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MAINE GAME WARDENS
Eric Wight
-1985-DeLorme Publishing Co., Freeport, Maine-1st edition-This is NOT an ex-library book and it is NOT a reprint edition-BINDING is black hardcover with titles in gold on cover and spine; binding and text are neat, clean and solid, VERY GOOD, with NO extraneous writings or bookplates. Pictorial dust jacket HAS price; laminated; generally neat, clean and bright, GOOD, in new archival protector. Just light wear. Overall, a nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPY of a fairly UNCOMMON MAINE BOOK...."the TRUE STORY of the MAINE WARDEN SERVICE--began in 1880, a PIONEER ORGANIZATION in its field, the OLDEST AGENCY of its type in AMERICA--and its MEN and WOMEN who are COMMITTED to this line of work...There are GRIPPING CHAPTERS about WARDENS tracking MISSING persons, LOST hunters and hikers, sometimes conducting MASSIVE SEARCHES in REMOTE AREAS such as KATAHDIN....A SPECIAL CHAPTER is devoted to the DEVELOPMENT of BUSH PLANES...the text is accompanied throughout by some RARE, HISTORIC and contemporary B&W PHOTOGRAPHS. 140 pages. Overall, an EXCELLENT collector's copy of a fairly UNCOMMON BOOK. Overall, a nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPY of a fairly UNCOMMON MAINE BOOK.

95.00

THE TOURMALINE
Hamlin, Augustus Choate (A. C.)
- 1873- James R. Osgood and Company, Boston- FIRST EDITION (Same '1873' Date on Title Page, and '1873' on Copyright page, with NO other dates mentioned)- This is NOT an ex-library book and it is NOT a new reprint edition. This is the ORIGINAL- This is NOT a new print-on-demand; it is NOT a pdf; it is the BEAUTIFULLY BOUND ANTIQUE BOOK- Blue cloth HARDCOVER with blindstamped GOLD and BLACK titles and DECORATION on cover and spine, GOOD+; light wear including light 'chipping' to spine head and heel, second endpage torn, but still in one piece with no pieces missing and neat previous owner name and town: 'Olive M. Buffum, Pittsfield, NH,' light edgewear and light soiling, but square, bright, tight and COMPLETE. With 4 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS (CHROMOLITHOGRAPH PRINTS, by L. PRANG and Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, each with tissue guard.) 'The TOURMALINE, its RELATION as a GEM; its COMPLEX NATURE; ITS WONDERFUL PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, ETC., ETC.; with SPECIAL REFERENCE to the BEAUTIFUL and MATCHLESS CRYSTALS found in the STATE of MAINE.' Contents include: HISTORY of the TOURMALINE, LOCALITIES, DESCRIPTION of MT. MICA, MAINE and its MINERAL TREASURES, PHYSICAL WONDERS of the TOURMALINE, its ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES, its OPTICAL PHENOMENA, and more.

995.95

Nature's Garden of Crystals
Vandall T. King, Editor
2011- Newryqs Press, Rochester, New York- HARDCOVER, NEW. FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS: PHOTOGRAPHS of MINERALS and MINERAL SPECIMENS in their natural state, many up-close and magnified. WORLD-RENOWNED COLLECTIONS of CRYSTALS from COLLECTORS around the world. FOLIO (Over-sized, Heavy). 424 pages.

$49.95

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