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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER
- Walt Whitman
- Spring Miscellany -- Early Baseball, Travel, Botany, Signed Books, Hand-colored Plates, etc.
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
- The Book Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman (Catalog 2) -- available for a small fee by contacting Austin Abbey Rare Books at info@austinabbeybooks.com... *New*
- Signed First Editions and Bindings of Note: A Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair Short List *New*
Featured item:
Poems by Robert Browning (Guild of Women-Binders)
London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. First Thus. 8vo (5¾” x 8”). pp. [378].
Signed binding by the Guild Of Women-Binders (see verso of ffep) in gold on contemporary dark green morocco of floral and foliate motifs created from small tools within an overall diaper pattern; simple dentelles repeat the floral motif. Spine with 5 raised bands and compartments decorated with a repeat of the floral and foliate motifs. Purple and white marbled eps., and original dark green silk ribbon marker; t.e.g. includes frontis. and 65 additional illustrations by Byman Shaw, each of which is meticulously hand-colored by Gloria Cardew, with Cardew's printed label also on the verso of the ffep.
The poems are reprinted from the first collected edition of Browning's Poems (Chapman and Hall, 1849) and from the first edition of Men and Women (Chapman and Hall, 1855), and illustrated by Byam Shaw, who, according to the October, 8th 1897 issue of The Bookseller, "has not limited himself to depicting incidents of the poems, but in many of his decorations has made fanciful comment. The elaborate attention to details, and the whole scheme of Mr. Byam Shaw's decoration, recalls the pre-Raphaelite illustrations of the golden decade of British Art."
Gloria Cardew was a talented watercolorist whose agent was Frank Karslake, the coordinator for the Guild of Women-Binders. According to Tidcombe, "many books coloured by her were bound by members of the guild." Cardew's exqusite work was lauded on both sides of the Atlantic, with a contemporary issue of The Literary World, published in Boston, stating that Cardew's work showed "such exquisiteness of taste, such delicacy and precision of touch, such artistic sympathy and truth of feeling, and such technical nicety and care, as to rival the best effects of the old mediaeval illumination."
Fine text block in a very good binding that has tanning to the spine and offset fading of the color on the front and rear boards; a 1½” start to the top of the front joint, and a ½” start to the top of the rear joint; contemporary ownership on the front flyleaf.
Offered by Austin Abbey Rare Books and featured in "Signed First Editions and Bindings of Note: A Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair Short List" (item #5).
- Short List (June 25, 2019)
- Rare Book Catalog Number 21 (Western Americana, Part 1) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions (August 2019)
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- High School Favorites (Newsletter)
- Illustrated Books (Newsletter)
- August Newsletter (Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair & New Arrivals)
- Highlights from the New York Book Fair & New Arrivals (Newsletter)
- English Libertine Literature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com
Featured item:
Gurevich, S[olomon] S[amoilovich]; (Almazov, N. G., editor).
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo legkoi promyshlennosti, 1933. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 71, [1] pp. With twenty-six plates of illustrations, many in color, and two sets of original stereoscopic filters (glasses). Very good. First and only edition.
This technical guide for creating 3D imagery in print (in books, magazines, posters, brochures etc.) offers a unique glimpse into the understanding and uses of this new technology in the Soviet Union during the first Five-Year Plan (1928-1932). Typical for the time, stereoscopic imaging is treated here as a way of advancing Soviet technology and science, rather than its uses in entertainment. Unlike flat imagery, this technology allowed for accurate measurement of distances between two objects in space as well as their accurate size, books with microscopic imaging, astronomy books, as well as technical machine manuals could all use 3D imaging for educational purposes. This text aims to popularize stereoscopic printing by introducing a new printing method developed by the author at the Research Institute of Printing and Publishing Industry, part of the Union of State Printing Houses (OGIZ). The author also mentions that the technology was first developed by the German military during WWI but naturally omits any mention of potential uses of this technology by the Soviet military. Little is known about the author, Solomon Gurevich (1893–19??) who seems to have been a researcher at the Institute. His last publication on the subject is “Three-dimensional print illustration: theory and practice” (1959). One of 2500 copies printed. Not in KVK, OCLC.
