Old Saratoga Books

08/26/2026

An Orchard Princess, by Ralph Henry Barbour, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905. first edition. Very Good with no dust jacket. Boards worn, musty. Maroon decorative binding with illustration on front boards, top edges gilt. Four color plates and many other black and white illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. 219 pages. $20

08/25/2026

Maggie Hayes Jewelry Book, by Maggie Hayes and Alfred Allan Lewis, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1972, first printing. 4to. Red cloth binding. 119pp, index, many photographs, including a few pages in color. Signed by Hayes on the front free endpaper. VG/VG. Jacket worn and starting to delaminate. Actress and jewelry designer Maggie Hayes relates how she designs and makes her distinctive jewelry. $25

08/24/2026

Endpapers from: The Arcturus Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society’s First Oceanographic Expedition, by William Beebe, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1926, later printing.

08/23/2026

Possums to Porcupines: ; The Wild Life of an Adirondack Rehabilitator, by Nancy M. Kimball, Diamond Point Publishing, 2015. 105 pages. Softcover. Very Good. Owner name on front free endpaper.; Many color photos. Informative tales of. rehabilitating wild animals, from owls to foxes, in New York's Adirondacks. region. $20

08/22/2026

Bookplate of the Week

08/21/2026

Jonathan in Rochester: Book Number 274, by Keith A. Smith, Rochester, NY: Keith Smith Books, 2010. 4to. Stapled illustrated card covers. 36pp. VG. Signed by the author on the title page. An artist book by the prolific author/artist/publisher about his friendship with the late author/artist Jonathan Williams, founder of the Jargon Society. Reproductions of artwork, photos, correspondence, and book pages throughout. $60

08/20/2026

Neighborly Notes from Turn-Of-The-Century Small Town Vermont, by Jean S. Davies, Rutland, VT: CoZi Publishing, 2003, first printing. Very Good in VG jacket. Remnants of label on front cover. Signed by the author on the front. flyeaf. A collection of stories about people and places around Pittsford,. Vermont. Many photos. 245 pages. $35

08/19/2026

Another installment in our 101 Uses for a Book series:

Lampshades!

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08/18/2026

The Roof At the Bottom of the World: ; Discovering the Transarctic Mountains, by Edmund Stump, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Still in shrink wrap. 272 pages. $20

08/17/2026

My African Neighbors: ; Man, Bird, and Beast in Nyasaland, by Hans Coudenhove, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925, first printing. Very Good. Boards stained.; Maroon cloth titled in gilt, xiv, 245pp, photos. The. German author relates his experiences living in Nyasaland, in present day Malawi. $30