Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Framingham: Old America Company, copyright 1930. xx,212 pages. Plates: portraits, buildings, furnishings, silver. 10 x 7", blue cloth, gold lettering, seal, top edge, no dj. Signed presentation by Massachusetts Governor Frank G. Allen. Spine tips frayed, cover spotted, leaf torn, no loss, G/none.
Published by Old America Company, Framingham, Mass, 1930
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Spine bottom bumped.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by Frank G Allen, Governor of Massachusetts. Some heavy spotting to cloth and wear, fraying at edges. Creaking at hinges but still tight.
Published by Old America Company Publishers for the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1930
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. [Wallace Nutting--photographs] (illustrator). First Edition. Hard cover, 4to ( 7 x 10 inches), in light blue cloth, with Massachusetts seal and title in gold to front, and titles to spine, top edge gilt, First edition, (xx), 212pp. Condition: Very Good Plus. A few small spots of discoloration to the exterior. Very light rubbing at head and foot of spine. Gilt bright, pages are tight, clean and very lightly toned. The Massachusetts Tercentenary Commission (1630-1930) presented this panorama of Massachusetts historical houses, portraits and cultural artifacts including domestic furniture and silver, accompanied by brief biographies. Many black and white photographs are reproduced, a number of them credited to Wallace Nutting, (1861-1941) the Massachusetts minister, antiquarian and photographer who published many books on colonial life in the Bay State. (The publishing company of this volume was owned by him.) Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard historian, wrote the introduction. Book.