New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel for older children by this award winning writer. "A newcomer to Wingate, New Hampshire, Amy Abbott lands a summer job at the exclusive Spruce Tree Lodge, forms the Graveyard Gang with new friends Sandy, Wilma, and Cathy, and solves a mystery" 180 pp. ISBN: 0-68419449X.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980). In the mid 19th century, from the farms of New England, young women flocked to the mills, lured by what was at the time the highest wages paid to women - that is, from $1.85-3.00 a week - and seeking independence and opportunity. Despite their long hours in the mills, they still found time to write about their lives and aspirations in The Lowell Offering, their literary magazine. The selections in this book are edited and with an introduction and commentary by Benita Eisler. Illustrated. Selected bibliography. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-060907967.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980). In the mid 19th century, from the farms of New England, young women flocked to the mills, lured by what was at the time the highest wages paid to women - that is, from $1.85-3.00 a week - and seeking independence and opportunity. Despite their long hours in the mills, they still found time to write about their lives and aspirations in The Lowell Offering, their literary magazine. The selections in this book are edited and with an introduction and commentary by Benita Eisler. Illustrated. Selected bibliography. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-060907967.

Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1843. Hardcover first edition - Introduction by the editor and substantial selections from many Connecticut writers, including of note: Hon. Roger Wolcott, Rev. Aaron Cleveland, John Trumbull, Dr. Lemuel Hopkins, Col. David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, Richard Alsop, Dr. Elihu Hubbard Smith, Lydia H. Sigourney, Samuel Goodrich, Fitz-Green Halleck, Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd, Martha Day and others. Engraved half title page with a bucolic Connecticut River scene. xii, 468 pp.

New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Times, (1930). Hardcover first edition - 'Over One Thousand Prize Recipes Selected from the innumerable Contributions of the Women of New Bedford and Cape Cod." The name of each contributor and their address is shown after each recipe. 369 pp plus index and ads. Some handwritten recipes in the blank pages at the end.

New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - A reprint of this work originally published in London in 1833. The author's had a rather negative but narrow view of American society based on his travels in and around New Jersey, New York, and New England, and a positive experience in Canada. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. 433 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054521.

New York: Macmillan, 1931. Hardcover first edition - A story set on the Maine frontier in 1743. Illustrated with wood engravings by Allen Lewis.

New York: Doubleday, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story set back in the days of whaling in New England in 1840. Illustrated with woodcuts by the author.

New York: Harper & Row, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel for older children, set in Boston in 1681 which tells the story of a Narraganset Indian boy who had been captured in a raid in 1675 and who still longs for his family, even though he has been apprenticed to a kindly printer. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0219122.

New York: Henry Holt, (1937.) dj. Hardcover - A collection of reviews, criticism and essays on Frost's life and work, by such writers as William Dean Howells, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Louis Untermeyer, Christopher Morley, Louis Untermeyer, W.H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Edwin Muir and others. Illustrated with photographs. Frontispiece portrait with a fascimile signature. Chronology, xx, 312 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. dj. Hardcover - A 'quirky modern myth' set on a farm in Vermont. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Dan Bolognese. 433 pp. ISBN: 0-394-499123.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover - A 'quirky modern myth' set on a farm in Vermont. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Dan Bolognese. 433 pp. ISBN: 0-394-499123.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Definitive history of the maritime disaster caused by the collision of the ocean liner Andrea Doria with the Swedish liner Stockholm in the fog 1956 off the island of Nantucket on the Massachusetts coast. In the eleven hours before the ship sunk, 1700 people were rescued. The ill-fated voyage is recreated using interviews, court documents, memoirs and this book presents technical findings that shed new light on the causes of the disaster. Photographs, sources, index.viii, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-471-38934X.

