Looking for something new to read? Bank Square Books in Mystic presents four new books of assorted genres and formats. Books include:

• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
• Last One Out by Laura Harper
• Ducks by Kate Beaton

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Lifetime membership and Historic Stonington books/bag.

Complete your library with this anthology of Stonington history publications. Includes:

• Stonington's Old Lighthouse and Its Keepers by James Boylan and Betsy Wade
• The Davis Homestead by John Lawrence Davis
• South of the Cannons by Henrietta Mello Mayer
• Once Upon Quoketaug by Rudy J. Favretti
• Stonington Ice by Joseph A. Vargas, III
• Murder at Darling Hill by Judith G. duPont
• My First Three Hundred Years by Henry Robinson Palmer, Jr.

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Colonial History Book Bundle includes:

• Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle, 1975 - First published in 1898, this is a classic book the details the daily life, customs, and domestic routines of pre-Revolutionary America
• Folklore of American Weather by Eric Sloane, 1963 - A first edition copy of a classic guide that separates genuine atmospheric science from rural superstition. Beyond forecasting, the book acts as a historical survey, exploring how early American farmers and sailors relied on these traditions before the invention of modern meteorology.
• The New England Mind from Colony to Province by Perry Miller, 1961 - An intellectual history of Puritanism, this book chronicles the gradual transformation of early religious zealots into pragmatic Yankees, tracing how the strict theology of the 1639 migration evolved into the secularized Enlightenment.
• A Museum of Early American Tools by Eric Sloane, 1964 - A classic, illustrated first edition that explores the hand tools used by early American craftsmen. It celebrates the ingenuity of pre-industrial American craftsmanship, covering everything from axes and planes to specialized tools for making cider and building canoes.

Local delivery only or can be picked up at the Captain Nathaniel Palmer House, 40 Palmer Street, Stonington, CT. Delivery outside of local Stonington area available at winner's expense.

This bundle of Whaling Arts includes:

• Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists by Stuart M. Frank, 1991 (signed by author) - Except for a small nucleus of collectors and museums, scrimshaw was relatively neglected as a collecting pursuit until the mid-1960s. Surprisingly few published works this increasingly popular field. The author has cataloged every known and recorded scrimshaw artist through the early 20th century, together with all known biographical facts about them and all attributed works.
• Figureheads and Ship Carvings at Mystic Seaport by Eduoard A. Stackpole, 1964 - The use of figureheads on ships goes back to the earliest days of man's venturing on the open sea. As the centuries passed, man's conquest of the sea was reflected by the progressive variety of figureheads. Mystic Seaport houses an extensive collection of these artifacts, and this work places the carvings within the context of 19th-century woodcarving and craftsmanship.
• Silent Pilots: Figureheads in Mystic Seaport Museum by Georgia W. Hamilton, 1984 - In this book, Georgia Hamilton has researched, described, and illustrated forty figureheads in the collection of Mystic Seaport; these range from the well known and positively identified to those with traditional but unverified attributions and those with unknown provenances. A list of all the figureheads in the collection is appended.

For your young budding historian:

• Rainbow on the Road by Esther Forbes, 1954 - This is a tale of a man (or two men, depending on how you look at it) and a legend.
• Whaling Boy by Peter Freuchen, 1958 - This exciting adventure story is vivid with the sights, sounds, smells, and action of a whaler's life. Derived from his own boyhood experiences, it is unique in authenticity and atmosphere.
• The Happy Hollisters and the Old Clipper Ship by Jerry West, 1956 - A rain storm and an unexpected guest bring this new mystery into the Hollister's lives when a lightning struck tree branch falls on a car in front of their home in Shoreham.
• The Basket Maker and the Spinner by Beatrice Siegel, 1987 - Beatrice Siegel's book looks back to the quiet time when Indian women made baskets and colonial women spent long hours at the spinning wheel.
• Stormalong Goes a-Whaling by Don Steers, 1966. - Stormalong is a great hero in the folk lore of the sea. His adventures and great feats of strength compare with those of the famous Paul Bunyan in the lumber camps of the Northwest.
• The Onion Maidens, adapted by A.K. Roche, 1968 - Most of the young ladies of old New England spent their days gathering flowers and buying ribbons and laces. The girls of Wethersfield, however, were expected to weed the onion patches for which their town was famous.
• The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1941 - A heartwarming and poignant novella about Carol Bird, a compassionate, bedridden girl born on Christmas Day.

