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Dave’s People - A Maine Television Adventure

Photos and stories by Dave Silverbrand

Durrell Publications, 1982

softcover, 171 pages

good condition

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Donn Fendler - Lost on a Mountain in Maine

A Brave Boy’s True Story of His Nine-Day Adventure Alone in the Mount Katahdin Wilderness

as told to Joseph B. Egan

New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1978

hardcover, 124 pages

former library book

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Sarah Orne Jewett an American Persephone

by Sarah Way Sherman

University Press of New England, 1989

softcover, 333 pages

like new condition, unread

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

I Remember Warm Rain - 15 Teenagers

15 Coming to America Stories

Telling Room’s Story House Project, 2007

Portland, Maine

softcover - 134 pages

good condition - no markings

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

Beyond the Spring

Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre

Maine’s Pioneer Ornithologist and Photographer

by Chandler S. Richmond

The Latona Press, 1989

softcover- like new  condition -

155 pages - crisp and clean

our price:  $11.95 plus media mail shipping

Marvelous Mainers

by Dave Silverbrand

Gannett Books, 1984

vintage softcover, 225 pages

collector’s item

very good condition

gift inscription on title page

our price:   $13.95 plus media mail shipping

The Ladies of Castine - From the Minutes of the Castine, Maine Woman’s Club

by Miriam Anne Bourne

Arbor House, 1986

First Edition

hardcover - 148 pages

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

by Donn Fendler as told to Joseph B. Egan

First Beech Tree Edition stated, 1992

a Division of William Morrow

softcover - like new condition

109 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

Lifesaving Lessons - Notes From An Accidental Mother

by Linda Greenlaw

Viking, 2013

hardcover,  260 pages

NEW BOOK!

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Best of Boyle

Nostalgia, History, Wit & Wisdom

by Harold Boyle

Guy Gannett Publishing, 1980

First Edition stated

vintage softcover, good condition

cover is slightly stained

279 pages

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

My Life As a Maine-Iac

by Muriel Young

Puckerbrush Press, Orono, Maine, 1984

vintage softcover, 210 pages

former library book with usual library markings

pages are unmarked and intact

cover has been taped

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Scotfree - Memoirs of a Maine Girl

by Elizabeth Scott Howe Bell

copyright by Elizabeth Bell, 2013

softcover, 150 pages, very good condition

former library book

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Faces of Maine

by Bob Niss

Guy Gannett Books, First Printing, 1981

vintage hardcover, 214 pages,  good condition

former library book

pages are clean and unmarked

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Maine and Her People

by Harold B. Clifford

With a Supplement by Charlotte L. Melvin on

“The Story of Aroostook, Maine’s Last Frontier”

The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1976

vintage hardcover, 346 pages

former school book

some notes and underlining in red pen

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Some Jewels of Maine - Jewish Maine Pioneers

by Celia C. Risen

Dorrance Publishing Company, Inc., 1997

First printing stated

softcover, 178 pages

like new condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Dave’s People - A Maine Television Adventure

Stories and Photos by Dave Silverbrand

Durrell Publications, 1982

vintage softcover, 172 pages

books has stains on bottom of the pages

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

Donn Fendler - Lost on a Mountain in Maine

A Brave Boy’s True Story of His Nine-Day Adventure Alone in the Mount Katahdin Wilderness

as told to Joseph B. Egan

New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1978

hardcover, 124 pages

former library book - scribble marks on

introductory page and back page

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

Just Maine Folks

written by Maine Writers Research Club, 1924

former library book with usual library markings

spine of book is taped

book shows wear with stains and one corner of

a page that is chipped

spine is taped inside cover

still provides acceptable reading copy

antique hardcover, 331 pages

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

All for Maine - The Story of Governor

Percival P. Baxter

by Liz Soares

Windswept Books, 1995

softcover, 101 pages

interior pages - crisp, unmarked, intact

remainder mark on bottom of book

our price:   $11.95 plus media mail shipping

The Big-Little World of Doc Pritham

by Dorothy Clarke Wilson

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971

vintage hardcover, 321 pages

First Edition Stated

good condition - intact and unmarked

dustjacket is slightly chipped around edges

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Women of Maine

by Lee Agger

Guy Gannett Publishing Company, 1982

softcover, 237 pages

good condition - pages are intact and unmarked

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Yankee Warrior - The Story of a Civil War Hero From Maine

by Robert L. Haskell

Bangor Publishing Company, 1993

former library book with usual library markings

hardcover, 223 pages, protected in mylar covering

pages are crisp, unmarked, and intact

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Hysteria and Other Cases - A Maine Doctor

Looks Back

by James Edward Poulin, M.D.

Mountain Greenery Press, 1993

softcover,  88 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

My Neck of the Woods

by Louise Dickinson Rich

Down East Books, 1998

(reprint of original 1950 edition)

softcover, 255 pages

excellent like new condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Oak Hill Road Wars - VHS Tape

produced in Maine about Mainers by Lonefeather Productions. Narrated by Kim Gordon.

