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Marine Mysteries and Dramatic Disasters of New England
by Snow, Edward Rowe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976 First edition. Hard cover, 8vo, (measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), in blue trade cloth with black lettering to spine, the pictorial dust jacket by Charles Attebury, 238 pp. With 17 pages of black and white illustrations and photo reproductions. Condition: Very Good Plus: no writing, not price-clipped, firm binding, bright. D/j with some soiling to rear panel, enclosed in mylar protector. Stories include: Boston's 1919 Molasses Disaster; the 1950 Brinks Holdup; Sir Edmund Andros' 1687 reception in Massachusetts; the prophetic powers of Moll Pitcher and the story of a female pirate, Fanny Campbell, both of Lynn; Nicholas Jamieson the "Good Pirate" of Hingham; Longfellow and the wreck of the Hesperus, the haunted schoolhouse of Newburyport, and more misadventures with hauntings, sharks and the like. Includes index. Massachusetts author, high school teacher, journalist and historian, Edward Rowe Snow, (1902-1982) wrote more than 40 books on New England coastal history. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8591
- Title
- Marine Mysteries and Dramatic Disasters of New England
- Author
- Snow, Edward Rowe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
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