biologist are spending the summer - a vacation "wherein biological specimens and adventures mix." The author spent many summers at Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole with her husband, a professor of zoology; she comments that as far as she knows this is the first book to use it as a setting. Author's note. Illustrated by Maitland de Gogorza with a frontispiece and eight internal plates on plain paper. A Newbery Honor recipient in 1932. Illustrated map endpapers. viii, 235 pp. Laid…

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    New York & Boston: Junior Literary Guild / Houghton Mifflin Company 1931. dj. Hardcover - Set in Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Ellen, a 17-year-old college freshman, and 12-year-old Jane, the daughter of a marine biologist are spending the summer - a vacation "wherein biological specimens and adventures mix." The author spent many summers at Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole with her husband, a professor of zoology; she comments that as far as she knows this is the first book to use it as a setting. Author's note. Illustrated by Maitland de Gogorza with a frontispiece and eight internal plates on plain paper. A Newbery Honor recipient in 1932. Illustrated map endpapers. viii, 235 pp. Laid in is a very uncommon May 1931 issue of "YOUNG WINGS: The Magazine of the Boys' and Girls' Own Book Club
    Junior Literary Guild." In addition to discussing Jane's Island, the May selection for older girls, this includes reviews of other current book club offerings, a letter from Marjorie Hill Allee, other features, illustrations, and letters from readers. Helen Ferris, Editor. 20 pp in glossy stapled wrappers.

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    Condition: Very near fine in blue cloth with black lettering and a small illustration on the cover, gold tinting on top edge, in a very good dustjacket (chipping and a tear to the upper end of the dj spine) The issue of Young Wings is fine.

    Book ID: 76154
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  • Banks, Oliver
    THE REMBRANDT PANEL

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this art historian. Introduces Amos Hatcher. An art dealer and a down-at-the-heels art runner are found murdered in a gallery on Charles Street in Boston,. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-316-080217.

    Condition: Very good+ in a very good dustjacket (dj is price-clipped, some light wear.)

    Book ID: 11424
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  • THE REMBRANDT PANEL by Banks, Oliver
    Banks, Oliver
    THE REMBRANDT PANEL

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this art historian. Introduces Amos Hatcher. An art dealer and a down-at-the-heels art runner are found murdered in a gallery on Charles Street in Boston,. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-316-080217.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 52544
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  • SANDWICH: The Town That Glass Built. by Barbour, Harriot Buxton.
    Barbour, Harriot Buxton.
    SANDWICH: The Town That Glass Built.

    Edition: First edition.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover first edition - A history of the town of Sandwich on Cape Cod, Massachusetts focusing on the glass-making businesses which flourished there. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Robert Hallack. Selected bibliography. Index. vii, 318 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library, in sturdy library binding, no dj.

    Book ID: 74715
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  • BURGESS BIRD BOOK FOR CHILDREN. by Burgess, Thornton W. (1874-1965)
    Burgess, Thornton W. (1874-1965)
    BURGESS BIRD BOOK FOR CHILDREN.

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1965) dj. Hardcover - Mistress Spring has arrived and Peter Rabbit wonders if any of his feathered friends have returned. A book which combines 45 enjoyable stories about animals with facts about their lives by this noted American conservationist and children's book author, who was born in Sandwich on Cape Cod. Illustrated in full color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Includes an editor's preface and a preface by Burgess. Large format. 128 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (front hinge starting)

    Book ID: 87507
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  • CLIFF HANGER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R.
    Craig, Philip R.
    CLIFF HANGER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Scribner's, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The 4th Martha's Vineyard mystery with J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - and also set in the Colorado mountains. SIGNED on the title page. Surprisingly uncommon in any edition, and especially so as a signed proof. 227 pp. .

    Condition: Fine in printed tan wrappers.

    Book ID: 80554
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  • A FATAL VINEYARD SEASON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R.
    Craig, Philip R.
    A FATAL VINEYARD SEASON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Recipes. Map. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855445.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

    Book ID: 62954
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  • A VINEYARD KILLING: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R.
    Craig, Philip R.
    A VINEYARD KILLING: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner's, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Map, recipes. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-7632-05243.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (some spots to the fore-edge of the textblock).