This film documents the Manters’ 30-year long struggle with government over the very concept of a public

easement, a road that the public is free to use but does not have to maintain.

rare collector’s item

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Black Bag to Blackberry - A Maine Pediatrician’s

40 Year Journey

by Conner M. Moore, M.D.

Bryson Taylor Publishing,

softcover, 298 pages

excellent like new condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Pigs Can’t Swim - A Memoir

An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family

by Helen Peppe

A Merloyd Lawrence Book, 2014

hardcover, 257 pages

NEW BOOK!!!

$14.95  plus media mail shipping

While You’re Here, Doc - Farmyard Adventures of a Maine Veterinarian

by Bradford B. Brown, DVM

Tilbury House Publishers, 2006

First Paperback Edition

softcover, 174 pages

interior pages - good condition

back cover has a tiny white mark from the removal

of a price sticker

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Year of the Longley

by Willis Johnson

Penobscot Bay Press

Stonington, Maine

Second printing, 1978

pages - very good condition

no writing or notes

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Suddenly, The Cider Didn’t Taste So Good

Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine

by John Ford

Islandport Press, 2012

softcover , 218 pages

like new condition,

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Suddenly, The Cider Didn’t Taste So Good

Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine

by John Ford

Islandport Press, 2012

softcover , 218 pages

good condition,

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Maine Remembers Those Who Served

Tributes From The Pine Tree State

by Secretary of State Dan A. Gwadowsky

Maine Department of the Secretary of State, 2001

softcover , 201 pages

like new condition,

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Green Wood and Chloroform

How a Young English Doctor Settled in Rural Maine

by Anthony Betts, M.D.

Down East Books, 1998

softcover, 251 pages

like new condition,

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Union in Diversity

The Story of Our Marriage

by Dorothy Clarke Wilson

story of marriage of Elwin & Dorothy Clarke Wilson (two Bates College students)

Furbush-Roberts Printing Company, Inc., 1999

softcover, 134 pages

like new condition,

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

L.L. Bean - The Making of an American Icon

by Leon Gorman

Chairman. former President, and Grandson of

L.L. Bean

Harvard Business School Press, 2006

hardcover, 304 pages

interior pages - excellent condition

front of dustjacket has small white worn area

as shown in photo

our price:   $9.95  plus media mail shipping

The Lengthened Shadow of a Maine Man

A Biography of Guy P. Gannett

by Dudley Zuver

The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1956

antique hardcover,  128 pages

interior pages - very good condition

dustjacket is worn

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

More Than Petticoats - Remarkable Maine Women

by Kate Kennnedy

Globe Pequot Press, 2005

softcover,  150 pages

interior pages - very good condition

our price:   $9.95  plus media mail shipping

Suddenly, The Cider Didn’t Taste So Good

Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine

by John Ford

Islandport Press, 2012

softcover , 218 pages

like new condition,

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Loving Memories of Cecil Foster Bridges

March 15, 1909 - April 5, 1996

Editor and Co-Author: Ruth Bridges Ayers

Data Duplicators, Printer- Houston, Texas, 2001

softcover , 179 pages

very good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

A New England Family Heritage

by Thelma Louise Bridges Sanderson Weymouth

signed by author

softcover , 193 pages

very good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Marvelous Mainers

by Dave Silverbrand

Gannett Books, 1984

vintage softcover, 225 pages

collector’s item

fair condition - former library book

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Making Waves - The Stories of Maine’s

Bob Crowley

as told to David Ladd

David Ladd Press, 2009

softcover, 126 pages

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Maine - A Peopled Landscape

Salt Documentary Photography, 1978 to 1995

edited by Hugh T. French

University Press of New England, 1995

softcover, 160 pages

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

“See My Buggy on the Street” -

Sadie Yeaton’s Stories

by Sadie Yeaton

Signed By Author!!

softcover, 78 pages

Second Printing, 1989

collector’s item

very good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Antiqueman’s Diary - The Memoirs of

Fred Bishop Tuck

(story about man who proclaimed himself as

Maine’s first antique dealer)

edited by Dean A. Fales, Jr.

Tilbury House Publishers, 2001

softcover, 150 pages

like new condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Eminent Mainers - Succint Biographies of THousands of Amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, and a Few People From Away Who Have Done Something Useful Within the State of Maine

by Arthur Douglas Stover

Tilbury House Publishers, 2006

softcover, 531 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

Heirs of General Practice

by John McPhee

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986

vintage softcover, 120 pages

good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Happy The Land

by Louise Dickinson Rich

J.P. Lippincott Company, 1946

Second impression

vintage hardcover, 259 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

by Donn Fendler

as told to Joseph B. Egan

Picton Press, 1993

hardcover, 128 pages

like new condition, no dustjacket

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

More Than Pettioats - Remarkable Maine Women

by Kate Kennedy

Globe Pequot Press, 2005

softcover, 150 pages

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Neighborhood Heroes - Life Lessons From Maine’s Greatest Generation

by Morgan Rielly

Down East Books, 2014

softcover, 180 pages

very good like new condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

We Took to the Woods

by Louise Dickinson Rich

Down East Books, 1998

reprinted by arrangement with J.B. Lippincott

Company

softcover, 322 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Maine Remembers Those Who Served