This Voyages bundle includes:

• Down the Danube by Poultney Bigelow, 1892 (signed by author) - In this entertaining and insightful travelogue, Mr. Bigelow takes the reader on a voyage down the Danube, from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. Along the way, he shares his observations on the politics, culture, and history of the region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
• There She Blows: A Narrative of a Whaling Voyage in the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans by Ben-Ezra Stiles Ely, 1971 - Published when Ely was only nineteen years old, the book details the harsh realities, dangers, and daily life of whaling. It recounts his voyage out of Bristol, Rhode Island, from 1844 to 1847, detailing everything from the grueling process of hunting whales to life on the open ocean and even his own religious conversion while at sea.
• Sea Stories from Searsport to Singapore by Lincoln Colcord, 1987 - An anthology capturing the twilight of the 19th-century golden age of sail. It highlights the lives of Maine seafarers, weaving together seafaring fiction, essays, and poems about deep-sea voyages between Searsport and the bustling ports of the Far East.
• The Clipper Ship Era by Arthur H. Clark, 1910 - A comprehensive account of the famous American and British clipper ships that sailed during the period of 1843 to 1869. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the owners, builders, commanders, and crews of these magnificent vessels that were used for transporting goods and passengers across the oceans.

NY World's Fair bundle includes:

• Futurama - Highways and Horizons exhibit at NY World's Fair, 1940 - The Futurama exhibit at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair was a massive, immersive attraction designed by Norman Bel Geddes for General Motors. As the Fair's most popular exhibit, it presented a vision of the United States in the year 1960.
• The Pullman Company Exhibit, NY World's Fair, 1940 - This pamphlet showcased the "latest and finest" in railroad travel accommodations, focusing on modern comforts to counter competition from newer, lightweight trains. Located within the massive 17-acre Railroad Building, the exhibit highlighted technological advancements in passenger comfort and service.
• Billy Rose's Aquacade - NY World's Fair 1939 - A program from the most successful and popular attraction at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Held in a massive Art Deco amphitheater on Fountain Lake, this star-studded aquatic spectacle featured synchronized swimming, high divers, a live orchestra, and comedic water routines.
• Billy Rose's Aquacade - NY World's Fair 1940 - Program from the 1940 Aquacade at the New York World's Fair. Olympic champion and swimmer Eleanor Holm returned as the female lead, and Tarzan star Buster Crabbe played opposite. Due to its popularity, the production spawned a sister show at the 1940 Gold Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, which helped launch the career of synchronized swimming star Esther Williams.

This Sailor Arts bundle includes:

• The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework by Hervey Garrett Smith, 1990 - Over 150 years ago, the skills needed to operate a merchant sailing vessel were many and varied. While not nearly as much in demand today as they were in the days of the Yankee clippers, these skills nevertheless remain important the necessary to today's yachtsmen and owners of smaller pleasure boats. In this excellent handbook on basic shipboard skills, marine expert Hervey Garrett Smith offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging, working and maintaining a ship.
• String Figures and How to Make Them: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands by Caroline Furness Jayne, 1962 - At some time in your youth, no doubt, you took a loop of string and made a cat's-cradle, a Jacob's ladder, or some other type of figure by looping and crossing the string between the fingers. This is an ancient form of amusement, which it is practiced in all parts of the globe, and is especially popular among primitive tribes. This book describes, in a simple and easy-to-follow manner, how to make no less than 107 different string figures, just as they are made in their land of origin.
• The Colonial Craftsman by Carl Bridenbaugh, 1990 - In colonial America, craftsmen comprised the largest segment of the population, after farmers. In this superb study, a distinguished American historian examines the lives and work of American craftsmen in the years before the Revolution - the golden age of colonial craftsmanship - showing them at work, at play, at worship, at school, at home, competing in their trades, striving to get ahead and playing a dynamic role as citizens in bringing about American independence.
• Inside the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation
• Silent Pilots: Figureheads in Mystic Seaport Museum by Georgia W. Hamilton
• Figureheads & Ship Carvings at Mystic Seaport by Edouard A. Stackpole
• Tools & Trades of America's Past: The Mercer Collection

Adventures bundle includes:

• Garden Sass: A Catalog of Arkansas Folkways by Nancy McDonough, 1975 - House-raising, old-time games, honey gathering, music making, water witching, food preserving, quilting, hog butchering, and general making-do in vanishing Arkansas- with practical advice on keeping traditional ways alive.
• Adventures in the Wilderness
• American Journeys: An Anthology of Travel in the United States, 1975
• The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840 by Jack Larkin, 1988 - The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American life. In this book, Jack Larkin describes the often gritty texture of life as these Americans experienced it. He evokes the underlying patterns of historical change that are embedded in the details of their social and material arrangements, thus weaving the disparate threads of everyday life into the rich and complicated tapestry of American history during this transitional period.

