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Etching of the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium at Princeton, NJ.
Princeton, NJ: 1947. The total edition was 356 examples of which 53 were destroyed. A very detailed etching typical of the meticulous style of Arms, renowned for his prolific printmaking, specifically of Gothic architecture. Julian P. Boyd was a librarian (1940-52), and later history professor at Princeton University. His preservation...
Price: $350
GROTON SCHOOL
2 Photograph Albums of Gordon Auchincloss including images from his years at the Groton School and Yale University.
1917- 1936. GROTON SCHOOL. A photographic chronicle of the first two decades in the life of Gordon Auchincloss from infancy to college. Highlights include the Groton School 50th Anniversary, June, 1934 with Fraklin D. Roosevelt pictured seated in the center of the porch, the Groton Football team of which Gordon...
Price: $1,500
Banking in China: a Paper read December 12, 1903 before The Round Table, St. Louis.
St Louis: The Round Table, [1908]. A history of banking in China, starting with the history of the monetary system in China and its coinage. Wong Kai Kah was the Vice Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition in 1903, which is presumably the event during which he gave this paper...
Price: $300
Official Souvenir Score Card of the Yale-Princeton Baseball Game. University Field. Saturday June 10, 1899.
Princeton, N.J: The Princeton University Press, 1899. With completed score sheet, showing Princeton the victor, 6-2.
Price: $600
Author's First Book, Inscribed to Bliss Carman, Deluxe Binding
An Ode To Harvard And Other Poems.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1907. First edition of the Author's First Book. Author's First Book, Inscribed to Bliss Carman, Deluxe Binding. Inscribed to Bliss Carman on the flyleaf, "Bliss Carman/ with acknowledgement / and best wishes from/ Witter Bynner/ July, 1907." The first edition of this book was issued...
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Autograph Letter, Signed. To Walter Sawyer.
Jamaica Plain: July 2nd, 1877. Reading in part: " I send you for your monthly an essay I wrote, a year or two since, for a friend to read to a literary society..." Abolitionist, Transcendentalist, editor of the liberal Western Messenger. He purchased the Brook Farm in 1855, but never was able...
Price: $250
SKULL AND BONES, 1910
Skull and Bones. Edward H. (Ted) Coy's copy signed by him below his photograph. Captain of the Yale Football team...
[New Haven: Skull and Bones, 1910]. SKULL AND BONES, 1910. Edward Harris "Ted" Coy (1888 – 1935) was one of Yale's greatest football player and then coach. Coy was selected as a first-team All-American three straight years from 1907 to 1909 and was later selected as the fullback on Walter...
Price: $3,500
Six Nonlectures.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. First edition, #84 of 350 copies, signed by Cummings. Six Nonlectures are the text for the 1952-53 series of Charles Eliot Norton lectures given at Harvard by cummings entitled, "i & my parents," "i & their son," "i & selfdiscovery," "i & you & is,"...
Price: $400
The Heavenly Mansions. : A Sermon preached May 14, 1795, in the City of New-Haven, at the Interment of the...
New Haven: by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1795. With an untitled poem on page 38.
Price: $150
Yale-College Subject to the General Assembly. [Caption title:] The right of the General Assembly to inspect, regulate and reform the...
New Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1784. First edition.
Price: $300
The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis, Illustrated in a Discourse, Preached on the Fourth of July, 1798. By...
New-Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1798. First edition, with half-title.
Price: $200
A Discourse, on the Genuineness and Authenticity of the New-Testament: delivered at New-Haven, September 10th, 1793, at the annual lecture...
New York: George Bunce, 1794.
Price: $200
The William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana.
New Haven, Ct: Privately Printed, 1948. First Edition, one 100 copies from the Yale University Library Gazette for October 1948. Inscribed on half title "To Mr C. Tiffany Richardson with the compliments W R Coe Feb 29, 1949." Richrdson was a golfer and a stockbroker.
