Search Results: Connecticut & Rhode Island from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934. Early edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Spine slightly darkened. Lower front dark spotting.. 1 Blue cloth over boards. Blind stamped front building. xvi. 318 p. 22 cm. Pen&Ink art. End paper illustrate maps. Three books in contents: Connecticut Colony; The Saybrook Plantations; New Haven Colony and Her Neighbors. Maps on lining-papers. A story of the first three Connecticut settlements--Hartford, Saybrook and New Haven. Bibliography: p. 303-305. Index, last 2 pages uncut.

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1920. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Reingforced w/ library tape inside covers.. 0 262 p. Spine covered / replaced neatly w/brown tape, white hand-inked titles. Henry Beers, in 1920, was Professor of English Literature Emeritus, Yale University. Essays: Connecticut Wits, Singer of the Old Swimming Hole, Emerson's Journals, Art of Letter Writing, Thackeray's Centenary, English Drama, Sheridan, Poetry of the Cavaliers, Abraham Cowley, Milton's Tercentenary, Shakespeare's Contemporaries.

New York / London.: G. P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press., 1914. First edition. Presumed 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Author inscription, dated June 12, 1914. Lower damp stain w/ light rippling, cover to cover. Back board separated.. 1 609 p. Dark blue cloth over boards. Gold front and spine titles. 24 cm. Index. From the Prehistoric Period to The Old Connecticut and the New, 41 chapters including wars with natives. courts and laws, religion, witchcraft, slavery, manufactures and commerce, education and colleges, inventions, civil war, penal and reformatory, temperance, literature, art music, agriculture. The illustrations list runs 6 pages, plus 3 maps.

New Haven CT.: The Price & Lee Co., 1927. Robert A Welcke, Photo-Litho, NY.. Vellum. Very good. Age-toning to folder. Some folds wrinkled.. 1 24x24in. Pen&Ink w/ Street Index. Multiple folds to attach inside manila card stock folder, 4.25x6.75in. map Company marketing on back and inside front. Pocket size map folder. Scale 1.25 inches to 1000 feet.

New York.: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1936. First edition. "First edition", stated.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Prior owner name. Sun-fade to spine, overlapping to edge of boards at spine. Top spine right side corner damage, qtr. -in. Clean pages.. 1 Blue cloth over boards. 5 p. l., 3-230 p. 21 cm. Silver spine titles. Historical notes about Ridgeford, Connecticut, first opened for settlement in 1712 in the American colony's northeast corner. Short history-based stories and sketches fill the pages showing the growth of this small New England Town, with some emphasis on Puritan leanings. Acknowledgment is given to the editors of "The American Mercury" and "Yankee" for permission to reprint chapters first published therein. Inside rear board is small blue and white sticker: "Witkower's Booksellers & Stationers, 77-79 Asylum St., Hartford, Conn."

New York.: John S Taylor & Company., 1842. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Foxing throughout. Front cover damp stain. Top spine end damage. Reading copy. Pgs 29-31 loose.. 1 213 p. Brown blind-stamped cloth over boards. Stitched binding. Bufford's Lithographs NY. 20 cm. Frontispiece: "View of Newport from Brenton's Cove". Lithographs not foxed like the more acidic text paper: "Old Tower at Newport R.I.", "Redwood Library", Funeral Car of the Hero of Erie". A pair of lithographs are more poorly preserved on a single page: "Purgatory Near Newport, R.I." and "Paradise Near Newport, R.I." Text: "Visit to Grand-papa".

Philadelphia.: Macrae-Smith-Company., 1947. 479, lower copyright page; copyright, 1947, Gladys Taber (top).. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Hungry little creature nibbled rear book edge and lower front corner. Top block foxing.. 1 285 p. Blue-green woven cloth over boards. Small brown spine titles. Color photo frontispiece: kitchen corner. Classic farming cookbook. Contents listed vii-xxxiv, Stillmeadow Holiday Soup to Honey Balls. Many recipes from early days of farming when no ingredient went unused, such as organ meats and abundant harvest vegetables and grains. Some are anointed with the names of the creative cooks behind the dishes, such as Esther Konotopha's Vernicke in the pasta list.

West Rindge NH.: Richard R Smith Publisher., 1958. Fifth Edition. 1st in 1932, 1935, 1943, 1953, Scribner's.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sturdy binding. School library discard. Middlesex Jr. High, Darien CT.. 1 497 p. Turquoise heavy cloth over boards, sealed. White spine titles. Library rebind. 19 cm. US History, Connecticut. Includes clue games, study aids. Native Pequots, early settlements, Dutch, Government, King Philip, Revolution, Transportation & Roads, Charter, Wars, Slavery, Industries, Education, 300 years of progress, Authors, Cities, Lighthouses, Airways, Mail, Homes for unfortunate people.