Castine, Past and Present: The Ancient Settlement of Pentagoet and the Modern Town
first edition Hardcover
1896 · Boston
by Wheeler, George Augustus
Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1896. First edition, rare. Hardcover. F (All edges of cover well-worn; spine is stripped down to its paper, but hinges are intact and so are all of the signatures, pa ges show light tanning, plates are still good, still a nice book to touch. Has bookplate and stamp of previous owner, Edward Rowe Snow. The marbled flyleaves are magnificent.). Brown leather boards, gilt letters & motif on front cover, gilt edges on three sides, marbled flyleaves, 112 pp., 42 BW plates, 2 fold-outs (one, a map). Plus additional map in polyethylene sleeve. A history of coastal town Castine, Maine. Once owned by American author-historian Edward Rowe Snow (1902-1982), with his bookplate and identity stamp at front. Perhaps it was he who included an extra harbor map of Castine at the rear of the book, in a polyethylene sleeve, which was obviously taken from another larger book. (Inventory #: 136502)