Search Results: the history of portland from its by willis william

Nabu Press, 2012-04-08. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Charles Day & Co., 1883. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Complete 2 volume set. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Board of Volume 2 detached, binding copy. 1831 and 1833. Priced accordingly. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Portland: Printed by Day Fraser & Co, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in one. Vol. 1: 243pp. with large folding lithographic map of Ancient Falmouth. Vol. 2: 355pp. 1 folding lithographic view, 1 engraved Illustration (toned), and two maps: folding map of land Grants and larger folding map of "Falmouth Neck as it Was When Destroyed by Mowett, Oct. 18 1775," printed on tissue paper. 3/4 buckram with marbled paper boards and endpapers. Boards and leather rubbed on edges and corners. First map and folding view are neatly repaired on verso: map has a couple marginal splits at folds. Falmouth Neck map has some professional repair and a few spots on the edges. This copy from the library of James Shearer with his name on spine and two ownership signatures. Also has later gift inscription dated 1946. Front hinge cracked, but sound; evidence of bookplate removal on rear endpapers. Howes: w/506. "Shearer served as president of the First National Bank,… Read More

Portland: Printed by Day, Fraser & Co., 1831-[1833]. 2 vols. 8vo, original red cloth; volume 2 re-backed with original paper title label preserved. Vol. 1: 243, [1] p., [1] folding lithographic map; v. 2: 355, [1] p., 1 folding lithographic view, 1 engraved view, 2 folding lithographic maps. In a later cloth slipcase. Winslow Homer's copy of the first edition of Willis's History of Portland, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the front paste-down in each volume, reading " W. Homer Scarboro Me." Homer lived at Prout's Neck in Scarborough, just south of Portland,from 1883 to 1910. It was there that Homer painted his great seascapes and assumed his full stature as one of the towering figures in American art. REFERENCES: Williamson 10793. CONDITION: Vol. 1 worn and split at edges of spine, cloth discolored, internal front hinge cracked, occasional foxing; vol. 2 cloth discolored, front hinge split and largely separated from text-block, occasional foxing.