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 brought to our attention since mid-May 2022.
AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA TISHMAN BOOK APPRAISALS
- E-List #24: Women Sci-Fi Authors from Easton Press
- E-List #23. Put N' Take: A Collection of Gambling Sheet Music Scores, 1889-1987
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
- E-list #44 ~ W.W.I., Americana, Australia, Photographs, Maps, Ephemera
- E-list #43 ~ Antipodean Books at the Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair
- Electronic List 135: LAWRENCE WEINER (1942-2021)
- Electronic List 134: Fin-de-Siècle to Art Déco: World War I in Its Artistic Context, French Illustrated Books and Print Portfolios
- 19th Century Decorated Paper Bindings, Decorated Cloth Bindings and Historic Works New York Book & Ephemera Fair Catalog
Featured item:
by James Baldwin
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-256pp. Hint of sunning to spine ends, with a tiny London booksellers ticket to lower front pastedown, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 12s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, with some light wear and a few tiny tears at crown and upper corners, and some mild dust-soil on rear panel; Near Fine.
Baldwin's semi-autobiographical debut novel, which examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of inspiration and community. Through the character of fourteen-year-old John Grimes, Baldwin relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, attending the Temple of the Fire Baptized. "Flashbacks tell of the early life of his father and others in the South. A psychologically intense study of minority Christians bitterly trapped in the world of non-Negro Christians" (Coan, America In Fiction, p.178). An uncommonly well-preserved copy of Baldwin's most enduring work of fiction.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books and found in "Catalog 37."
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- Baseball *New*
- The Wild West *New*
- Sixty Books About Love -- Just in time for Valentine's Day, an offering of books about true and not-so-true love and its consequences, together with paeans and complaints to those beloved, and advice to aspiring lovers.
- Books by, for, and About, Women 1649-1877
Featured item:
Collection of Original Paris Commune Lithographs.
Collection comprising a total of twenty suites of lithographs published during or shortly after the Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune. Paris: various publishers, 1870–1871. Twenty volumes, ranging in size from 2 to 40 lithographs, some with decorative title pages, for a total of 238 plates. Various sizes, mostly quartos to small folios. Two suites housed in original publisher’s boards, loose as issued, the rest bound in more recent portfolios by a private collector. Scattered toning and light handling wear; minor foxing; occasional tiny private ex libris stamps; overall very good.
A striking group of lithographs, mainly satirical political cartoons and caricatures related to important figures and events from the time of the Paris Siege and the Commune. The depictions include Prussians, military figures, politicians, Napoleon Bonaparte and Marguerite Bellanger, Otto von Bismarck, Louis-Jules Trochu, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, Jules Favre, Ernest Picard, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Victor Henri Rochefort, Félix Dupanloup, Victor Hugo, Jules Grévy, Charles Floquet, Felix Pyat, General Vinoy, General Chanzy, Emile Ollivier, Baron Haussmann, Louis Veuillot, Helmuth von Moltke, and others. The artists include known illustrators and caricaturists of the period, such as André Belloguet, Victor Coindre, Henri Demare, Faustin (Faustin Betbeder), Napoléon Charles Louis de Frondat, Paul Klenck, Hippolyte Mailly, and Moloch.
Offered together with a suite of eight mounted albumen prints by Louis Lafon depicting Parisian ruins after the violent outbreaks of 1871, including Grenier d’abondance, Magasins réunis, Porte Saint-Martin, Gare d’Auteuil, and others. After the fall of the Second Empire, censorship in France was relaxed, which helped lead to an outpouring in the production of satirical drawings. They were circulated in the press, collected in albums, or even hung up in shop windows. This flourishing of satire combined with the incredible drama and violence of the Paris Commune resulted in a large number of politically charged cartoons and caricatures being created around the events and central figures of the period. An extensive collection of satirical cartoons, of crucial importance for the visual culture of 1870/71. Many of the volumes are not listed in KVK and OCLC; others have no copies located in North American institutions.