This bundle includes:

• All About the Arctic and Antarctic by Armstrong Sperry, 1957 - The frozen wastes of the North and South Pole have always had a peculiar fascination for the rest of the world. Even the most scientific reports from these areas sound like the tall tales of a storyteller. And visitors to the Arctic are held spellbound by the fantastic colors of the Northern Lights. What makes it possible to have such extremes in the Arctic and Antarctic? With maps and dozens of illustrations to supplement the text, Sperry has given a scientific report of weather conditions, rock and land formations, ocean currents, and plant and animal life at the North and South Pole.
• Webster's Illustrated Dictionary, 1956
• Britannica Junior Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Animal to Bacon, 1975
• A History of the United States to 1877, 1976
• Tall Ships of the World, an Illustrated Encyclopedia by C. Keith Wilbur, 1986 - This unique volume chronicles the 150 year history of the tall ships - those incredible sailing vessels that sweep majestically across the sea, their masts piercing the sky, their canvas swelling in the wind. The author explains carefully how these ships were built, how they operate, and what it is like to live and work aboard them. He also recounts the harsh reality of life aboard nineteenth century packets and clippers, the proud predecessors of today's sailing ships.
• Pirates & Patriots of the Revolution, An illustrated encyclopedia of Colonial seamanship by C. Keith Wilbur, 1984 - Discover the little-known story of how 2,000 privately armed Yankee vessels captured 16 British warships and almost 3,000 merchantmen during the Revolution.
• Pilgrims & Adventurers, Essex (England) and the Making of the United States of America by J.R. Smith, 1992 - No English county has stronger links with the East Coast states of America than Essex. Profusely illustrated and eminently readable, Pilgrims and Adventurers traces these links and in so doing highlights some of the crucial roles played by Essex people, both those who migrated and those who remained at home, in the founding and development of the colonies which in 1783 won independence as the United States of America.
• The New England Indians by C. Keith Wilbur, 1978 - Spanning 10,000 years, this encyclopedic guide to the way New England Indians lived in reconstructed from the artifacts they left behind. Hundreds of detailed line drawings illustrate ingenious Indian techniques for mastering life in an often harsh environment. You will see step by step how they dressed, built shelters, grew crops, fished, hunted, cooked, made tools and weapons, treated disease, traveled, and more.

This collection of Connecticut hisgtory books includes:

• Connecticut Firsts by Wilson H. Faude & Joan W. Friedland, 1996 - Connecticut, being one of the original 13 colonies, was hotbed of invention and production for a few centuries. This hundred page compendium of all the things that first happened or were invented in Connecticut was reprinted until 2000. A treat for any proud Nutmegger.
• Connecticut Town Origins: Their Names, Boundaries, Early Histories and First Families by Helen Earle Sellers, 1973 - Originally printed in 1942 as a pamphlet, it was later expanded into this publication. The book details the founding narratives, etymologies, and original territorial scopes of early Connecticut settlements.
• Historic Coastal New England by Barbara Clayton & Kathleen Whitley, 1992 - People, Places, Architecture, and Attractions from Greenwich to Kennebunkport. 520 pages.

• Connecticut Education in the Revolutionary Era by J.William Frost, 1974 - This sixty page booklet gives insight into how education was part of the social fabric of colonial life and presented the notion than an educated colonial population was a driving force of the Revolutionary War.
• Connecticut in the Continental Congress by Christopher Collier, 1973 - A seventy eight page booklet that documents Connecticut's involvement in the Continental Congress and the writing of the Articles of Confederation immediately following the Revolutionary War.
• Connecticut: The Provisions State by Chester M. Destler, 1973 - A sixty page booklet exploring how Connecticut earned the nickname the Provision state during the American Revolution. How did subsistence farmers, many of whom were away from their farms fighting for independence, grow enough surplus food to supply so much to the Continental Army?
• Connecticut Joins the Revolution by Thomas C. Barrow, 1973 - A forty-five page booklet examining how the colony transitioned from a hesitant, conservative state to a vital supporter of the Revolutionary War.
• Connecticut's War Governor: Jonathan Trumbull by David M. Roth, 1974 - This small booklet chronicles the life of the only colonial governor to support the American Revolution, positioning Trumbull as a vital figure who maintained political stability while supplying Washington's army.
  

