Ports of the Past * Grace Norton Rose 1941 New England * Historical Fiction RARE

Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. First Edition. 6 inches x 8 1/2 inches tall. 322 pp. With illustrations by Jack Manley Rose. Dust jacket is intact with intact price ($2.00), has some scuffing and has heavy edge chipping, edge tears, 2 pieces of decorative tape to verso, scrape to back. Blue cloth bound hardcover with lighter blue text and image of a ship to front, light edge wear, lightly cocked spine, pretty good tips only slightly bent, text unmarked, small soil mark to outside edge and soil marks to a few pages. Scarce title and rare in dust jacket. Ships in dust jacket protector. The book includes stories of nine different New England ports at nine different epochs in history: Plymouth (1625), Boston (1636), Nantucket (1720), Marblehead (1742), Portsmouth (1777), Salem (1801), Gloucester (1814), New Bedford (1820) and Edgartown (1862). Most of them are based on fact; others on tales heard during the author's New England childhood, according to the dust jacket.

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