History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann Including the Town of Rockport

Babson, John J.

ISBN 10: 0844600148 / ISBN 13: 9780844600147

Published by Peter Smith, Gloucester,MA, 1972

About this Item

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1972. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Reprint of the 1860 original. 350th Anniversary Edition. Introduction and Historical Review by Joseph E. Garland. 8vo, lxv + 610 pp. Illustrated with a B&W frontispiece photograph, 14 drawings, and a fold-out map of early settlers? homesteads on rear cover (see images). Bound in gray cloth with black titles. Binding tight and square; covers clean and sturdy with lightly bumped corners and spine ends. Pages clean and unmarked?no names, bookplates, or markings; not ex-library. Unclipped dust jacket ($12.50), clean with light edgewear and a small repaired tear to the front panel; protected in Brodart archival mylar.
A well-preserved copy of this classic history of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and neighboring Rockport, Massachusetts, originally published in 1860 and reissued for the town?s 350th anniversary. The work provides a comprehensive account of the region?s early settlement, civic development, and cultural history.
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Books are carefully packed and shipped in a sturdy box with tracking.

Seller Inventory # 7005

Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann Including the Town of Rockport
• Publisher: Peter Smith, Gloucester,MA
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844600148
• ISBN 13: 9780844600147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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