Yesterdays On Brooklyn Heights

Callender, James H.

Published by The Dorland Press, New York, 1927

About this Item

Number 53 of a limited first edition, signed by author. Octavo. Dark blue pebbled cloth over limp boards with gilt stamped front cover and spine. 296pp with b/w photographs. Light water mark to gutter corner of preliminary pages. light crease to corner of rear cover. Hinges firm. Good. Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights is history of a sort. It tells in rather casual manner of early settlement in Brooklyn, describing the Dutch houses and manners of dress, and the shift from Dutch to English presence by the time of the Revolutionary War. But Callender was writing less a history in any currently accepted sense of the term than an elegy to a place he loved, and which he saw losing much of the charm he treasured. He rued the coming of apartment buildings and the telephone, which began to curtail the running in and out of each other s [sic] houses at all hours. … And one morning we woke up to realize that our Golden Age had vanished, never to return. - Henrik Krogius, Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Seller Inventory # 395

Bibliographic Details

Title: Yesterdays On Brooklyn Heights

Publisher: The Dorland Press, New York

Publication Date: 1927

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition