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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, blog posts, and other digital formats.)

 *New*  indicates any catalogs added in the last month. 

 

AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER

 

ABACUS BOOKS

 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOOK SHOP

 

CHARLES AGVENT

 

ANDERSON BUTLER RARE BOOKS

 

ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS

 

ARS LIBRI LTD.

 

ARTISAN BOOKS & BINDERY

 

ATHENA RARE BOOKS

 

AUGER DOWN BOOKS

 

AUSTIN ABBEY RARE BOOKS

 

B&B RARE BOOKS

 

BACK CREEK BOOKS

 

BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS

 

LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS 

 

W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA

 

BARTLEBY'S BOOKS 

 

BAUMAN RARE BOOKS

 

BAY LEAF USED & RARE BOOKS

 

BEASLEY BOOKS

 

STUART BENNETT RARE BOOKS

 

BERNETT PENKA RARE BOOKS

 

BETWEEN THE COVERS RARE BOOKS

 

BIBLIOCTOPUS

 

BICKERSTAFF'S BOOKS, MAPS, &.

 

BLACK SWAN BOOKS

 

ROBIN BLEDSOE BOOKS

 

BLIND HORSE BOOKS

 

CARL BLOMGREN FINE BOOKS

 

BOLERIUM BOOKS

 

THE BOOK BLOCK

 

THE BOOK COLLECTOR

 

LE BOOKINISTE

 

THE BOOKPRESS, LTD.

 

Featured item:

NORMILE, John, Editor. THE BOOK OF BILDCOST GARDENED HOME PLANS FROM BETTER HOMES & GARDENS

Home Plans

Des Moines: Meredith Pub. Co., 1936. 4to. Illustrated wrappers 94, (2) pages.

Revised and expanded edition of this very popular house plan book in the 1930's. A collection of 48 articles by such architects as Richard Neutra, pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, and early leader in "Modern" architecture; Los Angeles architect Arthur F. Herberger; a number of Colonial Revival homes by Theodore Whitehead Davis; and several articles by noted women architects such as Verna Cook Salomonsky and Ethel M. Crosby. Their articles include: "A Home to Grow With; the Three Unit House," "A Home of Distinctive Merit," and "At Home Anywhere; and you don't have to build it all at once," by Verna Cook Salomonsky and one article by Ethel M. Crosby "'Come Hither' House." The articles are filled with illustrations, elevations, and floor plans. Color-illustrated wrappers with stucco home on front cover; blueprints on back, minor dusting, still very good.

Offered by The Bookspress, and found in "Virtual New York Fair."
 

 

BOOKS OF WONDER

 

BOOKS TELL YOU WHY, INC.

 

BOOKTRYST

 

BOSTON BOOK COMPANY

 

BOSTON RARE MAPS, INC.

 

IAN BRABNER, RARE AMERICANA

 

MARILYN BRAITERMAN

 

DAVID BRASS RARE BOOKS

 

BRATTLE BOOK SHOP

 

BRICK ROW BOOKSHOP

 

BROMER BOOKSELLERS

 

BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

 

BUDDENBROOKS, INC.

 

BULL'S HEAD RARE BOOKS

 

BURNSIDE RARE BOOKS

 

ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.

 

THE CAPTAIN'S BOOKSHELF

 

CAROLINIANA

 

Featured Item:

 

48 Tasty Recipes made with Sunshine Pimientos

Ponoma Products Company

Cookery Catalog

Stapled booklet measuring 6.5 x 4", with [16] pp of text. A collection of recipes making use of Georgia grown pimiento peppers. According to the introduction, these peppers would provide a "thrilling new taste experience", as scientific developments allowed a new breed of the peppers to be grown in Georgia; a blurb on the rear cover touts the nutritional value of pimiento peppers. In excellent condition with a bit of soiling to covers.

Offered by Caroliniana and found in "Cookery Catalog, August 2021."

 

CARPE DIEM FINE BOOKS

 

BRIAN CASSIDY, BOOKSELLER

 

CHURCHILL BOOK COLLECTOR

 

THE COLOPHON BOOK SHOP

 

W.S. COTTER RARE BOOKS

 

ROY CLARE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

 

CRAWFORD DOYLE BOOKSELLERS

 

JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER

 

L.W. CURREY, INC.