Tributes From The Pine Tree State

by Secretary of State Dan A. Gwadowsky

Maine Department of the Secretary of State, 2001

softcover , 201 pages

good condition,

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

She Took to the Woods

A Biography and Selected Writings of Louise Dickinson Rich

by Alice Arlen

Down East Books, 2000

softcover , 308 pages

good condition,

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

A Time to Recall - The Delights of a Maine Childhood

by Helen V. Taylor

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1963

First Edition

vintage hardcover

cover shows wear, no dustjacket

interior pages - good condition

224 pages

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Happy The Land

by Louise Dickinson Rich

J.P. Lippincott Company, 1946

Second impression

vintage hardcover, 259 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Seven Women in Maine

by Elizabeth Lydia Bodner

EBW Associates, 2013

softcover, 242 pages

good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Governor’s Travels

How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a

Bus, and Found America

by Angus King

Down East, 2011

softcover, 159 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Baxters of Maine

Downeast Visionaries

by Neil Rolde

Tilbury House Publishers, 1997

softcover, 340 pages

very good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Growing Up Kennebec - A Downeast Boyhood

by Carroll F. Terrell

Northern Lights, 1993

softcover, 276 pages

interior pages - very good condition

back cover is lightly soiled

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Donn Fendler - Lost on a Mountain in Maine

as told to Joseph B. Egan

softcover, 98 pages

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Wyeth People - a portrait of Andrew Wyeth as he

is seen by his friends and neighbors

by Gene Logsdon

Doubleday & Company, 1971

vintage hardcover, 159 pages

former library book

dustjacket shows light wear

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Old Maine Woman

Stories from the Coast to the County

by Glenna Johnson Smith

Islandport Press, 2010

softcover, 161 pages

very good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Quiet Presence - Histoires de Franco-Americains

en New England

Dramatic, first-person accounts: the true stories of Franco-Americans in New England

by Dyke Hendrickson

Guy Gannett Publishing, 1980

vintage softcover, 266 pages

good condition

our price:   $17.95 plus media mail shipping

Wilderness Partners - Buzz Caverly and Baxter State Park

by Phyllis Austin

Tilbury House Publishers, 2008

softcover, 586 pages

like new condition

our price:   $17.95 plus media mail shipping

Finding Their Own Voices

Maine Women at the Millennium: Their Stories

by James Andrew Mitchell

Down East Books, 2002

softcover, 144 pages

like new condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Green Wood and Chloroform

How a Young English Doctor Settled in Rural Maine

by Anthony Betts, M.D.

Down East Books, 1998

softcover, 251 pages

like new condition,

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Governor’s Travels

How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a

Bus, and Found America

by Angus King

Down East, 2011

softcover, 159 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Never Underestimate... The Life and Career of Margaret Chase Smith Through the Eyes of the Political Cartoonist

Northwood University

Margaret Chase Smith Library

designed and written by Margaret F. Viens

softcover, 183 pages

good condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

From the Kennebec to the Elbe River

My Story by Bill Helm

signed by author

gift inscription “To Steve With Our Love -

Mom & Dad” -

plastic comb softcover, 94 pages

interior pages - good condition

front cover is stained as shown in photo

rare collector’s item

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

No, We Weren’t Poor, We Just Didn’t Have Any Money - Part II

by Hazel Hall & Laura Hall Dunham

signed by author

softcover, 85 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Quiet Courage

Stories of the Unselfish Dedication of Maine

Veterans

by Don Colson

J.S. McCarthy Printers, 2007

softcover, 366 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Dutch Family: Pioneers of New England

Descendants of Osmund Dutch of Gloucester, Massachusetts

A History and Genealogy by David Earle Dutch

Peter E. Randall Publisher

hardcover, 663 pages

excellent condition- beautiful clothbound book

our price:   $59.95 plus media mail shipping

The Dutch Family: Pioneers of New England

Descendants of Osmund Dutch of Gloucester, Massachusetts

A History and Genealogy by David Earle Dutch

Peter E. Randall Publisher

hardcover, 663 pages

excellent condition- beautiful clothbound book

our price:   $59.95 plus media mail shipping

The McArthurs of Limington, Maine

The Family in America a Century Ago

1783-1917

by Elizabeth Ring

Kennebec River Press, 1992

hardcover, 87 pages

gift inscription written by author on title page

good condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Potatoes Without Gravy

by Hants White

Merit Publishing Company, 1972

vintage softcover, 168 pages

good condition

our price:   $11.95 plus media mail shipping

The Stranger in the Woods

The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

by Michael Finkel

Vintage Books, 2017

softcover, 203 pages

very good condition

our price:   $13.95 plus media mail shipping

A Time to Recall

The Delights of a Maine Childhood

by Helen V. Taylor

W.W. Norton & Company, 1963

vintage hardcover, 224 pages

good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

by Donn Fendler as told to Joseph B. Egan

First Beech Tree Edition stated, 1992

a Division of William Morrow

softcover - like new condition

109 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

Call Me a Moosetowner

Tales of the Allagash

by Faye O’Leary Hafford

softcover - like new condition

signed by author

rare collector’s item

84 pages

$14.95 plus media mail shipping

Beyond the Spring

Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre

Maine’s Pioneer Ornithologist and Photographer

Downeast Graphics and Printing, 2008

New and Revised Edition

softcover- like new  condition -

163 pages - crisp and clean

our price:  $11.95 plus media mail shipping

What Can I Do for You?