Offered by Bernett Penka Rare Books and featured in their recent catalog "New York Book Fair 2022 - General."
- E-catalog 134: Cuisine *New*
- E-catalog 133: Miscellany *New*
- E-catalog 132: Pulitzer Prize Winners *New*
Featured item:
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
New York: The Viking Press, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An exceptionally influential *Burgess 99* title, winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howell Medal. A lovely copy.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books and found in "E-catalog 132: Pulitzer Prize Winners."
- Catalogue 59: Forty Fine Horse Books, Prints, and Ephemera *New*
- Newly Listed Books & Ephemera "A Short list of auction and bookseller catalogues on historic and designer bindings." A PDF is available upon request from robin.bledsoe1@verizon.net...
- Juneteenth *New*
- The Great Outdoors *New*
- The Black Panther Party & Related Material from the Collection of Samuel L. Brooks
- The Early Modern Civil Rights Movement: 80 items from 1917 to 1953
- Summer Miscellany
- Spring Sale -- 30 first and limited editions
- Caldecott Winning Illustrators Series: Roger Duvoisin (Blog)
- Five Facts About Romantic Adventure Writer Janet Evanovich (Blog)
- Latest Acquisitions: Chronologies, Infographics, and Cartographic Data-Vizualization
- Reformers & Visionaries, Scoundrels & Incendiaries: 250 Years of Persuasive Mapping
Featured item:
Catharine Susan’s Little Holiday
Unrecorded. If John Held and Dare Wright collaborated to produce a children’s book, this might have been the result. Catharine Susan is a jointed doll in a disjointed narrative. A schoolgirl, she gets to go on vacation. After a dream of a pillow-fight with other doll girls, she finds herself shipwrecked with a young soldier boy doll.
As the two dolls picnic, a completely-benign green frog startles Susan causing her to swoon from the sheer amphibious horror. Catching her limp form, and breaking her fall, her gallant boy toy simultaneously (and gallantly) takes his rapier and stabs the defenseless frog through its heart. (Listen to “It’s not Easy Being Green (Kermit’s Song)” to better understand this frog’s point-of-view.) This violent act bizarrely segues into Susan getting ready for a baseball game and of then encountering an “ugly farmer” who grows kind. Susan then goes home and writes about her holiday journey.
Watt & Shand of Lancaster and Columbia, Pennsylvania published this oddity. They wanted the local children to visit their Fancy Goods Carnival and to buy their wood and iron toys and their books: “Our Book Counters will be one of the busy corners of the store. Picture books, Story Books ... [etc.]” They also advertised their Doll Family. From plain to elegant, from 25 cents to $5.00 each.
Description: [Watt & Shand]. Catharine Susan’s Little Holiday.
[Likely Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ca. 1910s]. [12] leaves. Self-titled wraps. Moderate soil and small flaws to covers; overall, very good.
Offered by Ian Brabner, Rare Americana and found in "Twenty on the Tues."
Featured item:
LES ROBES DE PAUL POIRET RACONTÉES PAR PAUL IRIBE
Paris: La Société Générale d’Impression (1908). Folio, publisher’s boards with printed garland swag surrounding lettering in red. Moderate rubbing to boards; plates clean and bright. In handsome custom dark red crushed morocco-backed boards and black board slipcase. Small folding card with printed presentation by Poiret and tipped-in color illustration of a nude. One of 250 copies on Holland paper, this one out-of-series, with ten vivid pochoir plates, two of which are folded, of Poiret’s fashions by Paul Iribe.
Paul Poiret was the most celebrated couturier from pre-World War I years until the late1920s. Long before Coco Chanel, he created supple clothes which freed women from their corsets (while often hobbling them with narrow hem lines). His interest in theatrical costume and Orientalism defined his work. A famous publicity album: according to Pages d’Or de l’Édition Publicitaire, it was the first of its genre. Paul Iribe, an artist, designer and illustrator, was the perfect interpreter of Poiret’s clothes. In his studio he designed furniture, textiles and wallpaper and later designed sets and costumes for Cecil B. DeMille’s films. His work here started a new style of fashion illustration which inspired Georges Lepape, Charles Martin, Georges Lepape, and André Marty.
