A Collection of Gloucester Books


Item Number: 192

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $500

Online Close: Jun 29, 2025 10:00 PM EDT

Bid History: 1 bid - Item Sold!



Description

Give your bookshelves some protein!


Instant Cape Ann selection of incredible stories, books, photographs. Most from the private collection of Scott Gunn-member of AVC and surgeon at Addison Gilbert Hospital from 1972 to 1989.


 



Hard Cover, First Edition, signed (2):


“The Finest Kind – The Fishermen of Gloucester” by Kim Bartlett


“As They May Need – a history of the Addison Gilbert Hospital” by Lawrence F Brooks and W. Warren Babson, MD


 


Hard Cover, First Edition (4):


“Boston’s Gold Coast – The North Shore 1890-1929” by Joseph E. Garland


“Down to the Sea: The Fishing Schooners of Gloucester” by Joseph E. Garland


“Cape Ann: Cape America” by Herbert A. Kenny


“The Last Fish Tale” by Mark Kurlansky



Hard Cover (2):


“History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: Including the Town of Rockport” 


by John J. Babson


“Gloucester by Land and Sea: The Story of a New England Seacoast Town” by Charles Boardman Hawes



Hard Cover photo books (3):


“The Port of Gloucester” photographs by Josh Reynolds


“Cape Ann: A Photographic Portrait” Pilotpress Publishers


“Stuart Davis in Gloucester” by Karen Wilkin, published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Cape Ann Historical Museum


Paperback photo books (5):


“Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane” from National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and 


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


“Iron Men, Wooden Ships: Skippers of Gloucester, MA” by Charles G Nicastro


“Wharf and Fleet” by Gordon W Thomas


“Photographic History of Gloucester, Volume 4” 


“White-Tipped Orange Masts: Gloucester’s Fishing Draggers, A Time of Change 


1970-1972” by Peter K Prybot



Paperbacks (15):


“Fitz H. Lane: An Artist’s Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America” by James A Craig


“Gloucester on the Wind: America’s Greatest Fishing Port in the Days of Sail” 


by Joseph E Garland


“When Gloucester Was Gloucester: Toward an Oral History of the City” by Peter Parsons and Peter Anastas


“This Other Gloucester” by James F O’Gorman (2 copies – 1 is First Edition)


“Fitz Henry Lane: Family and Friends” by Sarah Dunlap and Stephanie Buck (First Ed.)


“Fast and Able: Life Stories of Great Gloucester Fishing Vessels” by Gordon W Thomas


“Roger W Babson: A Reminiscence” by Paul B Kenyon and Philip S Weld


“Guns Off Gloucester” by Joseph E Garland (First Edition)


“The Hungry Ocean” by Linda Greenlaw


“The Fisherman’s Son” by Joseph M Orlando


“Bear of The Sea: Giant Jim Pattillo and the Roaring Years of the Gloucester-Nova Scotia Fishery” by Joseph E Garland


“Beauport Impressions: An Introduction to its Collections” by Willam B and Elizabeth Clay Blanford


 


“The First People of Cape Ann: Native Americans on the North Coast of Massachusetts Bay” by Elizabeth Waugh


“Did You Know: Cape Ann, Part I: A Collection of Paintings and Photographs with Interesting Lore and Facts About Cape Ann” by E.J. Lefavour

Special Instructions

please note that two books in the pictures are not included including Hammers on Stone and Eastern Point