Language: English
Published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, England, 2004
ISBN 10: 0802822169 ISBN 13: 9780802822161
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxi, 266 pp. LCC: 2003063073.
Published by Town Of Hampton / Peter E. Randall, Publisher, 1990
Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. Hardcover; Hardcover. 4 volume deluxe edition in slipcase. Previous owners name embossed in gold on front cover of volume 1. Limited deluxe edition of 210 copies of which this is #49. Volume 3 is signed by the author/publisher Peter Evans Randall on the title page. Matching blue textured boards with title and design in gold on front boards and spines. One slightly bumped corner, otherwise as new. Text pages are clean and crisp. Volumes 1 and 2 are reprints of Joseph Dow's History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, from its settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892, edited and published by his daughter Lucy in 1893. The first volume covers the history of the town while the second is related to genealogy. Volume 3, Hampton, A Century of Town and Beach by Peter E. Randall is a new work that covers the history of the town from the late 1880's to the present. This volume is signed by the author and has a crisp color illustrated dust jacket. Volume 4, Hampton, New Hampshire vital Records and Genealogy, compiled and edited by James K. Hunt, Jr. Is a collection of births, deaths and marriages as recored in the town reports from 1889 to 1986 and the genealogy of many Hampton families updated from Joseph Dow's genealogical work. Volume 4 also includes English Origins of the Founders of Hampton, N. H. From County Norfolk, England by William H. Jones, and transcriptions of Hampton's oldest cemeteries, compiled by William Teschek, town librarian. All four volumes are encased in a plain green slipcase which shows light soil and edgewear.; B/w Phot & Ill; 8VO.