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, blog posts, and other digital formats.)
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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
- E-list #44 ~ W.W.I., Americana, Australia, Photographs, Maps, Ephemera *New*
- E-list #43 ~ Antipodean Books at the Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair *New*
- Cook’s Last Voyage ~ the Artistic Vision in John Webber’s Prints
- Electronic List 132: 19th Century French Illustration and Caricature
- Electronic List 131: ABAA Virtual Book Fair, 2020
- David McCullough (Newsletter)
- Visual Travel (Newsletter)
- E-List 6: Historical Documents -- African-American Founder and Bishop Richard Allen / Revolutionary-Era Latin America
- E-List 5: California, Asian-Americana, Women, Mexico, the West, and More
- 19th Century Decorated Paper Bindings, Decorated Cloth Bindings and Historic Works New York Book & Ephemera Fair Catalog
- Colorado River and Other Western Rivers (October 6, 2020) *New*
- George R. Stewart Collection -- mostly signed
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- Late October List Americana *New*
- Early October 2020 *New*
- Royalty (Newsletter) *New*
- Iconic Illustration (Newsletter)
- Books by, for, and About, Women 1649-1877 *New*
- English Libertine Literature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com
- Featured Items *New*
- Antifa: a short list featuring radical responses to fascism since the 1930s
- "One man's riot is another man's rebellion"
- Summer Miscellany
- Spring Sale -- 30 first and limited editions
- James Gillray
- Thomas Rowlandson (Newsletter)
- Brattlecast #82: The Only Constant is Change (Podcast)
- Brattlecast #81: One Book Collections (Podcast)
- October 2020 Recent Acquisitions *New*
- American Revolution *New*
- Classics of Childhood *New*
Featured item:
Perrault, Charles. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
(New York: McLoughlin Bros., nd. ca. 1870) A particularly wonderful edition and presentation of one of the most famous of all fairy tales. With beautiful colour covers by Howard and illustrations within including 6 extremely fine full-page chromo-lithographs. 4to, publisher's original stiff wraps printed pictorially in a very fine chromo-lithographic process. 16 pp, including the covers. A fine copy, as well preserved as might possibly be expected.
RARE. A classic tale, beautifully illustrated. In this version of the story, as has been typically produced for some time now, Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother are both rescued by the woodsmen. Perrault's original of 1697 had a much harsher ending.
Offered by Buddenbrooks, Inc. and found in "Classics of Childhood."
Featured item:
by Francis Beeding
New York: The Mystery League, 1931. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in green. Near Fine with light staining to top edge of rear cover visible in raking light. Previous owner name to front pastedown, foxing to textblock edge, prelims and terminals. In a Very Good dust jacket with wear to extremities, pencil check mark to spine, closed tear at top of rear joing and light staining to top edge of rear panel. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books and found in "Murder, Mystery, Mayhem!"
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- California *New*
- Archives E-list *New*
- A Brief Ollapod of Early Imprints (& a manuscript) 1495-1800
- Catalog 8: Mostly Works from the 15th-18th Centuries, with a Scatter of Modern Material
Featured item:
FIRST EDITION of antiquary and physician Walter Charleton's refutation of Inigo Jones's assertion that Stonehenge was a Roman product; Charleton famously posits here that the Dance of Giants was in fact built by Danish Vikings. Charleton, one of the first Fellows elected to the Royal Society, quotes early writers on Stonehenge, including Camden, and also excerpts Jones's 1655 work, the earliest scholarly study of the great monument. Charleton was a devoted royalist who dedicates his treatise to Charles II, and, in the name of the King, studiously compares Stonehenge to similar structures in Denmark, examining both the symbolism and the architectural features, and claiming the Salisbury monument was the site of the inauguration of ancient kings. But Charleton never visited the Danish kingdom personally, instead relying on his correspondence with the Danish antiquary, Ole Worm. Chorea Gigantum bears two folding engraved plates of views of Stonehenge, and the first appearance of a laudatory poem by Dryden on Charleton's antiquarian labors.
Offered by W.S. Cotter Rare Books.
- New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com/(716) 688-8723 to request…
- Western Americana *New*
- Sporting Books *New*
- Autumn Arrivals (October 2020) *New*
Featured item:
by J.R.R. Tolkien
8vo. London: George Allen & Undwin Ltd, 1955. First edition, first state. Red cloth in original unrestored dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly toned. Slight foxing to endpapers.
