Friends of the C. H. Booth Library

33rd Annual Book Sale

A taste of this year's collectibles:

Books on Soviet history

Weight-lifting pamphlets

Religious tracts from the 19th century and earlier, most in German

(Lutheran, Mennonite) donated from the estate of a collector

Early to mid-20th century books on food science

Highlights of what's new in the general categories:

Numerous books on owls from a private collection may be found under Animals and in

the Children’s Non-Fiction sections

A large number of paperback science fiction works published in the UK

Biographies of literary figures

Children’s school textbooks (K-8) now have their own section in the Children’s area

Hardcover fiction is now divided into two areas: contemporary works (published 2005 to now)

and earlier publications (before 2005)

The section on Government, Politics, and Foreign Affairs includes Current Events

Sports: Books on guns

Some of the 2008 Special, Rare, Collectible and Signed Books:

Adams, Ansel, and Edward Joesting.  The Islands of Hawaii.   Honolulu?: Bishop National Bank, 1958.  103 Adams plates.

Babson. John.  History of the Town of Gloucester.  Gloucester: Procter Bros., 1860.  Lacking map;

with a Procter Bros. stereo card, Cape Ann Scenery: #6 Annisquam Point, from Dennison’s Hill. 

Baedeker, Karl. Germany. Liepzig: 1936. Only English edition of the guidebook published in Nazi Germany.

Includes both the folding map and the plan of the 1936 Olympic stadium.

Barber, John Warner.  Connecticut Historical Collections.  New Haven: Durrie & Peck, nd.  With folding map intact.

Burton, Jean. Lydia Pinkham Is Her Name. Signed by Charles H Pinkham II

(last of the family to be directly connected to the firm) together with

newspaper clippings concerning the sale of the company,

and typed and autographed letters and cards from Pinkham and his wife.

Carver, Jonathan. Three Years Travels [in] North America. Boston: 1802.

(Civil War) F.E.C.  History of the 58th Regt. Massachusetts Vols.  Washington: Gibson Bros., 1865.  Ownership signature of Lieut. J C Vaughan, New York; Vaughan was First Lieutenant of Company F.  Lacking front cover but with intact advertisement to send copies on receipt of $1.00.  Together with a most interesting letter

addressed to Jerry C Vaughn, Esq, on brown wrapping paper, from an unidentified author. 

The author served with Vaughan and discusses some war experience, but is more

focused on his own postwar troubles.  The double-sided letter is in pieces but can be pieced together,

with only slight loss of text.

Clemens, Samuel. Mark Twain's Sketches. Hartford, 1875. Cruden, Alexander.

Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. London: 1738. First edition.

Croffut, W A, and John M Morris.  Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the War of 1861-65.

  NY: Ledyard Bill, 1869.  Third edition, revised.

Cruden, Alexander. Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. London: 1738. First edition.

Heyward, DeBose and Dorothy. Porgy. Theatre Guild Edition, six line inscription signed

by both Dorothy and DeBose. Norris, Thad. American Angler's Book. Philadelphia: 1864.

Independent Chronicle [newspaper], 6 June 1808; Boston: Adams & Rhoades.

Larned, Ellen D.  History of Windham County, Connecticut.  Worcester: Hamilton, 1874.

  Two volumes. With folding map intact.

Markham, Clements.  The Fighting Veres: Lives of Sir Francis Vere . . . Sir Horace Vere. 

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888.

Malthus, T R. An Essay on the Principle of Population.  London: Murray, 1817.  Three volumes. 

Fifth edition, “with important additions.” 

Norris, Thad. American Angler's Book. Philadelphia: 1864.

San Francisco Oracle, The.  Facsmilie edition, edited by Allen Cohen, Berkeley: Regent, 1991.  With slipcase.

Stokes, Anson Phelps. Church and State in the United States.  NY: Harper, nd(1950). 

Stated first edition.  Three volumes in slipcase.

Warden, D B.  Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America.

   Edinburgh: Constable, 1819.  Volume III only.