F. F. C. First Families of Connecticut: The Society Address Book. Elite Family Directory and Club List - A Selected List of 3000 of the First Families of Connecticut 1900-1901
by Connecticut History
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dau Publishing Co., 1900. First edition, 1900. Social register of the historically and socially important families of Connecticut, with the main part of the book being club lists and society members for Hartford and New Haven, additional members listed by town or city at the back. Also includes local advertising, with a white embroidered silk advertising ribbon for the Ernst Schall Co. Jewelers attached at the top. Blue cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering, 195 pages. Covers shelfworn with rubthrough at the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, closed tear with no paper loss to one page, one advertising page chipped at the upper margin, two adjacent leaves detached but present, a few pencil notes, address labels on front and rear endpapers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012813
- Title
- F. F. C. First Families of Connecticut: The Society Address Book. Elite Family Directory and Club List - A Selected List of 3000 of the First Families of Connecticut 1900-1901
- Author
- Connecticut History
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dau Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- SOCIAL LIFE CONNECTICUT REGISTER HISTORIC FAMILIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Connecticut - Its History, Art, Antiques, Etc;
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East Granby, Connecticut
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