Connecticut from Trench Books

Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. This is a small booklet, approx. 5x7 1/2, with a blue paper cover, published in New Haven in 1917. The cover is soiled and somewhat worn, 1" piece missing from top right front. Foxing to endpapers, interior text clean, bright and unmarked. This book (114 pgs) is a history of the first Masonic Lodge… Read more about this item

New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1953. Second Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Light soiling to covers, text clean and unmarked. "Connecticut Origins of Modern Telephony (1878-1953).) Interesting and detailed history, written by the President of the Southern New England Telephone Co, (SNET). Includes a reproduction of the one page New Haven telephone directory, the first… Read more about this item

North Haven, CT: William J. Mack. Hardcover. Very Good. Light wear to covers, bumps to corners, clean and unmarked. Small spiral bound, cardboard covered booklet of 90 pages. "Recipes by the children, parents, and teachers of the Hamden Hall Country Day School, Hamden, Conn". Undated, possibly 1950s-60s.

New York: Newcomen Society of England, 1947. First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Light wear/soiling to covers, date stamped on back; interior clean and unmarked. A collection of short essays by the author, who lived in Norwalk, CT. A booklet of forty pages. Included is a brochure (with numerous photos of early inventions) that consists of the… Read more about this item

New York: Basic, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Superb copy, clean and unmarked. "The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man who Dreamed of Walking the World". Mostly forgotten now, Ledyard travelled widely in the 1700s.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1949. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Light scuffing to back, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, rubbing, back is torn and wrinkled. This copy was probably part of a promotion, on the front cover is stamped in gold: " In Our Second Century Society for Savings in the City of Cleveland Since 1949.… Read more about this item

Shawnee Mission KS: Circulation Serv, 1980. Comb/plastic Softcover. Very Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Privately printed book of recipes collected by the Senior Citizens of Guilford CT. 75+pgs.

New Haven. Paper. Very Good. This is an assortment of programs from various productions of the Yale Univ Theatre, the Yale School of Drama, and the Yale Dramatic Assoc. Twelve programs: The Myrmidons, Faust Part One (signed on page 4 by several of the performers), A Ball for the Imaginative/The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Tartuffe, The Downstairs Dragon, The… Read more about this item

Hartford, CT: Hartford Times, 1935. Illustrated Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear, cello tape repair to top of spine, pages quite yellowed, unmarked. CT history, 1632-1765, told in comic book format. 284 pgs.

New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 1920. Second Printing . Brown Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Fritz Endell. Covers show light wear/soiling, interior clean and bright, unread. There is a signature on the flyleaf that may be the author's, but we are unable to verify it's authenticity.

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1955. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/Good+. Kurt Wiese. Minimal wear, name in corner of flyleaf, rear endpapers yellowed from an enclosed news clipping. Jacket complete, with small tears to edges. Green cloth with illust. paste-on.

Pawcatuck, CT: Homebound Publications, 2013. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket-as Published. Clean and unmarked. "A Journey Through Time, Place and Redemption". The efforts of Mr. Powers and others to save the old Dudley Farm in Guilford, CT. Several B&W photos. I drove by this property many times over the years.

Chicago: Pioneer Historical Publishing, 1930. Black Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Vol. One: 963 pgs., detailed history of NH County from the earliest times, indexed. Binding somewhat shaken, rear hinge split, page 947 detached but present, light wear/soiling. Vol. Two: 575 pgs., brief biographies of prominent residents of the County, B&W photos or engravings of many of them, indexed.… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. Blue Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light foxing to cover edges; sound, clean, and unmarked. "The Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series". Author photo afixed opposite contents page. Signed and dated by the author, on the flyleaf. Phelps was a Yale professor.

Clinton, CT: Bethlehem Chapter 68, 1932. Paperback. Good. Wear to spine, light soiling, unmarked. 100+ pages of recipes, ads, and cooking tips, all gathered from members of the Order of the Eastern Star chapters around CT. Frosntispiece B&W photo of the chapter officers for 1932 (no names). Lots of old ads from shoreline businesses, a very few of… Read more about this item

North Haven, CT: William J. Mack, 1972. Comb/plastic. Fair. Covers soiled, portion of back cover missing. This is a 52 page cookbook compiled by Senior Girl Scout Troop 350 of No Haven, CT. Included are many recipes, most by well known CT residents, a few by National figures such as Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower, Lady… Read more about this item

Hartford: Traveler's Press, 1941. Green Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light edgewear, clean and unmarked. Slim volume of narrative poems on a wide variety of topics. Possibly published as an insurance company giveaway?

Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, 1975. Trade Paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Light soiling to covers, bookstore stamp on flyleaf. Born in Wallingford, CT, the author writes of growing up in a farming area one hundred years ago. B&W photos by Alice Moulton.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Gray Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Moderate wear to corners, front cover slightly bowed; clean and unmarked; not X-L. Fourteenth printing of an award winning tale for young people, set in old Connecticut Colony.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1935. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Charles Hargens. Name and date on flyleaf, light shelfwear; nice sound copy. Cover paste-on in excellent shape.