This album is included in the 2019-2020 Metropolitan Museum exhibition “In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection”: “The printed page became a nascent space for Poiret to pursue the integrated whole of his artistic vision.”
Offered by Marilyn Braiterman and found in "Catalogue 37."
- Brattlecast #131: Great Gifts Anytime (Podcast) *New*
- Brattlecast #130: Edward Bernays Father of PR (Podcast) *New*
- Ten Books - An Eclectic Selection From Buddenbrooks *New*
- Cervantes’ Great Classic - ‘Don Quixote’ - Five Editions *New*
- Catalogue Two: Not Fair
- New Publication Announcement: Paul Theroux's Facing Ka'ena Point
Featured item:
James Baldwin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Advance reading copy, issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition, with alternate artwork not used in the first edition. [x], 303, [1] pp. Perfectbound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good, dampstain to front wrap; spine sunned, creased, and rubbed along edges. Slight curling to front wrap, wear at corners. Small marginal tidemark to upper margins of prelims. A rare prepublication copy of the celebrated African American author's first book.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books and found in "African Americana."
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- Inhabited by Winston (January 2022)
- Winston for Your Walls
- List 283: World Wars I & II Aviation
- List 281 - New Acquisitions: Books about Books * Calligraphy * Cartography, etc.
- New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com (716) 688-8723 to request…
Featured item:
Bosanquet, Theodora.
London: Hogarth Press, 1924.
First edition. The Hogarth Essays, No. 3. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Beautiful Copy. Cream wrappers, cover design by Vanessa Bell. Fine, fresh copy. Boxed Woolmer 42; Rhein, pp. 36-7. Item #324894
Bosanquet was Henry James's secretary from 1907 until his death in 1916. “In February of 1924, Virginia wrote directly to Bosanquet about an article of 10,000 words on James for which the Press would pay her twenty-five percent of the profits: ‘I think it should make a most interesting litle book’” (Rhein). The only title in the Hogarth Essay Series to be hand printed by the Woolfs.
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller and found in their recent catalog "The Hogarth Press."
- 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
- E-list: Photographic Archives, Latin-Americana, African-Americana, Lincoln Conspirators, American Indian History, and More -- Joint catalog with Auger Down Books
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
- New Arrivals (June 14, 2022) *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...
Featured item:
I'm Out to Lick Runway Prices. Let's All Follow the 7-Key Plan to Hold Prices Down [poster]
Office of Economic Stabilization
Notes: A rather fierce-looking poster encouraging women to participate in the federal efforts to control inflation driven by shortages during the Second World War. An illustration of a woman wearing an apron, her teeth and fist clenched dominate the poster. Below the image are a list of seven key actions: buy war bonds; pay taxes; get life insurance; reduce debt; buy only what is needed; comply with rationing; and cooperate with wage stabilization efforts.
20-1/8 by 28-5/16 inches.
Edition + Condition: Small piece of upper left corner missing, short tears at the folds, thus very good. Folded for mailing, as issued. SHIPS FOLDED. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction.
Publication: [Washington, DC]: Distributed by O.W.I. [Office of War Information] for the Office of Economic Stabilization, 1944.
Offered by Downtown Brown Books and found in "List 71: WWII Homefront Posters."
- E-list No. 87 Miscellany: Slips of Speech, Veils of Charm, Suffrage, WWII *New*
- New York Book Fair 2022
Featured item:
Miniature Biographies Published by Duke Brand Cigarettes
Knapp & Company. Park Place, New York. 1890s. A complete set of 48 absolutely charming miniature chromolithographed biographies, published as part of an advertising campaign for Duke Brand Cigarettes. Each was issued in a box of cigarettes in a "collect-them-all"-type marketing ploy. The complete set here includes 7 women and 41 men. Each measures approx. 3" by 1.5", is approx. 16 pp., and stapled in original chromolithographed illustrated wrappers.
