Starting a Collection

Recent Printings:

Princeton, 1746-1896
by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker Princeton University Press, 1946
(reprinted in paper)
ISBN #0000115878

A Princeton Companion
by Alexander Leitch
Princeton University Press, 1978
ISBN #0691046549

Campus: Guide to Princeton University
Margaret Davis Design
ISBN #000012660

Princeton University : An Architectural Tour (The Campus Guide)
by Raymond Rhinehart, Walter Smalling (Photographer)
paperback - 188 pages 1 Ed edition (September 2000)
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568982097

Princeton University: The First 250 Years
by Don Oberdorfer, with J. T. Miller, Illustrations Editor
Princeton Univ Press, 1995
ISBN: 0691011222

Princeton by Robert Gambee
W. W. Norton & Company
New York & London, 1987
ISBN: 0393024237

Princeton : A Picture Postcard History of Princeton and Princeton University
by William K. Evans Paperback Vestal Press Ltd
ISBN: 0930256182

The Long Kickline: A History of the Princeton Triangle Club
Don Marsden '64 with foreword by Joshua Logan
Princeton University Press, 1968
limited number of copies still available by contacting the Triangle Club

A Place Called Princeton
Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr., 1942
Arbor House, New York, 1984
ISBN: 0-87795-573-5

University History - Principal Sources:

History of the College of New Jersey from its origin in 1746 to the commencement of 1854 (2 volumes)
by John Maclean, Tenth President of the College
J. B. Lippincott and Company
Philadelphia, 1877

The Princeton Book: A Series of Sketches Pertaining to the History, Organization, and Present Condition of the College of New Jersey,
Illustrated with Views and Portraits
by Officers and Graduates of the College
Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1879

Princeton University General Catalogue, 1746-1906
(Listing all officers, trustees, faculty, alumni)
Published by the University, 1908

Princetonians, 1776-1783 : A Biographical Dictionary
by Richard A., Harrison
ASIN: 0691053367

Princeton, Past and Present (University & Town)
by Varnum Lansing Collins
Princeton University Press, 1931

Princeton Sketches: The Story of Nassau Hall (The College of New Jersey)
By George R. Wallace 1891, with introduction by Andrew Fleming West, PhD
G. R. Putnam's Sons, New York, London
The Knickerbocker Press, 1893

University and Related History:

The Log College: Biographical Sketches of the Founder and Principal Alumni
(Including Chapter VII: The Log College, the germ from which proceeded the College of New Jersey)
Collected & edited by Archibald Alexander, D.D.
Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia
Printed by W. S. Martien, 1851

Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Davies
formerly President of the College of New Jersey
Massachusetts Sabbath School Society
Boston, 1832

John Witherspoon Comes to America
by L. H. Butterfield
Princeton University Library
Princeton University Press, 1953

The Campaign of Princeton, 1776-1777
by Alfred Hoyt Bill
Princeton University Press, 1948

The Continental Congress at Princeton
by Varnum Lansing Collins
The Princeton University Library Press of the New Era Printing Company
Lancaster, PA, 1908

A House Called Morven: Its Role in American History, 1701-1954
by Alfred Hoyt Bill
Princeton University Press, 1954

The First Presbyterian Church of Princeton: Two Centuries of History
Edited by Arthur S. link
Princeton University Press, 1967

Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822
A Search for a Christian Enlightenment
in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith
Mark A. Noll
Princeton University Press, 1989

Lights in Nassau Hall: The Book of the Bicentennial, Princeton, 1746-1946
Charles G. Osgood
Princeton University Press, 1951

Club Life at Princeton
William Selden
published by the Prospect Foundation
ISBN #0963444441

The Princeton Graduate School: A History
Willard Thorp, et al
First published in 1978, Updated 1999
ISBN #0691011680

The Handbook of Princeton (University, Town, Seminary, Lawrenceville School)
by John Rogers Williams, with introduction by Woodrow Wilson, LLD
The Grafton Press, New York City, 1905

