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![ALCOTT MEMOIRS: Posthumously Compiled from Papers Journals and Memoranda of the Late Dr. Frederick L. H. Willis. by [Alcott, Bronson and Louisa May] Willis, Frederick L. H.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/51950---200.jpg?v=1519431031)
ALCOTT MEMOIRS: Posthumously Compiled from Papers Journals and Memoranda of the Late Dr. Frederick L. H. Willis.
Edition: Limited facsimile edition.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff printed grey wrappers.
Book ID: 51950More details Price: $12.50 -
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: 74715More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LACE READER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: William H. Morrow, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's very hard to describe first novel about a family of women from Salem, Massachusetts who can read the future in the patterns of lace. SIGNED on the title page. Author's disclaimer. 300 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (a new copy.)
Book ID: 57593More details Price: $30.00 -
WHAT WE HAD: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - More than just a memoir of the author's own life, this is the story, told in brief glimpses, of his family, frozen in time in the jazz age, while in 1931 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the mills were closing - and of the impact of Pearl Harbor, his own experiences as a student at Harvard where he agreed to be injected with mind-altering drugs as part of an experiment at a famous hospital, a brief and funny stint as a CIA agent. ISBN: 0-671-694782.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 31429More details Price: $18.00 -
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: 44568More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 56405More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 47688More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 62440More details Price: $16.50 -
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: 74353More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 71583More details Price: $16.50 -
TOWNIE: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir which tells of his coming of age in a drug-ridden and depressed mill town in Massachusetts where his mother struggled to support them, while his father was a professor at a nearby liberal arts college. This is book is a meditation on violence, and a description of the creative process, and a story of coming together with his father. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 9780393064667.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 59965More details Price: $45.00 -
A SURVEY OF THE ATLANTIC BEACHES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - a wild and funny road-trip as a divorced father escorts his 16 year old son back from prep school in New England to Alabama - by way of many Atlantic beaches - from Wellfleet on Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras to St Augustine in Florida. Dust jacket praise from Andre Dubus, John Irving, Wright Morris and more. ISBN: 0-517566915.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36408More details Price: $17.50 -
LIZZIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Lizzie Borden - alternating between the story of a trip she took to Europe and the story of the inquest and trial - Hunter, of course, is also well known for the mysteries he writes under the name of Ed McBain. 430 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-5700.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (some short closed edgetears to dj.)
Book ID: 34205More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 46402More details Price: $85.00 -
THE PERFECT STORM.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Norton, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Swordfishermen of Gloucester, Massachusetts and the last moments of the fishing boat Andrea Gail. Recounts the daring highseas rescues, weaves together the history of the fishing industry, sience of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storms touched. Movie tie-in edition with a wraparound band advertising the movie of the same name, starring George Clooney. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-393-050327.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50321More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PERFECT STORM.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Norton, (1997) dj. Hardcover - Sword fishermen of Gloucester, Massachusetts and the last moments of the fishing boat Andrea Gail. Recounts the daring highseas rescues, weaves together the history of the fishing industry, sience of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storms touched. Basis for the movie of the same name, starring George Clooney. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-393-04016x.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (name blacked over on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 54107More details Price: $12.50 -
THE PERFECT STORM.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Norton, 1997 dj. Hardcover - Sword fishermen of Gloucester, Massachusetts and the las t moments of the fishing boat Andrea Gail. Recounts the daring highseas rescues, weaves together the history of the fishing industry, sience of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storms touched. Basis for the movie of the same name, starring George Clooney. ISBN: 0-393-04016x.
Condition: A tight copy but missing front end page in near fine price clipped dust jacket.
Book ID: 11371More details Price: $12.50 -
MEMOIRS OF A SHAPE-SHIFTER.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge, MA: Kepler Press, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel with "Gothic undertones shifting between present-day and colonial New England," a story within a story, as Nikki Helmik reads the found journal of her ancestor, Anne Cleves, who lived in Dogtown, in the woods above Gloucester, during the Salem witch trials - a journal which strangely echoes Nikki's own struggle to resolve the crises in her life. INSCRIBED on the dedication page and dated in 2018. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-971377030.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72965More details Price: $25.00 -
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: 46431More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 43794More details Price: $14.50 -
MORTAL WORDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring children's book illustrator Calista Jacobs -in her hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the author of children's books on evolution has been murdered, and together with her 13 year old son and a handsome archeologist, she sets out to investigate. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671-684469.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, toning to the pages.
Book ID: 67281More details Price: $16.50 -
MORTAL WORDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring children's book illustrator Calista Jacobs -in her hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the author of children's books on evolution has been murdered, and together with her 13 year old son and a handsome archeologist, she sets out to investigate. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671-684469.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 67282More details Price: $18.50 -
HOME FREE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan (Four Winds Press), (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning author of books for young adults about the destruction caused by the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts - and an attempt to preserve the "accidental wilderness" which emerged and to bring back the eagles to the area. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-02-7516504.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67710More details Price: $18.00 -
DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery introducing private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, set in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section. INSCRIBED on the title page "--- warmest regards" 336 pp. ISBN: 0-688-143806.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 65555More details Price: $50.00 -
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: 57640More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 59259More details Price: $25.00 -
LANDSCAPE WITH REPTILE: Rattlesnakes in an Urban World.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80723More details Price: $35.00 -
CROSSING THE WATER: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys - A Teacher's Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58098More details Price: $18.50 -
CROSSING THE WATER: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys - A Teacher's Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 84940More details Price: $17.50 -
TIME IN ITS FLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel of a hundred years in the lives of a New England family.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket - in extremely good condition for such a massive book (782 pgs.)
Book ID: 11657More details Price: $20.00
![ALCOTT MEMOIRS: Posthumously Compiled from Papers Journals and Memoranda of the Late Dr. Frederick L. H. Willis. by [Alcott, Bronson and Louisa May] Willis, Frederick L. H.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/51950---800.jpg?v=1519431031)