The People Remember Margaret Chase Smith

compiled and edited by Angela N. Stockwell,

Herbert E. Paradis, Jr., Virginia Foster, with

the support of the Margaret Chase Smith Library

1997, softcover, 172 pages

title page shows wear - remaining pages are

in good condition

cover has small area where price tag has been

removed

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Dud Dean - Maine Guide

Tales of Fishing and Hunting

by Arthur R. Macdougall Jr.

The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1975

vintage softcover, 171 pages

good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Seapiece - The Story of a Maine Boy

by Will Beale

The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1966

vintage hardcover, 147 pages

good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Fighting for Common Ground

How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

by Olympia Snowe

Weinstein Books, 2013

hardcover, 302 pages

NEW BOOK!!!

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Our Way Down East

by Elinor Graham

The Macmillan Company, 1943

vintage hardcover, 173 pages

no dustjacket

gift inscription by author on title page

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

A Time to Recall

The Delights of a Maine Childhood

by Helen V. Taylor

W.W. Norton & Company, 1963

vintage hardcover, 224 pages

no dustjacket good condition

cover has small stain as shown in photo

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Never Underestimate... The Life and Career of Margaret Chase Smith Through the Eyes of the Political Cartoonist

Northwood University Margaret Chase Smith Library

designed and written by Margaret F. Viens

softcover, 183 pages

good condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Four Generations in Maine: The Carroll Homestead

Southwest Harbor 1825-1917

by Henry A. Raup

illustrations by Ruth Hill

Eastern National Park and Monument

Association, 1993

softcover, 59 pages

very good condition

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

Jonathan Fisher

Maine Parson 1768-1847

by Mary Ellen Chase

The Macmillan Company, 1948

vintage hardcover, 280 pages

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket is very worn as shown in photo

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Lighthouse in My Life

The Story of a Maine Lightkeeper’s Family

by Philmore B. Wass

Down East Books, 1987

vintage softcover, 258 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

While You’re Here, Doc - Farmyard Adventures of a Maine Veterinarian

by Bradford B. Brown, DVM

Tilbury House Publishers, 2006

First Paperback Edition

softcover, 174 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Autobiographical Sketch of Lucinda Boynton Marshall

written in Standish, Maine by Lucinda Boyton in 1945

produced by Kirsten Transcribes, 2014

softcover, 92 pages

good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Faces of Maine

by Bob Niss

Guy Gannett Books, First Printing, 1981

vintage hardcover, 214 pages,  good condition

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Yankee Storekeeper

by R. E. Gould

SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!

Whittlesey House, First Printing stated, 1946

vintage hardcover, 195 pages

wonderful black and white illustrations

name of former owner on title page

good condition

no dustjacket

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

The Flight of the Grand Eagle

Charles G. Bryant & Earle G. Shelttleworth, Jr.

Maine Historic Preservation Commission, 1977

vintage softcover, 155 pages

cover has some wear

interior pages have slight curve

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Muskrat Stew and Other Tales of a Penobscot Life - The Life Story of Fred Ranco

by Fred Ranco as told to Tara Marvel

Occasional Publications of the Maine Folkore Center - No. 2

University of Maine, Orono, 2007

softcover, 100 pages

good condition

our price:   $15.95  plus media mail shipping

Of Place and Gender - Women in Maine History

edited and with introductions by Marli F. Weiner

University of Maine Press, 2005

softcover, 467 pages

good condition

our price:   $18.95 plus media mail shipping

Penobscot Man

The Life History of a Forest Tribe in Maine

by Frank G. Speck

The original 1940 University of Pennsylvania edition with a preface by David Sanger with 30 additional photos

University of Maine Press,  1997

softcover, 354 pages

amazing photos and illustrations

good condition

our price:   $28.95 plus media mail shipping

The Lengthened Shadow of a Maine Man

A Biography of Guy P. Gannett

by Dudley Zuver

The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1956

vintage hardcover, 128 pages

interior pages - very good condition

dustjacket shows wear

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

As The Twig Is Bent

The Life of a Child Growing Up in the 1930’s

by Elinor C. Bemis

Signed By Author

Windswept House Publishers, 1996

softcover, 154 pages

interior pages - very good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

My World on an Island

Growing Up in Bar Harbor

by Sylvia M. Kurson

Down East Books, 1982

vintage softcover, 86 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Quiet Triumph of the Heart

Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

Stories from Maine

by Deborah Eve Freedman

gift inscription from author on title page

Maine Authors Publishing, 2013

softcover, 52 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

A Seafaring Legacy

The Photographs, Diaries, Letters and

Memorabilia

of a Maine Sea Captain and His Wife 1859-1908

by Julianna FreeHand

Random House, 1981

vintage hardcover, 211 pages

good condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Cushing’s Island

Two Memoirs by Robert and Agnes Hale

Drawing by Charlotte Spencer

Waverly Press, 1971

vintage softcover, 62 pages

good condition

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

The Stranger in the Woods

The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

by Michael Finkel

Vintage Books, 2017

hardcover, 207 pages

very good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Summer Yesterdays in Maine

by Williard L. Sperry

with illustrations from pencil drawings

by Charles H. Woodbury

First Edition stated

Harper & Brothers, 1941

vintage hardcover, 263 pages

very good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Christmas in Allagash - The Early Years

by the Residents & Former Residents of’

Allagash, Maine

edited by Cathie Pelletier

Allagash Historical Society

First Edition

published by Northern Maine Books,

hardcover, 319 pages

very good condition

our price:   $29.95 plus media mail shipping

We Ate Molasses Cookies for Walrus Meat

Jingles from a Maine Farm Two Generations Ago

by Doris Thurston

2nd Printing, May 1974

vintage plastic comb softcover, 52 pages

cover shows light wear

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

Queen Bee

Roxanne Quimby, Burt’s Bees. and Her Quest for

a New National Park

by Phyllis Austin

Tilbury House Publishers, 2015

hardcover, 376 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

Medicine Made Clear

House Calls from a Maine Country Doctor

by Michael A. LaCombe, M.D.

Dirigo Books, 1990

hardcover, 318 pages

interior pages - very good condition

dustjacket has three tiny tears

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Beloved Brick House

by Doris Thurston

Oxford Hills Press, 1978

vintage softcover, 75 pages

interior pages - good condition

includes vintage newspaper article with

review of book

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Away at a Camp in Maine

by Kimberley Collins Kalicky

signed by author

softcover, 2010

good condition

signed by author

softcover, 122 pages

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Ridge Runner - The Story of a Maine Woodsman

by Gerald Averill

The Thorndike Press, 1976

good condition

vintage softcover, 224 pages

rare collector’s item

our price:   $27.95 plus media mail shipping

We Took to the Woods

by Louise Dickinson Rich

Down East Books, 1970

reprinted by arrangement with J.B. Lippincott

Company

softcover, 322 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Stranger in the Woods

The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

by Michael Finkel

Vintage Books, 2017

softcover, 203 pages

good condition

our price:   $11.95 plus media mail shipping

A Measure of My Days

The Journal of a Country Doctor

by David Loxterkamp, M.D.

University Press of New England,

hardcover, 324 pages

very good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Allie Cole

A Maine Pioneer

by Galen Cole

Casco Printing Company, 1980

vintage softcover, 118 pages

interior pages - good condition

back cover shows wear

our price:   $   plus media mail shipping

Profiles of Maine

by Lynn Franklin

Maine Antique Digest, 1976

vintage softcover, 160 pages

interior pages - good condition

front end page before title page of book has

repaired top section

cover shows light wear

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James G. Blaine

Architect of Empire

by Edward P. Crapol

SR Books, 2000

softcover, 157 pages

some underlining and notes in pencil

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Growing Up Way Downeast

A Memoir of Childhood on the Coast

of Maine

Book 1 - The Growing up of Grammie B.

1875 -1897

Book II - We Three Grew Up in Pembroke

1898 - 1922

by Doris A. Bridges

Winswept House Publishers, 1997

softcover, 296 pages

good condition

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Sandbox Camp Tales from a Maine Storyteller

One man’s view from his camp in Maine

by Randy Randall

Just Write Books, 2008

softcover, 230 pages

good condition

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The Baxters of Maine

Downeast Visionaries

by Neil Rolde

Tilbury House Publishers, 1997

hardcover, 340 pages

very good condition

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The Irish of Portland, Maine

A History of Forest City Hibernians

by Matthew Jude Barker

gift inscription by author inside front cover

The History Press, 2014

softcover, 160 pages

good condition

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Of Bears, Mice and Nails Outhouse Chronicles

by Angelo J. Kaltsos

iUniverse, Inc., 2009

softcover,  265 pages

very good “like new” condition

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Maine Remembers Those Who Served

Tributes From The Pine Tree State

by Secretary of State Dan A. Gwadowsky

Maine Department of the Secretary of State, 2001

softcover , 201 pages

good condition,

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A Down-East Yankee From The District of Maine

by Windsor Daggett

published by A.J. Huston - Portland, Maine

1920

vintage softcover , 82 pages

collector’s item

good condition,

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The House at Bunganuc Landing

by Susan Drinker Moran

Just Write Books, 2010

softcover , 241 pages

good condition,

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The House at Bunganuc Landing

by Susan Drinker Moran

Just Write Books, 2010

softcover , 241 pages

good condition,

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The House at Bunganuc Landing

by Susan Drinker Moran

Just Write Books, 2010

softcover , 241 pages

good condition,

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Maine Biographies - Volume I

(originally in four volumes published as

Maine Resources, Attractions and Its People,

in 1928

Clearfield reprint - 2002

by Harrie B. Coe

softcover, 477 pages

good condition,

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Maine Biographies - Volume II