 

DANBOM & SON BOOKS

 

DANIEL / OLIVER GALLERY

 

DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS

 

NAT DESMARAIS RARE BOOKS

 

DEWOLFE & WOOD 

 

DIVISION LEAP

 

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

 

JAMES M. DOURGARIAN, BOOKMAN

 

DOWNTON BROWN BOOKS, LLC

 

ECLECTIBLES

 

ELK RIVER BOOKS

 

LES ENLUMINURES

 

EVENING STAR BOOKS

 

THE FAMILY ALBUM

 

JOSEPH J. FELCONE, INC.

 

ARTHUR FOURNIER FINE & RARE

 

RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO

 

MARK FUNKE, BOOKSELLER

 

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...

 

MICHAEL GINSBERG BOOKS

  • 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... 

 

GOLDEN LEGEND 

 

THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS

 

GOVI RARE BOOKS

 

JAMES GRAY BOOKSELLER

 

RICK GRUNDER-BOOKS

 

DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS

 

HARPER'S BOOKS

 

DONALD A. HEALD RARE BOOKS

 

HERITAGE BOOKSHOP

 

JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.

Featured item:

 

A collection of approximately 1650 chopstick wrappers, all of Japanese origin, pasted in four 8vo and two large 8vo albums, various bindings

Chopsticks

Japan: ca. 1920-30. $4500.00 A remarkable collection of more than 1600 Japanese chopstick wrappers, all carefully mounted in six albums. The wrappers vary from very plain to highly elaborate and offer a wide range of design and typography. Many have telephone numbers. The anonymous collector painstakingly (and lovingly) assembled this collection in the 1920s and 1930s; the wrappers advertise famous and forgotten restaurants, which served mostly Japanese but also Chinese and Western cuisines, from almost everywhere in Japan, ranging from Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu in the south, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, prominent hot spring resorts, and many famous sightseeing destinations. The restaurants served a wide range of cuisines including sushi, kaiseki, vegetarian foods in temples, health foods, various kinds of Western foods, etc. Most of the restaurants were located in major cities, but our indefatigable collector has gathered wrappers from restaurants in local train stations, country inns, bunraku and kabuki theaters, and hundreds of other food establishments, most of which no longer exist. The first four albums (230 x 155 mm.) are bound in the original wrappers, which have been decorated by the collector with drawings of entrances to restaurants. Each volume has a manuscript label pasted on the upper wrapper, reading Kuidoraku (Gourmandism). Additionally, each volume has on the first folded leaf a poem or story in manuscript about the pleasures of food. These are illustrated with four scenes of happy times at the Japanese table, including one depicting foreigners. The final two albums (305 x 210 mm. and 280 x 180 mm.) are bound in silk-covered boards and are accordion-style. The collector must have been a wealthy gourmet to have travelled so widely and eaten so well, and making these albums was a long-term commitment. In the early 20th century, there was a popular style of fiction in Japan, called the gastronomic novel, where food was the primary subject. This literary movement had wide ramifications in eating styles and tastes throughout Japan and introduced the consumption of meat and European cuisines. In fine condition.

Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller and found in "Gourmet Japan."

 

JEFF HIRSCH BOOKS

 

HONEY & WAX BOOKSELLERS

 

Featured item:

 

Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All. 

Robert Indiana (artist); Gertrude Stein (libretto); Virgil Thomson (music); [Susan B. Anthony].

Mother of Us All Poster

New York: New World Records, 1977. $300. Pop artist Robert Indiana’s vivid serigraph poster for the 1977 New World Records release of The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson’s 1947 opera about Susan B. Anthony, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein: “The right to sleep is given to no woman.” Indiana had long been an active admirer of The Mother of Us All, designing sets for several stage productions, including the Santa Fe Opera’s 1976 bicentennial production, whose recording is advertised here. The typography features Indiana’s signature tipped O in MOTHER, a design element that recalls his iconic LOVE sculpture and stamp. For more on Indiana and The Mother of Us All, see David Littlejohn, “Artists on the Opera Stage” in The Ultimate Art (1992). Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.

Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers and found in "August 2021: New Acquisitions."

 

HOUSE OF MIRTH PHOTOS

 

JOHN HOWELL FOR BOOKS

 

S. HOWLETT-WEST BOOKS

 

IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS

 

JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS

 

JOHANSON RARE BOOKS

 

JOHNSON RARE BOOKS & ARCHIVES

 

 

KAATERSKILL BOOKS

 

SETH KALLER, INC.

 

KELMSCOTT BOOKSHOP

 

BEN KINMONT, BOOKSELLER 

 

ERIC CHAIM KLINE BOOKSELLER

 

JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER

 

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

 

MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS

 

LANGDON MANOR BOOKS

 

ANDREW LANGER, BOOKSELLER

 

THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD.

