Our members list new acquisitions and recently catalogued items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions...

O TO BE A DRAGON

by Marianne Moore

New York: Viking Press, 1959. 1st edition, cloth, with printed dust jacket. A presentation copy, inscribed to Holly Stevens, the daughter of poet Wallace Stevens. The inscription reads: "Mine originally, Holly, since / it had an unintentional stripe / on the jacket that was there to / stay -- (now a dragon): yours / from a complimented author / pleased that you want it / Marianne / Sept 17, 1959" in black fountain pen ink on the FEP. The date is the publication date of the title, and Moore has additionally dated the copyright page "September 17" in her hand.

In typical Moore whimsy, the poet has created a drawing of a dragon on the dust jacket front cover, incorporating the "unintentional stripe" referred to in her inscription, and has titled the drawing "Dragon attacked by gnat" using the same black fountain pen ink as the inscription. A letter of provenance from the son of Holly Stevens is laid in. (Abbott A17.1.) Minimal sunning to jacket, else a fine representation of a remarkable association copy.

Offered by Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books.

A Game of Thrones (Advance Reading Copy)

by George R.R. Martin

New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Very good/very good. 8vo. Original wraps in dust jacket. ADVANCE READING COPY (stated). Very good overall. Mild touches of curling and trivial small tears at edges of jacket. Pages lightly toned. Else sound and clean. 663pp. 

Scarce ARC of this Locus-winning first title in Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series, the basis for the wildly popular show.

Offered by Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Signed, First Edition)

by Joan Didion

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. A very nice example. Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. "In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country."

Offered by Raptis Rare Books.

LaRose (Signed, First Edition)

by Louise Erdrich

NY: Harper, 2016. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Erdrich on the title page. Additionally, a facsimile of two ms pages with Erdrich's revisions printed on both sides of an illustrated broadside on heavy card stock is laid-in. Also laid-in is an illustrated bookmark from Birchbark Books, Erdrich's Minneapolis bookshop. Upon publication of the book, Birchbark sold an unspecified number of signed copies with the facsimile ms pages. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Offered by Revere Books.

Go Tell it on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

A near fine first edition (so stated on the copyright page) in a near fine dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on the rear pastedown. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. 

Offered by Bookbid.

"Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message

by William T. Ellis 

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. A little foxing on the endpaper, near fine in a near very good dustwrapper, with several modest chips at the extremities. Biography of the baseball player turned evangelist. A cheaply produced and relatively common volume, but rare in jacket.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.

CITY PLAN OF RICHMOND (FRAMED)

by Karl Baedeker

Leipzig: Wagner & Debes. c. 1900. An interesting city plan of Richmond, extracted from the Baedeker guide, The United States With an Excursion into Mexico. The plan shows the downtown area, from Monroe Park in the west, to Libbie in the East. Features the Canal Basin, Hollywood Cemetery, Capitol Square, the Old Stone House, the site of Libbie Prison, etc. Nicely matted and framed. 

Offered by Black Swan Books.

Niagara River and Falls from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. A Series of Hundred and Fifty Three Etchings Etched on Copper by Amos W. Sanger from his own Drawings

by Amos Sanger

Two finely bound large folio volumes with 50 full page etched plates by Sangster with tissue guards. Bound in black Morocco with "BN" stamped in gilt in the center of the covers. Barbara Nice was the original owner. 

Offered by De Wolfe & Wood.

Portrait CDV Mounted with Two Signed Quotes

by Anna Dickinson

Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth (1842-1932), Full-length photographic portrait carte-de-visite, with two signed quotes on separate pieces of white card stock, one reading, "Liberty! Truly yours, Anna E. Dickinson," (dated 10/28/78) and the other, "I am glad to do what you desire, -- & so to sign myself Truly Yours, Anna E. Dickinson," (dated 4/28/76). All three items, the portrait by Sarony and the two signed and dated quotes are mounted with hinges on a mat. Condition of all three items is fine.

A Quaker and Philadelphia native by birth, AED1 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a radical firebrand orator and out-spoken advocate for the rights of African Americans and women at a time when such ideas were incendiary and almost never spoken of by women, unless that woman happened to be Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. She even criticized Abraham Lincoln for being too moderate on slavery. Her advocacy for women went well beyond the right to vote and approached same-sex liberation issues. William Lloyd Garrison was the first to publish one of her essays in The Liberator. She actively campaigned for radical (pro-abolition) and successful Republican Party candidates. She was the first woman to address the United States Congress in 1864, where she received a standing ovation. She lived out her days in up-state New York in seclusion. 

Offered by Gosen Rare Books.

Note Book for Design and Color

by Majorie Low

United States, 1930. Original student workbook on color theory and Art Deco design, consisting of typed notes, followed by striking hand-painted and collaged compositions that meet various design challenges.

The workbook opens with "New Principles of Color and Design," which have "turned all art topsy-turby" [sic], singling out five principles of composition "originated by A.W. Dow." Dow's 1899 book Composition was influential in the early years of the twentieth century, introducing Japanese aesthetic principles into American art instruction; Dow later became a mentor to Georgia O'Keeffe. After her introduction, Low executes a series of increasingly difficult design "problems," from basic color sequences and fundamental forms to abstract original renderings of flora and fauna in Art Deco style. The final two problems, "Surface Pattern" and "Tree of Life," are described but not completed. A wonderful survival, offering insight into practical art instruction in America between the wars.

Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [104]. Original full black leather, flexible blind-ruled boards, all edges stained red. Typed notes mounted on 28 pages, hand-painted designs mounted on 21 pages with tissue guards. Table of contents after title page. Light edgewear to binding, chip to lower spine with some loss, paper clip marks to head of first three leaves.

Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with a small strip of sunning along the top and bottom edges of the boards and a small imperfection to the rear cover. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact, land faint shelf wear. A stunning copy of the author's most well-known work.

Offered by Burnside Rare Books.

Diary of Maud G. Arthur, of Baker City, Baker County, Oregon, kept while Traveling by Covered Wagon through Oregon, 1917-1918

12mo, 122 typed pp., dated 22 August 1917 to 7 June 1918; bound in small six ring binder, limp pleather binding, measuring 4" x 6", typed, good condition. There is a title-page, a one-page preface, and a two-page epilogue at rear bringing the family story up to 1937. Title page reads: "For Clayton and Jeannie Arthur and Family / A copy of Grandmother Arthur's diary / in her own words, of the family traveling / Oregon in a covered wagon. / copied by Laura Arthur" This is a typescript copy, made for the family, by a family member, of the manuscript original, the whereabouts of which, is unknown.

A curious diary, wherein a family seeking to improve their lives decides to move west across Oregon on hearing of the opening of government lands on the coast. They travel across the state using a covered wagon, the mode of Oregon's original pioneers. The diary recounts the events and occurrences along the way.

Offered by Michael Brown Rare Books.

THE RIGHT STUFF. Special Edition. Issued with vinyl zipper bag. Signed and inscribed by Tom Wolfe.

by Tom Wolfe 

New York: Bantam Books, 1980. Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [x], 368 pages, [iii] pages. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "For [name withheld]! [signed] Tom Wolfe." This is a prepublication copy of the first Bantam paperback edition, issued to point-of-sale distributors (retail bookstores). Included is a rarely seen bag with the words "Don't Forget The Right Stuff Bantam" printed on it; the coating on the vinyl has degraded and is slightly sticky and soiled. The text is clean and unmarked. First Bantam paperback edition,previously issued by Farrar & Straus & Giroux in multiple printings.

Offered by Kurt Gippert Bookseller.

The Maze by Maurice Sandoz

Illustrated by Salvador Dali.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth, front cover in articulated maze design with center panel in red, lettered in gilt. Fine in nicked dust wrapper with loss at backstrip head and foot: preserved in fine brown cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. Dali, Salvador. 110 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. A macabre tale of the supernatural illustrated by Dali with twelve plates and signed by him in blue pencil on free front endpaper; plus the dust wrapper is also designed and illustrated by him. 

Offered by Roy Young Bookseller.

Paris, Notre Dame prise de L'isle Louvier

by Pugin, Augustus Charles

London: R. Ackermann, 1821. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by Havell from J.Gendall's drawing after Pugin. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition with the exception of a expertly mended tear on the bottom margin. Image size: 13 7/8 x 18 7/8 inches.

A highly dynamic view, emphasizing the cathedral of Notre Dame's position at the heart of the city of Paris Notre Dame, before the addition of Violett le Duc's central spire, is shown dominating the skyline in this view taken from the south side of the Ile de St. Louis, looking north west upriver to the Pont la Tournelle with the Cathedral beyond. The foreground includes a number of barges loaded with timber, probably for furl, bargees wrestle with the newly arrived vessels, positioning them using long poles, unloading of the moored barges is already underway, with workmen trudging up well-worn paths in the river bank. Much activity can be seen on the wide `beach' of the far left bank.

Pugin (1762-1832) `architect, archæologist, and architectural artist, was born in France, and claimed descent from a distinguished French family. Driven from his country either by the horrors of the revolution or by private reasons connected with a duel, he came to London about 1798, and soon found employment as a draughtsman in the office of John Nash.... To increase his powers as an artist, he entered the schools of the Royal Academy... He further revived acquaintance with Merigot, an aquatint engraver, who formerly had been a drawing-master to his father's family, and studied under him with advantage. Nash, who treated his pupils and assistants with great kindness and hospitality, discovered in Pugin a valuable subordinate...

The truthfulness of Pugin's drawings in form and colour at once attracted attention. A change was then coming over water-colour art. The old style of brown or Indian ink outline with a low-toned wash was giving way to the more modern practice of representation in full colour, and Pugin, though he limited his palette to indigo, light red, and yellow ochre, was an active supporter of the new movement, and to his influence its ultimate predominance was largely due. In 1808 Pugin was elected an associate of the Old Water-colour Society, which had been founded in 1805, and he was a frequent exhibitor at the annual exhibitions held first in Lower Brook Street and subsequently in Pall Mall... About the same time Pugin was employed on Ackermann's publications, notably the 'Microcosm,' for which he supplied the architectural portions of the illustrations, Rowlandson executing the figures. ....Meanwhile Nash and his works were not altogether neglected. Pugin in 1824 was asked to make the drawings for a volume illustrating the Brighton Pavilion, and while he was engaged upon the work George IV, who came to watch, accidentally upset the colour-box, and, mindful perhaps of illustrious parallels in the past, picked it up with an apology that greatly gratified the artist.` (DNB). The present separately issued plate led to a latter publication `Views of Paris and Environs,' (London: 1828-1831), with plates of similar subjects but published in a much smaller quarto format.

Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books.

Pennsylvania Railroad Trainphone Tips for Railroaders - Guide created for employees through the eyes of Penny Sylvania 

Tele-Dynamics Inc. c1943. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) began using a voice communications system called 'Trainphones' on a trail basis in 1936 and had fully integrated them into their railway system by 1943. The system was meant to be used as a communication method between crews on moving trains and dispatchers. In order to educate their crews on the system, PRR created a short 23 page booklet to serve as an instruction manual.

The book was written from the perspective of 'Penny Sylvania', a young girl whose father is a railroad engineer. The book used plain words and phrases to describe the system along with simple, black and white line drawings to further the reader's understanding of the communications system. Given the relative child-like tone of the book, it is clear what PRR thought of their employee's education level. The book starts with a brief description of the system, before instructing the reader how to use it, such as "the trick to the trainphone is to hold it close to the mouth, but not to blow into it" and since "Uncle Sam is listening to their conversation they have two firm rules- no cursing and no funny business." One of the biggest issues with the trainphone system was that it was unable to work in electrified zones due to interference from the electric supply, considering that these electrified zones were some of PRR's busiest locations, this was a huge disadvantage. Several pages are dedicated to address this issue with instructions such as "Daddy says sometimes they run into dead spots where reception is bad, but they often change this by moving the engine ahead a few feet or backing up to a more favorable location."

Eventually, the whole trainphone system would be phased out in the 1960s as radio communication became the norm and was more reliable. The cover has a line drawing of the phone. There is the name of the previous owner, R. W. Schaffer, written on the cover. No OCLC. Staple binding. 6 ¼" x 4 ½"

Offered by Eclectibles, and featured in their new catalog, E-list #57 (item #13). This item is not listed on abaa.org.

Statut de Kaliski (The Statute of Kalisz)

by Arthur Szyk.

Paris: F. Bruchman for Editions de la Table Ronde, 1932. Limited edition. 1/500?. Copy 156 of 500 (in the final plan).

The full 500 copies were never printed. A large part of the printed run was destroyed in the German bombing of Warsaw (see website of the Kosciusko Foundation). Szyk himself stated that only fifty copies existed and some sources place the number as low as thirty. An informal census revealed to this writer at least fifteen library holdings. A search of the holdings of Jewish Museums and Art Museums would likely reveal additional copies. However, the number of surviving copies is certainly less than one hundred.

Folio, 48 loose leaves, 15.1" by 12.6". Forty-five full-color plates. Three additional sheets: the "Page of Certification," with the author's signature, the "Finis Libri" page and an initial blank. There is substantial dispute as to the correct ordering of the plates which were issued loose. Many copies lack the initial blank present with this set. Two of the plates were not initially planned and may be missing in some copies [One was the Yiddish translation of the Statutes. Ansell p. 57]. The copy held by the Central Judaika Database is lacking the plates with the Spanish text. Joseph Ansell in his work "Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole," includes his own description of the contents and he includes a quote from a review of the folio from 1933 which are helpful. Ansell writes, "[full paragraph at the center of the page of Ansell p. 56.]" This copy is organized in this way with the blank at the start. P.G. Konody in his 1933 review "Artist's Great Work Worthy of Medieval Examples," Daily Mail, 30 May 1933,7, mentions "45 magnificently ornamented pages," which offers a contemporary concurrence of how the material was seen at the time of publication. [Ansell, p. 78]. The "unbound pages were contained in a red portfolio emblazoned with the Polish eagle printed in gold and silver." Ansell, p. 60. This edition is housed in a new a red linen clam-shell box with leather labels. Arthur Szyk's "Statute of Kalisz," is his first major manuscript project. His earlier illuminated work was under the influence of oriental examples. "The Statutes of Kalisz," is in the tradition of Northern European illumination. Jean Fouquet in particular is cited as a source. Fouquet's work as an illustrator of manuscripts is more of a model for Szyk's portraiture style than as an overall guide. Szyk's page design is much more sophisticated and modern than Fouquet. The degree to which each page is saturated and laden with illustrated commentary is far advanced and often more explicit than the model. The most important, personal and rarest work by Arthur Szyk celebrates the text of The General Charter of Jewish Liberties, which granted civil and religious rights to Polish Jews when issued in 1264 by Duke Bolesław the Pious in Kalisz. Elaborate lettering in nine languages, initials illuminated or historiated, geometric and floral borders plus detailed miniature paintings of historical and mythic events. Influenced by French, Italian and Flemish manuscript styles. Metallics embellish the original's gauche and watercolor, while with wit, figures include Szyk's family and two self-portraits. Begun during the May 1926 Polish coup and supported with research from Józef Piłsudski's Polska Partia Socjalistyczna government, Arthur Szyk's masterwork subtly contrasts past mistreatment and post-WWI fascism with the ideals of justice and freedom

Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller.

A Christmas Carol. The Chimes. The Cricket on the Hearth. The Battle of Life. The Haunted Man

By Charles Dickens (Root & Sons, Binders)

London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. A Superb First Edition Set of The Charles Dickens Christmas Books Beautifully Bound by Root & Son ca. 1920. DICKENS, Charles. ROOT & SON, Binders. The Christmas Books. London: [Various], 1843-1848. [Comprising:] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas... With illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first issue, with "Stave I" reading. Sixteenmo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm). [8], 166, [2, ads] pp. Complete with half-title and ads. Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, four hand-colored plates, and  intertextual illustrations.  Original endpapers bound in. [And:] The Chimes: A Goblin Story or some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and A New Year In. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First edition, second state of the engraved title. Sixteenmo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm). [8], 175, [1, colophon] pp. Complete with ad for A Christmas Carol on verso of the first leaf. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, and intertextual illustrations. [And:] The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Printed and Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition. Sixteenmo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm). [8], 174, [2, ads] pp. Complete with half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at end. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, and intertextual illustrations.   [And:]   The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, fourth issue, with Cupid added to the scroll but without publisher's imprint on engraved title. Sixteenmo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm). [8], [1-2, sectional title], 3-175, [1, colophon], [2, ads] pp. Complete with half-title and ads. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, and intertextual illustrations.   [And:]   The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Sixteenmo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm). [8], 188 pp. Complete with ads and half-title. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, and intertextual illustrations.

Uniformly bound by Root & Son ca. 1920 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins). Full blue crushed levant morocco, covers with three-line gilt border surrounding a large holly leaf inlaid in green morocco and detailed in gilt with six inlaid red morocco berries on stem. Four similar but smaller corner-pieces also inlaid in green and red morocco. Spines with five raised bands, similarly decorated with inlaid green and red morocco holly leaves and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins, pale blue liners and endleaves. all edges gilt. Each volume with the original tan and brick red cloth covers and spines bound in at end. Spines very slightly and uniformly darkened. Some scattered light foxing otherwise a very fine set of arguably the most influential and important nineteenth century tales of the Christmas season.   

Following the overwhelming success of A Christmas Carol in 1843, Dickens embarked upon the Christmas Books project, seeking to marshal "the Carol philosophy ... [in order to] strike a sledgehammer blow" for England's lower classes.  He continued publishing the Christmas Books throughout the 40s, and the stories became mainstays of Dickens's public reading tours of the 1850s and 1860s. A Christmas Carol was an instant success, reportedly selling all 6,000 copies of the first edition on the first day of publication, and Dickens went on to write four more small festive books for each successive Christmas. The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work, both on fine bindings as here, and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901, and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out (uprooted?) of their premises on Paternaster Row during the 1941 Blitz. There is a record in the June 10 1905 issue of The Academy "Esteemed Editions of various Authors, some scarce, all in new extra leather bindings... W. Root & Son, 29-30 Eagle Street, Red Lion Street, Holborn, W.C." Root & Son are also recorded at the same address in The Literary Year-Book, 1909 (thirteenth annual volume). The British Library have five examples of bindings by Root & Son.

Offered by Davis Brass Rare Books.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Plate CXXVII) Fringilla ludoviciana

by John James Audubon

Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring on J Whatman 1836 watermarked hand-made paper. Unusually wide, untrimmed margins showing the pulls from the binder's signatures on the left margin and the gilt to the top edge. "I closed my eyes, and was passing away into the world of dreaming existence, when suddenly there burst on my soul the serenade of the Rose-breasted bird, so rich, so mellow, so loud in the stillness of the night, that sleep fled from my eyelids. Never did I enjoy music more: it thrilled through my heart, and surrounded me with an atmosphere of bliss. One might easily have imagined that even the Owl, charmed by such delightful music, remained reverently silent. Long after the sounds ceased did I enjoy them, and when all had again become still, I stretched out my wearied limbs, and gave myself up to the luxury of repose." John James Audubon.

Offered by William Chrisant & Sons. 

MALLEUS MALEFICARUM

by Henricus Kramer (Institoris)

Bungay, Suffolk: Printed by R. Clay & Sons, Ltd. for John Rodker, 1928. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. ONE OF 1,275 COPIES.

This is the first printing in English, translated from the 1489 edition, of one of the great classics of early witchcraft literature. Under Pope Innocent VIII, its author, Heinrich Kramer (who took the name of Institoris), was appointed (along with Jakob Sprenger, who is sometimes credited with being the co-author of this work) as general Inquisitor for the five dioceses of Germany. Although Institoris and Sprenger were assigned the task of ferreting out heterodoxy in general, they concentrated their attention on investigating reports of witchcraft and prosecuting suspected witches.

The book is divided into three sections, the first dealing with the theological ramifications of a belief in witchcraft, the second with the practices of witches and protection against them, and the third with legal procedures for dealing with witches.

306 x 200 mm. (12 x 8 7/8"). xlv, , 277, [1] pp. Translated, with introduction, bibliography, and notes by Montague Summers. Pleasing full crushed morocco in the antique style, raised bands, gilt titling in compartments, edges untrimmed. Title in red and black. A couple of very light scratches to the boards, a breath of wear to extremities, but A FINE COPY, the contents clean, bright, and the book with virtually no signs of use. 

Offered by Phillip J. Pirages.

Dennis Hopper Signs of the Times (Tony Shafrazi Gallery Poster)

New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 2011. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Very large folded poster created on the occasion of an exhibition of the photographs of actor and artist Dennis Hopper. The gallery exhibit coincided with the publication of the 2011 Taschen monograph on Hopper entitled Dennis Hopper Photographs: 1961 - 1967. Poster is folded three times for mailing. When opened, it measures 28" wide x 24" tall. A vivid image of a man sticking his tongue out which has writing stamped on his tongue. Terrific and vivid image. Will be shipped flat (as folded). Very good condition.

Offered by Derringer Books.

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press... and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Chesterman, Hugh; Gaskin, Joscelyn V.; Lamb, Lynton H.. No. 304 of 375, eight volumes (complete), quarto size, 1886 total pp.

This eight-volume set comprises much of Geoffrey Chaucer's (ca. 1343-1400) significant work, including "The Canterbury Tales", "Boecii de Consolacione Philosophie", "The Romaunt of the Rose", "Troilus and Criseyde", as well as a myriad of his minor poems. The text used was that "prepared under the editorship of Dr. A.W. Pollard for the Globe edition since revised by him". Alfred William Pollard (1859-1944) was a widely known scholar, who, in addition to Chaucer, edited Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" amongst many other works. The Shakespeare Head Press brings the full force of its talents to the design of these books, with titles, initials and paragraph marks in blue and red, drawn by Joscelyn V. Gaskin, in each volume. Volumes I, II, III and the beginning of Volume IV (all of the Tales of Canterbury) are also graced with hand-coloured, full-colour marginal drawings reproduced by Hugh Chesterman from the fourteenth-century Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"; Volume V, "Boece" contains chapter headpieces drawn by Lynton H. Lamb from woodcuts in a copy printed in Lyons ca. 1508-1525. Loosely inserted into Volume I is a small leaf form the Press crediting Hugh Chesterman with the illustrations of the Canterbury Pilgrims which "have been freely drawn".

Description: Quarter natural linen spine with blue paper boards, white paper spine label with red and black lettering, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title pages in red and black, initial capitals by Joscelyn V. Gaskin in red and blue throughout all volumes; Caslon Old Face type, Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper, quarto size (11.5" by 7.75"), pagination: Volume I: [i-vi] 1-224; Volume II: [i-vi] 1-212 [213]; Volume III: [i-vi] 1-200 [201]; Volume IV: [i-vi] 1-216 [217]; Volume V: [i-vi] 1-177; Volume VI: [i-vi] [1] 2-300 [301]; Volume VII: [i-viii] 1-250; Volume VIII: [i-vi] 1-252 [253], one of 375 copies (total edition 386), this number 304.

Condition: The set is near fine overall, the linen shelfbacks without wear, the paper boards mostly clean with occasional stray marks, strong, square text blocks with solid hinges, straight corners with just a few showing minimal rubbing, the interiors are clean and bright, and the set is entirely free of prior owner markings; note that the spine labels were supplied by a professional made to look exactly like the original labels, slight gutter cracking in Volume V, but text block is still strong, and Volume I with a prior bookseller pencil marking on the front paste-down endpaper and a prior owner pencil notation on the rear paste-down endpaper.

Offered by Swan's Fine Books.

Resist the Draft - Nov.14

San Francisco: Resistance / Liberation Press, [1968]. First Edition. Paperback. An uncommon pair of materials heralding an event promoted by the San Francisco chapter of Resistance, to be held at the San Francisco Federal building on 14 November, 1968. "On Thursday, November 14, hundreds of young men across the country will return their draft cards to the government through the new president. In the Bay Area, the Resistance will sponsor rallies and draft card turn-ins on most campuses at noon...Joan Baez will help us gather the cards and post them to the new president." Pamphlet held by a single OCLC institution (UC Davis); flyer unlocated as of July 2018. Bifolium (21.5cm); single sheet of 8.5" x 14" white stock, folded once vertically to create a 4pp pamphlet; offset printed. A few faint creases and mild signs of handling; Very Good+. Accompanied by an 8.5" x 11" flyer from the same event, similarly printed; old horizontal fold at center, else Near Fine.

Offerd by Lorne Bair Rare Books.

Soldier Tales

by Rudyard Kipling

London: Macmillan And Co., Ltd., 1900. Reprint of 1900. Very good+ in 3/4 red calk and pink cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with two black leather labels with gilt text and gilt decorations in the compartments. The end sheets are marbled paper and the top edge of the text block is gilt. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 5 inches with the leather worn through over the tips of the boards and the leather is rubbed at the head and heel of the spine. 172 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 plates and small engraved vignettes at the head of each story. A collection of seven short stories including: With The Main Guard, The Drums of the Fore and Aft, The Man Who Was, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney, The Taking of Lungungpen and The Madness of Private Ortheris. 

Offered by Town's End Books.

VALUE, PRICE, AND PROFIT ... ADDRESSED TO WORKING MEN

by Karl Marx

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1901. xiii,[1],74,[8]pp. Printed wrappers, crudely bound up in quarter calf and marbled boards. Wrappers soiled and worn, pencil annotations throughout, Socialist Labor Party chapter stamp on half- title, a quite used, but nonetheless interesting copy. First printing in this format, as a monthly number of "The People [sic] Library" (the issue # on the front wrapper somewhat obscured). Edited by Eleanor Marx Aveling, and with an Introduction and notes by North American socialist, Lucien Sanial. With the early printed bookplate of "James Dunn, Tooele City, Utah." 

Offered by William Reese Company.

"March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" Vintage Flyer

Vintage flyer from the August 28, 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" demonstration. Printed on cream paper. In near fine condition, with light overall toning, measures 5.5" x 8.25".

Our flyer features an appeal from 8 of the so-called "Big 10" of demonstration organizers, with each representing a significant labor, civil rights, or faith-based group. The March on Washington had a single objective: to expose the true nature of race relations and economic problems in mid-century America. Demonstrators wanted former promises--of racial equality, of the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--to finally be fulfilled.

The 1963 March on Washington marked the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Its estimated 200,000-300,000 participants, of whom an estimated 75% were black, marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. All of the "Big 10" delivered speeches, although Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s powerful oration "I Have a Dream" is the most remembered.

The March on Washington was nationally televised and shone a light on Jim Crow laws and widespread unemployment. One of the capstone moments of the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Offered by University Archives. (Spotted on their Twitter feed. This item is not currently listed on abaa.org. Contact the dealer directly if interested.)

Gratulatio ad Pium II pro foelici, ac secundo ex Mantuana peregrinatione reditu. Dialogus de optimo vitae genere deligendo. De monachis erudiendis Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin.

by ALIOTTI GIROLAMO (1412-1480) 

Florence, 1460. 253 x 181 mm. ii + 139 + ii leaves. Complete. 14 quires. Collation: 1-1310, 149-10 (lacking the last blank leaf). Unfoliated. Blanks: fols. 2/10r, 14/8v, and 14/9r-v. Catchwords written in the center middle of the last page of each quire except quires 2 and 4. Text block: 164 x 90 mm, one column, 28 lines. The first capital letter of each sub-chapter set out. Ruled in brown ink. Text written in brown ink by a unique hand in formal humanist script. Headings and names of interlocutors in pale red ink. Two illuminated coats of arms of Pope Pius II (see below), numerous gold and white-vine initials (see below). Five one-line blue paragraph marks on fols. 2/8v, 2/9r, 2/10v, and 4/10v. Early twentieth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands, marbled flyleaves, gilt and gauffered edges. Upper joint skilfully repaired. 

A well-preserved manuscript. First leaf slightly soiled, four small round wormholes in blank outer margin of the first leaves reducing to one and then disappearing. A few marginal stains; old repair to the lower blank margin of fol. 

A deluxe illuminated manuscript offered as a gift by the Aretine abbot and humanist Girolamo Aliotti to Pope Pius II Piccolomini, produced in the Florentine workshop run by the 'king of the booksellers' Vespasiano da Bisticci and narrating a fascinating tale of patronage.

Offered by Govi Rare Books.

I Capture the Castle (First Edition)

by Dodie Smith

London: William Heinemann, 1949. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book, notoriously scarce in jacket, basis for the elegant 2003 British film. Ms. Smith went on the write "The Story of the 101 Dalmations." Near Fine with a bright lavender topstain, in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Small owner name stamp and date of 1949, with a matching personal library entry stamp on the copyright page. Jacket shows no loss, with just a bit of nicking and rubbing here and there, a lightly faded spine (backstrip same), and a tiny date stamp of 1949 on the spine panel. A very pleasing copy overall.

Offered by Royal Books.

Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament Easel Display Card

NY, Scholastic, (2000). An advance publicity item for the transformative fourth book in the Harry Potter series, featuring the short-lived name Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament. 

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was nearly twice as long as the preceding book; it was the first to be released on the same date in the U.K. and the U.S.; the first to have a Saturday release date so as not to conflict with the school day; the first to have a multi-million copy U.S. print run; and it was the first book in the series to not have an uncorrected proof or advance reading copy issued. Its title was intended to be kept a secret until publication day (July 8, 2000); a feat that was made somewhat easier as Rowling herself wavered on the title until at least March or April. The working title was simply "HP IV." However, Rowling's first intended title for the book leaked out, and offered here is a printed easel display card encouraging readers to pre-order their copies of Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament. Reportedly there followed a period during which the title was to be Harry Potter and the Triwizard Tournament. 

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won the 2001 Hugo Award, the only Harry Potter novel to do so. The Doomspell Tournament easel card is 9" x 12", apparently unused; it has one small nick in a lower corner near a small portrait of Buckbeak the Hippogriff, else fine.

Offered by Ken Lopez, Bookseller.

Spalding’s Base Ball Guide and Official League Book for 1887

Spotted on Argonaut Book Shop's Instagram feed:

Today is the official Opening Day of Major League Baseball! 

Perhaps it is the perfect time to remind ourselves of the rules of the game. What better way to do that than to peruse the Spalding's Baseball Guide from the year 1887. While this might be the the eleventh annual edition of this standard handbook, it is incredibly important “as it presents, for the first time, a new code of playing-rules which will govern every professional club in the country.” Before this, each professional baseball organization was allowed to make up their own rules of the game. That doesn't seem very organized to me! SPALDING, A. G. Spalding’s Base Ball Guide and Official League Book for 1887. 16mo. 6¼ x 4 inches. Pp. 142, [2], 32 (ads). One illustration, one portrait. Publisher’s yellow pictorial wrappers. Spine slightly rubbed with minor wear to foot of spine, tiny chip to lower corner of front wrapper, leaves slightly toned. A fine and clean copy. Chicago and New York: A. G. Spalding & Bros., 1887.

First edition for the year but the eleventh annual edition of the standard handbook and official guide of the national game. Scarce in this condition. Presents pitchers’ records in victories for the 1886 season as well as records of the veteran batsmen of the league from 1876 to 1886. This annual is important “as it presents, for the first time, a new code of playing-rules which will govern every professional club in the country.” Prior to this particular guide, different playing rules governed each professional organization. With the new “code of playing-rules” the rules throughout the organization were standardized. The last 32 pages present illustrated advertisements for Spalding products.

Offered by Argonaut Book Shop, but not currently listed on abaa.org. (Contact the store directly if interested.)

PARADISE LOST

by MILTON, JOHN

Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Third Baskerville Edition. Hardcover. large Octavos, [xix]+lxxii+[v]+416 pages; G; in early brown calf boards, rebacked with new spine, black label and gilt lettering; some bowing to boards, moderate rubbing and scuffing; marbled endpapers; torn bookplate remnants on ffep; some water damage; gift inscription on title page; Life of Milton bound within; With scarce list of Subscribers, including Benjamin Franklin; Wickenheiser 702, Coleridge 123, Kohler 38; shelved case 0. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Offered by Second Story Books.

Lewis Carroll - Merrymount Press Rarity with Stunning Illustration by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Compiled by Emily Prime Delafield. Alice in Wonderland: A Play

New York & Boston: Dodd, Mead and Company; Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1898. First edition thus. 

A wonderfully illustrated Alice book, excessively rare, designed and printed at the Merrymount Press by D. B. Updike, with superb full color pictorial illustration on front cover, and detailed patterned floral design on rear cover on paper covered boards, and four full-page plates (in red and black), all by the renowned artist and typeface designer, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Longitudinal lettering in redbrown on spine, additional lettering in black. Orange decorated endpapers. One of Goodhue’s hardest to find titles, even more so in this condition, given its notoriously fragile nature. Near fine condition. An early Merrymount title. At time of writing, no copies located on internet. 

Offered by Nudelman Rare Books. (Featured in their new catalog, Catalog 42 -- item #100. This item is not listed on abaa.org.)

The Living World: A Complete Natural History of the World's Creatures, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, Birds and Mammals. Founded upon the Theory of the Progression of Species, . . . and the Harmony of Nature.

by James W. Buel

Philadelphia:: Historical Publishing, 1889., 1889. 4to. [ii], 722 pp. Chromolithographic frontis., 8 chromolithographic plates [facing pp. Frontis., 8, 56, 130, 276, 528, 648, 664], more than 1200 engravings, index; some leaves brittle along extremities. Original brown decorative black, silver- and gilt-stamped cloth; soiled, worn, cellophane tape applied to first and last leaves at gutter. Ownership signature of Ralph Manheimer, Christmass 1893. Good.

A beautifully illustrated compendium, written for young people, of writing on the animal kingdom, from mammals and birds to insects and crustaceans. FULL TITLE: The Living World: A Complete Natural History of the World's Creatures, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, Birds and Mammals. Founded upon the Theory of the Progression of Species, and in Accordance with Genetic Revelation, Scriptural Truths, and the Harmony of Nature. With Introduction Describing the Geological Ages, Changes in the Earth's Crusts, Fossil Remains of Extinct Animals, and Monsters of the Ancient Seas. Replete with Anecdote, Incident and Adventure, Illustrative of the Habits of the Animals Described. Abounding with Thrilling Experiences, Wonderful Discovery, Exciting Episodes and Descriptions of the Marvellous Curiosities of Nature in all parts of the Globe. 

Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.

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A quick roundup of the news about rare books and collectors from around the world. (Regularly updated, with the latest news items added at the top.)

The Folger's Future

Fine Books & Collections has an update on the Folger's major expansion plans...

Winchester Bible to go on Display 

If you're in the UK, check this exhibition out!

"Using a goose feather quill, a solitary scribe spent four years writing the words in Latin on the skins of 250 calves, before six artists began sumptuous illuminations using gold leaf and lapis lazuli from Afghanistan. Although it was never quite finished, the Winchester Bible finally weighed in at the medieval equivalent of 32kg.

Now the largest and most beautiful of 12th-century Bibles is to go on display following a five-year conservation project as part of a landmark exhibition at Winchester cathedral, opening next week..." 

Unknown Cache of Weegee's Crime-Scene Photos Discovered

Fascinating story about an artist who bought a box of old photos in 1970, and forgot about them for 50 years. After finding the box and working to unstick the curling bundle of images, he discovered they were largely unknown original photos by the pioneering photographer known as Weegee.

Judge's Copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover Temporarily Barred from Leaving UK

"A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by a judge at the book’s landmark 1960 obscenity trial, with all the rude bits carefully and dutifully marked up by his wife, has been temporarily stopped from leaving the UK...."

Featured item:

Lady Chatterley's Lover (First American Edition)

By D.H. Lawrence

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good. 327 pp. Bound in the publisher's bright orange cloth with black lettering on the front board. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition.

Banned for obscenity in both the US and Britain in its original form, abridged editions were published in both countries in 1932. Ahearn APG 043f. An exceptional copy of a book of great importance in the history of censorship, scarce in collectible condition. A very near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with fading to the spine panel, a small crease to the rear flap, a few small spots of rubbing, and a couple of tiny closed tears.

Offered by Evening Star Books.

Susan Sontag True Author of Ex-Husband's Book, Biography Claims

"A new biography of Susan Sontag is set to claim that the American writer was the true author of her first husband Philip Rieff’s seminal work Freud: The Mind of the Moralist..."

Private Libraries That Inspire

The Wall Street Journal profiles the private libraries of Jay Walker, Don Elledge, and Richard and Donna Clayton in this article from April 25.  ABAA-member John Windle provided some context.

Brattle Book Shop in The Heights Magazine

Nice profile of ABAA_member Brattle Book Shop in Boston College's The Heights Magazine...

A 500-Year-Old Tale of Intrigue, Greed and Betrayal

The New York Times reviews The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis.

Longtime ABAA-member William Pinkney III has passed away. Obituary...

Nora Roberts Sues e-Book author over "Multi-Plagiarism"

Brazilian author Cristiane Serruya has been accused of stitching her e-books together using passages from the work of a vast number of published authors. Dubbed #CopyPasteCris on Twitter, the author's books have been removed from sale by Amazon, and now Roberts has sued her for plagiarism.  

Carnegie Library Theft Update

A Geneva Bible recovered from the Netherlands heads the list of many books and maps recovered from the Carnegie Library thefts. Read more... 

(Reminder: you can check the list of missing material here...)

Rare ‘Harry Potter’ Book Featuring Misspelled Title Fetches $90,000 (LA Times)

First editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone are still in demand, but there are fabulous items to be found elsewhere in the realm of Harry Potter books, and not all carry mouth-watering price tags! Read our updated introduction to Collecting Harry Potter...

ILAB LAUNCHES PROVENANCE SYMPOSIUM VIDEO ARCHIVE

In March 2019, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, and the Grolier Club presented a symposium to consider issues surrounding provenance, theft, and forgery as they affect the rare-book trade. The various talks and panels were recorded, and are now available to watch online. Learn more...