    Book ID: 52536
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  • A FATAL VINEYARD SEASON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R.
    Craig, Philip R.
    A FATAL VINEYARD SEASON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Recipes. Map. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855445.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 44567
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  • Craig, Philip R.
    A VINEYARD KILLING: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Scribner's, 2003. dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting -. ISBN: 0-7632-05243.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 27900
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  • VINEYARD STALKER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    VINEYARD STALKER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." Includes three soup recipes. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-70452.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 47688
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  • THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO THE SEA: A Jeff Jackson / Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO THE SEA: A Jeff Jackson / Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Craig's third novel and the rather uncommon second mystery in the series featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." 215 pp. ISBN: 0-684-192284.

    Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper, otherwise clean and tight)

    Book ID: 74353
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  • A CASE OF VINEYARD POISON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    A CASE OF VINEYARD POISON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner's, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." 253 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196166.

    Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 44568
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  • VINEYARD STALKER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    VINEYARD STALKER: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." Includes three soup recipes. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-70452.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 71583
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  • MURDER AT VINEYARD MANSION: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    MURDER AT VINEYARD MANSION: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." Map. Recipes. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-46764.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line, some toning to the pages.).

    Book ID: 56405
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  • VINEYARD SHADOWS: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery. by Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    Craig, Philip R. (1933-2007)
    VINEYARD SHADOWS: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner's, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Although Craig was born in California, grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively, it was on Martha's Vineyard that he found his real home - and started writing this popular series. As Julia Wells stated in his obituary the appeal of these books lies "in their readability, their power of escape and their keen sense of place. The author not only created characters that were agreeable and plots with just enough twist to pique the reader - he always got the Vineyard right." 253 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855453.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark)

    Book ID: 62440
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  • HURRICANE! by Demas, Corinne (illustrated by Lenice U. Strohmeier.
    Demas, Corinne (illustrated by Lenice U. Strohmeier.
    HURRICANE!

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Marshall Cavendish, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on a real hurricane - Hurricane Bob which hit Cape Cod in 1991 - this beautifully illustrated book describes from a child's perspective the preparations for a hurricane, the actual storm and the damage afterwards. SIGNED on the title page by the author and also INSCRIBED "Especially for - - Warm wishes in all weather" and dated in 1993. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-7614-50521.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 49094
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  • THE MAYTREES. by Dillard, Annie.
    Dillard, Annie.
    THE MAYTREES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about an unusual couple - a poet and an artist - living out their lives, mostly, in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod. 216 pp. ISBN: 9780061239533.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 56936
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  • INVISIBLE EDEN: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod. by Flook, Maria.
    Flook, Maria.
    INVISIBLE EDEN: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Broadway Books, (2003). First edition - An investigation of a crime that "riveted the nation" - the story of how a world-traveled fashion writer who had chosen to live as a single mother in Truro on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal and -at the time this book was published - still-unsolved murder. "Flook intricately maps Christa's charged life before her death and follows the first year of the murder investigation with the help of the district attorney who is in an election battle even as he searches for the killer. At the same time, this book captures the Cape's haunted landscape, class stratifications, and never-ending battles between its weathy summer residents and its hardscrabble…

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    New York: Broadway Books, (2003). First edition - An investigation of a crime that "riveted the nation" - the story of how a world-traveled fashion writer who had chosen to live as a single mother in Truro on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal and -at the time this book was published - still-unsolved murder. "Flook intricately maps Christa's charged life before her death and follows the first year of the murder investigation with the help of the district attorney who is in an election battle even as he searches for the killer. At the same time, this book captures the Cape's haunted landscape, class stratifications, and never-ending battles between its weathy summer residents and its hardscrabble working families who together form a backdrop for a powerful chronicle of love and murder." Reading this book does not inspire confidence in the police investigation, nor in the fact that justice has been done in the conviction of the supposed murderer. References. 406 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83226
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  • THE REBELLION OF JANE CLARKE. by Gunning, Sally
    Gunning, Sally
    THE REBELLION OF JANE CLARKE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010). Hardcover first edition - Novel set on Cape Cod and Boston, on the verge American Revolution. This story of story of one woman's struggle to find her own place is filled with some of the lesser known but most influential figures of America's struggle for independenceÑJohn and Samuel Adams, Henry Knox, James Otis. Historical note. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0061782145.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76945
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  • THE WIDOW'S WAR. by Gunning, Sally Cabot.
    Gunning, Sally Cabot.
    THE WIDOW'S WAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which opens on Cape Cod in 1761 where a woman refuses to give up the right to her home after her husband, a whaling captain, is lost at sea. Historical and bibliographical notes. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0061782145.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86862
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  • BLACKBIRD HOUSE. by Hoffman, Alice.
    Hoffman, Alice.
    BLACKBIRD HOUSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A series of interconnected narratives that follow the lives of the residents of a small house on Cape Cod over a period of 200 years. SIGNED on title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-385-507615.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80872
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  • GEORGINA OF THE RAINBOWS. by Johnston, Annie Fellows (1863-1931)
    Johnston, Annie Fellows (1863-1931)
    GEORGINA OF THE RAINBOWS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Britton Publishing Co., (1916.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel for both young and old by the author of 'The Little Colonel Series.' Although Johnston is closely associated with Kentucky - where she had settled some years before this novel was written - this is set in Provincetown, then a quaint old fishing village, on the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Illustrated by Ray N. Jackson with a full color frontispiece of 'the real Georgina' and three glossy plates as well as numerous small black and white drawings. 348 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering in a very good dustjacket. (gift inscription dated in 1917, some minor edgewear to the dj, mostly on the back cover.) Scarce in dust jacket and especially so in this condition.