The wrappers are particularly well-designed, and feature a portrait of the subject on the upper wrapper, and an allegorical/metaphorical illustration on the lower wrapper that matches that figure's accomplishments. For example, industrialist Andrew Carnegie has a coal worker shoveling coal on his lower wrapper, while Edgar Allan Poe has a raven perched atop a pile of books on his lower wrapper. Explorer and hunter Henry M. Stanley has an African woman's bust inside a map of Africa on his lower wrapper. Other prominent figures run the gamut from actors (Edwin Booth, Sarah Bernhardt), to writers and poets (Tennyson, Irving), to businessmen (Vanderbilt), engineers and inventors (James B. Eads, Mary Anderson), and politicians (William Henry Harrison). There is even one child, the musical prodigy Josef Hoffman.
Offered by Eclectibles and found in "E-list No. 87."
- Comic collection of William "Gatz" Hjortsberg -- Details available upon request from info@elkriverbooks.com...
- Highlights from the ABAA Virtual Book Fair
Featured item:
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First American edition. 8vo. [5], v, [3], 3-278, [2] pp. Black cloth with the Grimm Reaper stamped in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the jacket. With a few in-text designs. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Very near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has been minutely touched up at the very tip of the spine panel and at three of the corners of the folds. The story of a cordon sanitaire in an Algerian city, Camus’ novel focuses on characters in lockdown as an epidemic rages in their town. Unsurprisingly, the book experienced a resurgence in its popularity during the recent pandemic. A sharp copy.
Offered by Evening Star Books and found in "May 2022: New Arrivals."
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...
- 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...
- New Acquisitions with Many FIne Bindings (June 2022) *New*
- Commercial List (April 2022)
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
- Hart Crane (Forthcoming) -- for more infomation, contact mail@goldwasserbooks.com...
- Walker Evans - 35 items
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- E-list 200 | 55 New Arrivals *New*
- E-list 199 | 55 New Arrivals | Robert Frost, Duane Michals, Diane Arbus, Todd Walker *New*
- Short list of Robert Frost Christmas Greetings *New*
- Literature List (May 2022) *New*
- January 2022 New Acquisitions
- Rare Books Santa Monica
- Fine Press & Wood Engravings (October 2021)
- Sharon Dolin Center for the Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Archive -- A detailed list is available upon request from james@jamesjaffe.com
- Jonathan Williams / The Jargon Society: a comprehensive selection of their publications -- The 233-page illustrated catalogue offers over 550 items, including books, manuscripts, letters, photographs and ephemera. The catalogue is available upon request from james@jamesjaffe.com -- There is no digital version of this catalogue.
- Catalog 417: A Note from the Editors -- New Catalog Series w/Recent Acquisitions
- Catalog 416: Amusing Things of Little Consequence: Letterheads
- New York Book Fair 2022
- Manuscripts, Letters & Art (New York Book Fair)
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
- Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- New York Book Fair 2022
- Fifty curious items published on the occasion of the California Book Fair / Virtual Book Fair
- Illustrated Books, 1514-1910 (June 14, 2022) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law, 1486-1930 (June 7, 2022) *New*
- Clarence Darrow: His Life, Family & Legacy (May 31, 2022) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, Scottish, American & Continental Law, 1584-1938 (May 24, 2022) *New*
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Women: A Short List *New*
- Catalog 189, Rare Americana *New*
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- New Arrivals (March 2022)
- A December Miscellany
- On Our Shelves No. 27 – Beast and Man in India (Video)
- Rare Book Moment 26: Look for relationships in your collection (Video)
- Gorey Christmas
- E-cat featuring Anti-fascism, racial stereotypes, mid-century folk and propaganda and more
- Short List of Periodicals: First Issues, Complete or Extended Runs from Inception
- Cinema and Cinema-adjacent: A Catalogue of Printed and Archival Materials
Featured item:
GLANCY, Diane
Cache Fourche
(Tulsa), (Hadassah Press), (1981). An early book, a collection of poetry, by this author of Cherokee descent. Glancy's first several publications were chapbooks that she published herself, first as the Hadassah Press, and then as the MyrtleWood Press: Hadassah is the Hebrew word for Myrtle, the author's grandmother's name. This title was published the same year as Drystalks of the Moon and Clearing Ghostlaw's Field: only one book, Traveling On, preceded, in 1980. OCLC locates only one copy of Cache Fourche, and this is the first time we have encountered this title. Trace spotting to covers; a very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Extremely scarce, both in the market and in library holdings.