Offered by James Cummins, Bookseller, and found in their new catalog "Autumn Arrivals."
- 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
- List 33, New Series: American Paper: Manuscripts, Broadsides & Prints *New*
- List 32, New Series: 19th Century American Art Catalogues *New*
Featured item:
Harlow, Louis Kinney. Army Memoirs.
New York: Koch, Sons, & Co., 1887. $ 2,000.00 Folio. 480 x 405 mm., [19 x 16 inches]. Printed index of plates followed by 12 chromolithographic images after original drawings by L. K. Harlow. Each image is mounted to a cardboard mat, 11 of which have lithographic vignettes in the lower corner of the mat. Each image is preceded by a tissue with the title of plate printed; some of the tissues are creased and chipped at the out edges. Each plate is signed by Harlow in pencil and a few are signed in the plate; the images are clean and bright, but the mats show some toning, and a few have minor chips to the edges. The folio plates are housed in a folding portfolio, the spine and flaps are worn and probably should be discarded. Deluxe Edition, numbered “79”. Sold by Subscription Only. Scarce portfolio of Civil War paintings by the noted Boston artist Louis Kinney Harlow. Harlow was noted for his water color illustrations that were used to illustrate scores of books and which keep the printer Louis Prang very busy in the 1880’s and 1890’s. Fielding writes, “In 1880 he opened his studio in Boston. Since that time he has been much sought after by publishers of fine books, his illustrations having color brilliancy.” The plates in this portfolio depict aspects of army life and battle scenes, including Grant at Vicksburg, Sherman on his march, and Sheridan at the Battle of Cedar Creek, Each is finely designed and colored and each is signed in pencil in the lower margin. The color plates were printed by Koch and Sons and demonstrate the technical skills of the printer and his attention to detail and color registration. Copies of this portfolio were scarce in the trade. NUC lists only the Boston Public Copy and OCLC adds seven others, all in American libraries.
Offered by De Simone Company and found in "List 33."
- New Arrivals (October 27, 2020) *New*
Featured item:
Architecture Principe 1-9 [Complete]
Groupe Architecture Principe (Claude Parent & Paul Virilio, eds.)
Paris: Groupe Architecture Principe, 1966. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, each issue saddle-stapled in wraps. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans.
A rare complete run of one of the most important and influential artists' periodicals of the 1960's (a tenth issue appeared in the 1996 reprint of the periodical, but was not originally issued at the time). The Groupe architecture principe was formed out of the collaborations between Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, and included Francois Seigneur and Jean Nouvel. The group ceased after the 1968 split between Parent and Virilio, and Virilio's participation in the uprisings of 1968.
Each issue of the periodical was devoted to a single theme - La fonction oblique, Le troisieme ordre urbain, Le potentialisme. Nevers chantier. Circulation habitable, La cité médiate, Bunker archéologie, Pouvoir et imagination, and Charleville étude. Of special interest is issue 7, the first appearance of Virilio's work on Bunker Archeology - his haunting photographic and critical study of the 15,000 Nazi bunkers built along the French coast during WWII known as the Atlantic Wall. This work became an ongoing project that led to the catalog for the 1975 exhibition at the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris, which was finally translated in the 1994 MIT press book Bunker Archeology. The project remains one of the most cogent explorations of the relationship with war, technology and modern civilization.
The Bunker Archeology issue shows some faint rippling, and minor spotting to covers with a price sticker ghost to cover, otherwise a very good to near fine set with light creasing and a touch of rubbing to the wraps, short nick to head of front wrap on vol. 1. Very scarce complete.
Offered by Division Leap and found in "Architecture."
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
- List 25: Varia (49 items of diverse interest)
- Catalog of Handmade Cuban Books (Videos)
- Text Manuscripts Update (Fall 2020) *New*
- "Sleepers" (or Sleeping) on the Text Manuscripts Site (Blog)
- "PICTURING BLACKNESS" *New*
- "OF A GRAPHIC NATURE" *New*
- 25 African American Prints and Posters for E/AB 2020 *New*
Featured item:
Bruce, Herb (illus.) I Am Somebody.
N.p.: Gráfica Studios / Charisma Chain Inc., 1970. Fluorescent-light reactive poster printed in bold primary colors on coated commercial stock. Approx. 36 x 24 in.