(originally in four volumes published as

Maine Resources, Attractions and Its People,

in 1928

Clearfield reprint - 2002

by Harrie B. Coe

softcover, 232 pages

good condition,

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Steel Glory

The Life of Shipbuilder Arthur Sewall

(1835-1900)

by Susie Yakowicz, 1996

softcover, 83 pages

good condition,

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Practice Not Perfect

A Book of Fiction by David M. Melesky

New Horizons Publishing Company, 2005

softcover, 232 pages

good condition,

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Maine Memories

by Elizabeth Coatsworth

The Stephen Greene Press, 1972

softcover, 165 pages

good condition,

our price: $9.95 plus media mail shipping

My Life As a Maine-Iac

by Muriel Young

Puckerbrush Press, Orono, Maine, 1984

vintage softcover, 210 pages

good condition

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Nana’s House

by Ann Allen Brahms

published by Ann Brahms, 2003

gift inscription written by author on title page

softcover, 258 pages

good condition,

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Ralph Stanley - Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder

by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley

Down East Books, 2004

hardcover, 176 pages

good condition,

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Fly Rod Crosby

The Woman Who Marketed Maine

by Julia A. Hunter and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

Tilbury House Publisher, 2000

softcover, 210 pages

former library book

good condition

rare collector’s item

our price: $45.95 plus media mail shipping

L.L. Bean, Inc.

Outdoor Specialties by Mail from Maine

An address dealing with the history of L.L. Bean

which was deliered at a “1981 Maine Meeting” of the Newcomen Society in North America held

at Brunswick when Leon A. Gorman was guest of honor and speaker on July 17, 1981.

from library vertical file collection

softcover, 23 pages

former library book

good condition

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Tales of a Homemade Naturalist

The Maine Diaries of Herbert M.W. Haven

by Philip Morrill

Winthrop Mineral Shop

Winthrop, Maine

1966

vintage softcover, 153 pages

very good condition

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Growing Up On An Island Off the Coast of Maine

by Carroll M. Haskell

Polar Bear & Company, 2011

softcover, 284 pages

good condition

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Growing Up Kennebec - A Downeast Boyhood

by Carroll F. Terrell

Northern Lights, 1993

softcover, 276 pages

interior pages -  good condition

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My Life’s Journey from Ukraine to Maine

As told by Dr. Maria Myroslava Tanczak-Dycio

to Martha Stevens-David

PR Gott Publishing, 2013

softcover, 211 pages

good condition

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Peril at Polchis Lake

Adventure Along the Maine-New Brunswick Border

by Anthony Reader

Signed by Author!

New Ireland Press

softcover, 137 pages

good condition

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Joshua L. Chamberlain

by Thomas A. Desjardin

Greystone Communications, 1999

softcover, 96 pages

good condition

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Beyond the Spring

Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre

Maine’s Pioneer Ornithologist and Photographer

by Chandler S. Richmond

The Latona Press, 1989

softcover- good condition -

155 pages -

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Sir William Pepperrell: New England’s

Pre-Revolutionary Hero

by Byron Fairchild

Society of Colonial Wars

Reprinted  from The New England Historical

and Genealogical Register, Volume CXXX,

April 1976

vintage softcover, 23 pages

good condition

former library vertical file publication

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Memorial Sir William Pepperrell

Hall of Fame

January 1910

vintage softcover, 18 pages

good condition

former library vertical file publication

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Walter S. Wyman (1874-1942)

One of Maine’s Great Pioneers

by William B. Skelton

softcover, 33 pages

former library vertical file publication

good condition

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Thomas Bailey Aldridch  (1836-1907)

Inspired Poet of the Piscataqua

by Samuel Sloan Duryee, Jr.

The Newcomen Society in North America, 1951

vintage softcover, 29 pages

good condition

former library vertical file publication

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

MDCCCLXIX - MDCCCCXXXV

Gardiner Maine

MDCCCCXXXVI

vintage softcover, 20 pages

some loose pages

former library vertical file publication

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Young Longfellow 1807-1843

by Lawrance Thompson

Octagon Books, Reprinted 1969

vintage hardcover, 443 pages

good condition

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Clyde Found Fruitflies in the Berries

by Dale C. Lincoln

Calais Press, 1999

softcover, 443 pages

good condition

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Letters From Maine - New Poems

by May Sarton

W.W. Norton & Company, 1984

vintage softcover, 62 pages

good condition

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Monhegan Memories

by Clara Burton

Impatiens Press, 1998

softcover, 138 pages

excellent condition

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The Journals & Letters of The Little Locksmith

by Katharine Butler Hathaway

Coward-McCann Inc., 1946

vintage clothbound hardcover, 396 pages

good condition - no dustjacket

gift inscription written on second page

our price: $21.95 plus media mail shipping

Your Maine Lands

Reflections of a Maine Guide

by Tom Hanrahan

SIGNED BY AUTHOR

Polar Bear & Company,  2008

softcover, 83 pages

very good condition

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Friend Hill and Mary

Their Family, Their Mill, Their Story

by Roberta Hennessey Ryan

The Janus Historical Series

North Berwick’s Historical Society, 2005

gift inscription by author on title page

softcover, 34 pages

good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Beyond the Spring

Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre

Maine’s Pioneer Ornithologist and Photographer

by Chandler S. Richmond

The Latona Press, 1989

former library book

softcover, 155 pages

our price:  $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Growing Up On An Island Off the Coast of Maine

by Carroll M. Haskell

Polar Bear & Company, 2011

softcover, 284 pages

Signed By Author!!!!!!

