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Image above: cover detail from The Life and Sufferings of Cecelia Mayo, an "early cheap crime novel" (1843) found in Garrett Scott, Bookseller's new e-list "Occasional List #523: Tadpole Water."
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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER
- Spring Miscellany 2018 -- Contains 46 select items, all new arrivals, in a variety of fields.
- Summer Miscellany 2017
- Recent Acquisitions -- list only available to mailing list subscribers. Sign up here...
- Catalog #19
- Fall 2018 *New*
- The Second World War (Newsletter)
- New Arrivals, Shakespeare, Fine Bindings (Newsletter)
- New Arrivals (Newsletter)
- English Libertine LIterature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com
BETWEEN THE COVERS, RARE BOOKS
- E-catalog #30: Sci-Fi/Horror *New*
- Catalog No. 225: Mostly Literary First Editions *New*
- E-catalog #29: Women at War
- Catalog 58: California Book Fair
- Catalog 57 -- Sustained Ambitions or, The Eccentricities of Endurance
- American Notes & Queries, 1946-1950 and 1962-1976. 18 volumes, lacking 3 issues. -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information...
- Small Collection of Publishing Histories, Memoirs, and Methods -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information...
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (Newsletter)
- Thomas Rowlandson (Newsletter)
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- List 243: Books About Books, Small Press, Typography
- List 242: Books About Books, Typography, Book Design, Fine Press, and a few Literary items: Cather, Frost and more
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com
- E-list No. 51 Eclectibles Miscellany:Anti-vivisection, Anarchism, Colloquial Phonetics & Of Course, the Children... *New*
- E-list No. 50 Eclectibles Miscellany: American Pen Woman, Palmistry, Hollywood Dollies & Of Course, the Children
FEATURED ITEM!
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.
by Gaiman, Neil; Pratchett, Terry.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First edition. 268 pp. Bound in red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of £12.95 net on the front flap of dust jacket. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Signed by both Pratchett and Gaiman on the title page. Includes the bookmark from a Washington Post Book Club event at which Terry Pratchett spoke. A very sharp copy of this comedic novel, a brilliant collaboration between Gaiman and Pratchett.
Offered by Evening Star Books and featured in their new catalog "September E-list."
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- Northern Reaches: Polar Exploration, Inuitethnology, and Cross-Cultural Contact
- About Jews and Jewish Culture
- 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
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- Invention List 1 *New*
- Invention List 2 *New*
- E-list #123: 45 New Arrivals *New*
- E-list #122: 45 New Arrivals - Books by Isherwood, Mandel, Levitt, Lyon, Palma
- New Acquisitions: September 2018 *New*
- New Acquisitions (July 2018)
- Local and Regional Sports Ephemera for the State of California
- Spring 2018: Sacramento Book Fair List
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - From the Library of a Noted Collector
- WE AIM TO PLEASE - A List of Unique Culinary Ephemera
- Online Catalog #3 *New*
- Online Catalog #2: Pulp *New*
- Occult List 2017
- Catalog 14 -- Artists' Books, Private Press, 19th Century Literature, Original Art, and more.
- New York Book Fair Catalog -- available on request from bkinmont@gmail.com
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with L.W. Currey, Inc.
- Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS
- American Law Before 1860 (September 25, 2018) *New*
- 30 Recent Acquisitions: Civil, Common & Roman Law (September 18, 2018)
- Catalogue 90: Books, Manuscripts & Pamphlets 15th to 20th Centuries
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
- A Scholar’s Library Part I: Books About Music & Musicians
- Catalog 84, Part 1: A-K
- Catalog 84, Part 2: L-Z
MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
FEATURED ITEM!
Picturae Sinicae Ac Surattenae, Vasis Tabellisque exhibitæ, Admiranda. Schenk, Pieter.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk 1702.
Offered by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc., featured in their recent catalog "Short Stack 47: Recent Acquisitions."
- San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century *New*
- Tokyo International Antiquarian Book Fair
- Catalog 44, July 2018 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
- Catalog No. 3 - Weird Tales and the Art of Margaret Brundage
- Catalog #2: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- English Politics *New*
- Americana After 1820 *New*
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- Special List 312: Public Finance *New*
- Special List 311, Banking, Foreign Exchange, Money-lending, Usury, & the Alves Reis Scandal
B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- E-list, Recent Acquisitions (Sept. 25, 2018) *New*
- Native American Languages
- Short List of 18th and 19th Century American Works Relating to the Education of Women
- 18th & 19th Century Hymnody and Psalmody
- Occasional List #53: ow to Turn a Trutle: New Arrivals *New*
- Occasional List #52: Tadpole Water *New*
The Life and Sufferings of Cecelia Mayo, Founded in Incidents of Real Life [Anonymous]
Boston: Published by M. Aurelius, 1843. Original green pictorial wrappers, 7.5 x 4.75 inches, 36 pages. Frontis, illus. First edition.
An early cheap crime novel, with women’s sexuality playing a key role: Cecelia Mayo, “seduced and abandoned at an early age, becomes an unregenerate whore who specializes in ruining young men” (Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance). The imprint, suggesting as it does a stoic reflection on misfortune, seems likely pseudonymous and suited to evade condemnation or even prosecution; the only other title under this imprint located on OCLC is the similar Life and Sufferings of Miss Emma Cole, published in 1844. Wrappers overstitched at the spine with thread at an early date. Wright I, 1663. Stained and somewhat worn; a good, sound copy.
Offered by Garrett Scott, Bookseller and found in their recent e-list "Occasional List #53: Tadpole Water."
- Catalog 215: Women (Enlarged) *New*
- Catalog 214: English and Continental Literature
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
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
- Artful Alophabets *New*
- Literature in Fine Editions *New*
- "Occasional List" -- please request a copy directly from jwrb@comcast.net...
- Catalog 203: Materia Medica & Pharmacology; Selections mostly from the Library of Arthur Teller, MD *New*
- Catalog 202: FINE PRINTING & HISTORY OF THE BOOK *New*
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
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