The Best of PAW: 100 Years of the Princeton Alumni Weakly
ISBN #0970508204

Woodrow Wilson: Some Princeton Memories
Edited by William Starr Myers
Princeton University Press, 1946

Woodrow Wilson of Princeton
by McMillan Lewis
Livingston Publishing Company, Narberth, PA, 1952

The Legend of Hobey Baker
by John Davies
Little, Brown and Company
Boston & Toronto, 1966

Going Back (Undefeated football team and season of 1933)
by A. G. Murray, Jr.
Privately printed at the Princeton University Press, 1934

Luminaries: Princeton Faculty Remembered
Edited by Patricia A. Marks
Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Princeton
Academic Press, Lawrenceville, 1996
ISBN #0691011672

Conversations on the Characterr of Princeton
by William McCleery
Princeton University Press, 1986

The Modern Princeton
by Osgood, Gauss, Taylor, Root etc.
Princeton University Press, 1947

The Lives Of Eighteen from Princeton,
Edited by Willard Thorp Princeton University Press,1946

College As It Is, or The Collegian's Manual in 1853,
by James Buchanan Henry and Christian Henry Scharff (Class of 1853),
Edited by J. Jefferson Looney
ISBN: 0878110410

Transforming the Tiger: A Celebration of Undergraduate Women at Princeton University
by Catherine Keyser, 2001
Published by the Women's Center

Buildings, Architecture, & Campus:

A Map of Princeton
by Richard Stockton Snedecker
Special Edition for First National Bank of Princeton
Princeton University Press, 1952

A Princeton Guide. Walks,Drives and Commentary
by Cynthia Gooding
The Middle Atlantic Press 1971

New Jersey Road Maps of the 18th Century
Princeton University Library Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, CT, 1970

Princeton University Land: 1752-1984
by Gerald Breese
Princeton University Press, 1986

The Princeton University Campus, A Guide
compiled by Helen Van Zandt, et al.
Princeton University Press, 1964

Nassau Hall, 1756-1956
Edited by Henry Lyttleton Savage
Princeton University Press, 1956

Princeton University Photo-Gravures
The Princeton University Store
The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, ca. 1926

Pictorial History of Princeton
Edited by Wheaton J. Lane
Princeton University Press, 1947

Princeton in Spring: Camera Impressions
by Samuel Chamberlain
Princeton University Press, 1950

Princeton Architecture: A Pictorial History of Town and Campus
by Constance M. Greiff, Mary W. Gibbons, Elizabeth G. C. Menzies
Princeton University Press, 1967

The Chapel of Princeton University
by Richard Stillwell
Princeton University Press, 1971 ASIN: 0691038643

Princeton Reflections: Contemplations in Color
Princeton University Press, 1982
ASIN: 0691039747

Images of America: Princeton (University & Town)
by Richard D. Smith
Arcadia Publishing, Dover, NH, 1997
ISBN #0752405861

Letters, Stories & Poetry:

Glimpses of Princeton Society and the Life at Princeton College, 1766-1773 by One of the Class of 1773 (William Paterson, Governor of New Jersey)
Edited by W. Jay Mills
J. B. Lippincott Company
Philadelphia & London, 1903

Poems by Twin Graduates of the College of New Jersey:
S. V. R. and William Paterson
Press of Newark Daily Advertiser
Newark, 1882

A Princeton Boy in the Revolution
by Paul G. Tomlinson
Dodd, Mead and Company
New York, 1922

Congress at Princeton: Being the Letters of Charles Thomson to Hannah Thomson, June - October, 1783
Edited by Eugene R. Sheridan and John R. Murrin
Princeton University Library
Princeton University Press, 1985

Princeton Stories
by Jesse Lynch Williams
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1897

The Adventures of a Freshman
by Jesse Lynch Williams
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York, 1899

In Princeton Town
by Day Edgar
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York, 1929

  This partial list was compiled in 2002 by members of the Princetoniana Committee, building on the fine work of Bob Rodgers '56, with additional titles suggested by Elizabeth Greenberg '02, Ephraim di Kahble '39, Don Marsden '64, and Andre Yokana '48.