Recent Arrivals from Resource Books, LLC

Granby, Connecticut : Salmon Brook Historical Society, 1996. First edition, 1996. Well-written illustrated town history of Granby, Connecticut, both scholarly and enjoyable. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, 559 pages, printed dustjacket. The book is in near fine condition with a firm binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has some very light shelf… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1961. Originally published in 1961, this copy most likely from the early 1950s. Four full page peach and black tinted engravings, plus additional illustrations. Light blue hardcover with black cloth spine, gilt spine lettering and decoration, 119 pages, color illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with good hinges, sound text… Read more about this item

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1972. First edition, 1972. Blue cloth with dustjacket. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages with a few scholarly light pencil notes in the outer margins, name of Yale Classics scholar in ink at top edge of front free endpaper. The mylar protected dustjacket is… Read more about this item

Chicopee, MA: Printed by Szetela & Rich Publishing Co., 1948. First edition, undated [1948]. Illustrated with black and white plates, mainly from photographs. Red cloth with gilt titles, 291 pages. Some shelf rubbing and sufrace soil, good hinges, sound text block, personal bookplate inside front cover, no other names or markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1914. 1914 edition, two volumes in one. Very well kept copy in rust colored cloth with gilt spine lettering, cover decoration in black, 365 + 338 pages. Very light rubbing to corners and spine ends, 3mm closed tear to spine head without loss, spine unfaded, good hinges, sound text block, pages clean, name of… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. Single volume from the Cameo Edition of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Red cloth, tissue protected frontis plate in black and white, title page in black and tan. Good condition with some surface rubbing, spine lettering no longer legible, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. Stories include:… Read more about this item

New York: Public Affairs Committee, 1938. Second printing, 1938. Depression era housing policies, programs and regulation, including private-public partnerships and public housing. Softcover, 32 pages. Light cover wear, name and address at top of front cover, pages clean with some very neat pencil underlines to some sections.. Soft Cover. Good.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. Single volume from the Cameo Edition of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Red cloth, tissue protected frontis plate in black and white, title page in black and tan. Good condition with surface scuffing, spine lettering no longer legible, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. Stories include: The… Read more about this item

New York: Public Affairs Committee, 1938. Second edition, 1938. Depression era farming policies and regulation under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 and the New Deal. Softcover, 32 pages. Covers rubbed at the extremities, name at top of front cover, name and address neatly written inside the front cover, sound binding, pages clean and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo -… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1930. First edition thus, 1930, Centenary Edition. Green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, tissue protected frontis of the poet, 401 pages, no dustjacket, likely as issued. Covers have rubbing, uneven fading and water spotting to the rear cover, spine gilt and gilt on lower part of front cover worn, good hinges, sound text… Read more about this item

USA: American Book Company, 1925. 1925 elementary school reader about food production, taking the children on a virtual tour of farms, mills, bakeries, fisheries, orchards, plantations, factories, etc. Color frontis, dozens of additional illustrations mainly in black and white. Tan pictorial cloth printed in red. Good to very good condition with some scuffing to the spine and spotting to the… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946. Copyright 1946 Illustrated Junior Library series. Includes the Tenniel illustrations, reproduced mainly in their original black and white, some plates in color. Tan cloth with White Rabbit design in black and red, red spine, illustrated endpapers, 296 pages, no dustjacket. Light shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no names or… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. 1976 edition, near fine book in scuffed slipcase. Includes the full text of Austen's novel plus a chronology of her life, a biographical note about the illustrator and an afterword by the illustrator. Golden yellow cloth with brown cloth spine, illustrated with full page black and white plates, taupe and light red slipcase with… Read more about this item

USA: American Book Company, 1926. 1926 elementary school reader about the components of houses, taking students on a virtual tour of mines, lumber camps and lumber mills, quarries, factories, water and electric facilities, etc. Color frontis, dozens of additional illustrations in black and white. Tan pictorial cloth printed in red. Very good condition with minimal wear, good hinges, sound text… Read more about this item

USA: American Book Company, 1926. 1926 elementary school reader about clothing production, taking the children on a virtual tour of farms, mills, plantations, factories, a fur trader, a tannery, etc. Also includes a story about a fur seal on the Probiloff Islands off the coast of Alaska. Color frontis, dozens of additional illustrations mainly in black and white. Tan pictorial… Read more about this item

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1976. New old stock, never used 1976 edition of this Giant Print Reference Edition, self-pronouncing and with the Words of Christ in Red. Includes a presentation page and genealogy pages in color at the front, clean and unmarked. Burgundy bonded leather with gilt lettering, flexible covers, all edge gilt, gilt tooled inner dentelles, attached ribbon… Read more about this item

Roslyn, NY: Walter J. Black, 1937. Classics Club edition, ca. 1960s despite earlier copyright. Includes Shakespeare's complete plays plus poems and index. Tannish gray cloth printed in red, black and gilt, 7.75" tall. Very good condition, with very very slightly darkened spine, good hinges, firm text block, some very light foxing (age speckling) to the first and last few… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Third edition, revised. Text on money, banking, business and related disciplines. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, frontis of the circulation of money accented in red and blue, no dustjacket. The book has some rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, sound text block, name and address on front free endpaper, a few… Read more about this item

City of Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1861. Original Civil War era publication containing official transcripts of debates, laws passed, votes, petitions, memorials, etc. Three quarter brown leather with marble paper covered boards, 459p, [1], 52 p [appendix, various paginations within]. Covers heavily rubbed, joints cracked with front cover holding on securely on binder's cords, text block sound, pages age-toned with… Read more about this item

USA: National Survey and Sales Corporation, 1937. Depression era annual almanac providing mainly national statistics on demographics, arts and science, business and industry, etc., plus sections and advertisements specific to the New England states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island. Softcover, 960 pages. Worn but good condition with covers rubbed and darkened but legible, text block… Read more about this item