Very good condition overall, with moderate handling marks. As identified via the Hope College Collection (Hope College Collection, item 2020.57), the title and text derive from a 1943 poem by Rev. William Holmes Borders, Sr. (1905-1993), championing the dignity of the poor and affirming the intrinsic beauty and value of the African American experience. Reverend Jesse Jackson recited the lyric on an episode of Sesame Street. The present poster was designed for Grafica Studios in Chicago by African American artist Herb Bruce. Though little known today, Bruce was an illustrator and graphic designer whose work seems to have been inspired by AfriCobra, a radical African American artists’ collective formed in 1968 to promote Black pride and culture.
The poster was printed with special inks that fluoresce in ultraviolet light. These fluorescent inks were originally developed by the Day-Glo Color Corporation for use by the US military but were adopted in the 1960s by artists associated with various counter-culture movements, including the Civil Rights movement.
Offered by Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare and found in "25 African American Prints and Posters for E/AB 2020."
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- East Germany *New*
- Circus
Featured item:
Labels dated late 1950’s through 1960’s. 300 by 200mm (11¾ by 7¾ inches). Quarter‐cloth album; [88] lvs. 5 to 20 labels per leaf, mostly 10 to 15 per leaf. Label sizes vary, but most 50 by 35mm (2 by 1 3/8 inches) and as large as 100 by 75mm (4 by 3 inches). Very few, if any, labels missing. Labels are sorted by topic on each page, with the number of labels on each page noted in pencil. Topics include: East German sports; traffic safety; recommended exercise regimens; national hygiene museum; Berlin; cosmonauts; various celebrations; and of course, fire safety. Interestingly, some album leaves are recycled paper with mimeographed text of various topics such as a student’s workbook on political economy, or socialism studies. Most labels in excellent condition. Minor scuffing and wear to album covers and spine.
East German smokers could avail themselves of matches from one of two factories: “Riesa” and “Coswik” ‐ both represented in this album, although this smoker favored Riesa. VEB Zündholzfabrik Riesa was founded in 1923, at its height had 600 employees, and liquidated in 1994. Riesa was the last match factory in Germany. The name was auctioned off, and Riesa matches are still available today ‐ made in China. During East German 7mes, up to 70% of production was exported to the west, making it an East German economic success. Its competitor, the Coswig (Anhalt) factory operated from 1900 to 1992 and in addition to matches manufactured explosives. Both Riesa and Coswig factory buildings remain today as boarded up “industrial ruin porn”. An extensive collection of East German graphic design; unusual in such a complete state.
Offered by Mark Funke, Bookseller and featured in their latest catalog “East Germany.”
- 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...
- Has the following lists available: California, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, Louisiana, Colorado, Ohio and New York. Will email to interested parties. Contact info@ginsbook.com to request...
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
- Color Plate & Illustrated *New*
- Fall Miscellany *New*
- American Acts and Laws (October 2020) *New*
Featured item:
by Richard Blome
London: T. Milbourne, 1672. 12mo. [8], 192pp. Three engraved folding maps. (Small neatly closed tear to largest map). Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, leather label.
Rare early work on Jamaica and the other American and British Caribbean colonies, published by British mapmaker and bookseller Richard Blome.
Blome added to the sparse knowledge of the times, fully describing the products, resources, and natives of British America. To do this he relied heavily on the notes of then Governor of Jamaica Thomas Lynch and the summaries of explorations described in Lederer's Discoveries (1672). Lederer's is a first-hand account of the explorations through Virginia, the Carolinas, and other American possessions, considered the first scientific report on those regions. The three rare folding maps are "A New & Exact Mapp of y. Isle of Jamaica" engraved by Wenceslas Hollar, who had worked on Blome's great atlas of 1670; "A Generall Mapp of Carolina, Describing Its Sea, Coast and Rivers," derived from the famous Horne map of 1666; and "A Draught of the Sea Coast and Rivers, of Virginia, Maryland, and New England," with an inset of Newfoundland. Three issues are indicated by ESTC, each with minor variations in the imprint; fewer than ten copes located in ESTC.
Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books and found in "Fall Miscellany."