Two ABAA Members Among "The Best Bookstores in All 50 States"

Mental Floss names Maryland's Second Story Books and NYC's Strand Bookstore among the best. 

Jail Time Assessed for Theft of Mormon Books and Photographs from Utah Library

RareBookHub reports that "Kevin Mark Ronald Schuwer has been sentenced to four months in jail for the theft of eight books and a photograph from the Brigham Young University Library." Read more...

April Fool's Day Humor

London's Institute of English Studies pranked bibliophiles on April 1st by announcing their new "MA/MRes programme in the History of Book Scent" on Twitter. Several amused correspondents reported that it was the use of the dreaded comic sans in the announcement that gave the joke away, not the subject matter... 

And on the subject of the much-romanticized smell of "old books," filmmaker Kyle Lavore’s short film “That Smell” introduces the world to “the secret and persecuted world of book sniffing.” The film has won numerous awards at festivals in the US and Europe, possibly indicating the truly international appeal of the distinctive antiquarian book aroma. Watch “That Smell” on Vimeo...

“You don’t read the books that you smell? Then you are missing out on the whole experience!”

Historic Manuscripts Saved From Fire at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum

"Historic artifacts, including a copy of the proclamation of France's approval of the Louisiana Purchase and a yearbook from Fidel Castro's high school, were rescued Tuesday night from a four-alarm fire that damaged the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in St. Louis." Read more...

New Exhibition at Les Enluminures: The Lombard Haggadah

"For Passover, Les Enluminures presents a series of events that center on a remarkable medieval manuscript: a Haggadah with seventy-five watercolor paintings created in the circle of the famous artist Giovannino de Grassi (d. 1398) in Milan in the late fourteenth century. Telling the story of the flight of the Jews from Egypt based on the biblical book of Exodus, the Haggadah was - and still is - used during the Seder, the ritual meal of the first night of Passover. Its text has been richly illustrated by many artists in different countries for over seven hundred years." (Learn more about this exhibition...)

EXHIBITION: Friday April 12, 2019 to Sunday April 20, 2019

LECTURE: Wednesday April 10, 2019

CONFERENCE: Sunday April 14, 2019

Full details...

Seth Kaller, Inc. Announces Display of Historic Documents During Dallas Run of Hamilton

Exciting news for history buffs and Broadway fans in Texas: "Dallas Summer Musicals (DSM), in partnership with the Dallas Public Library and Seth Kaller Inc., announced today that a collection of Revolutionary War and Founding Era documents will be on display at the Music Hall at Fair Park during the Dallas engagement of HAMILTON from April 2 to May 5. The centerpiece of the display will be the Dallas Public Library's rare, July 4, 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence..." (Read more...) 

ParksCitiesPeople: The unique collection of historic documents will be on display, free of charge, in the lobby of the Music Hall at Fair Park through May 5.

The Boston Globe profiled Greg Gibson, ABAA member and gun-reform advocate, who recently made a short documentary interviewing the man who murdered Gibson's son.

J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit Opening in New York Is the “Largest in Generations”

Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth is on display at the Morgan Library until May 12, 2019.

Our friends at Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller shared this vivid endpaper (above) on their Instagram account recently, which may not be Earth-shattering news, but gives us a good excuse to link to one of our favorite spots on the Internet, the We Love Endpapers Facebook Group for lovers of illustrated paper!

Dan Whitmore on the Art and Joy of the First Edition Book

"...feels like stepping into a dream."

Artforum previews Brad Phillips new exhibition, “What You Do When You Don’t Go Outside,” currently showing at ABAA-member Harper's Books gallery annex, Harper's Apartment, until April 24.

Brad Phillips
The Enlightenment of Wilma Flintstone
2018
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches

Grolier Club Acquires J.-C. Brunet Archive...

"The Grolier Club has acquired an important archive documenting the development of Jacques-Charles Brunet’s Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur des livres in its later editions..."

The ABAA is accepting entries for the 2019 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest...

Entries must be received by June 13, 2019.

The Washington Post outlines plans to make the Library of Congress more accessible and visitor-friendly, and the inevitable fears that any change is too much change...

Get ready for "The Booksellers" documentary, described as a "behind the scenes look at the New York rare book world," and featuring interviews with many ABAA members. No release date at the moment, but let the excited anticipation begin. 

Good news from University of Pennsylvania Libraries: Major Collection Focusing on African American Women, Cookery, and Children’s Literature Comes to Penn Libraries

Victoria Dailey, an emeritus member of the ABAA, recently published a new article in the LA Review of Books. "Pavement Nymphs and Roadside Flowers: Prostitutes in Paris After the Revolution" begins like so many conversations with bibliophiles do:

"Some years ago I acquired a small, modest-looking French book published in 1826 that would become the source of my interest in women and prostitution in Paris, especially after the French Revolution..."

Read Pavement Nymphs and Roadside Flowers...

The Unforged Truth Behind "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"

Actress Melissa McCarthy is an Oscar contender for her role as biographer turned literary forger Lee Israel in the film Can You Ever Forgive Me? The film spins Israel’s criminal career for laughs, but the truth was less humorous.

ABAA-member David Lowenherz (Lion Heart Autographs) was one of the antiquarian book dealers deceived by Israel and her partner Jack Hock, and also the man who alerted the FBI to her schemes. Hock and Israel were arrested after a sting operation that involved Lowenherz wearing a wire to record Hock’s “confession” while selling some stolen letters. Lowrenherz recently wrote an intriguing review comparing the film to reality for Reel Chicago, because, as Lowenherz states, "the facts are, in some ways, more compelling and devastating than what the film shows."

Mystery Pier Books Recognized for 20 Years of Excellence!

Mystery Pier Books, co-owned by ABAA-member Harvey Jason, in West Hollywood, California has received a trio of honors recently. The store has been recognized by the US House of Representatives and the California State Senate for exceptional business practices and service to the community for the past 20 years. Additionally, the store was nominated for a West Hollywood Attraction Award by the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. 

Mystery Pier Books specializes exclusively in modern first editions, signed and inscribed books, and — unsurprising, given their location — cinema rarities, and recently marked 20 years in operation. Located on the fabled Sunset Boulevard, the store is featured regularly on television, and in magazines as diverse as Money and the Louis Vuitton City Guide. (You can read all about them in this NYT Magazine piece...).

One unique niche Mystery Pier Books occupies is as the primary source for gifts for awards shows and studios. Co-owners Harvey and Louis Jason feel it’s a good sign for the culture that tinseltown power-brokers still turn to the printed word when they want a meaningful gift for creative people. Harvey Jason concluded that, “it’s very, very good for literacy, because big stars, producers, directors, and international celebrities… give literature instead of handbags or something like that!” Long may they continue.

Is New York in Danger of Loving the Strand to Death?

Britain's The Guardian (yes, that's how famous the Strand is, even British bibliophiles know all about it) reports that Strand owner Nancy Bass Wyden recently spoke against a plan to give the building official landmark status. The designation would add new layers of bureaucracy to company operations, Wyden told the commissions, adding that "unnecessary expenses and restrictions" would "slow us down just when we need to be our most impactive." A decision is expected in early 2019.

Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued

In a 1995 interview with Linton Weeks of the Washington Post, the Howard University librarian, collector and self-described “bibliomaniac” Dorothy Porter reflected on the focus of her 43-year career: “The only rewarding thing for me is to bring to light information that no one knows. What’s the point of rehashing the same old thing?” For Porter, this mission involved not only collecting and preserving a wide range of materials related to the global black experience, but also addressing how these works demanded new and specific qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to collect, assess, and catalog them.

Read more...

Three Poisonous Books Found in University Library

Browse the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists, of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below. (Also includes podcasts, blogs posts, and other digital formats.)

 *New*  indicates any catalogs added this week. 

AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER

• Recent Acquisitions 

CHARLES AGVENT

• Spring Miscellany --  Early Baseball, Travel, Botany, Signed Books, Hand-colored Plates, etc. 
• Winter Miscellany 2018 

ANDERSON BUTLER RARE BOOKS

• E-list #13: Miscellany 
• E-list #12: Publishers' Prospectuses, Ephemera, More... 

ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS

• Cook’s Last Voyage ~ the Artistic Vision in John Webber’s Prints 
• Australia in Maps: 1540-1898 

NICK ARETAKIS

• Reference Books from the Collection of Ian Jackson (Part 2)
• October New Acquisitions 

ARTISAN BOOKS & BINDERY

• New Acquisitions: May 2017
• Holiday Catalog 2016

ATHENA RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019: The History of Ideas
• California Antiquarian Book Fair 2019 

AUGER DOWN BOOKS

• Catalog 1: Graphic, Archival, and Printed Americana 

BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS

• UFO Archives from Wendelle Stevens 
• Recent Acquisitions: From Territorial Dakota Photo Prints to an Early Publication About the Pacific Crest Trail 

LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS 

• E-list #28: New Arrivals 
• E-list #26: Late-Summer Miscellany 

W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA

• E-list #5 : ALIVE! Sideshows & Human Oddities,1839-2007 
• E-list #4 : Uranian Press, 1958-1963 

BARTLEBY'S BOOKS 

• New Acquisitions 

BAUMAN RARE BOOKS

• New Literature on Our Bookshelves 
• March Sale (Newsletter)
• Landmarks of 20th Century Literature (Newsletter) 

BAY LEAF USED & RARE BOOKS

• E-list #26: Bookplates
• E-list #25: Bookplate Literature

B&B RARE BOOKS

• Highlights from the New York Book Fair & New Arrivals (Newsletter) 
• New Arrivals, Shakespeare, Fine Bindings (Newsletter) 

BEASLEY BOOKS

• Surrealism and Situationism (Winter 2019) 
• A Spring 2018 Catalog 

STUART BENNETT RARE BOOKS

• English Libertine Literature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com

F.A. BERNETT BOOKS

• ARLIS Comference 2019 
• New York Book Fair 2019

BETWEEN THE COVERS, RARE BOOKS

• E-catalog 41: Drama  *New* 
• Catalog No. 231: Modern First Editions 

BIBLIOCTOPUS

• Catalog 58: California Book Fair 
• Catalog 57 -- Sustained Ambitions or, The Eccentricities of Endurance

BICKERSTAFF'S BOOKS, MAPS, &.

• Fine American Maps, Charts, Views & Cartographica 
• Americana: Books, Periodicals, Maps & Views

ROBIN BLEDSOE BOOKS

• E-list #1: 37 Photobooks, PhotographicallyIllustrated Artist's Books, and Other Books of Photographic Interest
• American Notes & Queries, 1946-1950 and 1962-1976.  18 volumes, lacking 3 issues. -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information... 

BLIND HORSE BOOKS

• Notable New Books: Simple as A, B, C... 
• Baby It's Cold Outside... Winter Catalog 2018  

BOLERIUM BOOKS

• Asian American History, Literature, & Arts  *New* 
• International Women's Day 

THE BOOKPRESS, LTD.

• Selected Titles: May 2019  *New* 
• Cat. 241 - CA Book Fair 

BOOKS TELL YOU WHY, INC.

• Choosing the Perfect Gift for Mother's Day (Blog)
• An Introduction to Legendary Chess Player Garry Kasparov (Blog) 

BOREAS FINE ART

• New York Antiquarian Book Fair 
• RBMS Conference 

BOSTON BOOK COMPANY

• Catalog 64A: Japan and East Asia 
• Catalog 63A: Japan and East Asia 

BOSTON RARE MAPS, INC.

• Recent Acquisitions 
• Persuasive Maps 

IAN BRABNER, RARE AMERICANA

• Short List #92 
• Short List: African American #7 

MARILYN BRAITERMAN

• Catalog 36
• Catalog 35 

DAVID BRASS RARE BOOKS

• Wilbur Wright (Newsletter) 
• Thomas Schotter Boys  (Newsletter) 

BRATTLE BOOK SHOP

• Brattlecast #38: Map Quest (Podcast) 

BRICK ROW BOOKSHOP

• Miscellany 79 
• Miscellany 78 

BROMER BOOKSELLERS

• E-catalog 50: Arion Press & The Limited Editions Club 
• New Acquisitions

BUDDENBROOKS, INC.

• Five Fine Sets
• New York Book Fair 2019 

BURNSIDE RARE BOOKS

• E-list #16: Hunting and Fishing Books  *New* 
• E-list #15: Jim Tully: Hobo, Brawler, Writer 

ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.

• E-list #49: Recent Acquisitions
• E-list #48: Recent Acquisitions 

CAROLINIANA

• E-list: Texas  *New* 
• List of Western Photo Albums 

CARPE DIEM FINE BOOKS

• New Arrivals  *New* 

BRIAN CASSIDY, BOOKSELLER

• Artists' Books and Publications  *New* 
• New Arrivals: Pulps & Sleaze 

CHURCHILL BOOK COLLECTOR

• Winston S. Churchill in Correspondence and Photographs

THE COLOPHON BOOK SHOP

• List 250: Books about Books New Arrivals Antiquarian and In-Print
• New Acquisitions: Military History - Mainly WWI &WWII 

W.S. COTTER RARE BOOKS

• Bibliography Week Showcase 2019 

ROY CLARE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

• New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com/(716) 688-8723 to request… 

CRAWFORD DOYLE BOOKSELLERS

• Holiday Books from Crawford Doyle 
• Unexpected Rare Books from Crawford Doyle

JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER

• Catalog 140: Sporting  *New* 
• Spring 2019 New Arrivals 

L.W. CURREY, INC.

• Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller 

DEWOLFE & WOOD 

• New Arrivals (May 13 2019)  *New* 

DIVISION LEAP

• Conceptual & Modern Art  *New* 
• Written on the Body: Tattoo Books, Art & Ephemera 

Featured item:

Mystery Box. Never to Be Opened

Ben Vautier

[Nice, France]: The Artist, 1960-65. 4 x 2 3/4 x 2 1/2" sealed wooden box, painted black, with two printed labels, each bordered in black in the style of a funeral announcement, affixed. Hand-numbered no. 89, with a closing date of 27/12/65.

One of the most potent of the early Fluxus multiples, and perhaps the most effective of his mystery pieces, the Mystery Box raises remarkable questions about the site and nature of the "work" of art, and of the subjectivity of the viewer. The box is in effect a dare to the viewer. Giving the box a gentle shake reveals that something is indeed inside, also making the box a sound performance. Vautier would go on to make additional boxes, but this is the only edition that we've seen that uses the funerary borders for the labels, perhaps giving a clue as to what Vautier expected of the recipient, and of the fate of the work of art - whatever, and of what materiality it might be. Something will be born. A key early Fluxus multiple. 

Some faint toning to the labels, with the tip of one label lifting slightly, else fine. No examples recorded in OCLC, though some digging reveals copies at MOMA, (no. 88), Fondazione Bonotto (no. 65), and within the André Breton collection (no. 61).

Offered by Division Leap, and featured in their new list "Conceptual and Modern Art" (item #19).

WEBB DORDICK

• Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...

THOMAS DORN BOOKSELLER

• E-list: Africa: Exploration, History, Flora and Fauna, and Big Game Hunting 

JAMES M. DOURGARIAN, BOOKMAN

• Modern Literature 
• Wallace Stegner 

ECLECTIBLES

• E-list 58: Miscellany -- 1814 Justice Fees, Ohio Daily Life 1840s-'70s, Women at Work, Bakery Designs &, Of Course, the Children - It's all about the Children  *New* 
• E-list 57: Eclectibles -- Miscellany: Traveling Seamstress, Railroad Trainphone Tips, Professional Valentine Writer &, Of Course, the Children 

ELK RIVER BOOKS

• March Newsletter 
• March List: Jim Harrison 

LES ENLUMINURES

• Four Remarkable Manuscripts from the Middle Ages 
• 10 New Manuscripts

EUREKA BOOKS

• Photography Publications of Serge Plantureux / Rhinoceros Jr. 
• 15 Books We Didn't Show in New York 

EVENING STAR BOOKS

• March/April 2019 E-list
• New Arrivals: February 2019 

JOSEPH J. FELCONE, INC.

• English Books Printed Before 1700 
• 16 New American Acquisitions from Private Collections 

ARTHUR FOURNIER FINE & RARE

• LA Art Book Fair 2019 
• New York Book Fair 2019 First Ever Sale

RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO

• New York Book Fair 2019: Five Things We're Taking to the Fair 
• Bibliography Week Showcase 

FRANKLIN GILLIAM RARE BOOKS

• OCCASIONAL LIST 22: A Miscellany: Original Art Work; Small Archive of Major English Watercolourist; Interesting Theatrical Pieces; Manuscript Material, Etc., Etc. -- available on request from fgrare@fgrarebooks.com...

GOLDEN LEGEND 

• Rare Plays and Ballets -- 16th Through 19th Centuries 
• 17th & 18th Century Spectacle 

THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS

• Books from the Library of George and Ira Gershwin 
• Medical Americana 

GOVI RARE BOOKS

• List May 2017 
• List April 2017 

JAMES GRAY BOOKSELLER

• FACISICULE XIX 
• Fascicule XIV: The Boston Antiquarian Book Show 2018 Highlight List 

RICK GRUNDER-BOOKS

• Mormon List 80 

DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS

• Catalog #1: From Sea to Shining Sea  

HARPER'S BOOKS

• New Arrivals 

DONALD A. HEALD RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019  
• California Book Fair 2019

JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.

• April New Acquisitions, List #1 
• April New Acuisitions, List #2 

JEFF HIRSCH BOOKS

• E-list #132 -- 42 New Arrivals by John Updike, Mary Oliver, Duane Michals, John Hejduk 
• E-list #131 -- 45 New Arrivals by Erte, Arthur Miller, Duane Michals, Neil Young, Seamus Heaney, Andreas Gursky 

HONEY & WAX BOOKSELLERS

• March 2019 New Acquisitions 
• California Book Fair 2019

HOUSE OF MIRTH PHOTOS

• E-list #3 Photography and More 
• E-list #2 

JOHN HOWELL FOR BOOKS

• Miniature Books (April 30, 2019) 
• Death and Recreation in the Outdoors 

S. HOWLETT-WEST BOOKS

• Sacramento Book Fair List 
• Occasional List, January 8, 2019 

IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS

• Holiday Catalog 2018

JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS

• Occasional List: Private Press Books, Fine Printing, Artists Books, and Books About Books 
• New York Book Fair 2019

JOHNSON RARE BOOKS & ARCHIVES

• Zines 
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - From the Library of a Noted Collector

• Catalog 76: Contemporary Book Arts 
• Catalog 75: Contemporary Book Arts 

KAATERSKILL BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• California Book Fair 2019

SETH KALLER, INC.