good condition

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We Took to the Woods

by Louise Dickinson Rich

Down East Books, 1970

reprinted by arrangement with J.B. Lippincott

Company

softcover, 322 pages

good condition

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We Took to the Woods

by Louise Dickinson Rich

Down East Books, 1970

reprinted by arrangement with J.B. Lippincott

Company

softcover, 322 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Penobscot Man

The Life History of a Forest Tribe in Maine

by Frank G. Speck

The original 1940 University of Pennsylvania edition with a preface by David Sanger with 30 additional photos

University of Maine Press,  1997

softcover, 354 pages

amazing photos and illustrations

good condition

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The Baxters of Maine

Downeast Visionaries

by Neil Rolde

Tilbury House Publishers, 1997

hardcover, 340 pages

good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Eminent Mainers - Succinct Biographies of Thousands of Amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, and a Few People From Away Who Have Done Something Useful Within the State of Maine

by Arthur Douglas Stover

Tilbury House Publishers, 2006

softcover, 531 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

Maine Women Living on the Land

by Lauren Shaw

essay by Lucy Lippard

Farnsworth Art Museum, 2005

softcover, 64 pages

with DVD with ten women speaking in their

own words

very good condition

our price:   $17.95 plus media mail shipping

The Man of Whom I Write

Incidents in the Life of Reverend

George Walter Hinckley

Founder of the Goodwill Homes

Hinckley, Maine

Galahad Press, 1954

vintage hardcover, 244 pages

good condition

rare collector’s item

our price:   $34.95 plus media mail shipping

Conversations in Maine Exploring Our

Nation’s Future

by James and Grace Lee Boggs

Freddy and Lyman Paine

South End Press, 1978

vintage hardcover,  300 pages

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket shows wear

rare collector’s item

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Ninety Years of Living

by Edwin Peabody Fitch  1840 - 1931

Evelyn Fitch Moke, 1976

vintage softcover, 97 pages

interior pages - good condition

former library book

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

The Irish of Portland, Maine

A History of Forest City Hibernians

by Matthew Jude Barker

gift inscription by author inside front cover

The History Press, 2014

softcover, 160 pages

good condition

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Ridge Runner - The Story of a Maine Woodsman

by Gerald Averill

North Country Press, 1975

good condition

vintage softcover, 224 pages

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Medicine Made Clear

House Calls from a Maine Country Doctor

by Michael A. LaCombe, M.D.

Dirigo Books, 1990

hardcover, 318 pages

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket shows light wear

gift inscription by author on title page

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Sandbox Camp Tales from a Maine Storyteller

One man’s view from his camp in Maine

by Randy Randall

Just Write Books, 2008

gift inscription on title page

softcover, 230 pages

good condition

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A Man from Maine

by Edward William Bok

with a new introduction by Jonathan A. Shaw

Osprey Classics, 2003

softcover, 150 pages

good condition

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We Took to the Woods

by Louise Dickinson Rich

Down East Books, 1970

reprinted by arrangement with J.B. Lippincott

Company

softcover, 322 pages

good condition

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Helen, Ethel & The Crazy Quilt

Based on the 1890 Letters

Between Helen Keller and Ethel Orr

by Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen

Illustrated by Dawn Peterson

Signed by author and illustrator

Mayhaven Publishing, 2007

hardcover, 64 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Conversations in Maine Exploring Our

Nation’s Future

by James and Grace Lee Boggs

Freddy and Lyman Paine

South End Press, 1978

vintage softcover,  300 pages

interior pages - good condition

cover shows light staining

rare collector’s item

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Shoutin’ Into the Fog

Growing Up on Maine’s Ragged Edge

by Thomas Hanna

Islandport Press,  2006

softcover,  305 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Lilac Scented Memories

A Poetic Memoir by Lila Gallup Kinney

Maine Rhode Publishers, 1989

vintage softcover,  99 pages

interior pages - good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Down Memory Lane

by Emily Phillips Reynolds

Northeast Harbor, Maine

Maine Printing Company, 1975

vintage softcover,  76 pages

interior pages - good condition

former library book

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

New Mainers - Portarits of Our Immigrant Neighbors

text by Pat Nyhan,

photos by Jan Pieter van Boorst van Beest

foreword by Reza Jalali - signed by Reza Jalali

Tilbury House, 2009, first paperback edition

softcover -  156 pages

good condition

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New Mainers - Portarits of Our Immigrant Neighbors

text by Pat Nyhan,

photos by Jan Pieter van Boorst van Beest

foreword by Reza Jalali

Tilbury House, 2009, first paperback edition

softcover -  156 pages

good condition

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C. Fred’s Story - A Dog’s Life

by C. Fred Bush

Edited slightly by Barbara Bush

Doubleday and Company, 1984

vintage hardcover, pages

former library book with library markings

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Speakers of the Maine House of

Representatives from 1820

by James H. Mundy

J.S. McCarthy Printing, 1981

softcover,  124 pages

interior pages - good condition

former library book

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Maine Memories

by Elizabeth Coatsworth

The Countryman Press, 1968

softcover, 165 pages

good condition,

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L.L. Bean, Inc.