Offered by Bernett Penka Rare Books, and included in their list of "Recent Russian and East-European Acquisitions" (item #9).
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
- American Notes & Queries, 1946-1950 and 1962-1976. 18 volumes, lacking 3 issues. -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information...
- Summer Miscellany
- Spring Sale -- 30 first and limited editions
- Book Spotlight: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Blog)
- V.S. Naipaul and Other Writers Who Hated Their Biographies (Blog)
- Brattlecast #53: Objectionable Material (Podcast)
- Brattlecast #52: Celluloid Heroes (Podcast)
- E-list #22: Evolutionary Biology; Important Association Copies from the Library of Stephen Jay Gould
- E-list #21: Association Copies
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com/(716) 688-8723 to request…
- THE LUNAR VOYAGE FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT -- In conjunction with the RBMS and the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
- New Arrivals (August 20, 2019)
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
- Brooklyn Book Fair Short List *New*
- E-list 61: Miscellany -- Civil War - Death & Despair, Hair Mounting Devices, Teaching Freed Slaves &, Of Course, the Children
Featured item:
The Wonder-Tube, An Electric Eccentricity
Ivan Frank and Co. New York. c1905. A children's book produced by Ivan Frank & Company, a clothing store manufacturer for boys and young men. The promotional booklet tells the story of a young boy named Wallace Brown who found a 'wonder-tube' in the sand. This 'wondertube' could produce electricity and Wallace wandered around town finding out ways to help people. For example when his mother who is tired from using a pedal sewing machine Wallace hits it with his wonder-tube and it now works on electricity! The same thing occurs with a broken car on the Brooklyn Book Fair 2019 8 ephemera@eclectibles.com street and a ship in the bay. Wallace even gets a chance to use it on some other children, a group of boys causing ruckus all over the street, who soon learn their lesson. As well as a burglar who gets more than he expected when he sneaks through the window at night. The illustrations themselves are quite humorous as the depict Wallace using the wonder-tube in a variety of ways. The illustrations are shaded using varying shades of black, brown and orange. At the center of the story is a picture advertisement for the clothing company depicting a group of boys in their company's clothing. The book itself is die-cut into the shape of a sitting boy holding the 'wonder-tube'. 12 pgs. Measures 9" x 6 ¼”.
Offered by Eclectibles, and found in their "Brooklyn Book Fair Short List" (item #5).
- “How to Paint Faces" in 14th-Century Italy (Blog post)
- A Medieval Alphabet Book: Miniatures from Illuminated Music Manuscripts
Featured item:
Booked to Die: A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
by John Dunning
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1992]. First edition. 8vo. [10], xixiv, [3], 4-321 pp. Quarter navy blue cloth over blue paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book with the front board slightly warped in a very near Fine dust jacket. Includes a publisher's promotional letter with a plot synopsis, reviews of the book, and a biography of Dunning on Charles Scribner's Sons stationery. A lovely copy of the first mystery novel featuring Cliff Janeway.
Offered by Evening Star Books and found in their "September New Acquisitions" list (item #21).
- Latin/x Amèrica, African American Poetry, Gender & Sexuality
- 27 items for the 60th Annual Meeting of RMBS
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
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- E-list 139 -- 44 New Arrivals: David Douglas Duncan, Ed Ruscha, Raymond Carver, Gerald Ford, Jim Harrison + Brooklyn Book Fair
- E-list 138 -- 50 New Arrivals: Edward Ruscha, Lee Friedlander, Christo, J.G. Ballard
Featured item:
The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast
by William Roscoe (Illustrations by R.M. Ballantyne, R.M.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1857. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [2],[8], 9-24; eight color plates. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers. Four plates of sheet music. Early ink gift inscription, lightest edgewear to binding. First edition of this popular Victorian adaptation of William Roscoe’s 1806 poem, “The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast,” reprinted here with musical accompaniment. Scottish artist Robert Ballantyne expands Roscoe’s rhymes into an extended prose narrative, illustrated with festive insects in party dress and dancing shoes: “There were such a multitude of odd creatures, of all shapes, and sizes, and colours; some of whom were by nature bitter enemies, and would have fought and killed each other had they met in the woods while taking a walk, but were quite civil and polite to one another, now that they met as guests in Mrs. Butterfly’s bower.” A bright, near-fine copy of a delightful book.
Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers, and found in their catalog "Late Summer Miscellany" (item #5).
- Happy Birthday to Me (July 16, 2019)
- 47 Recent Acquisitions (June 4, 2019)
- Occasional List: Summer Miscellany 2019
- Black Mountain College: A Collection -- available on request from james@jamesjaffe.com...
FEATURED ITEM:
The Science of Being by Eugene Fersen (Inscribed to American Birth Control Activist Margaret Sanger)
A Rare and Special Book. Fersen, Eugene. The Science of Being. New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1923. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author to Margaret Sanger. Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term “birth control”, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The author, Baron Eugene Fersen, was born in 1873 in St. Petersburg to Marie the Grand Duchess of Russia. His grandfather was King Alexander II of Russia. His uncle was Leo Tolstoy and his half-sister was Queen Maria of Romania, who was the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of England. A rare and special book. Near Fine in soft, brown textured leather. Front cover stamped with the emblem of the Science of Being in gilt. All edges gilt with curved corners. Delicate pages with rare light and thin paper, the first time in the history of paper manufacturing in the United States that such a paper was made. Beautiful black and gold printing throughout, decorative illustrations in gold begin each chapter. Interior is clean and text bright. 16mo.
Offered by Johansen Rare Books, and featured in their catalog Women's Studies.
- July Randos (New Additions and Selected Old Friends)
- Pride Month List
Featured item:
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Nazi Terror
Quarto, 16pp staple bound pamphlet. Illustrated. Washington D. C.: Office of Facts and Figures, 1942.
A un-noted (to me anyway) masterpiece of polemic illustration, the lithographs or charcoal drawings reproduced here by D. R. Fitzpatrick, particularly the cover, are psychologically gripping. The text gives a candid discussion of psychological warfare that feels uncomfortably topical, and somewhat jarring when compared to present day Government communications and media.
Offered by Kevin F. Kelly, and featured in their catalog "July Randos (New Additions and Selected Old Friends)."
- RBMS list of Gastronomy Books and Manuscripts,1502-1875 -- available on request from bkinmont@gmail.com
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
- THE LUNAR VOYAGE FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT -- In conjunction with the RBMS and the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing -- Offered jointly with L.W. Currey, Inc.
- 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 95: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera on Lawand Related Fields *New*
- A Selection of 30 Manuscripts (August 27, 2019)
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Catalog 169, Rare Americana (July, 2019)
- Catalog 168, Rare Americana (June, 2019)
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)
- Micro Catalog of Mid-century Socio-PoliticalPamphlets/Leaflets ("Mad World")
- A New Collaboration: WWI, II, Cricket, India, Spectroscopy, and the Canadian Rebellion
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
- 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
Featured item:
Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle or Fun and Adventures on the Road
by Victor Appleton
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Mustard cloth with black lettering and black/red pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. v, 206pp, (14pp ads). Frontispiece. Near fine/very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf; mildest of jacket edgewear, with spine slightly age toned.
A tight, quite attractive later printing of the 1st volume in the 38-volume "Tom Swift Series" (1910-35). Front jacket flap lists up to the 33rd title, "Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible" (published 1933) — this and binding and jacket style date this edition to approximately that year. A lovely copy with a superb, bright jacket.
Offered by MainStreet Fine Books & Manuscripts, and listed in "E-list #11."
- Illustrated Catalog on Carlos Merida (1891–1984) -- Mexican painter, sculptor, writer and graphic designer -- available by request from mmbooks@comcast.net
- Latin America
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
- E-catalog 17: Feminae -- Two dozen books by, for, and/or about women
- E-catalog 16
Featured item:
WILL, Johann Martin, engraver.
