Curtis, Wayne,

Maine: Off the Beaten Path: a guide to unique places.

Old Saybrook, CT, Globe Pequot Press, (1998). 3rd ed 1st ptg. G PB. "Doesn't pretend to be the endall guide to the state just the guide to the stuff you'd miss otherwise" Slight edge wear.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS056306I

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Maine Education Dept,

A Guide to Maine's Natural Resources: the Maine Annual volume one.

Freeport, ME, Bond Wheelwright, (1962). G lg sz PB. First issue of an annual publication that provides a digest of many bulletins and pamphlets put out every years by various. state agencies of Maine. Slight soil on cover.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS051678I

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Dibner, Martin, signed and inscribed by author,

Portrait of Paris Hill: the chronicle of a small New England shire town, its rise and fall, and its coming of age.

Paris Hil, Paris Hill, Press, (1990). 1st edition. G lg sz PB (cover edge wear). Author Dibner had a professional career art that was interupted by war-time duties (1942-45). His experiences as an. anti-aircraft gunnery officer aboard a cruiser in the Aleutians and an anti-aircraft carrier in the South Pacific revealed to him the stress and emotions of men at sea under harsh weather and combat conditions, so at war's end he turned to writiing about it. Dibner was appointed the first executive director of the California Arts Co mmissin in 1964 and founding director of the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art in 1972.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS055626I

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Dibner, Martin,

Seacoast Maine people and places.

Camden, Maine, Down East, (1982). VG PB ex-library. A unique look at the people, places and the many moods of Maine. Library markings, edge wear.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS055022I

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Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton, Maine,

Dorcas Doings.

Hollis & Buxton, Maine, Dorcas Society, (1907). VG PB. Photo of Kate Douglas Wiggin "Maine needs greater public spirit and 'togetherness' in village life. If the chain is never. stonger than its weakest link, then our smaller hamlets must bestir themselves, for we cannot make a great and prosperous state out of abandoned farms or stagnant towns, from which our young people depart in order to secure elsewhere greater opportunities for advancement." One means of adding to the Dorcas treasury was, for many years, the Readings from her own books given by Wiggin in the Tory Hill meeting-house. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering with decoration, "organized 1897, incorporated 1907". Owner name front endpaper.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS055659I

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Drake, Samuel Adams,

The Pine-Tree Coast.

Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1891. 2nd ptg. G ex-library. Brown pictorial binding shows pine tree with farmer walking up hill trying to lift sun, gilt sun and lettering. Illustrations are made from originals. Frontis coastal scene, tissue guard, map of Maine coast. Owner name on title page, gift bookplate on back endpaper, library markings.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS053181I

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Edwardsen, Elizabeth,

Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Maine coast.

Marietta Georgia, Longstreet Press, (1999). First Printing. VG large size softcover. Indispensable guide to the best the Maine coast has to offer.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS057063I

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Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment,

Gulf-Links: a resource guide to coastal organizations in the Gulf of Maine region.

Augusta, ME, Maine State Planning, nd (ca 1990). VG lg sz PB. Project to bring maine education into schools with a Gulf of Maine Aquarium in Portland, Maine.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS052034I

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Erno, Richard B.,

An Ultimate Retreat: a family's journey back to nature and self-renewal.

NY, Crown, (1971). VG in VG DJ. A modern Walden by a contemporary Thoreau. "Here we would be alone Here no intruders would disturb the solitude we sought.".

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Boeknummer: BOOKS056733I

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Fairfield, Roy P.,

Amanda's Cove: a Maine coastal tale.

Saco, ME, Bastille Books, (1989). G PB. Dan and Amanda traveled up from slavery in Virginia via the Underground Railroad to settle on a Maine coastal farm where. during the Civil War they battled nature's raw elements, the strange customs of a different land and a farmer's lustful cruelty. Maine native Roy Fairfield, historian, poet, fablist, lecturer, world traveler, maintainer of the Applachian Trail and 30 year resident of Maine writes a moving love story. Some corner creases and edge wear.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS053044I

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Farrington, Inez M.,

Maine Is Forever (signed by author).

Manchester, ME, Falmouth Publishing House, (1954). VG in Fair DJ. Maine is a song that lives in the hearts of all who know her, takes you poking around, readers with her on berry picking trips. climbs mountains, banks the house for the long winter. The reader can follow the Farringtons and their 5 children through the 12 months of he year - church events, winter fun and worries, spring planting, advent of warm summer and the coming of tourists, closing in of resplendent fall and clear crisp winter. DJ edge wear, chunk missing from bottom of DJ spine, signed by author.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS055084I

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Fernald, Merritt Caldwell,

History of the Maine State College and the University of Maine.

Orono, ME, University of Maine, 1916. G ex-library. Edge wear. library markings. Presentation copy from J. E. Snow in 1920 and then library in 1955. Sturdy.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS055123I

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Fischer, Jeff, Director,

Maine Speaks: an anthology of Maine literature.

Brunswick, ME, Maine Writers and Publishers, (1989). 1st ed. VG hardback. Includes poem Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Nowhere is a culture more truly reflected than in the mirror of its. enduring literature. Maine is blessed with a literary tradition unsurpassed in the nation - and a lucky thing this is, too, in a time of widespread change." Richard E. Barringer, Prof. of Public Policy, Univ. of Southern Maine Beautiful copy, owner name front endpaper.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS054619I

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Fraser, Richard & Nancy,

A History of Maine Built Automobiles 1834-1934.

np, np, (1991). VG lg sz PB. A segment of Maine history that did much to get the automibile industry off the ground in New England. The Stanley Steamer. founders came from Kingfield, Maine, Their first production run of engines were built in Mechanic Falls, Maine, by the J.W. Penney Co.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS055710I

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Fraser, Archibald,

Made in Madawaska: people, paper, progress 1925-2000.

Madawaska, ME, Fraser Paper, (2000). VG lg sz spiral bound PB. Samples of products made by Fraser Paper in Madawaska both color and brown and tan.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS054386I

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