Boston: Lothrup Publishing Company, 1895. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this New England author best known for her humorous sketches. It begins with a mother returning to Boston from a nine-month long trip in California to find that her 15 year old son has grown both physically and mentally and is now balanced between boyhood and being a man. This was presumably based on her own experiences, since she made an extended tour to the west coast in 1887-88. Illustrated with full page glossy plates and en-texte drawings by C. Chase Emerson. Tissue guard at frontispiece. While Green was a very popular author in her lifetime she is almost unknown now, with none of her books available. 262 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The fortune of the Warren family, derived from a Maine papermill, enabled five siblings to grow up in the elite society of Boston's Beacon Hill in the early 1900s. In telling the stories of those children who became notable for eccentricity and philanthropy, Green focuses on [two brothers] - Ned Warren, a homosexual and mover in the international movement of aestheticism, who was determined to lead a 'grand but blighted life'" and his elder brother, Sam, a staid businessman. The Warren fortune funded the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, with its classical antiquities collection, Dennison House in Harvard Yard, the restoration of Shakertown and more. Photographs, endnotes, bibliography and index. xii, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-684191091.

New York: Kensington, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Fifth novel by this award-winning writer and like her first novel, this is set on Lake Gormlaith in Vermont where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up and where he hopes he can rescue his son from a destructive path, salvaging what's left of his family and overcome a writer's block, and a looming deadline. SIGNED on the title page. Reading guide bound in. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0758228789.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this prize-winning (and highly praised author) - a story which begins on Cape Cod in the summer of 1976, when a family is jolted out of their life of privilege by the realization that their only daughter has a genetic condition - Turner's syndrome. SIGNED on the title page. 390 pp. ISBN: 9780060755782.

New York: The Viking Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the last year of the life of poet Robert Frost. Author's note and chapter notes. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-670-018666.

New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Miss Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, and her niece Sherry Carter, set in a small town in Connecticut. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated at Left Coast Crime '07. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-553801023.

New York: Bantam, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Miss Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, and her long-suffering niece Sherry Carter, set in a small town in Connecticut. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated at Left Coast Crime '07. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-55380099x.

New York: Bantam, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Third mystery featuring Miss Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, and her niece Sherry Carter, set in a small town in Connecticut. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - Second mystery featuring Miss Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, and her long-suffering niece Sherry Carter, set in a small town in Connecticut. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-55380099x.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of what courage means and how a young boy learned to overcome his fears. Based on an actual incident in Maine during King Phillip's War in 1676 - because of the Indian raids the Potts family and their neighbors left their homes to travel offshore to Jewell Island. There they felt so safe they left nine year old Thomas Potts to guard the fort. When Thomas saw the Indians lower their war canoes off Cliff Island, he fired the shot that saved the island. Illustrated with drawings by J. C. Kocsis.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An international thriller rooted in the war on terrorism: the story of a ghostwriter brought in to help a newly retired British Prime Minister to write his memoirs. Set on Martha's Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, Massachusett. Basis for the 2010 Roman Polanski film, The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. A hardcover Advance Reader's Edition, in a special promotional dust jacket with a letter from the publisher on the rear cover. 335 pp. ISBN: 1416551816.

Boston & Chicago: W. A, Wilde Company, (1925). Hardcover first edition - A summer at a girls's camp on a lake in Vermont helps a rather overindulged young girl learn to have confidence in herself and her abilities, the importance of teamwork and persistence and much more. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill. The author's only book and rather uncommon. 319 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. SIGNED first edition - The second mystery in the highly praised series featuring Boston private eye John Francis Cuddy - a great series. Tony Hillerman called the plot idea 'fresh and intriguing'; Robert Parker described this novel as a 'pleasure to read.' Winner of the Shamus Award for best PI novel. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, set in Boston - a novel which "floodlights the murky area of the city where the borders between legitimate and criminal enterprise vanish in a fog of greed."

New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her sixth novel, set in a decaying mill town, and exploring the complex relationships between sisters. INSCRIBED on the title page "For ... with warmest wishes." 275 pp. ISBN: 0-385-47279x.

New York: Atheneum, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Written in diary form, this is the story of a ten-year-old girl who moves with her family in 1855 from a town on the Maine coast where her father is to be the lighthouse keeper. One night when he is ill it is up to her to keep the light shining and the ships safe. Illustrated in pen and ink and watercolor by Kimberly Bulcken Root. SIGNED by Hopkinson on the title page. Historical note at the end in which the author explains that while Birdie is a fictional character, her story is based on the experiences of real life lighthouse heroines. Tall thin format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-689810520.