    Book ID: 46402
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  • DEATH AT THE CUT. by Kiker, Douglas.
    Kiker, Douglas.
    DEATH AT THE CUT.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Random House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book and second mystery featuring reporter Mac McFarland, set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and involving the body of a girl found in a car underwater, a Senator who might or might not have been involved. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-394-569520.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (hint of spine slant.).

    Book ID: 46431
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  • DEATH AT THE CUT. by Kiker, Douglas.
    Kiker, Douglas.
    DEATH AT THE CUT.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Random House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book and second mystery featuring reporter Mac McFarland, set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and involving the body of a girl found in a car underwater, a Senator who might or might not have been involved. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-394-569520.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder mark.).

    Book ID: 43794
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  • CHRISTMAS DAYS. by Lincoln, Joseph C. (1870-1944)
    Lincoln, Joseph C. (1870-1944)
    CHRISTMAS DAYS.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Coward-McCann, 1938. Hardcover first edition - Stories of the fifties (the 1850s, that is), sixties and seventies by this beloved Cape Cod author, illustrated in black and white by Howard Brett. Lincoln's "yarns" of old Cape Cod populated by old Yankee stock, were "an antidote to an America that was undergoing rapid modernization, urbanization, immigration, and industrialization." Color illustrated endpapers. 158 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in coarse beige cloth illustrated with a ship under full sail, no dust jacket (previous owner's name)

    Book ID: 85346
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  • Lipman, Elinor
    ISABEL'S BED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Delightful romantic comedy set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts where Harriet, an unpublished fortyish writer, recently jilted, has fled to in response to an intriguing ad. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-671-881604.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (ink mark on front endpaper, otherwise a very clean, apparently unread copy.)

    Book ID: 13540
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  • A MATTER OF ROSES: A Faith Abbey Mystery. by Manuel, David.
    Manuel, David.
    A MATTER OF ROSES: A Faith Abbey Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in the Faith Abbey series, set on Cape Cod and introducing Brother Bartholomew and Chief of Police Dan Burke, two native Cape Codders, friends since their boyhood days, even though their paths had diverged. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1557252580.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59259
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  • A MATTER OF DIAMONDS: A Faith Abbey Mystery. by Manuel, David.
    Manuel, David.
    A MATTER OF DIAMONDS: A Faith Abbey Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book in the Faith Abbey series, set on Cape Cod and featuring Brother Bartholomew and Chief of Police Dan Burke, two native Cape Codders, friends since their boyhood days, even though their paths had diverged. 314 pp. ISBN: 1557252580.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57640
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  • WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT NANTUCKET? by Miles, Mary; illustrated by Barbara Kauffmann Locke.
    Miles, Mary; illustrated by Barbara Kauffmann Locke.
    WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT NANTUCKET?

    Edition: First printing.

    Nantucket, Massachusetts: Faraway Publishing Group, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Black and white drawings and full color illustrations of Nantucket Island by Barbara Kauffmann Locke. Oblong format. 33 pp. ISBN: 0-9636885-0-2.

    Condition: Very near fine in a a good dustjacket (2 tears to upper edge of dj.).

    Book ID: 57753
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