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- E-list 168: 50 New Arrivals | Christian Boltanski, Seamus Heaney, Louise Gluck, Leonard Freed *New*
- E-list 167: 50 New Arrivals | Dave Heath, d.a. levy, Dorothea Lange, Joan Miro, Manuel Alvarez Bravo *New*
- CTRL+P -- Joint catalog with Ben Kinmont, Simon Beattie, & Justin Croft
- New Acquisitions, July 2020
- Getman Vitrual Fair October 6-8, 2020 *New*
- Miniature Miscellany (May 2020)
- Lewis Carroll (Newsletter) *New*
- Occult, Horror, Science Fiction, Fairy Tales, & More...
- Bound in Wrappers *New*
- CTRL+P -- Joint catalog with Honey & Wax Booksellers, Simon Beattie, & Justin Croft
- Manuscripts, Letters & Art (New York Book Fair)
- Travel, Geography
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...
- New Arrivals (August 2020)
- New Arrivals (January 2020)
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS
- American Murders, 1819-1901: 34 Titles Listed in McDade (October 27, 2020) *New*
- 30 Additional Selections from the Rare Books & Fine Art Frankfurt Virtual Book Fair (October 20, 2020) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: American, English & Scottish Law, 30 Items (October 13, 2020) *New*
- Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Jurisprudence: 30 Titles (October 6, 2020) *New*
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Catalog 177 *New*
- Mormons, Latter Day Saints *New*
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)
- E-cat featuring Anti-fascism, racial stereotypes, mid-century folk and propaganda and more *New*
- Around the World in Ephemera
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
- Catalogue 88: Beethoven *New*
- Augusta Read Thomas (Online Exhibition) *New*
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DOCUMENTS
- Witches *New*
- LA Virtual Book Fair 2020 *New*
- 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:
Erklarung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie
Albert Einstein
“Einstein was in the throes of one of the most concentrated frenzies of scientific creativity in history. He was working, he said, ‘horrendously intensely’”. –Isaacson, referring to Einstein’s work on his November 1915 papers.
“During the past month I had one of the most exciting and strenuous times of my life, but also one of the most successful ones.” –Einstein, in a letter to Sommerfeld, on November 28, 1915.
FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of Einstein's most important papers: his landmark work of November 18, 1915, containing the development and confirmation of crucial elements of his general theory of relativity.
By autumn 1915, Einstein experienced a “crisis” in his work on his gravitational equations and the general theory of relativity, forcing him to abandon several key elements of his earlier work. In October 1915, “Einstein shifted his focus from the physical strategy, which emphasized his feel for the basic principles of physics, and returned to a greater reliance on a mathematical strategy, which made use of the Riemann and Ricci tensors... ‘Einstein’s reversal,’ writes John Norton, ‘parted the waters and led him from bondage into the promised land of general relativity’... The result was an exhausting, four-week frenzy during which Einstein wrestled with a succession of tensors, equations, corrections, and updates that he rushed to the Prussian Academy in a flurry of four Thursday lectures” (Isaacson).
In Einstein's paper of November 18th (the third paper in the four-part weekly lecture series), he "presents two of his greatest discoveries. Each of these changed his life. The first result was that his theory ‘explains... quantitatively... the secular rotation of the orbit of Mercury, discovered by Le Verrier,... without the need of any special hypothesis.’ This discovery was, I believe, by far the strongest emotional experience in Einstein’s scientific life, perhaps in all his life. Nature had spoken to him. He had been right. ‘For a few days, I was beside myself with joyous excitement’. Later, he told Fokker that his discovery had given him palpitations of the heart. What he told de Haas is even more profoundly significant: when he saw that his calculations agreed with the unexplained astronomical observations, he had the feeling that something actually snapped in him...” (Pais).
The second discovery in Einstein’s November 18th paper was that “the bending of light is twice as large as he had found earlier.” This correct value would make Einstein an international celebrity when it was found to be accurate after the measurements taken during the May 1919 eclipse.
The discoveries in his November 18th paper formed an essential part of the more formal, complete presentation of the general theory that appeared in his 1916 paper in Annalen der Physik. See: Isaacson, Einstein, pp. 211-221 and Pais, Subtle is the Lord pp.250-261.
IN: Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1915. Vol. 47. pp. 831-839. Quarto, original wrappers (almost invisibly) rebacked and trimmed; otherwise fine. Housed in custom box. RARE.
Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company and found in "Albert Einstein."