• The Alexander Hamilton Collection Part 1 
• The Alexander Hamilton Collection Part 2 

JOHN KEHOE BOOKSELLER

• What Are You Looking At? Catalog 4.7.1/ Brooklyn List 

KEVIN F.  KELLY, BOOKSELLER

• Women's History 
• Black History Month 

KELMSCOTT BOOKSHOP

• English and French History Books  *New* 
• Scrapbooks, Manuscripts, Albums, and More 

Featured item:

Victorian Trade Cards (in Binder)

A charming collection of Victorian lithographic trade cards and illustrations of various sizes and shapes. Trade cards were a popular advertising device in the mid to late 19th century. This collection of about 130 items was compiled by someone who thought it fitting to trim some of the cards to feature a particular image from them, leaving incomplete text. Most if the items, however, are intact. They comprise cards, a few postcards, and other illustrations that, where identified, come from east coast locations such as Providence RI, Springfield MA, and New York state. The items are in good to very good condition. They are housed in 30 plastic sleeves inserted into a modern three-ring binder. Size: about 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good. 

Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop, and featured in their recent catalog "Scrapbooks, Albums, and More." (Item  #2.)

BEN KINMONT, BOOKSELLER

• Books and Manuscripts in Gastronomy, 1556-1943 (Recent Acquisitions) -- available on request from bkinmont@gmail.com  *New* 

 ERIC CHAIM KLINE BOOKSELLER

• New Acquisitions 
• Rare Books & Manuscripts 2018 

JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER

• Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with L.W. Currey, Inc.

KUBIK FINE BOOKS, LTD.

• Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...

KUENZIG BOOKS

• Modern Pyrotechnics
• New Arrivals 

MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• California Book Fair 2019 

LANGDON MANOR BOOKS

• Catalog #7: African Americana, Western Americana,Women, LGBTQ, Folk Books, Native Americans, Photography
• Catalog #6: The Extraordinary History of the Everyday 

ANDREW LANGER, BOOKSELLER

• Art from the Streets - 20th and 21st Century Poster 
• Short List #1: Beer, Wine & Spirits

THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD.

• A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Canon, Civil, Common, & Roman Law  (May 14, 2019)  *New* 
• A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Athenian, Canon, Civil, Common, Jewish & Roman Law (May 7, 2019) 

DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

• Catalog 166, Rare Americana (February, 2019) 
• Catalog 165, Rare Americana (January, 2019) 

LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• May 2019  *New* 
• New York Book Fair 2019

LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS

• On Our Shelves No. 27 – Beast and Man in India (Video)
• Rare Book Moment 26: Look for relationships in your collection (Video) 

LITTLE SAGES BOOKS

• Micro Catalog of Mid-century Socio-PoliticalPamphlets/Leaflets ("Mad World")  *New* 
• A New Collaboration: WWI, II, Cricket, India, Spectroscopy, and the Canadian Rebellion 

​KEN LOPEZ BOOKSELLER 

• E-list #169: New Arrivals: Nature  *New* 
• E-list #168: Books by Women 

J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS

• Spring 2019: New Acquisitions 
• Russia & Eastern Europe in Music & Dance 

LUX MENTIS BOOKSELLERS

• Raymond Pettibon Short List - May 2019  *New* 
• Punk, Anarcho, & Counter Culture (May 2019)

Featured item:

Rock Against Racism (Australian Poster).

Carlton, Australia, nd [circa 1976]. First Printing. Light edge were, small tear/loss on the right edge, else bright and clean. Screenprinted in black and pink ink. Approx. 20x29.5" Very Good. 

"Nazis Are No Fun" "Smash the National Front." Rock Against Racism came into being in response to several well known musicians [looking at you Bowie] said some reasonably horrible things and really catalyzed when Eric Clapton "made a drunken declaration of support for former Conservative minister Enoch Powell (known for his antiimmigration Rivers of Blood speech) at a concert in Birmingham. Clapton told the crowd that England had "become overcrowded" and that they should vote for Powell to stop Britain from becoming "a black colony". He also told the audience that Britain should "get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out", and then he repeatedly shouted the National Front slogan "Keep Britain White"." No known copy of this poster in any institutional collection. A remarkable find. 

Offered by Lux Mentis, and featured in their latest catalog Punk, Anarcho, & Counter Culture (item #20).

MAC DONNELL RARE BOOKS

• List of 77 Mark Twain First Editions and Ephemera available by request from info@macdonnellrarebooks.com (specify elist or paper copy). 

MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• E-list #9: A Selection of New Arrivals
• E-List #8: New Arrivals -- 34 recent acquisitions include a meaty Vietnam War archive of letters, a nice selection of autograph material, medallions, plus an eclectic selection of books. 

KENNITH MALLORY, BOOKSELLER

• Spring New Arrivals: In Music, Culture, and Art 
• New Arrivals: African Americana

JEFFREY D. MANCEVICE, INC.

• April List of Early Printing 
• New York Book Fair 2019 

MANHATTAN RARE BOOK COMPANY

• New York Book Fair 2019  

MARGOLIS & MOSS

• Latin America

E.M. MAURICE BOOKS

• Catalog 65: Winter 2019 
• Catalog 64, Holiday 2018 

BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.

• California Book Fair 2019 
• Medicine 1477-1755 

MUSINSKY RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• E-catalog 15 

MYSTERY PIER BOOKS

• E-list: Stocking Stuffers (Newsletter) 

NUDELMAN RARE BOOKS

• Catalog 42. Exemplary Fine Bindings, 19th Century High Spots in English and American Literature  

OAK KNOLL BOOKS

• E-list #7: Russell Maret
• New Acquisitions: Spring 2019

OLD FLORIDA BOOKSHOP

• Sanskrit and Other Studies 

OLD IMPRINTS

• A Magazine’s Eye View of the 20th Century
• San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century 

Featured item:

A Disaster which may Follow the Present Activity in Wall Street - Will the Speculator Destroy the Pillars of Confidence and Prosperity On Which the American Nation New Rests?" in Saturday Globe newspaper.

An eight page heavily illustrated newspaper, sheet size 22 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches. 7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inch color political cartoon on front page. It depicts a ferocious Wall Street "Speculator" destroying the pillars of "Confidence" and "Prosperity" supporting a heavy cross-beam identified as "The American Nation." Beneath the image, text reads: "A Disaster which may Follow the Present Activity in Wall Street." A striking image; forever timely. Overall good clean condition. Saturday Globe. Utica, New York. 02-04- 1899. The Globe began life in 1881 and became so successful that in the 1890s thirty-three separate editions of the newspaper were printed to service different parts of the country. This copy of the newspaper is in very good condition, and contains numerous articles that, surprisingly, retain their interest. 

Offered by Old Imprints, and featured in their new catalog A Magazine's Eye View of the 20th Century (item #1). This item is not listed on abaa.org.

OLD WEST BOOKS

• Catalog 47, March 2019 -- by subscription only.  Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy. 

MICHAEL J. OSBORNE BOOKS

• Presidential Elections

PALINURUS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

• General List 
• October List: Associative, Commutative, Distributive 

PARIGI BOOKS

• Catalog #4: Faces 
• Catalog No. 3 - Weird Tales and the Art of Margaret Brundage 

 R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS 

• New Arrivals, December 
• AMERICAN CARTES DE VISITE: Catalog 1118 

PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• Twenty for Tuesday (IX)  *New* 
• Mathematics  *New* 

PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

• Catalog #74 
• California Book Fair 2019 

EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS

• Recent Acquisitions

QUILL & BRUSH

• New Year, New Arrivals 
• Thomas Moser Collection of Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Ford 

THE RAAB COLLECTION

• Abraham Lincoln: The Lost Letters (Newsletter) 
• Moments of American Inspiration (Newsletter) 

RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK

• Fresh Arrivals No. 67  *New* 
• UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place, Vol.1

Featured item:

The Frugal Housekeeper's Kitchen Companion, or Guide to Economical Cooking containing Instructions in the art of cooking every kind of meats and vegetables, and in making plain and fancy cakes, puddings, pastry, confectionery, ice creams, jellies, and other delicacies

by Eliza Ann Wheeler

Dedicated to those American housewives who are not ashamed of economy. New-York: Published by H. Phelps & Co., 124 Nassau Street, 1847. Octavo ( x cm.), [3], 4-96 pages. Illustrated. Appendix. Table of contents. Publisher's advertisements.  

FIRST EDITION. This small recipe collection was issued several times by various publishers through 1874, including a Toronto printing (1874) by James Spencer. Illustrated with carving instructions and one image of a rooster at dawn. Some light foxing and dampstaining throughout; corners bumped and some pages with short dog ears. Still remarkably sound and legible. In publishers decorated wrappers, printed in blue and red. A good copy. The wrappers are edgeworn and the entire work is whole-punched in the upper left, with a short loop of cord for hanging. A single slip of blue paper with a manuscript recipe, "Recipe for Sponge Cake", pinned to the title page. A handsome addition, and with an attribution on the verso, "Mrs. Lamb". Rare.  
 
(OCLC locates seven copies of this first issue (and one copy of an 1847 printing issued by Ensign, Bridgeman, & Fanning); Lowenstein 412; compare Bitting, page 492).
 

Offered by Rabelais Books on Food & Drink, and featured in their new list Fresh Arrivals: No. 67 (item #1).

RAPTIS RARE BOOKS

• New Arrivals and Highlights in Science Fiction 
• Holiday Catalog 2018

RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS  

• Special List 332, Forty-Seven Items Recently Catalogued  *New* 
• Special List 331, Travel 

READ'EM AGAIN BOOKS

• Catalog 18-6 (End-of-Year Clearance) 
• Catalog 18-5 (Fall 2018)

WILLIAM REESE COMPANY

• E-list: The Development and Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad  *New* 
• E-list: Education 

L&T RESPESS BOOKS

• LIST 318: NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR, 2019 -- Books, Pamphlets, Ephemera, Manuscripts 
• LIST 317: SALMON FISHING -- Books, Pamphlets, Maps, Manuscripts, Photographs 

B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• Book/Map Fair Catalog  *New* 
• History of Medicine 

Featured item:

JACOB, Octave. Iconographie du Musée du Val-de-Grâce, publiée sous la direction de O. Jacob, par les docteurs Lannou, Latarjet, Lefort, Henri Martin, Pascal, Perret, H. de Rotschild. Préface de m. Justin Godart.

Paris: Editions Scientifiques – Aristide Quillet, c. 1918. Folio. With 250 plates of photographic illustrations, many in full color. In 25 fascicules as issued.

First edition of this incredibly rare complete series of the Iconographie du Musée du Val-de-Grâce. The fascicules were issued immediately following the conclusion of War World I in 1918 and offer an in-depth look into how physicians adapted to treat the horrific injuries that soldiers sustained in the first truly modern war. Each figure has an explanation of the injury, information about the deceased and the doctor who initially made the observations. 

Offered by B&L Rootenberg, and featured in their catalog, History of Medicine (item #24). This item is not listed on abaa.org.

BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.

• Gustave Eiffel's Drawings and Blueprints for the Statue of Liberty 

RULON-MILLER BOOKS

• Recent Acquisitions (April 30, 2019) 
• Recent Acquisitions (April 23, 2019) 

SANCTUARY BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• Women 

KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS

• Utah & Latter-Day Saint Print-Reduced Items  *New* 
• Fine Press & Artists' Books 

SAVOY BOOKS

• 16th-18th c. Horticulture and Botany 
• The Textile Industry 

E.K. SCHREIBER

• One Dozen Early Books of Interest  *New* 
• List of 34 16th and 17th-century Continental Books (Revised) 

SCHUBERTIADE MUSIC & ARTS

• Holiday Catalog 2018 
• Fall 2018 

SCHULSON AUTOGRAPHS

• Catalog 183: New York Book Fair 
• Catalog 182: 2018 Holiday Catalog 

SCIENTIA BOOKS

• List: 150th Anniversary of Mendeleev's Periodic System 
• California Book Fair 2019: 130 Items on Science and Medicine is now available on request from scientiabk@gmail.com...

GARRETT SCOTT, BOOKSELLER

• Occasional List 61: THINK OF ME AND HOUGHTON PIT 
• Occasional List 60, SAY, WHO!!!!????

SECOND LIFE BOOKS

• Catalog #220: Women 
• Catalog #219: Arthur Miller Playwright 

SECOND STORY BOOKS

• April Print Newsletter  *New* 
• New acquisitions added daily to their Twitter feed...

MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA

• Catalog 148: Our Material Culture - A Selection of American and European trade catalogues for retail & wholesale markets, 1870-1965, with a particular emphasis on catalogues from France. 
• Medicine & Health

ED SMITH BOOKS

• Catalog 91: Charles Bukowski 

TAMINO AUTOGRAPHS

• Signed & Unsigned Prints 

 TAVISTOCK BOOKS

• E-list: Good Things Come in Threes  *New* 
• A New Adventure at the Chicago Antiquarian Book Fair (blog) 

TEN POUND ISLAND BOOK COMPANY

• Maritime List #272/Howland & Company #99 
• Maritime List #271: "Time Traveler"

MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS

• Fine Printing and Artists' Books 
• California Book Fair 2019 

THORN BOOKS

• Children's Books 
• Books About Books 

TOMBERG RARE BOOKS

• E-list #21: Collections (Gay interest, women comix, flyers; women) 
• E-list #20: Feminist Archive; Women, Women 

Featured item:

INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION
Signature of 450,000: This publication is a presentation of the 65th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Miami Beach, Florida, May 1965.

New York: ILGWU, 1965. 64 pages. Compilation of photographs that tell the history of the ILGWU to commemorate the union's 65th anniversary. Original union receipt, showing purchase of this book, tipped in. Side-stapled with tanning to edges of back cover. Mild wear to front cover with a minute crease to the edge of the right upper corner; lower right corned and pages slightly creased as well, not effecting text. Circular stain on the letter "u" of title, not effecting readability, else very good.

Offered by Tomberg Rare Books, featured in E-list #20 (item #11). This item is not listed on abaa.org.

TRIOLET RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• New Arrivals, December 2018 

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

• Books of the Day Regularly Posted to Their Twitter Feed... 

VAMP & TRAMP, BOOKSELLERS

• 2019 Book Collecting $100 and Under 
• Codex 2019 Catalog

THE VEATCHS ARTS OF THE BOOK

• Remondini & Rizzi Decorated Papers 
• Catalog 91: Book Arts & Printing History 

Featured item:

Nine Rare Italian Color Xylographed Papers

Remondini & Rizzi.

18th century & later. Full sized, unused sheets. Six of the papers are known or presumed to have been printed by the Remondini factory. Three are later printings by Rizzi from the original Remondini blocks and bear the Stampa Remondiniani PESP blindstamp. Most in very good condition. The stars of the group are a matched pair (each 16 x 13 inches): Remondini's view of Venice surround by a large bouquet on a blue diaper pattern background, along with its Rizzi recreation. There are 3 Remondini bookbinding papers (17 1/2 x 14 1/2). Two sheets of Remondini wall paper (21 1/2 x 17 1/2). These have some fraying and are in good condition. There are 2 more Rizzi PESP recreations of binding papers. 

Full, unused papers such as these are rare. The papers were printed on a hand press, using vegetable dyes (probably in paste, rather than ink) on wood blocks; sometimes with copper pins or strips mounted on them for tiny details. A different block was cut for each design and for each color. The papers were typically stored folded in half. When a paper has two identical images with a narrow space between, it was meant to be cut in half.

Remondini, establishing his printshop in Bassano in 1649, was soon renowned for his wood block and copper prints and block-printed papers. He dominated the c18 market, employing a thousand persons, with 38 printing presses, a paper mill, die foundry, and a trade school of woodcarving. When the firm closed in 1861, about a thousand of the old blocks were rescued by a group of 4 enthusiasts: Pasoli, Esengrini, Suardi, and Ponti (hence the P E S P stamp). They granted Giuseppe Rizzi of Varese a license to print them—if he used the original methods. The last Rizzi died in 1939. As part of the nobles’ bequest some 400 remaining woodblocks were given to the Museo Civico in Bassano.

Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book, and featured in Remondini & Rizzi Decorated Papers. This item is not listed on abaa.org.

WALKABOUT BOOKS

• E-List 10: Californiana  *New* 
• Catalog Five: Books, Manuscripts,Photographs, Archives, Ephemera 

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS

• Catalog 216: The Sciences, Natural Philosophy, & Antiquarian Classical Learning: Richard Weiss Library, N  *New* 
• Catalog 215: Comets, Eclipses, Transits, The Moon, Planets, & Solar System 

Featured Item:

KOPAL, Zdenek (1914-1993); Robert W. CARDER. Mapping of the Moon; past and present. 

Drodrecht-Holland & Boston: D. Reidel, 1974. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 50. 8vo. viii, 237, [3] pp. Illustrated (3 plates are folding), index. Gray cloth with blue printed lettering. Ownership signature of John Westfall. ISBN: 9027703981 First edition. Important work. Includes a history of lunar mapping 1600-1960.

"Kopal was born and grew up in Litomyšl (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). In his early astronomical career, he studied variable stars and in particular close eclipsing binary stars. He attended Cambridge University in 1938 and later that year he went to Harvard College Observatory. After the war he became head of the astronomy department at the University of Manchester. He later assisted NASA with the Apollo program as an external expert. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science since its foundation in 1968 until his death in 1993." (Wikipedia)

Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books, and featured in their Catalog 215 (item #28).

ADAM WEINBERGER RARE BOOKS

• Bibliography Showcase 2019
• Supplementum ad e-listus librorum 

WHITMORE RARE BOOKS

• Catalog 19  *New* 
• Women

Featured item:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

London: Macmillan & Co., 1866. Second (first published) edition. The book that forever changed the face of children’s literature. In the original publisher’s red, gilt-stamped cloth, gilt edges, light blue end papers, Burn & Co. binder’s ticket on lower pastedown. A Very Good copy, recased, preserving the original spine. Minor spotting and soiling to the cloth. Contemporary owner’s signature on the front end paper. Early issue with the inverted “S” on the last line of the contents page. Housed in a custom clamshell case.

Cleverly crafted by Oxford don Charles Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland remains one of the most influential pieces of children’s literature ever written. The book has been published in more than 112 languages and defined the popular “nonsense” genre of writing in the 19th century. While teaching mathematics and living at Christ Church College, Dodgson developed a close friendship with the daughters of the college dean and told them tales of Wonderland. Alice, ten years of age at the time, begged Dodgson to write them down and soon after the story took shape.

While the original manuscript given to Alice, which was hand written and illustrated by Dodgson, remains with the British Library, Dodgson published the story in 1865 with accompanying illustrations by John Tenniel. The first 2,000 copies were not distributed because Tenniel was dissatisfied with the print quality. Macmillan quickly reprinted the book using this 1866 title page, with copies available as early as November 1865, making this the first “published” edition available for purchase at bookstores. The 2,000 unbound sheets that were rejected by Tenniel were sent to the U.S. publisher, Appleton & Co., who bought the rights and used them as the first U.S. edition approximately six months later in 1866. Very Good.

Offered by Whitmore Rare Books and featured in "Catalog 19" (item #10).

JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER

• Shortlist: 35 Works of Natural History 
• New Acquisitions 

CHARLES B. WOOD, BOOKSELLER

• Eight Early & Rare Books on Lithography - Part II (M - W) 
• 9 Early Lithographic Manuals

WOODBURN BOOKS

• Holiday List 2018 
• Horticultural Catalog #25: Herbs & Herbals

YESTERDAY'S MUSE BOOKS

• Winter 2018
• Fall 2018 

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Becker, George F. Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882. First edition. 21 sheets. Elephant Folio [51.5 cm] Very good. Small paper label on backstrip and front board. Contents clean and complete. This is the atlas to accompany the third monograph from the USGS. [55720]

If offered, please contact:

Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA at (801) 521-3819 or www.kensandersbooks.com.

Our members list new acquisitions and recently catalogued items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions...

Canterbury Tales 

by Geoffrey Chaucer

With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931. One of 485 numbered copies on Batchelor handmade paper, out of a total edition of 500 copies. Stated "File Copy" on colophon page, in lieu of a limitation number. Four folio volumes 12 x 7 1/2 inches; 307 x 190 mm). One full-page illustration, twenty-nine half-page illustrations, 269 decorative borders, tail-pieces, and line-fillers, and sixty-one initial letters (printed in black, red, or blue), all engraved on wood by Eric Gill. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter niger morocco over patterned boards. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spines lightly sunned to different degrees. A few very tiny chips to spines. Tips slightly bumped and with some rubbing. Housed in a morocco-tipped cloth slipcase.

Overall a handsome and desirable set which shows very well and the text is very clean. Most of the borders are leaf and stem, but among the leaves, hiding or beckoning, climbing or leaning out, are girls and men, kings and boys, priests and nuns who take part or seem to be commenting upon the stories...the pattern continues, affectionate and cheeky, erotic, enjoyable and relevant, decorative and explanatory, a balance of taste and eye. Borders are repeated, sometimes in new combinations. To start a new tale we have more elaborate and descriptive work with a red or blue initial letter...There they are, the characters in the tale, with their stage scenery...One other quality in these borders should be noticedótheir mannerism, the distortion of human figures sometimes so that they almost share the forms of leaf and stemóand sometimes grow from them. It is another, rather touching aspect of Gillís idea and all these manners work towards a single artóthe poetry, people, leaves, decoration and explanation. Author, artist and printer have shared one concept and expressed itî (Colin Franklin, The Private Presses, pp. 143-144). Chanticleer 63. Gill 281. HBS 68192.

Offered by Heritiage Book Shop.

The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing. With a Chapter on Angling Literature

by Dean Sage

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1888. First edition, Number 88 of 105 copies. Aquatint title page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan, aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan, 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish, Mrs. A.L. Merritt, C.A. Platt, H. Sandham, and others on japan paper, 63 etched, engraved, and wood-engraved headpieces, tailpieces, historiated initials, vignettes, and other ornaments after and by Merritt, Platt, J. Adam, and others, double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive green cloth with salmon and osprey design on upper cover, decorative endpapers. 

Some slight toning of spine, occasional spotting throughout, else fine. In custom green half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition, Number 88 of 105 copies. Aquatint title page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan, aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan, 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish, Mrs. A.L. Merritt, C.A. Platt, H. Sandham, and others on japan paper, 63 etched, engraved, and wood-engraved headpieces, tailpieces, historiated initials, vignettes, and other ornaments after and by Merritt, Platt, J. Adam, and others, double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Family Copy, Inscribed to His Son. A book of almost legendary beauty, rarity, and importance, recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick, and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river.

Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers", published in the Atlantic in 1875, is a classic account. His library catalogue (2 vols.,1896, 1904) remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon," in Salmon and Trout (1902), is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known. A family copy of one of the pinnacles of nineteenth-century angling literature, inscribed to the author's son: "Henry M. Sage from D. Sage Nov 1896" Heckscher sale (1909) lot 1681 ($180.00); Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit (1921), no. 1861; Phillips p. 328; Gee, Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale (1946) lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S4; Litchfield p. 58; Hampton (2008) p. 245; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 117; Heller 2:469; not in Lande. Provenance: Henry M. Sage, with his bookplate.

Offered by James Cummins, Bookseller. 

Oriental Ceramic Art Illustrated by Examples from the Collection of W. T. Walters

by BUSHELL, STEPHEN W. 

New York: D. Appleton, 1897. Limited to 500 (likely less). Hardbound. VG++ Ex art museum library set never used. An extremely fine set of this monumental work (22" x 17"), preserved in the original five woolen, silk and ivory chemises (each cover woven with two characters, Tao Shuo, 'Ceramics Records'), Grouped in pairs within these 5 covers, the books themselves bound with yellow paper, each with a descending dragon painted with green and red, and highlighted with gilt, below the title, 'Oriental Ceramic Art', and above 'Collection of W.T. Walters', followed by the section number (front cover) or a centered squarish image of a elongated vase with ornatesurrounding design (rear cover), the spines enforced with yellow silk. viii+429 pp with 116 mounted color plates each with textual tissue guards and 411 text illus. Etched frontispiece portrait. Separate (and much smaller) text volume: S. W. Bushell, Oriental ceramic art, 4to, original red cloth, xiii+1+942 pp. no illustrations (but with a previous owner paper label at base of spine, Top edge gilt).

As important as it is in the literature of oriental ceramics (important text by Bushell about Asian Ceramics, focusing primarily on Chinese imperial and export wares), the major importance of this great work is in the field of American chromolithography. It was the greatest test of Prang's skill as a lithographer. Katharine McClinton writes (in The Chromolithographs of Louis Prang); Three artists, including James Callowhill, worked for seven years producing paintings of the porcelains from which the color lithographs were made. Each plate required from twenty to forty-four separate stones." An excerpt from the introduction to this set further exclaims "The plates in color with which this work is illustrated were made by Louis Prang, of Boston. The work of every European house of importance was examined before Mr. Prang was asked to make lithographs of three pieces of porcelain of different colors - his immediate success determined the question, and when two years later some twenty of the plates were shown to French lithographers in Paris, their criticism was that the impressions had been fortified by color from the brush; they could not believe that work of such excellence could be produced by simple lithography. This very satisfactory opinion has been since confirmed by many lithographers, and it is conceded that these plates represent the highest type of work that has been produced in that branch of art." It is unknown how many sets were printed. As with the limited editions of privately published books on jades by Heber Bishop, dated 1906, the majority of Oriental Ceramic Art books were presumably given to major institutions, heads of state and friends of the collector.

This set is comprised of ten volumes of bound sheets. The sheets are each individually bound with cloth or silk tape to the bound edge of a short piece of paper, insuring a smooth and luxurious experience when opening the book and passing the pages from right to left. I have also seen this publication issued in ten parts which were comprised of loose sheets inserted into a portfolio of similar cover design as this set. These editions appear to have an orange binding tape along the bound edge of the boards, as well as folding flaps to keep the sheets within the covers.

The books record ceramics from the collection of William Thompson Walters (1820-1894) who was a celebrated devotee of art. William Walters was appointed Art Commissioner from the United States to the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 and 1878, and to the Vienna exposition in 1873. The text is written by Stephen Wootton Bushell (1844-1908), a physician to the British legation in Beijing whose writings made him one of the most important foreigners in promoting the understanding of Chinese ceramics in the Victorian period. In 1883, he was appointed by the Victoria and Albert Museum to buy Chinese ceramics, and in total Bushell purchased 240 pieces for the museum. In 1889, William Walters commissioned Louis Prang & Co., the foremost practitioners of the art of chromolithography, to reproduce choice examples of Chinese porcelain from his extensive collection. Chromolithography, now called color lithography, is a printmaking technique that uses a separate stone for each layer of color needed to produce the finished print. Prang's artisans engaged in the painstaking work of recording every detail of Walters' vases to produce richly colored lithographs that faithfully captured the surface and color of each ceramic piece. The production of the book took nearly sixteen years and brought together some of the nation's finest artists and craftspeople. The resulting publication, Oriental Ceramic Art by Dr. Stephen W. Bushell, was both a catalog of the collection and a work of art unto itself. When the book was released it immediately set a new standard for both the understanding of East Asian ceramics and for the art collection catalogue. To this day it remains a monument of great importance in the history of chromolithography and documents the foundation of one of America's greatest collections of Asian porcelain.

Offered by Mullen Books.

“No Nation is Drunken where Wine is Cheap”: Jefferson’s Famous Letter on Government and Wine

by Thomas Jefferson

The retired founding father offers thoughts on the political economy of wine importation and foretells the future stability and prosperity of France after Napoleon. "…her constitution, as now amended, gives as much of self-government as perhaps she can yet bear… No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage."

Autograph Letter Signed, to the Baron Hyde de Neville, December 13, 1818, Monticello. 2 pp., 7⅞ x 9⅝ in.

Complete Transcript:

Monticello Dec. 13. 18.

I thank your Excellency for the notice, with which your letter favors me, of the liberation of France from the occupation of the Allied powers. To no one, not a native, will it give more pleasure. in the desolation of Europe to gratify the atrocious caprices of Bonaparte, France sinned much: but she has suffered more than retaliation. once relieved from the Incubus of her late oppression, she will rise like a giant from her slumbers. her soil and climate, her arts and eminent science, her central position and free constitution, will soon make her greater than she ever was. and I am a false prophet if she does not, at some future day, remind of her sufferings those who have inflicted them the most eagerly. I hope however she will be quiet for the present, and risk no new troubles. her constitution, as now amended, gives as much of self-government as perhaps she can yet bear, and will give more when the habits of order shall have prepared her to receive more. besides the gratitude which every American owes her, as our sole ally during the war of independence, I am additionally affectioned by the friendships I contracted there, by the good dispositions I witnessed, and by the courtesies I received.

I rejoice, as a Moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. it is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich. it is a prohibition of it's use to the midling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating their houses. no nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. it is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whisky. fix but the duty [2] at the rate of other merchandise, and we can drink wine here as cheaply as we do grog: and who will not prefer it? it's extended use will carry health and comfort to a much enlarged circle. every one in easy circumstances (as the bulk of our citizens are) will prefer it to the poison to which they are now driven by their government. and the treasury itself will find that a penny apiece from a dozen is more than a groat from a single one. this reformation however will require time. our merchants know nothing of the infinite variety of cheap and good wines to be had in Europe; and particularly in France, in Italy, and the Graecian islands: as they know little also of the variety of excellent manufactures and comforts to be had any where out of England. nor will these things be known, nor of course called for here, until the native merchants of those countries, to whom they are known, shall bring them forward, exhibit & send them at the moderate profits they can afford. this alone will procure them familiarity with us, and the preference they merit in competition with corresponding articles now in use.

Our family renews with pleasure their recollections of your kind visit to Monticello, and joins me in tendering sincere assurances of the gratification it afforded us, and of our great esteem & respectful consideration

Th: Jefferson

Historical Background

Jefferson imported both wines and grape vines for cultivation from Europe. His cellar had vintages from France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, and Germany, and he advised other chief executives on the best wines to serve at federal functions. He concludes his letter to Baron de Neuville by recalling the pleasure of their last visit together; an event at which fine wine was undoubtedly served: "Our family renews with pleasure their recollections of your kind visit to Monticello, and joins me in tendering sincere assurances of the gratification it afforded us, and of our great esteem & respectful consideration."

Rather than a letter on prohibition, Jefferson actually extols the virtues of moderation, putting forth the idea that the consumption of wine is much more salubrious than whiskey drinking. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." Although the subject of Jefferson's letter may seem to change abruptly, he had in fact already mentioned France's "soil and climate" as two of her great gifts, and the topic of wine duties was an appropriate one to discuss with the French minister. Madigan was projecting his own hostility to the eighteenth amendment when he described this letter as setting forth Jefferson's "views on the prohibition question." It is actually a carefully reasoned tribute to the health and economic benefits of wine, and one of longest passages on oenology by America's first great wine connoisseur. John Hailman's book, Thomas Jefferson on Wine (University Press of Mississippi, 2006), notes that "One of Jefferson's favorite topics in later life was how wine promoted sobriety," to which end he lobbied President Monroe and Treasury Secretary Alexander Dallas to lower import duties on French wine. Hailman cites a brief extract from this letter, lauding it because "it has so many quotable passages" (pp. 353–54).

An extraordinary and revealing letter, beginning with a warm encomium to France, "our sole ally during the war of independence," at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars. Jefferson, in contrast, reveals his longstanding antipathy to England and discomfiture at America's dependence on trade with England.

Provenance

Helen Fahnestock Hubbard (Parke-Bernet, March 27, 1956, lot 63). While the recipient of this letter is not indicated, the manuscript was purchased about 1930 by Thomas Madigan, who reveals in Word Shadows of the Great
that "Among the papers of Baron de Neuville, French Minister to the United States … I came across a letter of Thomas Jefferson in which the great democrat set forth his views on the prohibition question."

Offered by Seth Kaller, Inc.

O TO BE A DRAGON

by Marianne Moore

New York: Viking Press, 1959. 1st edition, cloth, with printed dust jacket. A presentation copy, inscribed to Holly Stevens, the daughter of poet Wallace Stevens. The inscription reads: "Mine originally, Holly, since / it had an unintentional stripe / on the jacket that was there to / stay -- (now a dragon): yours / from a complimented author / pleased that you want it / Marianne / Sept 17, 1959" in black fountain pen ink on the FEP. The date is the publication date of the title, and Moore has additionally dated the copyright page "September 17" in her hand.

In typical Moore whimsy, the poet has created a drawing of a dragon on the dust jacket front cover, incorporating the "unintentional stripe" referred to in her inscription, and has titled the drawing "Dragon attacked by gnat" using the same black fountain pen ink as the inscription. A letter of provenance from the son of Holly Stevens is laid in. (Abbott A17.1.) Minimal sunning to jacket, else a fine representation of a remarkable association copy.

Offered by Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books.

A Game of Thrones (Advance Reading Copy)

by George R.R. Martin

New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Very good/very good. 8vo. Original wraps in dust jacket. ADVANCE READING COPY (stated). Very good overall. Mild touches of curling and trivial small tears at edges of jacket. Pages lightly toned. Else sound and clean. 663pp. 

Scarce ARC of this Locus-winning first title in Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series, the basis for the wildly popular show.

Offered by Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Signed, First Edition)

by Joan Didion

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. A very nice example. Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. "In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country."

Offered by Raptis Rare Books.

LaRose (Signed, First Edition)

by Louise Erdrich

NY: Harper, 2016. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Erdrich on the title page. Additionally, a facsimile of two ms pages with Erdrich's revisions printed on both sides of an illustrated broadside on heavy card stock is laid-in. Also laid-in is an illustrated bookmark from Birchbark Books, Erdrich's Minneapolis bookshop. Upon publication of the book, Birchbark sold an unspecified number of signed copies with the facsimile ms pages. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Offered by Revere Books.

Go Tell it on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

A near fine first edition (so stated on the copyright page) in a near fine dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on the rear pastedown. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. 

Offered by Bookbid.

"Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message

by William T. Ellis 

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. A little foxing on the endpaper, near fine in a near very good dustwrapper, with several modest chips at the extremities. Biography of the baseball player turned evangelist. A cheaply produced and relatively common volume, but rare in jacket.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.

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Meet the latest members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.

New Members

Lillian Fraker, Savoy Books (Lanesboro, MA)

Lillian Fraker was born in New York, grew up in Westchester County and met her husband-to-be, Robert Fraker in college. In 1971 they settled in a rural town in Massachusetts’ Berkshires where they started Savoy Books, later moving home and business to Lanesboro, Mass. They kept a general stock of pre-1900 books and paper, specializing in antiquarian horticulture/agriculture, and 19th-century American popular music, and putting together various quirky subject collections -- history of Shorthand, American education, etc.

Savoy Books joined the ABAA under Robert Fraker’s name in 1974, exhibiting in every Boston ABAA book fair since then, and in the 1970s and '80s participating in a few New York and California fairs. When Robert died in 2017, Lillian Fraker applied for ABAA membership under her own name. She still has a medium-sized stock of antiquarian books, pamphlets, broadsides, graphics and other ephemera for sale and is happy to be able to continue her 45-year connection with the ABAA community.
 

Elena Gallego, Elena Gallego Rare Books (San Antonio, TX)

Elena Gallego Rare Books LLC operates from its offices in Madrid and Texas and aims to get professionals, collectors, and lovers of unique artworks closer to the exciting world of the rare books and manuscripts. They specialise in Spanish books, Central and Latin America, and México. Their dedicated and professional team will be happy to share unique pieces for your enjoyment and help you with any question your may have. Their activities started in Spain -- focusing first in the Spanish market -- but given the significant growth of their international customer base, are expanding activities in Europe and USA.

Adrienne Kitts, Austin Abbey Rare Books 

Adrienne Horowitz Kitts started Austin Abbey Rare Books in 2014, and after attending CABS in 2015, began exhibiting at book fairs and selling online. From an early age, she had been a reader and book collector, and in college began collecting revolutionary Americana – now one of her specialties – after some incredibly interesting courses in American history. Twenty years ago, Adrienne saw her first late 19th-century decorated cloth binding and was completely smitten. She became fascinated with the power of book design and how it could affect a reader’s perception of a story or narrative. This study holds such fascination that she has named her business for Edwin Austin Abbey, the first American artist designer of book covers to receive wide-spread acclaim for his work.

Adrienne’s twenty years as a research scientist and science writer/editor gave her the passion to look beneath the surface to find truth; she continues to use this passion everyday to determine the physical history as well as the literary and artistic truth in the books, manuscripts, and ephemera she sells.

John M. Leger, Le Bookiniste (Hopewell, NJ)

John Leger became a bookseller in 2014 after working for more than three decades as an editor and reporter for The Wall Street Journal. His specialties are poetry, art, theatre, and radicalism, although he occasionally dabbles in Modern Firsts and French literature. The company name, Le Bookiniste, is an Anglicized spelling of bouquiniste: someone who sells books from a green box along the Seine in Paris. While John does not sell from a green box, you can find Le Bookiniste online at www.lebookiniste.com and at book fairs on the East Coast (and in California in 2020). John has opened a retail space devoted to books on art and antiques in Hopewell, New Jersey, a 20-minute drive from the Princeton University campus. 

Other new full members:

David Johnson, Pryor-Johnson Rare Books (New York, NY)

Marc Younger, Aleph-Bet Books Inc. (Pound Ridge, NY)

Reinstatement

Robert Gavora, Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books (Talent, OR)

Robert Gavora became a member of the ABAA in the late 1980s, and remained one until last year, when he resigned intending to, in his words, "slow down." The life of an antiquarian bookseller is not so easily abandoned, however, and he has now been reinstated as an active member of the ABAA. In 2011, Robert recorded this interview with Taylor Bowie:

Associate Members

Eric Albritton, Ed’s Editions (West Columbia, SC)

Eric Albritton is 39 years old and has been a bookseller for approximately 12 of those years. Before joining his father in the book trade, Eric was the Program Director for a foreign exchange organization in China, living there for several years before deciding to return home. Born in Gainesville FL, he now calls Columbia, South Carolina home. Although selling books wasn’t the original plan for Eric's life, it has now become his career and he enjoys it every-day. In his spare time, Eric like to cook, camp, and travel --and especially enjoys book-scouting while traveling. Becoming an associate member of ABAA has been something Eric has looked forward to doing for years, and he feels very honored to have finally reached this goal. 

Susan Knott, John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller (Laurel, MD)

In 2017, Susan Knott retired from teaching high school full time, where she spent the last 15 years teaching video production. Over the years Susan assisted her husband, John Knott, on a regular basis in various areas of the book business, including working the booth at numerous ABAA and local book fairs, packing and shipping books, jacketing books, and various marketing efforts (such as preparing catalogs and creating promotional materials). In 2017, Susan attended CABS, where she was able to focus on learning about areas of the book business that she had not been involved with before, such as cataloging and purchasing books. Since her retirement, Susan has been able to work with John on a full time basis and is pleased to get to know many members of the ABAA.   

Madison Rootenberg Schwartz, B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (Sherman Oaks, CA)

Madison Rootenberg Schwartz is a proud third generation book dealer for Rootenberg Rare Books and Manuscripts. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in Durham, NC, and is the east coast branch of the business. Having grown up running around the aisles of Antiquarian Book Fairs, Madison says it feels like a home-coming to be a full-time book dealer. Her personal collection (since she was 7 years old) is books on unicorns, and at this point Madison has over 100 works spanning from the sixteenth century to the twentieth, which she plans to write a bibliography on. Madison is also an animal rights advocate and has two rescued dogs that she her husband spoil. Madison's intention is to introduce the younger generations to the fantastic world of book collecting, and continue her search for books on the natural history of mythical creatures.

Other new associate members:

Joe Fay, William Reese Co. (New Haven, CT)

Browse the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists, of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below. (Also includes podcasts, blogs posts, and other digital formats.)

 *New*  indicates any catalogs added this week. 

AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER

• Recent Acquisitions 

CHARLES AGVENT

• Spring Miscellany --  Early Baseball, Travel, Botany, Signed Books, Hand-colored Plates, etc. 
• Winter Miscellany 2018 

ANDERSON BUTLER RARE BOOKS

• E-list #13: Miscellany 
• E-list #12: Publishers' Prospectuses, Ephemera, More... 

ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS

• Cook’s Last Voyage ~ the Artistic Vision in John Webber’s Prints 
• Australia in Maps: 1540-1898 

NICK ARETAKIS

• Reference Books from the Collection of Ian Jackson (Part 2)
• October New Acquisitions 

ARTISAN BOOKS & BINDERY

• New Acquisitions: May 2017
• Holiday Catalog 2016

ATHENA RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019: The History of Ideas
• California Antiquarian Book Fair 2019 

AUGER DOWN BOOKS

• Catalog 1: Graphic, Archival, and Printed Americana 

BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS

• Western Americana Acquisitions  *New* 
• Recent Acquisitions: From Territorial Dakota Photo Prints to an Early Publication About the Pacific Crest Trail 

LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS 

• E-list #28: New Arrivals 
• E-list #26: Late-Summer Miscellany 

W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA

• E-list #5 : ALIVE! Sideshows & Human Oddities,1839-2007 
• E-list #4 : Uranian Press, 1958-1963 

BARTLEBY'S BOOKS 

• New Acquisitions 

BAUMAN RARE BOOKS

• New Literature on Our Bookshelves 
• March Sale (Newsletter)
• Landmarks of 20th Century Literature (Newsletter) 

BAY LEAF USED & RARE BOOKS

• E-list #26: Bookplates
• E-list #25: Bookplate Literature

B&B RARE BOOKS

• Highlights from the New York Book Fair & New Arrivals (Newsletter) 
• New Arrivals, Shakespeare, Fine Bindings (Newsletter) 

BEASLEY BOOKS

• Surrealism and Situationism (Winter 2019) 
• A Spring 2018 Catalog 

STUART BENNETT RARE BOOKS

• English Libertine Literature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com

F.A. BERNETT BOOKS

• ARLIS Comference 2019 
• New York Book Fair 2019

BETWEEN THE COVERS, RARE BOOKS

• E-catalog 41: Drama  *New* 
• Catalog No. 231: Modern First Editions 

BIBLIOCTOPUS

• Catalog 58: California Book Fair 
• Catalog 57 -- Sustained Ambitions or, The Eccentricities of Endurance

BICKERSTAFF'S BOOKS, MAPS, &.

• Fine American Maps, Charts, Views & Cartographica 
• Americana: Books, Periodicals, Maps & Views

ROBIN BLEDSOE BOOKS

• E-list #1: 37 Photobooks, PhotographicallyIllustrated Artist's Books, and Other Books of Photographic Interest
• American Notes & Queries, 1946-1950 and 1962-1976.  18 volumes, lacking 3 issues. -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information... 

BLIND HORSE BOOKS

• Notable New Books: Simple as A, B, C... 
• Baby It's Cold Outside... Winter Catalog 2018  

BOLERIUM BOOKS

• Asian American History, Literature, & Arts  *New* 
• International Women's Day 

THE BOOKPRESS, LTD.

• Selected Titles: May 2019  *New* 
• Cat. 241 - CA Book Fair 

BOOKS TELL YOU WHY, INC.

• Harry S. Truman: 33rd President of the United States (Blog)  *New* 
• Choosing the Perfect Gift for Mother's Day (Blog)

BOREAS FINE ART

• New York Antiquarian Book Fair 
• RBMS Conference 

BOSTON BOOK COMPANY

• Catalog 64A: Japan and East Asia 
• Catalog 63A: Japan and East Asia 

BOSTON RARE MAPS, INC.

• Recent Acquisitions 
• Persuasive Maps 

IAN BRABNER, RARE AMERICANA

• Short List #92 
• Short List: African American #7 

MARILYN BRAITERMAN

• Catalog 36
• Catalog 35 

DAVID BRASS RARE BOOKS

• Wilbur Wright (Newsletter) 
• Thomas Schotter Boys  (Newsletter) 

BRATTLE BOOK SHOP

• Brattlecast #38: Map Quest (Podcast) 

BRICK ROW BOOKSHOP

• Miscellany 79 
• Miscellany 78 

BROMER BOOKSELLERS

• E-catalog 50: Arion Press & The Limited Editions Club 
• New Acquisitions

BUDDENBROOKS, INC.

• Five Fine Sets
• New York Book Fair 2019 

BURNSIDE RARE BOOKS

• E-list #17: Postcolonial Studies and Literature  *New* 
• E-list #16: Hunting and Fishing Books

ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.

• E-list #49: Recent Acquisitions
• E-list #48: Recent Acquisitions 

CAROLINIANA

• E-list: Sexual Health  *New* 
• E-list: Texas 

CARPE DIEM FINE BOOKS

• New Arrivals  *New* 

BRIAN CASSIDY, BOOKSELLER

• New Arrivals: Music  *New* 
• Artists' Books and Publications 

CHURCHILL BOOK COLLECTOR

• Winston S. Churchill in Correspondence and Photographs

THE COLOPHON BOOK SHOP

• List 251: Books About Books  *New* 
• List 250: Books About Books New Arrivals Antiquarian and In-Print

W.S. COTTER RARE BOOKS

• Bibliography Week Showcase 2019 

ROY CLARE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

• New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com/(716) 688-8723 to request… 

CRAWFORD DOYLE BOOKSELLERS

• Holiday Books from Crawford Doyle 
• Unexpected Rare Books from Crawford Doyle

JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER

• Catalog 140: Sporting  *New* 
• Spring 2019 New Arrivals 

Featured item:

Indispensable Accomplishments (Series of Six Hand Colored Aquatints)

by Robert Frankland

London: Published June 24th, 1811, by H. Humphrey, No. 27, St. James St, 1811.

First edition. Engraved title leaf with , six hand colored aquatint plates, signed in the plate "R.F. invt et fecit". 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Original (?) plain paper wrappers, stab-stitched, housed in a modern blue morocco slipcase and chemise, by Aquarius. The Alfred Barmore Maclay, Le Vivier (JOHN POYNTON) copy. Tooley 158 (under "Billesdon Coplow"); Siltzer p. 122; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 148; Schwerdt I, pp. 186-187; Schwerdt I, pp. 186-187. Item #311425 

The engraved title leaf comprises four lines of whimsical verse and a paragraph of descriptive text signed "Billesdon Coplow"; the six numbered plates depict incidents of foxhunting: 1) Going along a slapping pace 2) Topping a flight of rails ... 3) Charging an Ox-fence 4) Going in and out clever 5) Facing a Brook 6) Swishing at a rasper.
A classic of English sporting illustration and the inspiration for Alken's Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders.

Offered by James Cummins, Bookseller, and featured in their "Catalog 140: Sporting."

L.W. CURREY, INC.

• Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller 

DEWOLFE & WOOD 

• New Arrivals (May 21, 2019)  *New* 

DIVISION LEAP

• Conceptual & Modern Art  *New* 
• Written on the Body: Tattoo Books, Art & Ephemera 

Featured item:

Mystery Box. Never to Be Opened

Ben Vautier

[Nice, France]: The Artist, 1960-65. 4 x 2 3/4 x 2 1/2" sealed wooden box, painted black, with two printed labels, each bordered in black in the style of a funeral announcement, affixed. Hand-numbered no. 89, with a closing date of 27/12/65.

One of the most potent of the early Fluxus multiples, and perhaps the most effective of his mystery pieces, the Mystery Box raises remarkable questions about the site and nature of the "work" of art, and of the subjectivity of the viewer. The box is in effect a dare to the viewer. Giving the box a gentle shake reveals that something is indeed inside, also making the box a sound performance. Vautier would go on to make additional boxes, but this is the only edition that we've seen that uses the funerary borders for the labels, perhaps giving a clue as to what Vautier expected of the recipient, and of the fate of the work of art - whatever, and of what materiality it might be. Something will be born. A key early Fluxus multiple. 

Some faint toning to the labels, with the tip of one label lifting slightly, else fine. No examples recorded in OCLC, though some digging reveals copies at MOMA, (no. 88), Fondazione Bonotto (no. 65), and within the André Breton collection (no. 61).

Offered by Division Leap, and featured in their new list "Conceptual and Modern Art" (item #19).

WEBB DORDICK

• Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...

THOMAS DORN BOOKSELLER

• E-list: Africa: Exploration, History, Flora and Fauna, and Big Game Hunting 

JAMES M. DOURGARIAN, BOOKMAN

• Modern Literature 
• Wallace Stegner 

ECLECTIBLES

• E-list 58: Miscellany -- 1814 Justice Fees, Ohio Daily Life 1840s-'70s, Women at Work, Bakery Designs &, Of Course, the Children - It's all about the Children  *New* 
• E-list 57: Eclectibles -- Miscellany: Traveling Seamstress, Railroad Trainphone Tips, Professional Valentine Writer &, Of Course, the Children 

ELK RIVER BOOKS

• March Newsletter 
• March List: Jim Harrison 

LES ENLUMINURES

• Four Remarkable Manuscripts from the Middle Ages 
• 10 New Manuscripts

EUREKA BOOKS

• Photography Publications of Serge Plantureux / Rhinoceros Jr. 
• 15 Books We Didn't Show in New York 

EVENING STAR BOOKS

• May 2019 List  *New* 
• March/April 2019 E-list

Featured item:

National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information. Marihuana; Narcotics; LSD; Sedatives: Some Questions and Answers

Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, 1971. 4 pamphlets (each one a folded sheet), pictorial covers. Price of 10 cents ($5.50 per 100 and $6.75 per 100 for Marihuana) on the rear cover of each pamphlet. An occasional hint of foxing and edge wear, overall a beautiful, bright set of pamphlets on illicit drug usage. Each pamphlet is illustrated with psychedelic art on the front covers and in the middle sections, brilliantly reflecting the style of the early 70s. For the sedatives pamphlet, OCLC shows only one holding (at the National Library of Medicine). For each drug discussed, the pamphlets cover the current science on the effects of the drugs, how the drugs interact with the human body, and what the law dictates for possession and distribution of each drug under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.

The pamphlets discuss the effects of the drugs on young and expecting users, and they outline the nicknames drug dealers use for each substance. "Marihuana" notably is spelled with an h in the pamphlet offered here, not reflecting the use of the "j" in the spelling of the word to make the drug seem more foreign and therefore frightening ("The Mysterious History of Marijuana", NPR). Issued by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Public Health Service), which from 1953 until 1979 was a cabinet level office now known as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("A History of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare", U.S. Government). The Clearinghouse had several publications from 1970 onward throughout the decade ("The Online Books Page", UPenn). A fascinating set of pamphlets that covers the science of the time on these substances, the history of the drugs, the laws surrounding their usage and distribution, and some of the stereotypes associated with the drugs. 

Offered by Evening Star Books, and featured in their "May 2019" list (item #3(.

JOSEPH J. FELCONE, INC.

• English Books Printed Before 1700 
• 16 New American Acquisitions from Private Collections 

ARTHUR FOURNIER FINE & RARE

• LA Art Book Fair 2019 
• New York Book Fair 2019 First Ever Sale

RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO

• New York Book Fair 2019: Five Things We're Taking to the Fair 
• Bibliography Week Showcase 

FRANKLIN GILLIAM RARE BOOKS

• OCCASIONAL LIST 22: A Miscellany: Original Art Work; Small Archive of Major English Watercolourist; Interesting Theatrical Pieces; Manuscript Material, Etc., Etc. -- available on request from fgrare@fgrarebooks.com...

GOLDEN LEGEND 

• Rare Plays and Ballets -- 16th Through 19th Centuries 
• 17th & 18th Century Spectacle 

THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS

• Books from the Library of George and Ira Gershwin 
• Medical Americana 

GOVI RARE BOOKS

• List May 2017 
• List April 2017 

JAMES GRAY BOOKSELLER

• FACISICULE XIX 
• Fascicule XIV: The Boston Antiquarian Book Show 2018 Highlight List 

RICK GRUNDER-BOOKS

• Mormon List 80 

DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS

• Catalog #1: From Sea to Shining Sea  

HARPER'S BOOKS

• New Arrivals 

DONALD A. HEALD RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019  
• California Book Fair 2019

JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.

• April New Acquisitions, List #1 
• April New Acuisitions, List #2 

JEFF HIRSCH BOOKS

• E-list #133 -- 42 New Arrivals: Eikoh Hosoe, Seamus Heaney, Nancy Rexroth, Robert Frank  *New* 
• E-list #132 -- 42 New Arrivals by John Updike, Mary Oliver, Duane Michals, John Hejduk 

HONEY & WAX BOOKSELLERS

• March 2019 New Acquisitions 
• California Book Fair 2019

HOUSE OF MIRTH PHOTOS

• E-list #3 Photography and More 
• E-list #2 

JOHN HOWELL FOR BOOKS

• Miniature Books (April 30, 2019) 
• Death and Recreation in the Outdoors 

S. HOWLETT-WEST BOOKS

• Sacramento Book Fair List 
• Occasional List, January 8, 2019 

IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS

• Holiday Catalog 2018

JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS

• Occasional List: Private Press Books, Fine Printing, Artists Books, and Books About Books 
• New York Book Fair 2019

JOHNSON RARE BOOKS & ARCHIVES

• Zines 
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - From the Library of a Noted Collector

• Catalog 76: Contemporary Book Arts 
• Catalog 75: Contemporary Book Arts 

KAATERSKILL BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• California Book Fair 2019

SETH KALLER, INC.

• The Alexander Hamilton Collection Part 1 
• The Alexander Hamilton Collection Part 2 

JOHN KEHOE BOOKSELLER

• What Are You Looking At? Catalog 4.7.1/ Brooklyn List 

KEVIN F.  KELLY, BOOKSELLER

• Women's History 
• Black History Month 

KELMSCOTT BOOKSHOP

• Artists' Books by Women about Women  *New* 
• English and French History Books 

Featured item:

Victorian Trade Cards (in Binder)

A charming collection of Victorian lithographic trade cards and illustrations of various sizes and shapes. Trade cards were a popular advertising device in the mid to late 19th century. This collection of about 130 items was compiled by someone who thought it fitting to trim some of the cards to feature a particular image from them, leaving incomplete text. Most if the items, however, are intact. They comprise cards, a few postcards, and other illustrations that, where identified, come from east coast locations such as Providence RI, Springfield MA, and New York state. The items are in good to very good condition. They are housed in 30 plastic sleeves inserted into a modern three-ring binder. Size: about 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good. 

Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop, and featured in their recent catalog "Scrapbooks, Albums, and More." (Item  #2.)

BEN KINMONT, BOOKSELLER

• Books and Manuscripts in Gastronomy, 1556-1943 (Recent Acquisitions) -- available on request from bkinmont@gmail.com  *New* 

 ERIC CHAIM KLINE BOOKSELLER

• New Acquisitions 
• Rare Books & Manuscripts 2018 

JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER

• Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with L.W. Currey, Inc.

KUBIK FINE BOOKS, LTD.

• Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...

KUENZIG BOOKS

• Modern Pyrotechnics
• New Arrivals 

MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• California Book Fair 2019 

LANGDON MANOR BOOKS

• Catalog #7: African Americana, Western Americana,Women, LGBTQ, Folk Books, Native Americans, Photography
• Catalog #6: The Extraordinary History of the Everyday 

ANDREW LANGER, BOOKSELLER

• Art from the Streets - 20th and 21st Century Poster 
• Short List #1: Beer, Wine & Spirits

THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD.

• English Law Before 1776: Books from the Library of aPrivate Collector, Part III (May 21, 2019)  *New* 
• A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Canon, Civil, Common, & Roman Law  (May 14, 2019) 

DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

• Catalog 166, Rare Americana (February, 2019) 
• Catalog 165, Rare Americana (January, 2019) 

LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• May 2019  *New* 
• New York Book Fair 2019

LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS

• On Our Shelves No. 27 – Beast and Man in India (Video)
• Rare Book Moment 26: Look for relationships in your collection (Video) 

LITTLE SAGES BOOKS

• Micro Catalog of Mid-century Socio-PoliticalPamphlets/Leaflets ("Mad World")  *New* 
• A New Collaboration: WWI, II, Cricket, India, Spectroscopy, and the Canadian Rebellion 

​KEN LOPEZ BOOKSELLER 

• E-list #169: New Arrivals: Nature  *New* 
• E-list #168: Books by Women 

J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS

• Spring 2019: New Acquisitions 
• Russia & Eastern Europe in Music & Dance 

LUX MENTIS BOOKSELLERS

• Hunting & Fishing (Mostly)  *New* 
• Raymond Pettibon Short List - May 2019 

Featured item:

Rock Against Racism (Australian Poster).

Carlton, Australia, nd [circa 1976]. First Printing. Light edge were, small tear/loss on the right edge, else bright and clean. Screenprinted in black and pink ink. Approx. 20x29.5" Very Good. 

"Nazis Are No Fun" "Smash the National Front." Rock Against Racism came into being in response to several well known musicians [looking at you Bowie] said some reasonably horrible things and really catalyzed when Eric Clapton "made a drunken declaration of support for former Conservative minister Enoch Powell (known for his antiimmigration Rivers of Blood speech) at a concert in Birmingham. Clapton told the crowd that England had "become overcrowded" and that they should vote for Powell to stop Britain from becoming "a black colony". He also told the audience that Britain should "get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out", and then he repeatedly shouted the National Front slogan "Keep Britain White"." No known copy of this poster in any institutional collection. A remarkable find. 

Offered by Lux Mentis, and featured in their latest catalog Punk, Anarcho, & Counter Culture (item #20).

MAC DONNELL RARE BOOKS

• List of 77 Mark Twain First Editions and Ephemera available by request from info@macdonnellrarebooks.com (specify elist or paper copy). 

MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• E-list #9: A Selection of New Arrivals
• E-List #8: New Arrivals -- 34 recent acquisitions include a meaty Vietnam War archive of letters, a nice selection of autograph material, medallions, plus an eclectic selection of books. 

KENNITH MALLORY, BOOKSELLER

• Spring New Arrivals: In Music, Culture, and Art 
• New Arrivals: African Americana

JEFFREY D. MANCEVICE, INC.

• April List of Early Printing 
• New York Book Fair 2019 

MANHATTAN RARE BOOK COMPANY

• New York Book Fair 2019  

MARGOLIS & MOSS

• Illustrated Catalog on Carlos Merida (1891–1984) -- Mexican painter, sculptor, writer and graphic designer  *New*  -- available by request from mmbooks@comcast.net
• Latin America

E.M. MAURICE BOOKS

• Catalog 65: Winter 2019 
• Catalog 64, Holiday 2018 

BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.

• California Book Fair 2019 
• Medicine 1477-1755 

MUSINSKY RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• E-catalog 15 

MYSTERY PIER BOOKS

• E-list: Stocking Stuffers (Newsletter) 

NUDELMAN RARE BOOKS

• Catalog 42. Exemplary Fine Bindings, 19th Century High Spots in English and American Literature  

OAK KNOLL BOOKS

• E-list #7: Russell Maret
• New Acquisitions: Spring 2019

OLD FLORIDA BOOKSHOP

• Sanskrit and Other Studies 

OLD IMPRINTS

• A Magazine’s Eye View of the 20th Century
• San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century 

Featured item:

A Disaster which may Follow the Present Activity in Wall Street - Will the Speculator Destroy the Pillars of Confidence and Prosperity On Which the American Nation New Rests?" in Saturday Globe newspaper.

An eight page heavily illustrated newspaper, sheet size 22 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches. 7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inch color political cartoon on front page. It depicts a ferocious Wall Street "Speculator" destroying the pillars of "Confidence" and "Prosperity" supporting a heavy cross-beam identified as "The American Nation." Beneath the image, text reads: "A Disaster which may Follow the Present Activity in Wall Street." A striking image; forever timely. Overall good clean condition. Saturday Globe. Utica, New York. 02-04- 1899. The Globe began life in 1881 and became so successful that in the 1890s thirty-three separate editions of the newspaper were printed to service different parts of the country. This copy of the newspaper is in very good condition, and contains numerous articles that, surprisingly, retain their interest. 

Offered by Old Imprints, and featured in their new catalog A Magazine's Eye View of the 20th Century (item #1). This item is not listed on abaa.org.

OLD WEST BOOKS

• Catalog 47, March 2019 -- by subscription only.  Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy. 

MICHAEL J. OSBORNE BOOKS

• Presidential Elections

PALINURUS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

• General List 
• October List: Associative, Commutative, Distributive 

PARIGI BOOKS

• Catalog #4: Faces 
• Catalog No. 3 - Weird Tales and the Art of Margaret Brundage 

 R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS 

• New Arrivals, December 
• AMERICAN CARTES DE VISITE: Catalog 1118 

PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• Twenty for Tuesday (X)  *New* 
• Mathematics 

PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

• E-list #8: Out of the Ordinary  *New* 
• Catalog #74  

EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS

• Recent Acquisitions

QUILL & BRUSH

• New Year, New Arrivals 
• Thomas Moser Collection of Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Ford 

THE RAAB COLLECTION

• Abraham Lincoln: The Lost Letters (Newsletter) 
• Moments of American Inspiration (Newsletter) 

RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK

• Fresh Arrivals No. 67  *New* 
• UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place, Vol.1

Featured item:

The Frugal Housekeeper's Kitchen Companion, or Guide to Economical Cooking containing Instructions in the art of cooking every kind of meats and vegetables, and in making plain and fancy cakes, puddings, pastry, confectionery, ice creams, jellies, and other delicacies

by Eliza Ann Wheeler

Dedicated to those American housewives who are not ashamed of economy. New-York: Published by H. Phelps & Co., 124 Nassau Street, 1847. Octavo ( x cm.), [3], 4-96 pages. Illustrated. Appendix. Table of contents. Publisher's advertisements.  

FIRST EDITION. This small recipe collection was issued several times by various publishers through 1874, including a Toronto printing (1874) by James Spencer. Illustrated with carving instructions and one image of a rooster at dawn. Some light foxing and dampstaining throughout; corners bumped and some pages with short dog ears. Still remarkably sound and legible. In publishers decorated wrappers, printed in blue and red. A good copy. The wrappers are edgeworn and the entire work is whole-punched in the upper left, with a short loop of cord for hanging. A single slip of blue paper with a manuscript recipe, "Recipe for Sponge Cake", pinned to the title page. A handsome addition, and with an attribution on the verso, "Mrs. Lamb". Rare.  
 
(OCLC locates seven copies of this first issue (and one copy of an 1847 printing issued by Ensign, Bridgeman, & Fanning); Lowenstein 412; compare Bitting, page 492).
 

Offered by Rabelais Books on Food & Drink, and featured in their new list Fresh Arrivals: No. 67 (item #1).

RAPTIS RARE BOOKS

• New Arrivals and Highlights in Science Fiction 
• Holiday Catalog 2018

RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS  

• Special List 333, Wine  *New* 
• Special List 332, Forty-Seven Items Recently Catalogued 

READ'EM AGAIN BOOKS

• Catalog 18-6 (End-of-Year Clearance) 
• Catalog 18-5 (Fall 2018)

WILLIAM REESE COMPANY

• Catalog 362: Recent Acquisitions in Americana -- illustrated in color and consisting of 145 items  *New* 
• E-list: The Development and Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad 

L&T RESPESS BOOKS

• LIST 318: NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR, 2019 -- Books, Pamphlets, Ephemera, Manuscripts 
• LIST 317: SALMON FISHING -- Books, Pamphlets, Maps, Manuscripts, Photographs 

B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

• Book/Map Fair Catalog  *New* 
• History of Medicine 

Featured item:

JACOB, Octave. Iconographie du Musée du Val-de-Grâce, publiée sous la direction de O. Jacob, par les docteurs Lannou, Latarjet, Lefort, Henri Martin, Pascal, Perret, H. de Rotschild. Préface de m. Justin Godart.

Paris: Editions Scientifiques – Aristide Quillet, c. 1918. Folio. With 250 plates of photographic illustrations, many in full color. In 25 fascicules as issued.

First edition of this incredibly rare complete series of the Iconographie du Musée du Val-de-Grâce. The fascicules were issued immediately following the conclusion of War World I in 1918 and offer an in-depth look into how physicians adapted to treat the horrific injuries that soldiers sustained in the first truly modern war. Each figure has an explanation of the injury, information about the deceased and the doctor who initially made the observations. 

Offered by B&L Rootenberg, and featured in their catalog, History of Medicine (item #24). This item is not listed on abaa.org.

BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.

• Gustave Eiffel's Drawings and Blueprints for the Statue of Liberty 

RULON-MILLER BOOKS

• Recent Acquisitions (May 21, 2019)  *New* 
• Recent Acquisitions (April 30, 2019) 

SANCTUARY BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• Women 

KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS

• Utah & Latter-Day Saint Print-Reduced Items  *New* 
• Fine Press & Artists' Books 

SAVOY BOOKS

• 16th-18th c. Horticulture and Botany 
• The Textile Industry 

E.K. SCHREIBER

• One Dozen Early Books of Interest  *New* 
• List of 34 16th and 17th-century Continental Books (Revised) 

SCHUBERTIADE MUSIC & ARTS

• Holiday Catalog 2018 
• Fall 2018 

SCHULSON AUTOGRAPHS

• Catalog 183: New York Book Fair 
• Catalog 182: 2018 Holiday Catalog 

SCIENTIA BOOKS

• List: 150th Anniversary of Mendeleev's Periodic System 
• California Book Fair 2019: 130 Items on Science and Medicine is now available on request from scientiabk@gmail.com...

GARRETT SCOTT, BOOKSELLER

• Occasional List 62: TERRIBLE UBIQUITY (1830-1840)  *New* 
• Occasional List 61: THINK OF ME AND HOUGHTON PIT 

SECOND LIFE BOOKS

• Catalog #220: Women 
• Catalog #219: Arthur Miller Playwright 

SECOND STORY BOOKS

• April Print Newsletter  *New* 
• New acquisitions added daily to their Twitter feed...

MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA

• Catalog 148: Our Material Culture - A Selection of American and European trade catalogues for retail & wholesale markets, 1870-1965, with a particular emphasis on catalogues from France. 
• Medicine & Health

ED SMITH BOOKS

• Catalog 91: Charles Bukowski 

TAMINO AUTOGRAPHS

• Signed & Unsigned Prints 

 TAVISTOCK BOOKS

• E-list: Good Things Come in Threes  *New* 
• A New Adventure at the Chicago Antiquarian Book Fair (blog) 

TEN POUND ISLAND BOOK COMPANY

• Maritime List #272/Howland & Company #99 
• Maritime List #271: "Time Traveler"

MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS

• Fine Printing and Artists' Books 
• California Book Fair 2019 

THORN BOOKS

• Children's Books 
• Books About Books 

TOMBERG RARE BOOKS

• E-list #21: Collections (Gay interest, women comix, flyers; women) 
• E-list #20: Feminist Archive; Women, Women 

Featured item:

INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION
Signature of 450,000: This publication is a presentation of the 65th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Miami Beach, Florida, May 1965.

New York: ILGWU, 1965. 64 pages. Compilation of photographs that tell the history of the ILGWU to commemorate the union's 65th anniversary. Original union receipt, showing purchase of this book, tipped in. Side-stapled with tanning to edges of back cover. Mild wear to front cover with a minute crease to the edge of the right upper corner; lower right corned and pages slightly creased as well, not effecting text. Circular stain on the letter "u" of title, not effecting readability, else very good.

Offered by Tomberg Rare Books, featured in E-list #20 (item #11). This item is not listed on abaa.org.

TRIOLET RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019 
• New Arrivals, December 2018 

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

• Books of the Day Regularly Posted to Their Twitter Feed... 

VAMP & TRAMP, BOOKSELLERS

• 2019 Book Collecting $100 and Under 
• Codex 2019 Catalog

THE VEATCHS ARTS OF THE BOOK

• Remondini & Rizzi Decorated Papers 
• Catalog 91: Book Arts & Printing History 

Featured item:

Nine Rare Italian Color Xylographed Papers

Remondini & Rizzi.

18th century & later. Full sized, unused sheets. Six of the papers are known or presumed to have been printed by the Remondini factory. Three are later printings by Rizzi from the original Remondini blocks and bear the Stampa Remondiniani PESP blindstamp. Most in very good condition. The stars of the group are a matched pair (each 16 x 13 inches): Remondini's view of Venice surround by a large bouquet on a blue diaper pattern background, along with its Rizzi recreation. There are 3 Remondini bookbinding papers (17 1/2 x 14 1/2). Two sheets of Remondini wall paper (21 1/2 x 17 1/2). These have some fraying and are in good condition. There are 2 more Rizzi PESP recreations of binding papers. 

Full, unused papers such as these are rare. The papers were printed on a hand press, using vegetable dyes (probably in paste, rather than ink) on wood blocks; sometimes with copper pins or strips mounted on them for tiny details. A different block was cut for each design and for each color. The papers were typically stored folded in half. When a paper has two identical images with a narrow space between, it was meant to be cut in half.

Remondini, establishing his printshop in Bassano in 1649, was soon renowned for his wood block and copper prints and block-printed papers. He dominated the c18 market, employing a thousand persons, with 38 printing presses, a paper mill, die foundry, and a trade school of woodcarving. When the firm closed in 1861, about a thousand of the old blocks were rescued by a group of 4 enthusiasts: Pasoli, Esengrini, Suardi, and Ponti (hence the P E S P stamp). They granted Giuseppe Rizzi of Varese a license to print them—if he used the original methods. The last Rizzi died in 1939. As part of the nobles’ bequest some 400 remaining woodblocks were given to the Museo Civico in Bassano.

Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book, and featured in Remondini & Rizzi Decorated Papers. This item is not listed on abaa.org.

WALKABOUT BOOKS

• E-List 10: Californiana  *New* 
• Catalog Five: Books, Manuscripts,Photographs, Archives, Ephemera 

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS

• Catalog 216: The Sciences, Natural Philosophy, & Antiquarian Classical Learning: Richard Weiss Library, N  *New* 
• Catalog 215: Comets, Eclipses, Transits, The Moon, Planets, & Solar System 

Featured Item:

KOPAL, Zdenek (1914-1993); Robert W. CARDER. Mapping of the Moon; past and present. 

Drodrecht-Holland & Boston: D. Reidel, 1974. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 50. 8vo. viii, 237, [3] pp. Illustrated (3 plates are folding), index. Gray cloth with blue printed lettering. Ownership signature of John Westfall. ISBN: 9027703981 First edition. Important work. Includes a history of lunar mapping 1600-1960.

"Kopal was born and grew up in Litomyšl (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). In his early astronomical career, he studied variable stars and in particular close eclipsing binary stars. He attended Cambridge University in 1938 and later that year he went to Harvard College Observatory. After the war he became head of the astronomy department at the University of Manchester. He later assisted NASA with the Apollo program as an external expert. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science since its foundation in 1968 until his death in 1993." (Wikipedia)

Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books, and featured in their Catalog 215 (item #28).

ADAM WEINBERGER RARE BOOKS

• Bibliography Showcase 2019
• Supplementum ad e-listus librorum 

WHITMORE RARE BOOKS

• Catalog 19  *New* 
• Women

Featured item:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

London: Macmillan & Co., 1866. Second (first published) edition. The book that forever changed the face of children’s literature. In the original publisher’s red, gilt-stamped cloth, gilt edges, light blue end papers, Burn & Co. binder’s ticket on lower pastedown. A Very Good copy, recased, preserving the original spine. Minor spotting and soiling to the cloth. Contemporary owner’s signature on the front end paper. Early issue with the inverted “S” on the last line of the contents page. Housed in a custom clamshell case.

Cleverly crafted by Oxford don Charles Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland remains one of the most influential pieces of children’s literature ever written. The book has been published in more than 112 languages and defined the popular “nonsense” genre of writing in the 19th century. While teaching mathematics and living at Christ Church College, Dodgson developed a close friendship with the daughters of the college dean and told them tales of Wonderland. Alice, ten years of age at the time, begged Dodgson to write them down and soon after the story took shape.

While the original manuscript given to Alice, which was hand written and illustrated by Dodgson, remains with the British Library, Dodgson published the story in 1865 with accompanying illustrations by John Tenniel. The first 2,000 copies were not distributed because Tenniel was dissatisfied with the print quality. Macmillan quickly reprinted the book using this 1866 title page, with copies available as early as November 1865, making this the first “published” edition available for purchase at bookstores. The 2,000 unbound sheets that were rejected by Tenniel were sent to the U.S. publisher, Appleton & Co., who bought the rights and used them as the first U.S. edition approximately six months later in 1866. Very Good.

Offered by Whitmore Rare Books and featured in "Catalog 19" (item #10).

JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER

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• Eight Early & Rare Books on Lithography - Part II (M - W) 
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WOODBURN BOOKS

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YESTERDAY'S MUSE BOOKS

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In his day, Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was one of the most-famous authors in America. While his books have largely fallen out of print today, everyone is familiar with his main idea, because Horatio Alger, Jr. popularized the “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” ideal that permeates so much of American life. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that Alger gave America its great national myth, that hard work (and clean living) can allow anyone to achieve success  — although people often seem to overlook the amount of sheer luck that comes into play in his fiction.

A more-jaundiced reading of Alger’s oeuvre would assert that success for Alger was usually defined as social advancement or preferment, and it was usually achieved by finding a wealthy patron through performing a selfless deed or some service (returning a lost wallet or proving ones virtue in some way). Of course, the only individuals who could achieve this social advancement were white males, and the agent of this change was invariably an older white male. Nevertheless, his books were popular after the Civil War, and achieved a huge surge in readership in the early decades of the Twentieth Century.

It wasn’t an easy road to success for Alger, the son of a Unitarian Minister and descendant of Puritan ancestors. After attending Harvard -- where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was part of the faculty -- he published fitfully, and none of his varied early books really found an audience. After a brief attempt to work as a minister was ended by accusations of sexual impropriety, he refocused on his writing career, and found success with stories aimed at young boys.

Ragged Dick was first published in installments in Student and Schoolmate magazine, beginning in 1867. The following year it was published in novel form as Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks and was a success. Alger had been living in New York and claims to have interviewed many “Boot Blacks,” young boys who lived on the streets and shined shoes for a meager living, during the process of writing Ragged Dick. Five sequels followed, and the book became Alger’s biggest success.

Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life In New York With The Boot-Blacks (First Edition)

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 296 pages. 18 x 12 cm. This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Ad leaf here contains two titles in the "Ragged Dick Series," plus three in "Campaign Series." First edition is indicated by two titles only of the former with the second title described as available "In December" 1868. There are also three additional wood engraved illustrations. This story was first published serially in "Student and Schoolmate" [Boston], January - December, 1867, and then issued in book format, 1868. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 75. PETER PARLEY TO PENROD p.29. Interior contents fresh and clean with very minor scattered toning, mostly marginal. Modern quarter brown cloth and marbled boards. Fine.

Offered by Roy Young Bookseller.

Many other books for boys following the same template followed, with titles like Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, and Brave and Bold. His initial successes were published by Boston publisher A.K. Loring, who had published Alger’s first juvenile novel, Frank's Campaign; or, What Boys Can Do on the Farm for the Camp, in 1864. Alger’s theme is most-often summed up as the “Rags to Riches” story, but some critics caution that “Rags to Respectability” is more accurate, as for characters such as Ragged Dick, the journey is from a precarious life on the street to a respectable middle-class existence with an office job, punctual habits, and a modest bank account. Although he was clearly writing “Cinderella” stories, nobody goes all the way from kitchen drudge to princess in Alger’s fiction.

Despite his prolific output — he published over 100 books and poems during his lifetime — Alger’s financial situation was often precarious, and his critical reputation ebbed and flowed. A trip to the West was organized by his publisher in the 1870s to rejuvenate his stale fiction, but only succeeded in introducing Western locations to Alger’s template. He employed several pseudonyms to try to spur interest or excitement and raise sales over the years (including Carl Cantab, Arthur Hamilton, Caroline F. Preston, Arthur Lee Putnam, and Julian Starr), and also applied his formula to the lives of famous Americans like Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.

At his death, he asked Edward Stratemeyer to complete his final novels, which he did under the pen-name Arthur M. Winfield (which Stratemeyer used for his Rover Boys series). His books met with their greatest success in the decades after his death, when cheap editions sold in the millions. As Robert E. Kasper, Executive Director of the Horatio Alger Society, put it, “(w)hether his works possessed literary merit is debatable – whether boys (and girls) liked them is not.”

In 1947, the minister and author Normal Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) co-founded an association to honor Americans who have overcome difficulties to become successful and named it after Horatio Alger. The Broadway hit Shine!, based on Alger’s books Ragged Dick and Silas Snobden’s Office Boy, brought the rags to riches template to the stage as a “romp for the whole family,” highlighting the scale of Alger’s achievement in refining and popularizing this most-enduring American myth.

Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (First Editon)

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Boston: Brown, Bazin, 1856. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK. Wood-engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page, half-title. viii, 248 pp. Publisher's purple cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine gilt; spine faded, top of spine rubbed, with some foxing. Generally a Very Good copy. With the bookplates of Arthur Swann (Sale, Parke-Bernet, 22 March 1960, lot 6); Mildred Greenhill; and H. Bradley Martin (sold for $1300 in his sale in 1990). First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK. Wood-engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page, half-title. viii, 248 pp.

Alger's first book, published in his 24th year. It is a compilation of sentimental stories and poems, most of which had appeared previously in periodicals. Alger, the son of a unitarian minister was born in Chelsea, Ma. and attended Harvard. He became a prolific author, specialising in rags-to-riches tales.

Offered by James Cummins, Bookseller.

Collectors of Horatio Alger Jr. focus naturally on the first editions of his books from the late 1800s, but also seek out the magazines in which they were originally serialized. The cheap reprints published in the early part of the Twentieth Century are relatively common and inexpensive, but are popular for their vivid covers. Sought-after highlights include his first book of poems and short fiction, Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (1856) and first editions of Ragged Dick (1868).

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The Western Boy; or, The Road to Success (First Edition)

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

[New York: G.W. Carleton & Co, 1878]. First Edition. Hardcover. First serialized in the New York Weekly, June 30 through September 15, 1873. Publisher taken from advertisement facing title page. "The imprint of the American News Co. on the spine is a mystery, for it is evident that Carleton published the book through an arrangement with Street & Smith" (BENNETT 192). Octavo (18.5cm.); original brown pictorial cloth embossed in black, decorative spine in black and gilt with the mysterious "American News Co." at spine foot; 258pp.; illus. title page. Spine a bit cocked, shallow losses to ends; additional rubbing to extremities; soiling to textblock throughout. About Very Good. 

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books.

Ben Bruce; or, Only a Bowery Newsboy (Alger Series No. 79)

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Street & Smith Corporation Publishers, 1919. Trade Paperback. Good. 1919 printing (Bennett p. 187). Two 1 inch tears to spine based, front corners lightly creased, pages toned. We have more books available by this author!. 288 pp. A young adult novel by the author of numerous 'rag to riches' stories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of Alger's works were released in pulp paperback editions from 1900 to 1926. 

Offered by Yesterday's Muse.

PAUL PRESCOTTS CHARGE. A Story for Boys

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1865. 1st book edition (Bennett 135). Originally published as a serial in the New York Sun, "The Gipsy Nurse; or Marked for Life.". Publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & decorations. Pale yellow eps. Spine gilt bright. Slight lean. Light extremity wear, with one tip just showing board. Period pos to ffep. Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy.. 224, [2 (blank)] pp. Frontis. Inserted plate, p. 174. 12mo. 7-1/16" x 4-3/8."

Offered by Tavistock Books.

Tom Thatcher's Fortune

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

A. L. Burt, 1888. First hardcover edition, very good in decorated blue cloth. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Very rare in this condition. Closed tear in front free endpaper.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 

Offered by Bookbid.

Only an Irish Boy or Andy Burke's Fortunes

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

New York, Nd(ca.1900): Hurst and Blackett. Octavo. 254 pages. Not only does this copy have a nice dust jacket but also represents one of the most interesting of Alger's works. This was one of the few Alger books where the protagonist who was a non-Anglo that had the heroic will to make the rags-to-riches success story. Bound in a light blue-green color pictorial cloth depicting Andy Burke and his horse, lettering in black pictorial spine in black, lettering gilt, page 141 has crease, a very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket lettered and decorated in blue-gray, a few chips to spine and corners.

Offered by Alcuin Autographs.

The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California

by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Introduction by John Seelye)

San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco for the Book Club of California, 1965. Hardcover. xxi, 187p., frontispiece, introduction, bibliographical note, illustrated with reproductions of vintage engravings, very good first edition limited to 450 copies, heavy quarter-cloth backing, illustrated tan paper boards, brown paper title label on spine. 

Offered by Bolerium Books.

Strong and Steady; or, Paddle Your Own Canoe (Luck and Pluck Series)

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. Early printing. Illustrated by Kinnersley, Humphreys. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on blank preliminary, foxing on preliminary pages and illustrations, gutter cracked, small worm hole on the foredges of the last forty pages, spine cocked, still a very good copy. Volume three only in the "Luck and Pluck Series." 

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.

From Farm Boy to Senator; Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster

by Horatio Alger, Jr.

J.S. Ogilvie & Co.. Hardcover. New York, 1882. 8vo, 310 pp., publisher's pictorial cloth. A good copy with front hinge starting, else very good with normal wear. Remains usable and attractive. Good. 1882. First Edition. 

Offered by Auger Down Books.

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Browse the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists, of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below. (Also includes podcasts, blogs posts, and other digital formats.)

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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER

• Recent Acquisitions 

CHARLES AGVENT

• Walt Whitman  *New* 
• Spring Miscellany --  Early Baseball, Travel, Botany, Signed Books, Hand-colored Plates, etc.

Featured item:

Walt Whitman, LEAVES OF GRASS.

Including Sands At Seventy ... 1st Annex, Good Bye My Fancy ... 2nd Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-92. Ninth Edition. Original green cloth, uncut, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Whitman, another portrait of Whitman inserted at page 29, and four folding facsimiles of Whitman's writing. BAL 21441: Printing 1, Binding C. "Deathbed" Edition, Whitman's final arrangement of his work. This copy SIGNED on the title page by Pennsylvania ornithological artist Conrad Roland with his pencil notes in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as well as a full-page of pencil notes at the rear about Whitman. In addition tipped in before the title page is a fine ORIGINAL INK AND SEPIA WATERCOLOR DRAWING of Whitman by Roland. Paper split at front gutter with cover a little loose. Two small portrait reproductions tipped in with one offsetting to the text opposite. Trivial wear to the binding. Near Fine. 

Offered by Charles Agvent, and featured in their new catalog "Walt Whitman" (item #4).

ANDERSON BUTLER RARE BOOKS

• E-list #13: Miscellany 
• E-list #12: Publishers' Prospectuses, Ephemera, More... 

ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS

• Cook’s Last Voyage ~ the Artistic Vision in John Webber’s Prints 
• Australia in Maps: 1540-1898 

NICK ARETAKIS

• Reference Books from the Collection of Ian Jackson (Part 2)
• October New Acquisitions 

ARTISAN BOOKS & BINDERY

• New Acquisitions: May 2017
• Holiday Catalog 2016

ATHENA RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019: The History of Ideas
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AUGER DOWN BOOKS

• Catalog 1: Graphic, Archival, and Printed Americana 

BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS

• Western Americana Acquisitions  *New* 
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LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS 

• E-List 34: New Arrivals  *New* 
• E-list #28: New Arrivals 

W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA

• E-list #5 : ALIVE! Sideshows & Human Oddities,1839-2007 
• E-list #4 : Uranian Press, 1958-1963 

BARTLEBY'S BOOKS 

• New Acquisitions 

BAUMAN RARE BOOKS

• New Literature on Our Bookshelves 
• March Sale (Newsletter)
• Landmarks of 20th Century Literature (Newsletter) 

BAY LEAF USED & RARE BOOKS

• E-list #26: Bookplates
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B&B RARE BOOKS

• Highlights from the New York Book Fair & New Arrivals (Newsletter) 
• New Arrivals, Shakespeare, Fine Bindings (Newsletter) 

BEASLEY BOOKS

• Surrealism and Situationism (Winter 2019) 
• A Spring 2018 Catalog 

STUART BENNETT RARE BOOKS

• English Libertine Literature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com

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• ARLIS Comference 2019 
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BETWEEN THE COVERS, RARE BOOKS

• Catalog No. 232: Photography  *New* 
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BIBLIOCTOPUS

• Catalog 58: California Book Fair 
• Catalog 57 -- Sustained Ambitions or, The Eccentricities of Endurance

BICKERSTAFF'S BOOKS, MAPS, &.

• Fine American Maps, Charts, Views & Cartographica 
• Americana: Books, Periodicals, Maps & Views

ROBIN BLEDSOE BOOKS

• E-list #1: 37 Photobooks, PhotographicallyIllustrated Artist's Books, and Other Books of Photographic Interest
• American Notes & Queries, 1946-1950 and 1962-1976.  18 volumes, lacking 3 issues. -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information... 

BLIND HORSE BOOKS

• Notable New Books: Simple as A, B, C... 
• Baby It's Cold Outside... Winter Catalog 2018  

BOLERIUM BOOKS

• Asian American History, Literature, & Arts  *New* 
• International Women's Day 

THE BOOKPRESS, LTD.

• Catalog 245: Selected Titles May 2019  *New* 
• Selected Titles: May 2019 

BOOKS TELL YOU WHY, INC.

• Book Conservation, Book Preservation, Book Restoration (Blog)  *New* 
• Harry S. Truman: 33rd President of the United States (Blog) 

BOREAS FINE ART

• New York Antiquarian Book Fair 
• RBMS Conference 

BOSTON BOOK COMPANY

• Catalog 64A: Japan and East Asia 
• Catalog 63A: Japan and East Asia 

BOSTON RARE MAPS, INC.

• Recent Acquisitions 
• Persuasive Maps 

IAN BRABNER, RARE AMERICANA

• Short List #92 
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MARILYN BRAITERMAN

• Catalog 36
• Catalog 35 

DAVID BRASS RARE BOOKS

• Wilbur Wright (Newsletter) 
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BRATTLE BOOK SHOP

• Brattlecast #38: Map Quest (Podcast) 

BRICK ROW BOOKSHOP

• Miscellany 79 
• Miscellany 78 

BROMER BOOKSELLERS

• E-catalog 50: Arion Press & The Limited Editions Club 
• New Acquisitions

BUDDENBROOKS, INC.

• Five Fine Sets
• New York Book Fair 2019 

BURNSIDE RARE BOOKS

• E-list #17: Postcolonial Studies and Literature  *New* 
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ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.

• E-list #49: Recent Acquisitions
• E-list #48: Recent Acquisitions 

CAROLINIANA

• E-list: THe American West  *New* 
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CARPE DIEM FINE BOOKS

• New Arrivals  *New* 

BRIAN CASSIDY, BOOKSELLER

• New Arrivals: Music  *New* 
• Artists' Books and Publications 

CHURCHILL BOOK COLLECTOR

• Winston S. Churchill in Correspondence and Photographs

THE COLOPHON BOOK SHOP

• List 251: Books About Books  *New* 
• List 250: Books About Books New Arrivals Antiquarian and In-Print

W.S. COTTER RARE BOOKS

• Bibliography Week Showcase 2019 

ROY CLARE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

• New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com/(716) 688-8723 to request… 

CRAWFORD DOYLE BOOKSELLERS

• Holiday Books from Crawford Doyle 
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JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER

• Catalog 140: Sporting  *New* 
• Spring 2019 New Arrivals 

Featured item:

Indispensable Accomplishments (Series of Six Hand Colored Aquatints)

by Robert Frankland

London: Published June 24th, 1811, by H. Humphrey, No. 27, St. James St, 1811.

First edition. Engraved title leaf with , six hand colored aquatint plates, signed in the plate "R.F. invt et fecit". 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Original (?) plain paper wrappers, stab-stitched, housed in a modern blue morocco slipcase and chemise, by Aquarius. The Alfred Barmore Maclay, Le Vivier (JOHN POYNTON) copy. Tooley 158 (under "Billesdon Coplow"); Siltzer p. 122; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 148; Schwerdt I, pp. 186-187; Schwerdt I, pp. 186-187. Item #311425 

The engraved title leaf comprises four lines of whimsical verse and a paragraph of descriptive text signed "Billesdon Coplow"; the six numbered plates depict incidents of foxhunting: 1) Going along a slapping pace 2) Topping a flight of rails ... 3) Charging an Ox-fence 4) Going in and out clever 5) Facing a Brook 6) Swishing at a rasper.
A classic of English sporting illustration and the inspiration for Alken's Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders.

Offered by James Cummins, Bookseller, and featured in their "Catalog 140: Sporting."

L.W. CURREY, INC.

• Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller 

DEWOLFE & WOOD 

• New Arrivals (May 28, 2019)  *New* 

DIVISION LEAP

• Conceptual & Modern Art  *New* 
• Written on the Body: Tattoo Books, Art & Ephemera 

Featured item:

Mystery Box. Never to Be Opened

Ben Vautier

[Nice, France]: The Artist, 1960-65. 4 x 2 3/4 x 2 1/2" sealed wooden box, painted black, with two printed labels, each bordered in black in the style of a funeral announcement, affixed. Hand-numbered no. 89, with a closing date of 27/12/65.

One of the most potent of the early Fluxus multiples, and perhaps the most effective of his mystery pieces, the Mystery Box raises remarkable questions about the site and nature of the "work" of art, and of the subjectivity of the viewer. The box is in effect a dare to the viewer. Giving the box a gentle shake reveals that something is indeed inside, also making the box a sound performance. Vautier would go on to make additional boxes, but this is the only edition that we've seen that uses the funerary borders for the labels, perhaps giving a clue as to what Vautier expected of the recipient, and of the fate of the work of art - whatever, and of what materiality it might be. Something will be born. A key early Fluxus multiple. 

Some faint toning to the labels, with the tip of one label lifting slightly, else fine. No examples recorded in OCLC, though some digging reveals copies at MOMA, (no. 88), Fondazione Bonotto (no. 65), and within the André Breton collection (no. 61).

Offered by Division Leap, and featured in their new list "Conceptual and Modern Art" (item #19).

WEBB DORDICK

• Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...

THOMAS DORN BOOKSELLER

• E-list: Africa: Exploration, History, Flora and Fauna, and Big Game Hunting 

JAMES M. DOURGARIAN, BOOKMAN

• Modern Literature 
• Wallace Stegner 

ECLECTIBLES

• E-list 58: Miscellany -- 1814 Justice Fees, Ohio Daily Life 1840s-'70s, Women at Work, Bakery Designs &, Of Course, the Children - It's all about the Children  *New* 
• E-list 57: Eclectibles -- Miscellany: Traveling Seamstress, Railroad Trainphone Tips, Professional Valentine Writer &, Of Course, the Children 

ELK RIVER BOOKS

• March Newsletter 
• March List: Jim Harrison 

LES ENLUMINURES

• Four Remarkable Manuscripts from the Middle Ages 
• 10 New Manuscripts

EUREKA BOOKS

• Photography Publications of Serge Plantureux / Rhinoceros Jr. 
• 15 Books We Didn't Show in New York 

EVENING STAR BOOKS

• May 2019 List  *New* 
• March/April 2019 E-list

Featured item:

National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information. Marihuana; Narcotics; LSD; Sedatives: Some Questions and Answers

Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, 1971. 4 pamphlets (each one a folded sheet), pictorial covers. Price of 10 cents ($5.50 per 100 and $6.75 per 100 for Marihuana) on the rear cover of each pamphlet. An occasional hint of foxing and edge wear, overall a beautiful, bright set of pamphlets on illicit drug usage. Each pamphlet is illustrated with psychedelic art on the front covers and in the middle sections, brilliantly reflecting the style of the early 70s. For the sedatives pamphlet, OCLC shows only one holding (at the National Library of Medicine). For each drug discussed, the pamphlets cover the current science on the effects of the drugs, how the drugs interact with the human body, and what the law dictates for possession and distribution of each drug under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.

The pamphlets discuss the effects of the drugs on young and expecting users, and they outline the nicknames drug dealers use for each substance. "Marihuana" notably is spelled with an h in the pamphlet offered here, not reflecting the use of the "j" in the spelling of the word to make the drug seem more foreign and therefore frightening ("The Mysterious History of Marijuana", NPR). Issued by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Public Health Service), which from 1953 until 1979 was a cabinet level office now known as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("A History of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare", U.S. Government). The Clearinghouse had several publications from 1970 onward throughout the decade ("The Online Books Page", UPenn). A fascinating set of pamphlets that covers the science of the time on these substances, the history of the drugs, the laws surrounding their usage and distribution, and some of the stereotypes associated with the drugs. 

Offered by Evening Star Books, and featured in their "May 2019" list (item #3(.

JOSEPH J. FELCONE, INC.

• English Books Printed Before 1700 
• 16 New American Acquisitions from Private Collections 

ARTHUR FOURNIER FINE & RARE

• LA Art Book Fair 2019 
• New York Book Fair 2019 First Ever Sale

RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO

• New York Book Fair 2019: Five Things We're Taking to the Fair 
• Bibliography Week Showcase 

FRANKLIN GILLIAM RARE BOOKS

• OCCASIONAL LIST 22: A Miscellany: Original Art Work; Small Archive of Major English Watercolourist; Interesting Theatrical Pieces; Manuscript Material, Etc., Etc. -- available on request from fgrare@fgrarebooks.com...

GOLDEN LEGEND 

• Rare Plays and Ballets -- 16th Through 19th Centuries 
• 17th & 18th Century Spectacle 

THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS

• Books from the Library of George and Ira Gershwin 
• Medical Americana 

GOVI RARE BOOKS

• List May 2017 
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JAMES GRAY BOOKSELLER

• FACISICULE XIX 
• Fascicule XIV: The Boston Antiquarian Book Show 2018 Highlight List 

RICK GRUNDER-BOOKS

• Mormon List 80 

DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS

• Catalog #1: From Sea to Shining Sea  

HARPER'S BOOKS

• New Arrivals 

DONALD A. HEALD RARE BOOKS

• New York Book Fair 2019  
• California Book Fair 2019

JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.

• April New Acquisitions, List #1 
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JEFF HIRSCH BOOKS

• E-list #133 -- 42 New Arrivals: Eikoh Hosoe, Seamus Heaney, Nancy Rexroth, Robert Frank  *New* 
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