 

DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

 

LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

 

LIBROS LATINOS

 

LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS

 

LITTLE SAGES BOOKS

 

LIZZYOUNG BOOKSELLER

 

LOCUS SOLUS RARE BOOKS

 

Featured item:

RKO Radio Pictures: 1940-1941 

RKO Pictures

(Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940). First edition. 4to, 27 unpaginated leaves, comb-bound in fauxalligator boards. Extremities slightly rubbed; plastic comb intact; an excellent copy. Illustrated annual "Exhibitor's Book" filled with promotional display ads for forthcoming RKO releases. Most importantly, this book contains the first advertisement for Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane", still under its working title "John Citizen, U.S.A." Also advertised are the adaptations of "Kitty Foyle" and "Sister Carrie", each featuring a fold-out image on cardstock of its eponymous book. With portraits of studio stars including Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers and many more. 

Offered by Locus Solus Rare Books and found in "Cinema and Cinema-Adjacent." 

 

KEN LOPEZ BOOKSELLER 

 

J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS

 

STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DOCUMENTS

 

LUX MENTIS BOOKSELLERS

 

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

 

Featured item:

 

Zane Grey. The Drift Fence

Drift Fence, Zane Grey

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Small 8vo. Light blue mesh cloth with dark blue lettering and rules, pictorial dust jacket. 314pp. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear to otherwise-bright jacket.

Tight and bright reprint edition of this 1932 shoot-'em-up set in Arizona involving (to cite jacket flap) "Traft, powerful cattleman and owner of the Diamond...." This superbly fresh copy has a choice autograph twist: a fine heavy stock card signed and inscribed in blue fineline by Benny Baker. Baker (1907-94), who played Jim Traft in the 1936 film version of the novel, was a popular actor and comedian in more than fifty films of the 1930s and '40s. Unusual copy! 

Offered by Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts and found in "E-list #33."

 

KENNETH MALLORY, BOOKSELLER

 

JEFFREY D. MANCEVICE, INC.

 

MANHATTAN RARE BOOK COMPANY

 

MARE BOOKSELLERS

 

MARGOLIS & MOSS

  • 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

 

E.M. MAURICE BOOKS

 

MCBRIDE RARE BOOKS

 

LAURENCE MCGILVERY 

 

BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.

 

MEYER BOSWELL BOOKS, INC.

 

KATE MITAS, BOOKSELLER

 

MOSHER BOOKS

 

MUSINSKY RARE BOOKS

 

MYSTERY PIER BOOKS

 

NUDELMAN RARE BOOKS

 

OAK KNOLL BOOKS

 

Featured item:

 

BOOK-WORM (first two volumes) then THE BOOKWORM, A LITERARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY J. PH. BERJEAU (THE).

Bookworm

Ulrich & Kup p.17. Volumes two to five (of five total published). "A scholarly digest of bibliographical information. Significant notes on early printing and illustration." From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company. Rubbed along hinges.

Offered by Oak Knoll Books and found in "August 2021 Sale."

 

 

OLD FLORIDA BOOKSHOP

 

OLD IMPRINTS

 

OLD WEST BOOKS

 

MICHAEL J. OSBORNE BOOKS

 

PALINURUS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS

 

PARIGI BOOKS

 

PAZZO BOOKS

 

R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS 

 

PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

 

PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

 

EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS

 

PRYOR-JOHNSON RARE BOOKS

 

QUILL & BRUSH

 

THE RAAB COLLECTION

 

RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK

 

RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS  

 

RAPTIS RARE BOOKS

 

READ'EM AGAIN BOOKS

 

WILLIAM REESE COMPANY

 

WALTER REUBEN, INC.

 

L&T RESPESS BOOKS

 

GEORGE RITZLYN MAPS & BOOKS

 

RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

 

B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

 

ROYAL BOOKS

 

Featured item:

 

Because the Night

by James Ellroy

Because the Night, James Ellroy

Original handwritten manuscript draft for the 1984 novel. With Ellroy’s profuse and expectedly surgical corrections to his own text throughout, and with substantial content that did not make the published edition. With a letter of provenance from Ellroy’s then-editor and publisher Otto Penzler, tying the manuscript directly to its source. According to Penzler, Ellroy’s manuscripts would always begin as completely handwritten documents, before being typed, edited by both Penzler and Ellroy, and then generally retyped and re-edited once more. In addition to early unpublished content, the manuscript reveals the extremely fastidious nature of Ellroy’s process, as well as his preference for writing out and editing his research, outlines, and finished novels by hand. As an object, the manuscript is an almost overwhelming testament to the process that results in what has been accurately described as the author’s “dense, baroque style,” or what Scott Timberg of the Los Angeles Times in 2006 famously called “a heightened pastiche of jazz slang, cop patois, creative profanity, and drug vernacular.”