- Illustrated Catalog on Carlos Merida (1891–1984) -- Mexican painter, sculptor, writer and graphic designer -- available by request from mmbooks@comcast.net
- Latin America
MARTAYAN LAN RARE BOOKS & MAPS
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
- Leaps & Bounds: New Acquisitions After May 2020
- New Acquisitions to the Bishop Collection of Thomas Bird Mosher and the Mosher Press (May 2020)
- Father's Day Gift Offerings
- E-list: Stocking Stuffers (Newsletter)
- Catalog 52, September 2020 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- Cookery/Gastronomy *New*
- Books in Dutch *New*
- Portugal/Portuguese *New*
- Conduct *New*
- 16th-Century Books *New*
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
FIELDING, HENRY., THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING.
(London: The Navarre Society Ltd., [ca. 1900]). 180 x 113 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 1/2"). Six volumes. Edited by George Saintsbury. One of 2,000 copies.
VERY FINE BURGUNDY MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT AND ONLAID, BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY OF BOSTON (stamp-signed on front flyleaf), boards with triple fillet border, EACH COVER WITH AN ELABORATE HERALDIC FRAME OF GILT AND ONLAID GREEN MOROCCO around an empty oval, raised bands, very pretty gilt spine compartments featuring looping tendril frame enclosing a charming flower centerpiece, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Six frontispieces by George Cruikshank showing scenes from the book. A VERY FINE COPY, the bindings especially bright, and the text with virtually no signs of use.
This is a very attractively bound copy of Fielding's 18th century classic and a landmark publication, first printed in 1749. Cross says that "No one before Fielding had ever written a novel comparable with his in its reliance upon contemporary facts of human nature, and this brilliant and innovative narrative met with such immediate commercial success that the first printing was sold out before its printing could be finished, and at least four more editions were published in the same year as the first." "Tom Jones" is divided into 18 books, each preceded by an introductory essay (wherein can be found some of Fielding's best prose) on some theme more or less connected with the story, in the manner subsequently adopted by Thackeray and George Eliot. The plot begins with the finding and raising of Tom by Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and then follows Tom's adventures, many amorous, after his banishment from the Allworthy house prompted by bad behavior. In the comic ending, mysteries are revealed and relationships set aright. Day says this was the first avowed novel in English (Fielding's precursor, Defoe, claimed his stories were true and Richardson said that his were akin to sermons), and a work that some still call the greatest novel in English because of its attention to characters set against the backdrop of society. Inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement that had spread to New England, the Harcourt Bindery was founded in 1900 to provide hand bookbinding services for the books produced by a burgeoning number of private presses. With plenty of shelf appeal, the present set is an excellent example of their high-quality work.
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Medieval Manscripts and found in "Books in Multiple Volumes."
- The Bunker Hill Archive (Newsletter)
- New Historical Documents (Newsletter)
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- Special List 390, Italian Authors, Language, Imprints and Subjects *New*
- Special List 389: The Dominican Order *New*
- Special List 388: The Dutch in Brazil and Around the World *New*
- Catalogue 372: Manuscripts, Archives & Photographs *New*
- New Acquisitions in Americana (October 2020) *New*
- Getman Virtual Book Fair (October 2020) *New*
- A Fall Miscellany *New*
- LIST 327: LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB -- 136 titles
- LIST 326: SPRING MISCELLANY: Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts, Photographs, and Ephemera
- Fine Literature -- a joint catalog with James Cummins Bookseller
- New York NY
B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
WELLS, H.G. The first men in the moon
London: George Newnes, 1901. 8vo. With 12 inserted plates by Claude Shepper-son. Original publisher’s blue cloth (Binding A), front cover and spine gilt, black-coated endpapers. Signed on the fly-leaf by Neil Armstrong. First English edition printed a month following the first printing in Indianapolis, with minor differences in the text. Certainly one of Wells’ best-known and beloved science fiction-romances. The story surrounds the journey to the moon by two men, a scientist and businessman, who discover the Selenites, a sophisticated civilization of insect-like creatures. This, as well as many of Wells’ books, inspired generations of science fiction writers such as C.S Lewis. This was not only Wells’ first novel to be made into a film, released in 1919, but the first science fiction novel ever adapted as a motion picture. Of course the amazing aspect of this copy is the signature of Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), the first human to ever walk on the moon. Armstrong, who along with Buzz Aldrin and their pilot Michael Collins, traveled to the moon on Apollo 11. Upon stepping on the surface, Armstrong uttered one of the most famous set of words of all time: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Armstrong was notorious for not signing anything.
Offered by B&L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts and found in "Rare Books LA."
