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1) A City in Terror: 1919
The Boston Police Strike
by Francis Russell SBN number 670-22449-9 Viking Press, New York 1975 Russell's masterwork provides fascinating details of this major event in U.S. Labor history. Filled with great details of events all over Boston, including Scollay Square. Hard cover. VERY GOOD CONDITION
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2) The Book of Boston
by Robert Shackleton Penn Publishing, Philadelphia 1916 332 pages long, fully indexed, and illustrated with etchings and some terrific photographs, Shackleton's book is terrific both for it's details of Boston just before World War I, but also for the perspective it provides of the era's mores. Hard cover. FAIR CONDITION
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3) Boston Then and Now
by Peter Vanderwalker Dover Publications, NY 1982 This book has best been described as a "...dramatic juxtaposition of old and new photographs reveals architectural richness of Boston. Fifty-nine side-by-side views document city’s growth between 1850 and 1980. Here are narrow streets surrounded by skyscrapers and building facades that range from early Federal styles to the latest examples of the Modern Movement." Paperback. GOOD CONDITION
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4) Cityscapes of Boston
by Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwalker Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1992 A fine description of this book reads: "Robert Campbell's eloquent and witty text sculpts an image of how Boston has changed with time. Each pair of pictures compares a site in Boston in the past and in the present. This book also explores the evolution of cities in general--how they develop and decay, build up and spread out, and revive and change. Beautiful black-and-white photography gives an insightful portrait of Boston, past and present." Hard cover. GREAT CONDITION
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I am also looking for a copy of "A Complete Refutation of Miller's Theory of the End of the World in 1843" by Abel C. Thomas, Published in 1843. If you have a copy or know where one can be found, please EMAIL me today!