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![Two Autograph letters, signed (“Felix” & “FF”), and one Typed Letter, signed (“FF”), to various recipients. [With:] Autograph Letter, signed (“Tom”) from Thomas G. Corcoran to his father, forwarding these three Frankfurter letters. Felix Frankfurter.](/pictures/thumb/246725.jpg?v=1534805966)
“… if ever there was an organic being, it was Holmes”
Two Autograph letters, signed (“Felix” & “FF”), and one Typed Letter, signed (“FF”), to various recipients. [With:] Autograph Letter, signed...
Cambridge, Mass: v.d., ca. April, 1936. “… if ever there was an organic being, it was Holmes”. Collection of letters praising an address delivered by Thomas G. Corcoran in April 1936 before the Harvard Law School Association on the topic of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Corcoran was a former student.....
Price: $1,500
A Distinguished American Provenance, Benjamin Pierce
Goethe's Sammtliche Werke.
Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1854. A Distinguished American Provenance, Benjamin Pierce. Inscribed on the flyleaf, “Charles Henry Davis with the love of his Friend and Brother Benjamin Pierce Junction Grove 19 Nov '58.” Benjamin Pierce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He.....
Price: $400
The Little Tin Gods-on-wheels, or, Society in our Modern Athens : a trilogy after the manner of the Greek...from the...
Cambridge: Charles W. Sever, University Bookstore, 1880. Sixth Edition. Author's very popular first book which first appeared in the Harvard Lampoon as "The Wallflowers" in January, 1878.
Price: $75
Greece, Ancient and Modern. Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Second Edition. Felton was the President of Harvard University and a famous classical scholar, the last 300 pages are devoted to Modern Greece.
Price: $150
From the Yale Yearbook 1865 Photograph, Signed. WITH: on reverse an unidentified portrait.
New haven: 1865. James Hadley (March 10, 1821 - November 14, 1872), American scholar, was born in Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York, where his father was professor of chemistry at Fairfield Medical College. At the age of nine an accident left him lame for life. He graduated from Yale University in...
Price: $200
Signed Sheet Music "They that sow in tears (shall reap in joy).
New York: Handy Brothers Music Co, nd. Inscribed on the preface page by the composer "Mr. Tony Lavelli/ William C. Handy/ 9/9/1951." Lavelli was a Yale graduate, NBA basketball player and a composer and accordionist. Accompanied with Lavelli's own sheet music Handy was a composer and musician and was known as...
Price: $400
Ho Hum, the Fisherman.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 42 of 100 copies. An engaging account of a marlin-fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay, privately printed for the author, and not offered for sale. Harkness records using bonefish for bait (pp. 9, 42-43), and seeing young tarpon, but...
Price: $7,500
Review of Dr. Morse's "Appeal to the Publick," principally with Reference to the Part of it, which relates to Harvard...
np: nd. First edition.
Price: $75
Harvard Register No. 1.
Cambridge: Published by Hilliard and Brown. Printed by Hilliard, Metcalf, & Co, March, 1827. An interesting article starting on p. 13 "Miseries of the Spectacle family" details the problems of near-sighted students with girl and hunting, p. 90 has the Obit. of O. W. Precott. The Register ran for one year only.
Price: $150
Portrait of historian Edward J. Lowell, reading.
[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1867]. A distinctive portrait of the young Lowell reading, possibly from his Harvard 1867 photographic yearbook. Lowell wrote a history of the French Revolution and practiced law.
Price: $600
Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook.
[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1866]. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and Harvard. The Class of 1866 graduated George A. Glass and Frank Wright, founders of the...
Price: $4,000
Harvard's First Black Graduate, One of the “Talented Tenth”
Harvard Class of 1870 Photographic Yearbook.
[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1870]. Harvard's First Black Graduate, One of the “Talented Tenth”. Of particular interest is the portrait of Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard College's first black graduate and the first black graduate of a top-tier university (Slater, "The Blacks who First Entered the World of White Higher Education" p......
Price: $12,500