5335e. Farnham, Joseph E. C. Brief Historical Data And Memories Of My Boyhood Days In Nantucket. Providence. 1923. 2nd. [1915]. Stated Second Edition.
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5335e. Farnham, Joseph E. C. Brief Historical Data And Memories Of My Boyhood Days In Nantucket. Providence. 1923. 2nd. [1915]. Stated Second Edition.
5335e. Farnham, Joseph E. C. Brief Historical Data And Memories Of My Boyhood Days In Nantucket. Providence. 1923. 2nd. [1915]. Stated Second Edition. 319p. Gilt embossed stiff blue wraps. Very scarce and handsome early printing of this classic and fascinating book offering a description of the people and places and local history of Nantucket island. With vintage photographs and maps. Published more than 85 years ago, this book is now long out-of-print and quite scarce. Well illustrated with halftones featuring notable personalities, buildings, steamships and more. Contents include: Historic Foreword; Divisional Nantucket; Notable Old Structures; Social Characteristics; Ancestry and Family; School Days; Early Boyhood Experiences; Isaiah Nicholson and His Flying-Horses; Characters Once the Butt of Our Fun; Small Shops of My Boyhood; Diversified Sports; Fishing and Fishermen; Impressive boyhood Remembrances; Fire-Engines and fire Facts fifty Years and More Ago; Nantucket Commercial Affairs in My Boyhood; Bakeries of My Boyhood; Residents of Guinea in my Early Life; Unique Social conditions; The Old-Time Nantucket Circle; Weaving Rag Carpets; Then and Now; A Memorable Marine Wreck; Old time Nantucket Meat Auctions and fish Sales; Strange Fascination; merchants and Professional Men of fifty Years and More Ago; Schools and Churches; A boy on a Polpis Farm; Early Experiences at the Printing-Trade; Family Record; A Tinge of Regretful Envy; A Legend in Verse. Wonderful early Nantucket reading. Contents clean and tight. Book withdrawn from East Greenwich, RI Free Library with embossed stamp on title page and small faint stamps on blank pages; no other writing or markings in text; no torn pages; original patterned endpapers, missing rear free endpaper; tears and residue on pastedowns where labels were removed. Original publisher’s hardcover binding, with only very light edge wear. An unusually nice solid copy of this interesting book. (VG+). $88.