Outdoor Sporting Specialties

A Company Scrapbook

Research and editing by William David Barry

The Anthoensen Press, 1987

vintage softcover -  171 pages

good condition

former library book

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Muskie of Maine

by David Nevin

Random House, 1972

First Printing stated

vintage hardcover-  very good condition

mylar protective covering over dustjacket

239 pages - no highlighting or markings

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Lost on a Mountain in Maine

by Donn Fendler as told to Joseph B. Egan

First Beech Tree Edition stated, 1992

a Division of William Morrow

softcover - like new condition

109 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

Seapiece - The Story of a Maine Boy

by Will Beale

The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1966

vintage hardcover, 147 pages

good condition

former library book with library markings

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High Clouds Soaring Storms Driving Low

The Letters of Ruth Moore

edited by Sanford Phippen

Blackberry Press, 1993

softcover, 524 pages

good condition

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Maine’s Achieving Women

Conversations with Entrepreneurs

by Mary Lyons

Lilac River Press, 1999

softcover,  160 pages

interior pages - very good condition

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Lost on a Mountain in Maine

by Donn Fendler as told to Joseph B. Egan

First Beech Tree Edition stated, 1992

a Division of William Morrow

softcover - like new condition

109 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

Saltwater Seasons

Recollections of a Country Woman

by Esther Wood

Down East Books, 1980

vintage softcover,  159 pages

good condition

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Just Maine Folks

by The Maine Writers Research Club

with contributions by Governor Percival P. Baxter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Laura E. Richards and Other Maine Writers

The Journal Printshop, 1924

vintage hardcover -331 pages

former library book - shows definite wear

some staining

spine has been taped

$11.95 plus media mail shipping

Maine - The Way Life Should Be

by Miranda Gardiner

Tate Publishing, 2009

softcover - good condition

115 pages

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

Steamboats Sleighbells and a One-Man Band

Remembered Things of Growing Up in a

Maine Seacoast Town in the Nineteen Twenties

by E. Clifford Ladd

Lakeside Printing, 1996

gift inscription by author on title page

softcover - good condition

104 pages

wonderful vintage black and white photos

$11.95 plus media mail shipping

Of Place and Gender - Women in Maine History

edited and with introductions by Marli F. Weiner

University of Maine Press, 2005

softcover, 467 pages

good condition

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland

The Fireside Poet of Maine

by John William Babin and Allan M. Levinsky

The History Press, 2015

softcover, 144 pages

like new condition

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Maine & Me

10 Years of Down East Adventures

by Elizabeth Peavey

Down East Books, 2004

softcover, 196 pages

good condition

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The Stranger in the Woods

The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

by Michael Finkel

Vintage Books, 2017

softcover, 203 pages

good condition

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The Stranger in the Woods

The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

by Michael Finkel

Alfred A. Knopf, 2017

hardcover, 207 pages

good condition

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In Maine

by John N. Cole

Harpswell Press Book, 1974

vintage hardcover, 143 pages

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket is stained as shown in photo

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Doc, Me and Family

by Margaret Barnes Heath

2012

softcover, 147 pages

like new condition

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Elijah Kellogg’s Good Old Times

by Rev. Elijah Kellogg

originally published in 1878

New England History Press in collaboration with Gorham’s 250th Anniversary Committee, 1985

Foreword by State Historian Robert M. York

hardcover, 280 pages

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket has small area that has been taped

gift inscription on front endpage

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Driftwood from Popham Sands

by Florence R. Oliver

edited by Margaret Oliver Ladue and

Edith Florence Oliver

signed by Edith F. Oliver

Just Write Books, 2011

softcover, 155 pages

like new condition

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Happy The Land

by Louise Dickinson Rich

Down East Books,

reprinted, 1998

softcover, 259 pages

good condition

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Faces of the Maine Guard & Reserve

Maine’s Citizen Soldiers as Photographed

by Buddy Doyle

October Publications, 2009

softcover, 104 pages

this copy seems to start on page 3 with

a dedication

cover states it is a Lobby Copy for the perusal

and enjoyment of patients of Martin’s Point

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The Country Doctor Who Cared

about Dr. Lowell E. Heath

by Margaret Barnes Heath

2013

softcover, 175 pages

like new condition

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Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship

The Correspondence of E.B. White and

Edmund Ware Smith

Down East Books, 2020

hardcover, 235 pages

like new condition

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The Journals of John Edwards Godfrey

copyright 1979 by Mrs. Charles H. Sawyer

and Mrs. Ivan Orcutt

printed by Courier-Gazette, Inc.

vintage softcover, 442 pages

good condition

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