Chicago: W. H. Parish Publishing Co., 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 14 leaves text plus 55 black & white plates. Printed on one side. Recently rebound in new quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in leather). All edges gilt. 35cm. No tissue guards present. Scenes and buildings in and around New Haven. An..... More
New Haven: John Slade Ely House, (c. 1991). 1st ed. Paperback. 4 black & white illustrations, [12]p. (including wrapper). Softcover. 21 cm. Works by four artists: Min Wang (graphic design); Tong Wang (painting); Liang Wei (painting and calligraphy); and Yumei Zhang (printmaking). According the the brief Introduction by Raymond W...... More
The material was saved by a now deceased and long retired Fire Marshall (and cigar smoker) in this shoreline community. Includes more than one copy of some items. In addition to pamphlets, photos, notes, investigations, etc., the former owner appears to have charted East Haven fires from the 1920s up..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1903. Sheet_music. illustrations, 103p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Ex lib. (The Mattatuck Historical Society). Front cover soiled, chipped and detached. Old newspaper clippings about this sale mounted or tipped inside both covers. Held March 25 and 26. Included some nice Whistler etchings (Lots..... More
[Hartford?]: 1845-1847. Hardcover. 264, 3, (2), [266]-288, 288p. Contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards. 22 cm. Covers heavily scuffed and rather worn. Front joint partially split. Ex lib. (spine label and bookplate on endpaper). Foxing (mostly light to moderate). The entry in OCLC adds "East Windsor, Con." as a subtitle..... More
New Haven: Domestic Science Deparatment New Haven City School District, n.d. [1916?]. Paperback. 8p. Softcover in original wrappers. 21 cm. Cover and contents basically sound but rather chipped, soiled, stained (here and there) and worn. Prior to coming to New Haven, Ms. Deeter appears to have been one of the..... More
New Haven: The L.T. Frisbie Co., n.d. [probably 1920]. Paperback. photos, 31p. Softcover in original wrapper. 8 x 14 cm. Minor cover soil. Pages 13-18 are blank lined pages for notes, orders, que stions, etc. More
Elkhorn, Wisconsin: 1899. 1st ed. Paperback. 64p. Softcover in (probably later) wrapper stapled to a stiff card backing and bound with a strip of blue binder's tape. 23 cm. "Drew Theological Seminary Library" stamp on copyright page. More
photos and political cartoons, 16p. Tabloid/underground newspaper format. 30 x 44 cm. Uniform browning. Later off-center horizontal fold. Ballpoint (blue ink) scribble on front page. Some wrinkling and other wear. No publication information. Leftist publication which we have not seen before. We don't know how many issues were published. Pro..... More
New Haven: The Van Dyck Printing Co., 1937. Paperback. illustrations (some color, 64p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Minor cover soil. Staples rusted. Former owner's name on cover and there are several student autographs inside the back cover. Laid is is a copy of the printed Menu/Program for the..... More
Hartford: The Travelers Insurance Company, 1920. Third edition, revised. Paperback. photos, viii, 124p. Siftcover in original wrapper. 16 cm. Cover soil. Former owner's circular name stamp (Lewis H. Arnold of Willimantic) on front and back covers. Contents sound and clean. More
Norwalk, Conn. Harry Rider, n.d. Paperback. photos, 16p. Softcover in original wrapper. 16 cm. A couple of vertical creases and other wear.Modest insect damage along fore-edge on title-leaf. Creases in covers. Harry Rider publication info on title-page overstamped in purple with C. C. Hubbell, 14 Cottage St., East Norwalk, Conn..... More
Hartford: Connecticut Indian Association, 1900. 6p. Text in four columns. 36 cm. Defective -- most of first leaf is missing; all that remains the furthest left of 7 the four columns. The other two leaves are intact but with a modest stain in the center of both leaves. Later folds..... More
(Cincinnati): (Robert Clarke & Co., 1886. E. P. Cranch. Paperback. illustrations, (24) unnumbered pages. Printed on 1 side only. Soctover in original wrapper, illustrated on the front cover. 21 cm. Cover detached and at fold and heavily chipped (no loss of cover text or illustration). Contents lightly age-toned but otherwise..... More
Most of the material, which dates between 1985 and 1995, relates to the Connecticut River Powwow Society and their annual Powwows. There are numerous duplicates. Membership in the Society does not appear to have been large. We don't know how many of the members were Native Americans. This material belonged..... More
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1892. Hardcover. frontis, 126p. 22cm. Spine sloped. Front cover dented. Bingham, a Yale graduate, was a Congregational minister. The last church he served was in Woodstock, Connecticut. More
Middletown, Conn. Middletown-Portland Bridge Committee, 1938. Paperback. frontis, photos, [20]p. Original blue wrapper with pictorial front cover. 31cm. Some rippling of pages. Striking cover design. Striking cover design. More
New London: New London County Historical Society, Inc., n.d. Reprint. Paperback. (24)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Late 20th century reprint of the 1897 revised edition published in Middletown, Connecticut. More
New Haven: 1912. Paperback. photos, unnumbered pages. Tied softcover in original oblong wrapper. 23 x 16 cm. Laid in is a typed 2-page carbon copy ("The following is the order of Episodes an their scenes in the Pageant"). More
Norwich, Conn. The Richmond Stove Co., n.d. Single sheet folded to form a folded 8-page illustrated brochure. 17 cm. Mayer, Merkel & Ottman, Lith. printed in lower right corner of cover page. More
Cheshire, Connecticut: Students of the Roxbury School, 1936. Hardcover. photos, illustrations, 120, (12)p, Original blue binding. 27 cm. This college preparatory school has been known as Cheshire Academy since 1937, More
[New Haven?]: 1908. Paperback. photos, 137p. plus [11] pages of advertisements for local businesses. Softcover in original tied wrapper. Modest cover soil and some spotting. More
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[Thompsonville]: 1945. Paperback. [52] unnumbered pages, including many advertisement. Wrapper. 26cm. Staple mark on front cover. Staining along fore-edge throughout text. The one and one-half page Class Valedictory delivered by Robert Jackson, a white eight-grader, was titled "The Negro in Medicine." More
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Single sheet (53 x 20 cm), written in a clear hand on one side and folded into 7 narrow sections for mailing. Stamp with postmark on end section and on separate envelope. Split at fold between what we are calling sections five and six. Asakawa, who earned his Ph.D. in..... More
New Haven: Durrie & Peck; NY: Gould. Newman & Saxton, 1839. Hardcover. frontis, viii, 400p. Hardcover in recent quarterbinding. 23 cm. Moderate foxing. An autograph Letter, signed by Bacon, mounted on back of frontis in which Bacon asks someone for aid with a Wethersfield-related genealogical problem. More