Ellroy’s fifth novel, and the second in his L.A.Noir trilogy that featured LAPD robbery-homicide detective Lloyd Hopkins. Because the Night centers on the investigation of a triple murder at a liquor store that strangely involves no theft, leading Hopkins to believe that the crime was a “thrill kill.” Black, blue, and red ink manuscript. 461 leaves, each numbered at the top left, standard notebook paper stock, rectos only. Housed in a large black post-style clasp binder. 

Offered by Royal Books and found in "Catalog Seventy-Two."

 

BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.

 

RULON-MILLER BOOKS

 

SANCTUARY BOOKS

 

KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS

 

SAVOY BOOKS

 

E.K. SCHREIBER

 

SCHUBERTIADE MUSIC & ARTS

 

SCHULSON AUTOGRAPHS

 

SCIENTIA BOOKS

 

GARRETT SCOTT, BOOKSELLER

 

Featured item:

 
Love Life: The Truth and Secrets of Human Sex Relations

Voltaire, Dr. Eugene E.

Love Life
 
Portland, Oregon: n. p., [ca. 1932]. Wire-stitched pamphlet in gilt and black printed red wrappers, 8.06 x 6.13 inches, 87, [3] pages. First edition?
 
“It would not be difficult in any sense to write at length on the art of copulation. . . . The instructions given on the previous pages are of no value to anyone until, thru their study, the art of perfect copulation is mastered as it should be.”
 
A detailed pamphlet aimed at the moderately lubricious, popular-lecture, educational-exploitation-film, sensation-seeking crowd, explaining the physiology, functions, and derangements of the male and female sexual organs, with much on both the social and physical toll of venereal diseases, self-abuse, etc., along with a detailed description of the seven stages of physical love.
 
To judge from his appearances in contemporary newspaper accounts, Eugene E. Voltaire (ca. 1891-1943) ascended from a bit player in early Universal Film silent movies (he had a part in the 1923 drug-smuggler kidnapping movie, Crashing Courage) to an arrest in 1929 for violation of the Mann Act, when his occupation was then reported in the Los Angeles Times as a salesman.
 
But by 1931, only a couple years off his arrest, freshly divorced and now claiming the title of doctor, Voltaire reappears in newspapers credited as a celebrated sexologist and sex instructor on various aspects of health and happiness; by 1932, he had worked himself up to sharing a stage with screenings of the scientific evolution documentary Mystery of Life, narrated by Clarence Darrow, and soon thereafter is traced through the advertising columns of western newspapers traveling the Pantages circuit across the Pacific Northwest to deliver “Ladies Only” lectures, “Illustrated With Living Artists [sic] Models.” Voltaire evidently made appearances across the West through about 1937, often sharing the bill with various exploitation films.
 
Uncommon in any edition; this bookselling concern has also handled another printing of this title (trimmed slightly shorter that this copy and published with only 58 pages, that shorter edition explicitly advertising the sale of the antiseptic douche Vol-Va-Kol, “For the careful woman.”) This 87-page edition is strict on the need for vaginal cleanliness but stops short of endorsing any name brands.
 
These pamphlets were of course ephemeral and fugitive; the NUC and OCLC each note only Voltaire’s The Human Sex Relation (Portland, n. d.) at the University of Oregon; OCLC adds his Marihuana and sex (n. p., ca. 1930s?) at the University of Alberta only, while another copy of this title, as noted in this description above, has passed over this bookseller’s desk and subsequently into institutional hands. A trifle rubbed and soiled; a very good copy.

Offered by Garrett Scott, Bookseller and found in "Occasional List 75: Esoteric/Medicine." 

 

SECOND LIFE BOOKS

 

SECOND STORY BOOKS

 

MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA

 

ED SMITH BOOKS

 

STROUD BOOKSELLERS

 

TAMINO AUTOGRAPHS

 

 TAVISTOCK BOOKS

 

TEN POUND ISLAND BOOK COMPANY

 

MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS

 

THORN BOOKS

 

TOMBERG RARE BOOKS

 

TRIOLET RARE BOOKS

 

TSCHANZ RARE BOOKS

 

TYPE PUNCH MATRIX

 

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

 

URSUS RARE BOOKS

 

VAMP & TRAMP, BOOKSELLERS

 

THE VEATCHS ARTS OF THE BOOK

 

Featured item:

 

Berté Water Colour Printing. Vivicolor Inserts (cover title)

Berte

Buffalo: Vivicolor Company, (1930). 8 × 10½. 87 leaves printed rectos only. Of these, 69 are printed by the Jean Berté process. The “Inserts” are ready-made sectional title pages for college yearbooks. They are one-word titles: Activities; Administration; Advertising; Athletics; Classes; Clubs; College; Features; Fraternities; Social; Sororities. These title page inserts were designed by various artists, in 13 different series ranging from Colonial American and Indian to Modernistic and Ultra-Modern. There’s Moorish, Grecian, Alma Mater, Medieval, and Louis XIV. There’s a humorous series by John Held, Jr. Most are Art Deco. Bound in black leatherette with an Art Deco design in yellow & green. Piece missing from corner of front cover; some wear & creasing. Good copy of a rare trade catalogue. 

The ready-made inserts are intended to “satisfy the demand for the unusual in yearbooks” while alleviating “the prohibitive cost of good professional art, color engraving, and color printing.” Vivicolor hired eminent western NY artists: Bertram Glover, Ellsworth Jaeger, John Held, Norman Kent (woodcuts). A few less expensive inserts are included (mostly for comparison) such as two-color half tones and etching. Vivicolor guaranteed that no two schools within 25 miles of each other would have the same inserts.

The Berté printing process replicated the pochoir stencil process of hand coloring. A series of rubber mats over-printed water color inks in a specific order. Expensive & laborious, the process was licensed and the equipment sold to individual printing companies. The Vivicolor Company was a licensee. This full-scale catalogue and the promotional piece below are the only copies located. Nothing else is known of the company.

Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book and found in "Catalog 97."

 

WALKABOUT BOOKS

 

JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS

 

ADAM WEINBERGER RARE BOOKS

 

WHITMORE RARE BOOKS

 

Featured item:

 

Clark, Ethel

Diary documenting her rise to adulthood while surviving a flu pandemic, working to complete her education, and entering a more modern world as a working woman. Eerily reflective of our own times, an opportunity to learn from history in order to avoid repeating its mistakes.

Whitmore Diary

[Southern U.S.]: 1916-1927. Small ledger bound in pebbled leather over card, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches. With events taking place across Tennessee, Virginia, Washington DC, North Carolina, and other Southern states, this journal is comprised of 118 handwritten pages unfolding across a decade. Content unfolds from 1916-1927, as Ethel leaves us an account of how a girl moved from her teenage years into womanhood while war, pandemic, and racial violence radically changed the world around her. Ethel’s tone in her opening entry is a reminder that teenage angst and ennui are not new inventions. “April 25, 1916. I write this on a Wednesday. Nothing happened. Same old thing, school, school, school.” Despite feeling the sameness of her days, it doesn’t take long for Ethel to open up about the variety of experiences and feelings that really do shape her time. Revivals and Red Cross meetings take up multiple evenings after school; and she loves to read as an escape (novels include escapist and sensational romances like George Barr’s Nedra (1905)), though she describes it as “same old life reading.”

By 1918 she also starts attending Patriotic Meetings as she reports “Germany’s advancing,” a concise announcement that is surrounded by news of boys she knows joining their companies and a string of weddings in advance. Global realities hit again on the same week she begins school in September: “All the schools are closed on account of the flu. Several people have died with it. Duey Hines was buried yesterday, she died in Richmond...in a hospital...Marton Sneed was buried yesterday... he died in Charlotte of Flu.” Ultimately, the flu grips her in a way the war cannot. “Friday 22 November, 1918 Celebrated Armistice...School was opened after five weeks. We went to school for three weeks then it was closed again. December 3, 1918. Tuesday all five of us down with the flu.” Her December 5 entry is a string of named of friends who died of flu or are badly ailing, and she does not write again until the new year, as the pandemic continues. Amidst the tragedy and seeking scapegoats, the town erupts in racial violence. “March 8, 1920. Arnold’s store burned down...negro boy killed last night.”

Offered by Whitmore Rare Books and found in "Beyond Binaries."

 

JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER

 

CHARLES B. WOOD, BOOKSELLER

 

WOODBURN BOOKS

 

YESTERDAY'S MUSE BOOKS

 

ROY YOUNG BOOKSELLER, INC.

 

ZEPHYR USED & RARE BOOKS

 

ZH BOOKS

 

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