Offered by Ken Lopez Bookseller and found in "E-list 190."
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DOCUMENTS
- 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
- E-list #41 *New*
- E-list #40
- From [Shame] to PRIDE! Queer Narratives from Miscellany *New*
- Claude Brown. Freda DeKnight. Sally Mann *New*
Featured item:
WHITMAN, WALT.
Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855... 1888 [Leaves of Grass]
SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF WHITMAN’S WORK; A REMARKABLE COPY FROM WHITMAN’S PERSONAL LIBRARY.
On this Edition:
“Whitman never lost his passion for joining disparate parts into a whole: it was the basis of his politics, his philosophy, and his bookmaking. He wrote to one acquaintance in 1886 that ‘I think of... bringing out a complete budget of all my writing in one book.’... Horace Traubel was again involved in getting this big book out, and he and Whitman had endless discussions about all aspects of its production."
Whitman was worried about his failing health and terrified that he would die before his “big book” was published. “At one point the poet told Traubel, ‘I am in a hurry—in a hurry: I want to see the book in plates: then I can die satisfied. We will attend to the presswork and binding when we come to it. The main thing is the plates—the plates. Horace, I am on the verge of a final collapse: I look on the future—even tomorrow, next day—with a feeling of the greatest uncertainty. I am anything but secure: let us make the book secure.’ ... Whitman was immersed in every aspect of his bookmaking” and was very pleased with the result, for upon receiving the first copies he declared to Traubel, “it's better—far, far better—than the best I looked for.” (All quotations from Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman).
Whitman’s “big book”– what he thought of as the final monument to his career – was published in only 600 copies “for the author’s own use”, with each copy signed on the title page. This copy is the first issue – without the limitation number added by hand by Horace Traubel. (All copies that were distributed before Feb. 14, 1889 were unnumbered.) In Myerson’s binding A.
On this copy – from Whitman’s own personal library:
With presentation inscription on the front free endpaper from Thomas Biggs Harned:
"To John Lewis Cochran, Esq., with the compliments of Thomas B. Harned, June 11, 1897 / This book is one of a few copies of this edition found among the author's effects after his death and it came into the hands of his literary executors. T.B. Harned.”
“One of Whitman's three literary executors, Thomas Biggs Harned [1851-1921] was a prosperous Philadelphia lawyer and a brother-in-law of Horace Traubel. His twenty-year acquaintance with Whitman involved nearly daily contact during the poet's final years. Harned's well-furnished Camden home was a social center where Whitman dined and drank richly, amused Harned's three children, and met prominent religious and political men. Harned funded the construction of Whitman's mausoleum and co-arranged his funeral, at which he participated as speaker and pallbearer. Later, Harned wrote the introduction to the definitive ten-volume Camden Edition of Whitman's works (1902).” (The Walt Whitman Archive). The “Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman” now resides in the Library of Congress.
The recipient, John Lewis Cochran (1857-1923), was a Philadelphia businessman who later moved to Chicago and became a prominent real estate developer.
