Beck, Nancy R.,

Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Portsmouth, NH, Strawbery Banke, Inc., 1966. 1st ptg. VG. Picture of a gundalow on title page, a craft indigenous to the Portsmouth area, designed to carry freight and passengers up. the much bebridged Piscataqua. A cross between a sloop and a scow, it had one short, stumpy mast and a very long yard, rigged with a lateen sail. The yard was affixed to the mast by a chain and iron band, thus enabling it to swing horizontally when passing under bridges. Photos of Portsmouth houses and diagrams of their layouts with their history. Today's visitor to Strawbery Banke steps back 200 years onto streets that once thronged with men engaged in wresting a living from the sea. Piscataqua was a nearly ideal river, protected, ice-free and deep, although it had a strong and wily current.

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Book number: BOOKS052818I

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Beck, Henry Houghton,

War with Spain: Cuba's Fight for Freedom.

Philadelphia, Pa, Globe Bible Pub Co, (1898). G. Blue pictorial binding of ship with flags crossed over sunrise, edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS042604I

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Becton, F. Julian, USN, Ret. with Joseph Morschauser III,

The Ship That Would Not Die.

Missoula, MT, Pictorial Histories Pub Co, (2005). 8th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Off Okinawa the LAFFEY fought lff the greatest Kamikaze attack in naval history with 22 planes waiting to fireball into her. The ship and her men suffered the most intensive air attack ever hurled on one ship. The reader relives the ship's missions, rescuing downed airmen, her active fighting in the Normandy Invasion, her part in freeing the Philippines and the devastating assault on Iwo Jima. "I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire!" Commander Becton, April 16, 1945.

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Book number: BOOKS053645I

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Beebe, Lucius,

The Big Spenders.

NY, Doubleday, 1966. VG in Fair DJ. The author's concern has been with worldly and less sanctified expenditures in the field of splendid entertainment,. ostentatious real estate, sea-going yachts, gold table service, garages filled with Rolls-royces, platoons of liveried flunkies, vintage wine in double magnums, galleries of old masters, titled son-in-laws, stables of thoroughbreds, and Cartier-diamond necklace and terrapin-Maryland level. They brushed their teeth in vintage Champagne and their valets polished the soles of their boots in case the master wanted to cross his legs. Gene Fowler wrote money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains. DJ tanned with splits on edges.

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Book number: BOOKS054966I

Catalogue: History

Beer, Samuel H.,

British Politics in the Collectivist Age.

NY, Knopf, 1966. 3rd ptg. VG in G DJ. Owner's name flyleaf. Beer traces parties & interest groups from Elizabethan times to show evolution of British politics. DJ tears.

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Book number: BOOKS017988I

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de Beer, Sir Gavin,

Hannibal: challenging Rome's supremacy.

NY, Viking Studio Book, (1969). G. 1st flylf missing, bot of spine worn.

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Book number: BOOKS004707I

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Beer, Thomas,

The Mauve Decade: American life at the end of the 19th century.

NY, Garden City, (1926). G. Mauve binding, paper titles, Binding sunned at edges and on spine, paper title on spine scraped.

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Book number: BOOKS030038I

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Bell, Malcolm, Jr.,

Major Butler's Legacy: five generations of a slaveholding family.

Athens, GA, Univ of Georgia Press, (1987). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library.

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Book number: BOOKS021013I

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Bell, Terrel H. (former U.S. Secretary of Education),

The Thirteenth Man: a Reagan cabinet memoir.

NY, Free Press, (1988). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

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Book number: BOOKS025591I

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Bell, Edith H., compiled by,

Windham: Images of America.

Dover, NH, Arcadia, (1996). VG lg sz PB. A nostalgic look back at Bell's adopted home, from its founding in 1717 to the present, from collections of life-long residents.

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Book number: BOOKS047733I

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Belman, Felice and Mike Pride, editors,

The New Hampshire Century - Concord Monitor profiles of 100 people who shaped the New hampshire century.

Hanover, NH, University Press of New Eng., nd. Proof. VG large size PB. Writers spent a year profiling 100 people in the 20th century who helped shape NH in the 20th century and compiled their work. This is an uncorrected page proof, to be published in April 30,2001.

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Book number: BOOKS056221I

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Bemis, Charles A., new foreword by James Dunn,

History of the Town of Marlborough, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, with genealogical register.

Marlborough, NH, Frost Free Library, 1974. Facsimile 1881. VG. Pictorial birch tree binding, gray spine.

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Book number: BOOKS042240I

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Benedict, Rev. William A. and Rev. Hiram A. Tracy, compiled by,

History of the Town of Sutton, Massachusetts from 1704-1876 including Grafton until 1735, Millbury until 1813; and....

Worcester, Sanford Co, 1878. VG.parts of Northbridge, Upton and Auburn. Brown binding, gilt decoration and lettering. Few owner notations. edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS043459I

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Benet, Stephen Vincent,

John Brown's Body.

NY, Rinehart, (1954). BCE. G in G DJ ex-library. Epic poem of the Civil War. First blank page removed, DJ foxed, library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS035408I

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Benigni-Lynch, Lou Ann presented by Hannaford,

Lighthouses on Parade Portland Maine.

Rochester, NY, Monroe Litho, (2003). VG. Colorful lighthouses of the Portland, Maine, area in project sponsored by Hannaford.

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Book number: BOOKS052031I

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