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Block Island (Paperback)

By Donald A. D'Amato, Henry A. L. Brown, Henry A. L. Brown
$21.99
ISBN-13: 9780738538693
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC), 6/1999
Images of America: Block Island

Written by: Donald A. D’Amato
This book provides a fascinating collection of vintage photographs. Each picture includes an interesting caption and the date taken. Many of the photographs are from the first years of the last century. Incredible pictorial history of Block Island.
Publication date: 1999

Price: $21.99

Pages: 128 

Summer by the Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950 (Hardcover)

By Bryant Franklin Tolles, Jr.
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9781584655763
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: University Press of New England, 6/2008
 Summer by the Seaside 

Written by: Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.
What a gorgeous book! It covers all the old, classic seaside hotels of New England . Of course, Block Island is included. Great photographs of Block Island ’s remaining and once great hotels. This book is thoroughly researched. It is amazing how huge and ornate these classic buildings were. Sadly, so many of them were destroyed by fire or hurricane.
Publication date: 2008 

Price: $29.95 

Pages: 239

Block Island Lore and Legends

$9.00
Model: BI1
 

Block Island Lore and Legends
Written by: Ethel Colt Richie
A short, very readable history packed with information and pictures. Ms. Richie describes it as a short narrative interlaced with bits of history, folklore and legends. Most of her research is based on Reverend Livermore’s History of Block Island. It is must have for any collection, just enough history is given.
Publication date: 1955
Price: $9.00
Pages: 98

Block Island History of Photography: Volume 1 1870-1910's

$39.95
Model: 9780979630712
 

Block Island History of Photography: Volume 1 1870-1910's
Written by: Rober M. Downie
Bob Downie has done it again! His new book, is chock full of old Block Island photos and text. Every photograph except one, are new to us. The book is so absorbing, you just can't put it down. Fabulous vistas and views of Block Island. Many have been taken from atop the old Ocean View Hotel.
Signed copies available.
Publication date: 2007
Price: $39.95
Pages: 271

Block Island History of Photography: Volume 2 1870-1910's

$49.95
Model: 9780979630736
 

Block Island History of Photography: Volume 2 1870-1910's
Written by: Rober M. Downie
Bob Downie has done it again! His new book, is chock full of old Block Island photos and text. Every photograph except one, are new to us. The book is so absorbing, you just can't put it down. Fabulous vistas and views of Block Island. Many have been taken from atop the old Ocean View Hotel.
Signed copies available.
Publication date: 2007
Price: $49.95
Pages: 271

Palatine Ship: Ghost Ship of Block Island

$9.50
Model: BIPAL
  Palatine Ship: Ghost Ship of Block Island
Written by: Robert W. Carlson
Mr. Carlson has researched exhaustively the legend of the Palatine Ship. In December 1738 a ship wrecked on the northernmost spit of land on Block Island. Thus begins the story of the Palatine Ship. An interesting sidebar to this story, are the ghoulish Palatine Lights that could be seen glowing for many years off shore where the wreck occurred.
Publication date: 1994
Price: $9.50
Pages: 60

Bell Tolls: Shipwrecks and Lighthouses (Block Island Volume 1)

$24.99
Model: 1596830050
 

Bell Tolls: Shipwrecks and Lighthouses (Block Island Volume 1)
Written by: Henry Keatts and George Farr
Lighthouses and shipwrecks go hand and hand, without shipwrecks there would be no need for lighthouses. This is the definitive work about Block Island’s shipwrecks. Keatts and Farr cover many of the historically significant wrecks and they go on to describe their present day condition, under the sea. This book is packed with charts, photographs and drawings. There are great narratives of the last moments before these ships met Block Island’s rocky shores.
Publication date: 2002
Price: $24.99
Pages: 224

Wetherbee's Block Island: Paintings from the 1940's

$37.00
Model: 9781450780407
  Wetherbee's Block Island: Paintings from the 1940's
Written by: Jack Lynch & Meg Lynch Doyle
The Weeberbee Prints can be seen surrounding the cellar walls of Club Soda at the Highview Hotel. Jack and his daughter photographed the walls. Jack then wrote a historical narrative about each picture contrasting that picture to a present day photograph. A colorful history of Holden Wetherbee is included. In 1948, Wetherbee painted the pictures in exchange for room and board and drinks.
Publication date: 2010
Price: $37.00
Pages: 75

Tristram Dodge and His Descendants in America: with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Block Island and Cow Neck, L.I., Their Original Settlements

$26.95
Model: 9780548322345
 

Tristram Dodge and His Descendants in America: with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Block Island and Cow Neck, L.I., Their Original Settlements
Written by Robert Dodge
In the interest of creationg a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, the printers have chosen to reproduce this title even though it my possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. 
Price: $26.95
Pages: 233

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