Laid in are prints of four photographs (possibly unique prints) of Whitman’s mausoleum in Camden, NJ (funded by Harned). It appears that the man with the long beard in three of the photographs is Richard Maurice Bucke (along with Traubel and Harned, Whitman’s literary executor) and that the shorter man with the mustache is Harned. (The third man in one of the photos remains unidentified.)
Also with a beautiful phototype portrait of Whitman by the Philadelphia photographer Frederick Gutekunst and a broadside printing of “An impromptu criticism on the 900 page Volume ‘the Complete Peoms and Prose of Walt Whitman'” by Bucke laid-in.
Book complete with title page portrait (Linton engraving after G.C. Potter photograph) and engraved portrait of Whitman as a young man (used as frontispiece in the 1855 Leaves of Grass) bound in at page 28, before Leaves of Grass.
Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855...1888. Authenticated and Personal Book (handled by W.W.) Portraits from Life... Autograph. Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1888-89. Large octavo, publisher’s three-quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards with original paper label (Myerson's Binding A). In superb custom box by Natasha Herman of Redbone Bindery matching original binding. Text block and hinges (nearly invisibly) stabilized internally, binding with light edgewear and a few chips to rare original label.
A MAGNIFICENT SIGNED COPY FROM WHITMAN’S OWN LIBRARY OF HIS “BIG BOOK”; A MONUMENT OF HIS LIFE'S WORK.
Offered by Manhattan Rare Books and found in "Modern Poetry."
- 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.
- Medicine, 1477-1801 *New*
- 19th-Century Books & Manuscripts *New*
- Never Out of Style: Greek & Latin Classics, 1473-1827 *New*
- Annotated Books, 1479-1839 *New*
Featured item:
[Washington, D. C.]: Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority, (n. d.). Circa 1944. 11” x 8-1/2”. Stapled wrappers printed in black, with b/w halftone on front wrapper of Japanese American soldiers holding an American flag. Edgeworn, with short split to spine head; staining to corner of front wrapper; small chip to edge of several leaves. Good. Propaganda piece encouraging Nisei to enroll in the military during WWII, with articles on and halftone photographic illustrations of the 442nd Combat Team (comprised of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Engineers and 442nd Infantry), 100th Infantry Battalion, Nisei WACs, and reprinted magazine and newspaper articles about individual Nisei soldiers. The booklet opens with a photographic illustration of an internee at Minidoka pointing to the names of her three brothers on that camp’s Honor Roll memorial for those serving in the Army, paired on the facing page with a rallying statement from FDR, dated less than a year after he issued Executive Order 9066: “Every loyal American citizen should be given the opportunity to serve this country wherever his skills will make the greatest contribution -- whether it be in the ranks of our armed forces, war production, agriculture, Government service, or other work essential to the war effort.”
Offered by Kate Mitas, Bookseller and found in "E-list #15."
- Louis M. Jason's book Literary (and Other) Celebrity Doodles II is now available. Contact the store at info@mysterypierbooks.com to order...
- Father's Day Gift Offerings
- Catalog 58 May 2022 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
- May 2022 *New*
- March 2022
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
Featured item:
Chicago: N.K. Fairbank Co.; Hammond Press, W.B. Conkey Company, 1915. Small octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 192 pages. Illustrated. Index.
FIRST EDITION. Elizabeth O. Hiller was a prominent “lecturer on household science” and principal of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School. She was also a shill for the N.K. Fairbank Company, and the firm's cottonseed oil-based Cottolene products appear in many, if not most, of the recipes contained in Fifty-two Sunday Dinners. Hiller was also the compiler of many of the fanciful calendars produced by the Volland Company in the nineteen teens and twenties. Light creasing to title page, otherwise near fine in publisher's green and white-decorated green cloth.
Offered by Rabelais Books on Food & Drink and found in "Fresh Arrivals, No. 85."
