Buy this book on-line TRAYSER,DONALD G - Edited By: : BARNSTABLE: THREE CENTURIES of a CAPE COD TOWNUS.HYANNIS,MASSACHUSETTS.F. B & F.P. GOSS,1939. ISBN No ISBN.
US,ex-lib 8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE.[Though an ex-public library copy,with all it's usual library alpha-numreical notations,it's overall appearance both externally and internally,is of a solid,
sound,clean example.] No previous owner inscrptn,but white tippexed alpha-numerical library notation to foot of spine/backstrip,
a 'City of Plymouth Public Libraries' bookplate pasted to recto of ffe,two further
black ink library stamps - one circular,the other rectangular - both to recto of title-page's lower edge,and a last black ink library stamp to bottom edges of book;a further pasted library barcode to foot of rear pastedown - no other ex-library markings.Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark blue buckram cloth bds with bright,crisp,
stamped gilt title within a rectangular box,
and either yellow ink,or slightly oxidised gilt(?) lettering to spine/backstrip,and blue+white Barnstable town map illustrated endpapers,by James F. McLaughlin (Chairman of Barnstable Tercentenary Committee).US,
ex-lib 8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xivpp
+2-500pp[paginated] includes preface,Pts I-IX comprising a totla of 31 chapters,17 b/w sketches by various hands/contributors throughout the text and book,notes and biblio,index of persons,and an index of subjects.Plus [unpaginated],half-title+title
pages,foreword (by Barnstable Tercentenary Committee which includes the eps map illustrator and the author too] to observe the town's tercentenary year in 1939,18pp of contemporary b/w photographs from town's archives/private collections in one block at the rear.Subjects cover everything from the beginning,the churchs,wars - colonial,
Revolutionary,1812,the Civil War and WW1,
short biographies,civil growth,a maritime history,the Shire town and it's villages.The
villages of Barnstable include; Centerville,
Cotuit,Hyannis,Marston Mills,Osterville,
West Barnstable,Wianno,and Oyster Harbours.
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