• A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony by John Demos, 1970 - In this pioneering study Mr. Demos examines the family in a specific American context, that of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower, during the first two generations of its existence. The book's most startling insights come from a reconsideration of commonly held views about American Puritans and of the ways in which they dealt with one another.
• Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1909 - Originally written between 1630 and 1655, Bradford's original manuscript was lost for decades during the American Revolution. It was famously rediscovered in the library of the Bishop of London at Fulham Palace in the 1890s, eventually being returned to Massachusetts in 1897. The 1909 edition capitalized on the renewed historical interest and publicity from this repatriation. It reads as an expansive, chronological history and covers the early years & travel, the establishment of the colony, signing of the Mayflower compact, and the devastating hardships of their first winter.

• Unearthing New England's Past: The Ceramic Evidence, 1984
• Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home 1760-1860 by /C. Nylander, 1993 - This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Nylander reveals the complex reality of everyday life in old New England.
• An Outline of Government in Connecticut, 1944
• The American Experience by James Neal Primm, 1973
• America B.C. - Ancient Settlers in the New World by Barry Fell, 1976 - It has long been taken for granted that the first European visitors to American shores either sailed with Columbus in 1492, or may have been Norsemen like Leif Erikson a full five centuries earlier. But the history of our land before that date has so far remained lost in native Indian legends. Now Harvard professor Barry Fell has uncovered evidence to replace those legends with myth-shattering fact.
• Jamestowne in the words of Contemporaries, 1944
• The New England Mind from Colony to Province by Perry Miller, 1953

• History of Stonington Schools, 1988
• Connecticut's Own Major: A Profile of John Mason (1600-1672) by Williams Haynes
• Fishing out of Stonington: Voices of the Fishing Families of Stonington, Connecticut, 2004
• Watch Hill in the Hurricane of September 21, 1938, including Survivor's Stories of the Fort Road Tragedy
• Swamp Yankee from Mystic: a Family, a Region, and Its Roots by James H. Allyn

• Unearthing New England's Past: The Ceramic Evidence, 1984
• Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home 1760-1860 by Jane C. Nylander, 1993 - This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War.
• An Outline of Government in Connecticut, 1944
• The American Experience by James Neal Primm, 1973
• America B.C. - Ancient Settlers in the New World by Barry Fell, 1976 - It has long been taken for granted that the first European visitors to American shores either sailed with Columbus in 1492 or may have been Norsemen like Leif Erikson a full five centuries earlier. But the history of our land before that date has so far remained lost in native Indian legends. Now Harvard professor Barry Fell has uncovered evidence to replace those legends with myth-shattering fact.
• Jamestowne in the words of Contemporaries, 1944
• The New England Mind from Colony to Province by Perry Miller, 1953

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This bundle includes:

• Great Houses from the Pages of the Magazine Antiques, 1973
• The Old House Book of Living Rooms and Parlors, 1980 - Practical, resourceful, and expert advice on restoring, furnishing, and decorating a period room fills every page of this book. Each important element in successful period design is illustrated and discussed.
• American Furniture of the Colonial Period by Marvin D. Schwartz - The eight-one pieces presented here, all accessioned in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offer a vivid glimpse of the aesthetic as well as the historical heritage of America, from the period between the landing of the first settlers to the Revolutionary War.

For Atlantic Monthly collectors:

• Atlantic Monthly Diamond Jubilee Issue, 1932 - Celebrating the magazine's 75th anniversary, rather than covering politics or economics, the volume served as a literary and spiritual retrospective. This edition featured a curated selection of previously published essays, poems, and short stories.
• The Atlantic Monthly, February 1928 - This issue is best remembered for featuring a sensational, forged series of love letters between Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge. The issue also featured Earnest Elmo Calkins' defense of modern industrialism in 'Business the Civilizer' and Edmund Walsh's analysis of the Russian revolution's aftermath.

