New England from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First trade edition. Octavo (9" x 6.25"), xv & 335 pages, with illustrations throughout. Publisher's gilt lettered & decorated green cloth. Lightly rubbed, brief wear at spine extremities, "6" in white crayon (?) on the upper cover, brief gift inscription & date at the ffep, moderate toning & sporadic foxing, otherwise good or better. "These fragments will… Read more about this item

[Lewiston: Central Maine Fair Association, 1907]. Folio broadside measuring 19 inches by 8 inches printed recto only on thin paper, with photographic illustration of a Pit Bull in spiked collar. Text in three columns. Not found in OCLC as of 4/6/2024. Old folds, slightly soiled & toned, offsetting on the verso, otherwise very good. "The management of the Central Maine Fair Association… Read more about this item

No place [Worcester, Massachusetts ?]: Worcester Association of Mutual Aid in Detecting Thieves, 1924. Original menu on thick card stock printed recto only measuring 7.25 inches by 4.85 inches. Brief wear at one corner, lightly toned, soiled , & foxed, otherwise very good. The attendees enjoyed a splendid meal of Eperlan Broche (apparently smelt) with Sauce Tartare, Dindonneau roti with Sauce Canneberge… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: various publishers, various dates 1825 - 1841. Sammelband of eight octavo sermons bound in contemporary full pebbled black morocco by P. Low (with his label at the rear pastedown), the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered & ruled in gilt. All edges gilt, ribbon marker sewn in. Joints & edges a bit rubbed, sermons… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Henry Altemus: no date (circa 1895). Sextodecimo (6" x 4.5"), 165 pages plus 16 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements, with frontis portrait of the author. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered & decorated in a floral motif in gilt, green, & red on the spine & upper cover. Brief wear at spine extremities & edges, lightly soiled, spine dull, otherwise Good or… Read more about this item

Cavendish, Vermont: Baptist Church, 1885. Original broadside/ handbill, octavo (9.25" x 6") printed in black ink on light paper. This copy signed faintly in ink at the upper margin by Hudson: "Please admit Mr. & Mrs. [?] Ward, Complimentary, Mrs. H.B. Hudson." Old folds, edge wear including nicks & short tears, signature faded, otherwise Good. Although from Brooklyn, Mrs. Hudson apparently spent… Read more about this item

Burlington, [Vermont]: "Sold by merchants generally throughout the state," [1855]. First edition thus. 24mo (5.25" x 3.25"), [8], 9 - 190 pages, with map & illustrations, plus 24 unnumbered pages for notes. Publisher's black limp diced roan, wallet style with fold-over flap. Moderately rubbed & soiled, tear at the flap, occasional scuffs, light foxing & toning, previous owners name in pencil… Read more about this item

Burlington, [Vermont]: "Sold at wholesale by booksellers, and at retail by merchants generally throughout the state," [1857]. First edition thus. 24mo (5.25" x 3.25"), [7], 166 & 2 pages, with map & illustrations, plus 24 unnumbered pages for notes. Publisher's black diced limp roan, wallet style with fold-over flap. Moderately rubbed & soiled, shallow loss at the base of the flap,… Read more about this item

Lowell, Massachusetts: Marden & Rowell, 1886. Pictorial stapled paper wraps.. Lowell, Massachusetts: Marden & Rowell, 1886. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4.75"), [4], [1] - 42, & [4] pages. Publisher's pictorial, staple paper wraps. OCLC locates two copies (accession # 70875262, Los Angeles Public Library; Williams College). Worn: Lacking lower wrap, portion of one leaf excised costing recipes 66 & 71, edge… Read more about this item

Indianapolis, Indiana: Scarborough Motor Guide Company, no date, circa 1920. 8vo (9" x 5.5"), vi & 102 pages, indexed, pages 2 through 87 provide color printed maps (many double-page). Publisher's green faux leather over flexible boards lettered in white on the front cover. Cover lettering dull, slight wear at upper corners & spine extremities, otherwise Near Fine. Includes key to… Read more about this item

Boston: [Wright and Potter]; Massachusetts Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, 1882. Large folding map measuring 20 inches by 42.75 inches including margins printed on light paper issued to accompany the Report of the Harbor and Land Commissioners for 1882. Modern archival reinforcement on the verso, moderately toned, couple of small stains, couple of nicks & short tears in the… Read more about this item

St. Albans, Vermont: the association, printed by Press of the St. Albans Messenger Co., (1894). Oblong 24mo, 28 & [8] pp., including 14 illustrations from photographs depicting the facility. Original embossed stiff paper wraps, stapled. Not found in OCLC (or any other material from this association) as of 5/26/2022. Covers toned & lightly soiled/ stained, wraps partially split at the spine,… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: , 1929., Original pictorial stapled paper wraps measuring 9 inches by 8 inches folding as issued to 9 inches by 4 inches. 20 pages plus covers, illustrated throughout mostly from photographs. Text in two columns, includes two maps (one in color). Moderately soiled, light edge wear & rubbing, staples a bit rusted, otherwise Very Good. "NOWHERE… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, (1971) First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink at the ffep by author, illustrator & Caldecott winner Elizabeth Orton Jones. 8vo, viii, 271 pp. Publisher's dark gray paper over boards backed in lighter gray cloth lettered in yellow on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Modest foxing mostly at endpapers, pastedowns, & edges of… Read more about this item

Lake Champlain, Vermont: Young Men's Christian Association of Vermont, volume xiv, numbers 1 to 16, 1924. Octavo (9" x 6"), 109 pages, occasional illustration from photographs & art work by F. Harrison Stafford & Robert E. Allen. Original stapled paper wraps. Moderately soiled, light edge wear including a closed tear (about 1.25") at rear cover, staples rusted causing minor staining,… Read more about this item

Canton, Massachusetts: Friends of the Little Red House, 1975. Two volumes, in slipcase. Facsimile reprints, "Bicentennial Limited Edition, Number 49" (of an unspecified total). Octavos (9" x 6"), vii, xv & 666 pages plus 11 plates & 3 folding maps (additional illustrations in text); 485 pages (not illustrated). Publisher's original gilt lettered & decorated green cloth, in plain green slipcase. … Read more about this item

[London]: "In the Savoy, Printed by E and R Nutt for Thomas Harris, at the Looking-Glass and Bible on London Bridge," 1741. "Third Edition, carefully corrected," this copy with the ownership signature of John G.C. Brainard at the first blank page. 16mo (65" x 425"), [2], 348, & [16] pp, two parts bound in one volume. Contemporary full sheep, the… Read more about this item

Danbury, Connecticut: Danbury Printing Co, 1941 First edition 8vo, unpaginated [64 pp], occasional illustrations. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps Not found in OCLC as of 3/9/2020. Wraps with edge wear including small losses, margins browned, lightly soiled & rubbed, Good or better. A charming cook book which begins with a fanciful short story before turning to inspiring recipes… Read more about this item

Columbus, Ohio: L.P. Rayl & Co, Publishers, 1855. First edition. 8vo, 64 & [1] pages of printed text followed by 57 decorated & illustrated pages to record births, deaths, marriages, etc, of which 30 contain annotations in manuscript relative to John Grant (1688 - 1776), a British emigrant to Boston, & descendants. Original black cloth lettered & decorated in gilt… Read more about this item

New Haven, Connecticut: E.P. Best Mfg. Co., no date (ca. 1890). Folio (approximately 15" x 10"), embossed chromolithograph on thick card stock. Modest edge wear, light soiling, verso with remnants of glue (apparently once mounted) & a few scuffs, Very Good. Undoubtedly a stock image adapted to the needs of this enterprise, the pastoral vignette of grazing cows along… Read more about this item