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  • Humpty Dumpty

  • The things you find in books

    One never knows what will be found in an old book.  While working with an early 19th century American hymnal recently, this little item was recover...
  • The First Baptist Hymnal Published in America

    Wallin, Benjamin. Evangelical Hymns and Songs in Two Parts: The First, composed on various Views of the Christian Life and Warfare; The Second...
  • A recent visitor in our Bird Land

    While we were sitting on our second-story back deck yesterday we had a visitor in one of our nearby walnut trees.  This bird friend sat quietly fo...
  • Haaswurth Books ~ Old Books from Maine, 09/22

    We enjoyed another productive trip to Maine and came home with many books and pamphlets that we are adding to our website.  Be sure to review our ...
  • Haaswurth Books in Maine, 2022

    Hello all!  Here are some photos and comments from our annual Maine trip. We stop along the way up at some auction houses to pick our recent winnin...
  • Carl Carmer could spin a yarn

    We found this newspaper clipping in a book today that relates a story told by Carl Carmer.“The Averys were giving a large party one afternoon in th...
  • Two Brothers Books of Freeport, Maine

    One of our favorite stops when we travel to Maine is Two Brothers Books, located at 176 US Rte 1, Freeport.  The next time you make it to L. L. Be...
  • The Flaming Sword, or a Sign from Heaven: being a Remarkable Phenomenon, seen in the State of Vermont

    [Walker, Timothy P.]. The Flaming Sword, or a Sign from Heaven: being a Remarkable Phenomenon, seen in the State of Vermont. Exeter, [New Hampshire]: Printed for J. Richardson, 1814.
  • 1819 Memoir of Elder Ephraim Stinchfield, Freewill Baptist

    This book sold before we were able to post it on our website.  It is a very interesting and scarce title and we thought we would make a record of i...
  • We are pleased to announce the purchase of 900 Hymn, Psalm, and Tune Books

    We just negotiated the purchase of some 900 American hymnals, psalters, and tune books. The dates range from the 1740's to the 1850's. We will be ...
  • I'm afraid I've caught poetry.