VTG MAINE BKLTS FLYERS ACADIA BOWDOIN COLL MUS CAT CHEVIOT SHEEP DESERT of MAINE For Sale

For collectors of vintage souvenir booklets, pamphlets,museum publications, and other printed items / ephemera related to the state ofMaine, up for sale is a well-preserved paper lot comprising six printeditems.

The half-dozen items are:

1.1950 softcover handbook to the Bowdoin CollegeMuseum of Fine Arts. Fifth edition, 40 pages of text and floor plans (on bondpaper), 32 pages of 49 (by my count) black-and-white photographs of works ofarts and interiors shots on glossy paper. Printed by The Anthoensen Press,Portland, Maine, with black-and-white photography by Stephen E. Merrill,Brunswick, Maine.

2.Bifold, six-panel blue/green on cream glossybrochure on the Sundial Manor and Cottages in Mount Vernon, "Directly onthe Shores of Flying Lake." Undated, but looks like 1940s-1950s orthereabouts. The facility opened around the late 1930s, I believe it has notbeen around for years, possibly having ceased existing by 1950.

3.Single-fold multicolor glossy brochure on theEdenbrook Motel in Bar Harbor, Lester C. Megquier, Manager. Undated, but likelyearly 1960s or thereabouts. (The Edenbrook opened as the Edenbrook Hotel in1953, became the Edenbrook Motel in the 1960s, and is still open today.)

4.Double-stapled 24-page (including the cover)glossy publication entitled "Acadia National Park / at / Winter Harbor /Maine / THE GOULDSBOROS / PROSPECT HARBOR / BIRCH HARBOR / COREA," as itreads on the front panel. Pamphlet has introduction on first page signed byAlfred S. Adams, President of Gouldsboro & Winter Harbor ImprovementAssociation. Undated, but looks like 1940s-1950s, since phone numbers invarious advertisements inside are just 2 to 5 digits.

5.Single-fold brochure on, as it reads on thecover, "The / BERWICK FLOCK / WILLIAM I. CUMMINGS / Owner /South Berwick, Maine / CHEVIOTS." Undated, but likely 1930s-1940s,or possibly even earlier, especially since William I. Cummings, an heir to theCummings & Co. shoe factory in South Berwick (founded in 1872), lived from1869 to 1946.

6.Double-stapled 16-page brochure on TheDesert of Maine, subtitled "The Story of the Growth and Development /of a / Great Natural Phenomenon," as it reads on the illustrated frontcover, which has the price at bottom right: 15 cents. Undated, but thisFreeport, Maine, phenomenon of sorts (yes, Freeport, today best known for beingthe home of L. L. Bean!) -- which still exists, amazingly -- with its rollingsand dunes, is described this on its website: "An abandoned farm becomes aplace of wonder." Undated, but likely circa 1940s or thereabouts.

Here’s some additional information on the Desert of Maine,courtesy Wikipedia:

The Desert of Maine isa natural curiosity and privately owned tourist attractions whose main featureis a 20-acre (8.1ha) expanse of barren glacial sand in the town of Freeport,Maine, United States. The area was de‑vegetated by poor farming practices inthe 19th century.

History. Theland that encompasses the Desert of Maine became a farm in 1821 when it waspurchased by the Tuttle family. Like other Maine farmers of the era who werestruggling to compete in an expanding agricultural market, the Tuttles' methodsof farming gradually depleted the soil of essential nutrients. Subsequentovergrazing by large numbers of sheep produced widespread erosion of the topsoil,exposing a deposit of aeolian sand that was lying underneath. Eventually theentire farm became barren, and the Tuttles abandoned the land in 1890. Foryears, it was known as "the sand farm" and was a popular localfeature. In 1925, Henry Goldrup purchased the land for US$300 (equivalent toabout $5,500 in 2025) and developed it into a tourist attraction; he named itthe "Desert of Maine."

Geology. Towardthe end of the last ice age, New England was completely covered by the LaurentideIce Sheet, which was up to 3,000meters (almost 2miles) thick in theregion at its maximum extent. The immense weight of the ice sheet at itsmaximum pushed the land of coastal Maine down below sea level, as much as175–245 meters below current elevations.