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
- Recent Acquisitions (October 27, 2020) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions (October 20, 2020) *New*
- Autumn Offerings *New*
- Recently Catalogued (October 6, 2020) *New*
- What's Inside the Rare Book Room Cherrywood Case? Part Two
- What's Inside the Rare Book Room Cherrywood Case? Part One
Featured item:
Albert Huyot. (1872–1968)
Original watercolor and collage by the French painter and designer, incorporating visual motifs inspired by the body of a string instrument and the name "Bach" as collage element in the upper left. The artist's signature stamp in the lower right. Fine. 10.83 x 14.37 inches (27.5 x 36.5 cm).
A successful painter and designer, Albert Huyot was one of the many prominent students taught by Gustave Moreau (1826–1898).
Offered by Schubertiade Music & Arts and found in "Fall 2020 Catalog."
- 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
Featured item:
by An Oxonian (John Leech (1817 - 1864) - Illustrator)
London. Bradbury & Evans, 1859. (1st Edition). x, 220, [4 ads] pp. Black and white illustrations throughout, including a full color fold out opposite of title page and 4 full page plates. 7-7/8" x 6". Original green publishers cloth, with gilt illustration to upper board and gilt on back strip, AEG. A VG copy, rubbed at edges and corners, gilt is bright, joints tender, some light chipping to leaves, full color plate is reinforced by cloth tape to verso. Bookplate from "Helen O'Neil Logan" Light soiling and foxing to leaves, internally clean and bright.
Offered by Tavistock Books and found in "Something New, Something Old: A Short List."
- Maritime List 293 *New*
- Too Much of a Good Thing? (Blog)
Featured item:
Under Sea with Helmet and Camera
Du Pont, A. Felix.
Dodd, Mead & Company, ( 1940), New York. 8vo. 23 cm. xiv, 87 pp. b/w photo ills.
Experiences of an amateur… With illustrations from photographs taken by the author. Desirable, as is most vintage hard hat diving stuff, and unaccountably scarce. This copy is inscribed by author Du Pont to Clifford Ashley and his wife Sara. Endpapers foxed from acidic jacket, else very good condition in chipped and worn dust jacket.
Offered by Ten Pound Island Book Company and found in "Maritime List 293" (item #13).
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
- Autumn New Arrivals List: Women's Studies, Racial Equality, Fine Printing, Theology, Children's Books, etc. *New*
- Autumn Women's Catalog: Education, Diversity, Travel, & More
- E-list #27: Women's Rights, African -Americana, Gay Rights, Civil Rights...
- E-list #24 Women's Rights & Protest Ephemera
- List 89: Dude Ranches *New*
- Photo List 7 *New*
Featured item:
Edited by Ian Birch
1981. First printing of this vital and colorful book that both helped document and launch the New Romantic movement.
Offered by Type Punch Matrix and featured in their new list "Ten Books in Modern Fashion."
- New Acquisitions (May 5, 2020)
- New York Addundum
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
Featured item:
BEHMEN, JAKOB. XL. Questions Concerning the Soule... [bound with] The Clavis, or Key. Or, an Exposition of Some Principall Matters, and Words in the Writings of Jacob Behmen
London: Matthew Simmons, 1647. 2 parts in one, sm. 4to, 2 in 1. [14], 155, [6], 28, + [2] ad pp, errata leaf. With folding engraved chart of The Figure of The Philosophique Globe, or Eye of ye Wonders of Eternity, or Looking Glass of Wisdom. Original calf ruled in blind, small old paper shelf labels on backstrip. Bookplate of the Macclesfield South Library (Sapere Aude) and shelf mark 165 b 18. Early ink signature “Jo. Boseweth” on title, blind-stamped crest on title-page almost invisible.
Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. In one interpretation of Böhme’s cosmology (as represented in the engraved chart), it was necessary for humanity to return to God, and for all original unities to undergo differentiation, desire and conflict as in the rebellion of Satan, the separation of Eve from Adam and their acquisition of the knowledge of good and evil in order for creation to evolve to a new state of redeemed harmony that would be more perfect than the original state of innocence, allowing God to achieve a new self-awareness by interacting with a creation that was both part of, and distinct from, himself. Free will becomes the most important gift God gives to humanity, allowing us to seek divine grace as a deliberate choice while still allowing us to remain individuals. Institutional plate from South Library. Ownership mark on title page.
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