
Quarto, 10 1/2" tall, 379 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, gilt titles on green cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper bright. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price. This is a larger and heavier volume and will require some additional postage
Publisher's Description:
These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal to anyone interested in Maine's past. Spend an afternoon with either volume of A Day's Work, and you'll make discoveries that will change how you think about Maine. Bunting has a knack for spotting the unusual in a photograph, or some minor detail that, in fact, tells a major story about the how and why. From granite quarry operations to an itinerant cobbler in a sailing scow to hootchie cootchie dancers at the state fair to deepwater ships, his page-long captions place these images in social and economic context -- but this is not dry history. His research has uncovered a wealth of fascinating, often quirky detail (Did you know that mummy wrappings were imported from Egypt for Maine papermaking?), and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition.
Title: A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920; Part !
Edition: First edition, first printing
ISBN Number: 0884481883
ISBN-13: 9780884481881
Location Published: Tilbury House Pub: 1997
Binding: hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: fine
Size: 8x1x10
Type: hardcover
Categories: Maine
Seller ID: 62584
Keywords: maine, new england, photography