Mendhams, First Edition (4 results)

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). xiv, 176 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket obtrusively rubbed; tape repair to tear at front panel's upper right; several tears, small chips, and creasing at edges; front flap's top corner is clipped. Black cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine and front board. Small ink check mark at fore-edge margin of page xiii; a few impressions of erased pencil margin marks to other interior pages with some scattered soiling; several leaves have fold-downs to their top fore-edge corners. Binding is firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First printing. Hardcover in black cloth. Very good with a strip of light water stain to the edges of the pages. In very good dust jacket with light wear and chipping to the top edge, faint water stain. Vintage map endpapers. 176 pp. Illustrated with vintage photographs, reproductions and small line drawings. Tercentenary history of New Jersey's Mendham Township, located in Morris County in the northern part of the state. With black & white photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed on the first free end paper verso by Huntington Williams, M.D. of Baltimore: "This book was given to me by my cousin Miss Lois K. Williams, who lived in Mendham, with her friend across the town, Mrs John Castles. Lois gave me the portrait of our great great grandmother Susanna Dana Williams whose husband Thomas Williams was an "Indian" in the Boston Tea Party 1773". The location of Lois K. Williams house has been marked on a map illustration on page 164. Gilt on black covers in a black & pictorial dust jacket. Map end papers. 8vo, 176 pages. Enclosed with the book is a 4-fold brochure about "The Mendhams of Morris County, New Jersey" and a 4 page historical society brochure about "The Ralston General Store" and John Ralston.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Good dust jacket. Front flap missing. Rubbing along panel edges. Shelf wear on front/rear panels.