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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition glossy heavy oversized color photographic boards contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Photo Credits; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Eugene O'Neill, Henry Ford, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Thornton Wilder; Benefactors; Foreword by President George H.W. and Barbara Bush; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; Notes and Index. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and black-and-white maps. Also includes color front and rear endpaper maps with the front inner board containing "Key to House Map: River Village and Environs, and the rear endpaper containing "Key to House Map: Cape Porpoise and Environs. Presumed first edition as there is no indication otherwise. Signed with a general sentiment ("Greetings") by the author, Joyce Butler, with thin black ink at the center of the full title page. "During our public years, especially when we lived in the White House, Kennebunkport truly became our "anchor to windward." It was where we came to escape the worries of the world, to recharge our batteries and restore our soul. It's where our children and grandchildren and now great "grands" will come to visit and to do the same." - from the Foreword by George H.W. and Barbara Bush, and the rear outer jacket. " "Before you take up the extraordinary work that follows, it might be useful to think for just a moment about what the publication of a history like this means - to the people of Kennebunkport, but also to the rest of us who live, unfortunately, somewhere else." So begins the Preface by Richard D'Abate, director emeritus of the Maine Historical Society, praising Joyce Butler's landmark book on this most historic and quintessential coastal Maine town. Perhaps best known as the summer home of U.S. President George H.W. Bush, Kennebunkport also has a long and stories history as a shipbuilding and commercial fishing hub and a place where culture and the arts flourished in the homes of such famous writers and artists as Booth Tarkington and Abbott Graves. In this first volume, Butler paints a fascinating portrait of the town's first 320 years, from 1603 to 1923, bringing to life the many colorful characters, buildings, and institutions that form the basis of this wonderful town as we know it today." - from the inner front jacket flap. Shea, Vicky Vaughn, Ponderosa Pine Design (book design); (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …