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
- Spring Miscellany -- Early Baseball, Travel, Botany, Signed Books, Hand-colored Plates, etc. *New*
- Winter Miscellany 2018
- New Acquisitions *New*
- Catalog of Books, Photographs and Ephemera of America's National Parks (Published with Walkabout Books)
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- New Literature on Our Bookshelves *New*
- March Sale (Newsletter)
- Landmarks of 20th Century Literature (Newsletter)
- Highlights from the New York Book Fair & New Arrivals (Newsletter)
- New Arrivals, Shakespeare, Fine Bindings (Newsletter)
- English Libertine Literature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com
BETWEEN THE COVERS, RARE BOOKS
- Catalog 58: California Book Fair
- Catalog 57 -- Sustained Ambitions or, The Eccentricities of Endurance
- E-list #1: 37 Photobooks, PhotographicallyIllustrated Artist's Books, and Other Books of Photographic Interest *New*
- American Notes & Queries, 1946-1950 and 1962-1976. 18 volumes, lacking 3 issues. -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information...
- Book Collecting Basics: The Structure of a Book
- Mostly Harmless: How Eion Colfer Took Over The Hitchhiker’s “Trilogy” (Blog)
- Thomas Schotter Boys (Newsletter)
- Happy Holidays (Newsletter)
- Brattlecast #38: Map Quest (Podcast)
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- Western Ephemera (March 19, 2019)
- New York Book Fair Selection
- New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com/(716) 688-8723 to request…
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- New Arrivals (March 26, 2019) *New*
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- 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.
- E-list #130 -- 45 New Arrivals by Ray Metzker, Larry Fink, Patti Smith, Harold Pinter
- E-list 129 | New Arrivals
- Gastronomy Books & MSS for the New York Book Fair -- 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
- Catalog #7: African Americana, Western Americana,Women, LGBTQ, Folk Books, Native Americans, Photography
- Catalog #6: The Extraordinary History of the Everyday
- A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Canon, Civil, Common & Ecclesiastical Law (March 26, 2019) *New*
- Catalog 93: Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera on Law and Related Fields, 15th to 20th Centuries (March 19, 2019)
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Catalog 165, Rare Americana (January, 2019)
- Catalog 164, Rare Americana (October, 2018)
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- On Our Shelves No. 27 – Beast and Man in India (Video)
- Rare Book Moment 26: Look for relationships in your collection (Video)
- Archive of materials relating to the memoir, "Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968" by Corinne Demas *New*
- E-list #167: Signed Advance Copies
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
- Russia & Eastern Europe in Music & Dance
- Antiquarian Music Catalog: Items From the Collection of Marilyn Horne
MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
- E-list: Stocking Stuffers (Newsletter)
- Catalog 42. Exemplary Fine Bindings, 19th Century High Spots in English and American Literature *New*
- San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century
- Tokyo International Antiquarian Book Fair
- Catalog 47, March 2019 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- Twenty for Tuesday (IV) *New*
- The Occult *New*
- Bibliofraud *New*
- French Selections *New*
Featured Item:
Larwood, Jacob, & John Camden Hotten. The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day...
London: John Camden Hotten, 1867. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). Col. frontis., x, 536 pp.; 19 plts.
Sixth edition (following its initial appearance in the previous year) of this engaging account, full of anecdotes, historical digressions, and literary quotations, as well as attempted analysis of emblems and their meanings (though this is not, of course, the classic “emblem book”). “One hundred illustrations in fac-simile” are attributed to Larwood on the title-page; the work features 19 plates, each depicting an assortment of house- and pub-signs, as well as a hand-colored frontispiece “Drawn by Experience . . Engraved by Sorrow,” in which a cheerful gin-drinking lady rides her woebegone, care-laden husband.
Provenance: Title-page stamped by a private collector: “Thomas Witherell Palmer, Log Cabin Park” (Detroit).
Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and ornate gilt-stamped decorations within compartments; binding with light to moderate rubbing overall, with spine leather starting to show some cracking. All edges stained red. Delightful reading and looking, and a delightful copy.
Offered by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts, and featured in their new catalog "Emblem Books" (item #1).
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
- Abraham Lincoln: The Lost Letters (Newsletter)
- Moments of American Inspiration (Newsletter)
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
- Printed and Manuscript Cookery in Rabelais' Fresh Arrivals No.66 *New*
- UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place, Vol.1
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- LIST 318: NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR, 2019 -- Books, Pamphlets, Ephemera, Manuscripts *New*
- LIST 317: SALMON FISHING -- Books, Pamphlets, Maps,Manuscripts, Photographs *New*
B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
- Seventh E-list of 2019 – 40-odd miscellaneous items (March 26, 2019) *New*
- E-list: New Acquisitions (March 19, 2019)
- New Arrivals (March 19, 2019)
- New Arrivals: From Salt Lake City to Japan
- Autograph Letters by Women Writers
- 19th Century Popular Music: Songsters, Minstrelsy, Tunebooks and More
- 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...
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
- A Sacramento Update in Honor of Samm’s One Year Anniversary! (Blog) *New*
- Samm's Selections of [New!] Stuff
- Maritime List #271: "Time Traveler" *New*
- Having It Both Ways (Blog)
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
- E-list: "Protest & Poetry ephemera; Women." Please request a copy directly from info@tombergrarebooks.com...
- E-list: GLBTQ, club flyers, zines, little mags, mimeos...
- Books of the Day Regularly Posted to Their Twitter Feed...
- Papermaking *New*
- Hermann Zapf
- "Occasional List" -- please request a copy directly from jwrb@comcast.net...
- Catalog of Books, Photographs and Ephemera of America's National Parks (Published with Back of Beyond Books)
- Catalog Five: Books, Manuscripts,Photographs, Archives, Ephemera
- Catalog 213: RICHARD WEISS LIBRARY: M - Part 2 (Science, Astronomy, Natural History, Physics, Mars, Geology...)
- Catalog 212: RICHARD WEISS LIBRARY: M (Sciences)
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
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(Photo credit: detail from the cover of Donovan's Brain, Curt Siodmak's famous 1943 science-fiction classic, offered by Bauman Rare Books in their latest newsletter, "New Literature on Our Shelves.")