Les Differens Gouts et nouvelles Modes de Coeffures
Augsburg: zu finden bey Joh. Martin Will, [ca. 1780]. 8vo (161x 95 mm). Engraved title, 23 (of 24) engraved plates of extravagant hairdos, all with caption “Coeffures d’Augsbourg” and signed “Joh. Martin Will exc. A.V.” [Augustae Vindelicorum], all except plate 15 with details highlighted in contemporary hand-coloring and grey lead. Lacking plate 14, pl. 13 cropped at fore-margin, slight foxing and creasing to title; the sub-title “II. Theil” effaced and covered by owner’s inkstamp. Contemporary grey embossed floral paper wrappers (rubbed, torn along backstrip, other small tears). Provenance: "G H," circular ownership stamp on title-page.
A model-book for hairdressers, engraved and published by the Augsburg engraver Johann Martin Will (1727-1806), showing elaborately braided hairdos and monumental hair-towers, with ringlets and tresses carefully disposed around teased appendages and interwoven with ribbons, feathers, and a variety of fanciful millenary creations. Augsburg was clearly no backwater; while somewhat less extreme than their French counterparts, these hairstyles were inspired by the latest French vogue for the notorious pouf hair-constructions, allegedly invented in 1774 by the dressmaker Rose Bertin (whose most influential client was Marie Antoinette), in collaboration with a hairdresser named Monsieur Léonard. “The pouf was built on scaffolding made from wire, cloth, gauze, horsehair, fake hair, and the wearer’s own tresses, teased high off the forehead. After dousing the whole edifice heavily with powder, its architect installed amid the twists and curls an elaborate miniature still-life...” (Weber, p. 104).
The engraved plates were cut out from one or two large sheets. This was part II of a series. I locate only one other copy of this part (Augsburg) and one copy of part IV (the Lipperheide copy at the Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), which has the same title and 23 plates. The Augsburg copy is digitized: it is in wrappers of the same or very similar dark embossed paper. VD18 80238963-001; Lipperheide 1680 (different volume); on Will see Thieme Becker 36:7. Cf. E. Langlade, La Marchande de Modes de Marie-Antoinette: Rose Bertin (1911, digitized on archive.org); C. Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (2006).
Offered by Musinsky Rare Books, and found in their "E-catalog 17: Feminae."
- E-list: Stocking Stuffers (Newsletter)
- 10 Eye-Catching Books for Your Collection
- Catalog 42. Exemplary Fine Bindings, 19th Century High Spots in English and American Literature
- A Magazine’s Eye View of the 20th Century
- San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century
- Catalog 48, July 2019 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
- The Bunker Hill Archive (Newsletter)
- New Historical Documents (Newsletter)
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- Catalog 363 Still Cold: Travels & Explorations in the Frozen Regions of the Earth
- Catalog 364 - Literature, Including Recent Acquisitions
- LIST 321: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS — Including Bibliography, Bibliopoly, Fine Press, Printing,Type, Paper, Illustration, Libraries, Collecting, and Related Arts
- LIST 320: SOUTH CAROLINA, Primarily Books from a Single, Multi-Generational Family
B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
- Exlibris John Ruyle (Part 2) -- A list of 110 early science fiction/occult titles from the collection of John Ruyle
- Prints from Audubon's Birds of America
- 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...
- Occasional List 64: GOOD RAPTUROUS SCENES
- Occasional List 63: INSTRUCTION & AMUSEMENT (30 children's books)
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
- E-list #23: African Americana, Women's rights,Alternative Movements, American culture...
- E-list #22: Women, Diaries, Flyers, Gay Interest...
- Books of the Day Regularly Posted to Their Twitter Feed...
- Catalog 225: Ulrich Hacker MD – Library of Rare Pediatrics & Medical History
- Catalog 224: THE MIDDLE EAST (especially PERSIA)
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
Featured item:
England: early Victorian period, c. 1845. 114 bone tiles with engraved letters in black, enclosed in the original mahogany box with bone panel on the sliding top lettered SPELLING ALPHABET. In very good condition, slight wear to some of the discs but no loss. § Of great rarity complete and in perfect condition, these four alphabet sets and two extra sets of vowels were intended for young children to play with to learn the alphabet. By their nature they would be easily damaged or lost and a complete set in the original container like this is virtually unfindable.
Offered by John WIndle Antiquarian Bookseller, and offered in "Letterforms: Typography & Calligraphy" (item #1).
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