As the glaciers in Mainestarted to melt, approximately 15,000 years ago, the land began to rebound. Byabout 13,500 years ago, the glaciers' retreat reached the Freeport area, wherethe land that would comprise the future Desert of Maine began to emerge frombelow the sea.

At some point after the Desertarea emerged, it became a sink for wind-blown sand, probably around 12,500years ago. Pioneer plants would have begun to stabilize the open sand depositsfairly quickly, perhaps within just a few hundred years. From those initialplants grew a forest, stabilizing the sand deposit until the Tuttles' farmingpractices uncovered it and allowed the wind to once again move the sand.

The Desert of Maine is nottechnically classified as a desert, as it receives an abundance ofprecipitation annually. The average annual snowfall is 72.1inches, andthe average annual precipitation is 50inches, both far above the UnitedStates' averages, which are 28inches and 38inches respectively. Tobe considered a desert, the area must not receive more than 10inches ofprecipitation a year.

Tourism. TheDesert of Maine has been privately owned and maintained as a tourist attractionsince 1925, with the most recent change in ownership in 2018, followed by a redevelopmentcampaign launched in 2020. This included excavating a house, built in 1938,that had become buried in sand during the park's closure in World War II. Thetown of Freeport has supported the development of the site, authorizing aspecial zoning district to enable the construction of new facilities and tokeep the site intact and maintained. As of 2022, the site hosts a campground, rentalcabins, a performing arts venue, and a miniature golf course. It also includesattractions that draw on the desert and its history, such as interpretive trailsacross the sand, historical buildings, and an original Ford Model I tocommemorate the year of the site's opening as a tourist destination.

The overall condition of these six vintage paper itemsrelating to the state of Maine are good to very good. There's minor chipping,smudging, spotting, rubbing, wrinkling / rippling, etc., here and there on someof the pieces, and a small bottom right corner tear on the Sundial Manorbrochure. The Bowdoin College Museum handbook has writing on the front coverand what looks like some possible water or other liquid damage on the backcover, but the other five items have no annotations, marginalia, underlining,highlighting, etc., nor any major damage or flaws in the way of clipped ormissing areas, large tears, tape repairs, water or other liquid damage, etc.The six items have neither a smoky or musty odor.

These six Maine-related paper items are being sold ASIS,AS DESCRIBED ABOVE AND PICTURED WITHIN. I am setting what I feel is avery reasonable starting price for the sale, and there is . I amalso including a Buy It Now price.

Shipping andhandling for the ephemera, which will besent in a rigid mailer or with rigid backing in a padded envelope: $5.00 toU.S. addresses (via Media Mail).

Note that has now instituted a shipping programwhereby buyers from outside the U.S. can offer on all sellers' items, and theseller sends everything to an facility in the U.S. for shipping. So far,this seems to be working out well.

If you want these vintage paper items sentmorequicklyto you (e.g., via Priority Mail in the U.S.),youmust request this asap after winning or buying them (or beforehand, ifpossible), and I will adjust the amount accordingly.

I will do my best to send these six vintage Maine paperitems out to you no more than 2-3 business days following receipt of payment(that is,when informs me that your payment has been posted to orotherwise cleared in my account).

If you are the winner or buyer of these printed items,PAYMENT IS EXPECTED WITHIN ONE WEEK (7 DAYS) FROM THE PURCHASE DATE. If youcannot pay within this time frame, PLEASE contact me asap so we can worksomething out. I'm very flexible and understanding, but I would appreciatecommunication from you one way or another.

PLEASE NOTE THAT RETURNS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED NOR REFUNDSMADE FOR THESE PAPER ITEMS, SO PLEASE READ MY DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY, LOOKCLOSELY AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS I’VE UPLOADED, AND ASK ME ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVEABOUT THE CONTENTS OR CONDITION OF THE BROCHURES AND ENVELOPE/SLEEVE/FOLDER.THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!

Thanks for looking, and please don't hesitate to email meif you have anyquestions about these six vintage paper items related tothe state of Maine.

PLEASE NOTE THAT, IF POSSIBLE, I WILL HAPPILY ADJUSTSHIPPING CHARGES FOR MULTIPLE PURCHASES!!! (THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO SALES FROMOUTSIDE THE U.S. AT THIS TIME.)

ALSO, NOTE THAT, IF APPLICABLE, WILL ADD ANYAPPROPRIATE STATE SALES TAX TO THE INVOICE.