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NINETY YEARS AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS by LAIGHTON, Oscar - 1929

by LAIGHTON, Oscar

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NINETY YEARS AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS

by LAIGHTON, Oscar

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Andover, MA: Oscar Laighton, 1929. 8vo, pp. 167. Donor's presentation on flyleaf, with a poem clipped from a newspaper, picture of the author pasted on pastedown, also frontis portrait. VG. Reminiscences of a long-time resident on the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire.
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  • Publisher Oscar Laighton
  • Place of Publication Andover, MA
  • Date Published 1929

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The Star Island Corporation, 1971. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals

Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals

by Oscar Laighton

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Reprint of the Beacon Press 1930 edition. PAPERBACK. Cover is a little foxed and worn. Pencil mark erased from the front end page. Text is unmarked. No creases in the spine.
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Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals

by Laighton, Oscar

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Boston: The Beacon Press, 1930. Cloth. Good. Green patterned cloth. 154 pages with a few black and white photos throughout. Reminiscences written by Oscar Laighton on life on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine in the late 1800's and early 1900's. In GOOD condition. Uneven darkening and fading to the covers, with the spine rather sunned. Minor soiling. Extremities with minor bumping and scuffing. Spine faded. Several ownership signatures on the first endpaper. A few (very few) amendments to the text, in pencil, throughout.
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by Laighton, Oscar

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The Beacon Press, Inc., 1930. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Green cloth over boards, darker cloth on spine and corners. Edges are bumped and rubbed. Board edges are not square. Name on front pastedown. Page edges have some soiling and wear. Some wrinkling. Front flap of DJ is all that remains of DJ.
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Boston, MA: The Beacon Press, Inc. , 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Patterned green boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Edges rubbed, corners lightly chipped. Spine heavily sunned. Edges of spine and head of spine chipped. Very minimal spine roll. Edges of text block darkened. Ex-libris copy with usual markings. Newspaper clipping “Autumn Among the Isles of Shoals” glued to front pastedown. Prev. owner inscription on ffep. Small pencil geometric drawing on back of frontispiece. Small folds and closed tear to frontispiece plate. Expected age-tanning to pages. Some smudging/transfer of type. Hinge slightly cracked. B&W photos and illustrations, poetry by Celia Thaxter, and Laighton’s delightful writing comprise this gorgeous first edition. Biographies
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by Laighton, Oscar

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The Star Island Corporation. Fine. 2003. Softcover. Reprint of 1930 edition. B/w photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp .
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by Laighton, Oscar

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Star Island Corporation:, 1971. 162 pages, illustrated. This book is a reprinting of the 1930 edition published by Beacon Press in 1930. This edition has a new appreciation written by Lyman V. Rutledge. Oscar notes in his Preface the following: "Being the only one left of the Laighton family at the Isles of Shoals, I have been urged, by the many visitors here every summer, to write what I can remember of my life covering ninety years on these islands." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals

by Laighton, Oscar

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Star Island Corp, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback reprint of the Beacon Press 1930 edition. Teal blue illustrated wraps. Very light edge wear and rubbing to spine. Text and images unmarked. 8vo. 162pp.
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Ninety years at the Isles of Shoals

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Andover, Mass., 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition/tattered. 167 p. illus. 20 cm.
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Andover, MA: The Andover Press, 1929. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 167; G+; green spine without text; no jacket; cloth shows mild wear to exterior; lightly rubbed edges; strong boards; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; frontispiece; interior clean; illustrated; small green sticker to rear pastedown; good binding;. 1326806. FP New Rockville Stock.
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