• Masterpieces of American Indian Art from the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection, 1995
• The American Indian as a Sea-Fighter in Colonial Times by Horace P. Beck, 1959

The Clipper Ship Era by Arthur H. Clark, 1910 - A comprehensive account of the famous American and British clipper ships that sailed during the period of 1843 to 1869. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the owners, builders, commanders, and crews of these magnificent vessels that were used for transporting goods and passengers across the oceans.

• Three Hundred Years of American Painting by Alexander Eliot, art editor of Time, 1957
• American Folk Painters of Three Centuries, 1980

The Marine Society of the City of New York 1770-1995 by Gerald J. Barry - A story of worldwide sweep and consequence in small compass, this lively work brings the reader close the realities of the changing times of the last 225 years of sea captains' experience sailing from New York. It covers nearly all the leading currents ad outstanding events and personalities that shaped the history of New York port - and thereby the nation.

As Walter Cronkite, an honorary member of the Marine Society, observed in his foreword, "New York sea captains have written illustrious chapters in this continuing saga of a city built from the sea."And what a story it is, from buccaneering privateers of the American Revolution and War of 1812 to the dedicated skippers, some of them leaders in the Society today, who shipped out to help keep America's strength pouring down the arteries of ocean traffic in World War II.

A Short Description of Bologna offered to the Visitors of the Grand Hotel Brun by J.F. Frank, 1910.

The Grand Hotel Brun was Bologna's most prestigious luxury hotel of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Operating out of the historic 15th-century Palazzo Ghisilieri on Via Ugo Bassi, it featured 140 rooms equipped with running water and electric lighting. It hosted legendary historical figures until its destruction in 1943.

In 1906 Edith Holden wrote her Nature Notes which, when published in 1977 as The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, captured the imagination of the reading public all over the world. In this book, Ina Taylor has brought together a unique collection of photographs, paintings and mementoes of the Holden family which tell the story of Edith's life, and the background against which she developed her talents. Brought up in the new and exciting industrial center of Birmingham in the last years of the Victorian age, the remarkable Holden family participated to the full in the expanding artistic and cultural life of the city, where William Morris and Walter Crane were contemporaries. The story follows Edith to Scotland, where she studied under the painter Joseph Denovan Adam; to Dartmoor, where she came closest to the wild life and natural surrounds that played such an important part in her life and work; and finally to London, where she carried on her painting and illustrating in Chelsea after her marriage to the sculptor Ernest Smith, and where she lived until her tragic death by drowning in 1920.

Medicinal Arts collection includes:

• Incomplete set of The Study of Medicine by John Mason Good, 1825 (volumes 1, 4 and 5) - A comprehensive, multi-volume textbook that synthesized 19th-century medical knowledge. It is best known for introducing a groundbreaking physiological system of nosology. Good classified diseases into classes such as digestive diseases, lung diseases, and nervous system disorders. This linked diseases to disrupted bodily functions.

This article, "The Miracle of Talking by Telephone," by F.Barrows Colton, was reprinted from National Geographic Magazine in October 1937 and highlights the rapid, transformative impact of global telephone communication on society and business.

The article showcases the intricate, behind-the-scenes infrastructure of the Bell System and the awe surrounding the ability to connect millions across vast distances.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - A sweeping epic set during the Napoleonic Wars. Blending historical narrative with intimate family drama, it chronicles the French invasion of Russia and follows five aristocratic families, notably exploring how war shatters, reshapes, and gives meaning to human lives.

Aviation: What it means to You by the Universal Aviation Schools - A promotional booklet and curriculum philosophy published by the Universal Aviation Corporation in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It was designed to demystify flight, recruit prospective pilots, and establish aviation as a serious, accessible career path rather than a dangerous daredevil stunt.

Published by the American Museum of Natural History, this issue from April 1938 focused on bold expeditions, including the 1936 Nanda Devi ascent, alongside studies of arctic environments and resilient lichens. It also featured in-depth explorations of rugged alpine life and hostile, barren landscapes.

This American Poetry collection includes:

Volumes 1-3 of Specimens of American Poetry with Critical and Biographical Notices by Samuel Kettell, 1829

The first comprehensive anthology of American poetry ever published, this three-volume work aimed to legitimize American literature by documenting the nation's native poetic genius from the colonial era through the early 19th century.

The anthology features 454 selections spanning 188 different authors. Breaking away from purely pantheonic collections, Kettell provided engaging and occasionally blistering critical and personal biographical essays for the featured writers.