Americana from Craftsbury Antiquarian Books

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1951. Book. Illus. by profuse paintings, engravings and photos . Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A cultural, artistic history of our country with profuse illustrations , compiled from the collections of the etropolitan Museum of Art and other sources by the author, who was Editor of Pubications at the Museum… Read more about this item

London: Saunders and Otley , 1838. Book. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three-quarter brown calf with marbled boards and matching brown-beige endpapers. Professional repairs to the corners, and volumes one and two have been rebacked. New spine labekls. Solid hinges and inside, very clean pages with no stains, no… Read more about this item

not stated: none listed, 1880. Book. Illus. by no photos in this album. Very Good. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A splendid Victorian photo album, French or possibly French Canadian with a portrait of two women on the front board, with four white stones mounted on a full leather binding. The metal clasp is intact.… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. Book. Illus. by endpaper maps and volume 2 frontispiece of Major Robert Rogers . Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The two volume special edition, preceeding the first trade edition, signed and numbered, this copy 890 of 1050. This copy appears unread, as some… Read more about this item

Craftsbury, Vermont: The Craftsbury Bicentennial Committee, 1990. Book. Illus. by profuse photos of Craftsbury and its celebratory year. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy with yellow card covers, as new inside with no prior owner marks. Surprisingly, there is no quality history of this town, named after one of its founders,… Read more about this item

New Yirj: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Book. Illus. by 30 black/white illustrations. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, unread copy, clean and tight inside and out. No edgewear. No dust jackets, as issued, but a slipcase with some wear at the bottom edge, overall solid and very good. A fine,… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, 1969. Book. Illus. by map and photos, drawings. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Numbrt 236 of 250 copies of this limited edition, in pale blue cloth with Title and a skeleton of a cow's head on the front. As new inside, clean and tight with a photo of… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Government of West Pakistan, 1866. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A nice piece of Americana, the first edition of eulogies for Judge Collomer, a respected congressman, Postmaster General, and Senator from Vermont in the 1840s through the Civil War. Bound in the original stiff brown boards with… Read more about this item

San Francisco: John J. Newbegin, 1939. Book. Illus. by endpaper map of California, and photo image of the German original. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original light orange cloth with paper label of a sailing ship on the front board and a paper title on the spine. Number 206 of only 250… Read more about this item

not stated: none listed, 1880. Book. Illus. by early American photos, circa 1870s. Very Good. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Brown full morocco leather binding, with raised bands flanked by gilt lines and double gilt lines on the covers. Gilt geoffered page edges (meaning a design has been pressed into the gilt page edges).… Read more about this item

Springfield, Mass: Art in America, 1947. Book. Illus. by 37 Photos of Winthrop Chandler Paintings. Near Fine. Printer Wrapper. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The entire issue of this April 1947 illustrated art magazine is devoted to Connecticut painter, with a folding geneaological chart, and critical review of the portraits and landscapes, most reproduced here in… Read more about this item

Des Moines: Mills & Co, 1870. Book. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good original green cloth, clean and tight with bright gilt title on spine, and slight edgewear at the corners. Lithographs sketched in Iowa in 1868 and 1869, with numerous other illustrations, graphs and foldout elevations. Illustrated by 8 lithographs, fold charts. 1st edition.… Read more about this item

Dobbs Ferry Oceana 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine beige cloth, bright gilt title on front and on unfaded spine, no edgewear. Inside, as new..