Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Sunday, March 8, 2020

The Orchard House, home of Louisa May Alcott and setting for Little Women


The Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts was built around 1650 and was the home of Louisa May Alcott where she wrote & set the novel Little Women in 1868. Today, it is an historic house museum and available for guided tours year round. 

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Thursday, January 16, 2020

The Outsider and Others ~ H. P. LOVECRAFT ~ First Edition 1st 1939 Arkham House

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Staining from the remnants of clipping pasted to title page and associated offsetting to the adjacent pages, else Fine, with sharp gilt and bright, clean cloth. In a fantastic example of the Virgil Finlay illustrated dust jacket, Fine, with just a touch of rubbing and very faint toning to the spine panel. An absolutely stunning copy of this cornerstone of horror, and the first book to be published by the legendary Arkham House.
The Outsider and Others ~ H. P. LOVECRAFT 1939


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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

Landscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be traveled, as this fascinating and many-layered book vividly shows us. Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes. An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell the age of a beaver pond and determine if beavers still live there? Why are pine trees dominant in one patch of forest and maples in another? What happened to the American chestnut? Turn to this book for the answers, and no walk in the woods will ever be the same. 60 black-and-white etchings and illustrations
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo




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