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- Special List 453, Fifty More Books Relating to India *New*
- Special List 452, Geology & Mineralogy *New*
Featured item:
CAMÕES, Luís [Vaz] de. The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem: Written in the Portingall Language by Luis de Camoens; and Now newly put into English by Richard Fanshaw Esq.
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1655. Folio (28 x 18.4 cm.), late nineteenth-century polished tan calf by Kaufman (slight wear), spine richly gilt with raised bands in six compartments, short author-title lettered in gilt in second compartment from head, marbled endleaves, text block edges tinted yellow.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of a bust of Camões with verse beneath facing title page. Engraved folding plates of Prince Henry the Navigator (tear repaired) and Vasco da Gama (margins strengthened). Fine elaborate woodcut headpiece and large elegantly decorated factotum initial on leaf A2 recto (headpiece repeated on p. 1). Smaller factotum initial and typographical headpiece on leaf A3 verso. Typographical headpieces on leaves A4 recto and b2 verso. Nice woodcut initial on p. 1. title page backed and remargined. Tear to leaf A4 at inner margin crudely repaired. Overall in good condition. Bookplates of Henry Yates Thompson and Kenneth Rapoport. (10 ll.), 224 pp. [i.e., 226—there is an unnumbered leaf between pp. 46 and 47].
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Sir Richard Fanshawe was English Ambassador to Spain and Portugal for some years. The portrait of Vasco da Gama is signed by Thomas Cross, who probably engraved the other two portraits as well. “This was Fanshawe’s longest work and was written while he was living on parole at Tankersley Park, Yorkshire, as the guest of the dedicatee [William, Earl of Strafford]. Sir Richard Burton has declared that, despite the freedom of this translation, the author was thoroughly competent as a student of Portuguese. The editor of Fanshawe’s letters in 1724 asserts that it was published without the translator’s consent, and before ‘he could put his last finishing stroaks’.”—Pforzheimer. Camões’ epic poem accounting Vasco da Gama’s voyage to Africa and India in 1497-8 is one of the great literary monuments of European expansion and discovery. William Mickle, its eighteenth-century translator called it “the epic poem of the birth of commerce”. The poet Lachlan Mackinnon, reviewing Laandeg White’s new verse translation in the Times Literary Supplement of 12 February 1999, priased Fanshawe’s version for its vivid detail, describing it as a “minor classic … which is, astonishingly, out of print”.
Provenance: Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928, with note that he bought the book at Lisbon in 1886 for £6. Signature of A.E.F. Davis in upper outer corner of second front free endleaf recto. Kenneth Rapoport, distinguished collector of Cervantes.
Offered by Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books and found in "Special List 453."
- Catalog 49 (2022)
- Catalog 48 (2021)
ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
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It's Alive (Musical Score & Archive)
Bernard Herrmann
Archive of Bernard Herrmann material from the 1974 film, from the collection of director Larry Cohen. Included in the archive is the complete autograph musical score manuscript by Herrmann, signed twice by the composer, as well as Herrmann’s 63- page cue sheet, and twelve photographs from the score recording session for the film. The archive also includes a color photograph of actor William Wellman with the mutant baby prop used in the film, an autograph letter addressed to Cohen from horror author and producer Tony Timpone, and a concert program from Herrmann’s 1974 Byron Concert, inscribed on the first page by Herrmann to Cohen and his wife Janelle: “For Larry + Janelle / with love / Bernard Herrmann.” The centerpiece of the archive is Herrmann’s 53-page autograph musical manuscript in black marker, signed and dated “Dec 1973” on the last page. The manuscript is additionally stamped “Composed by Bernard Herrmann” on the top right portion of the first leaf, with holograph annotations by Herrmann in red and magenta marker and pencil throughout.
Offered by Royal Books and found in "Royal Books Catalog Seventy-Five."
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
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The Only Known Example of Pagano's Separattely Issued Map of the Battle of Algiers
Venice / 1542 ca. The only known example of Matteo Pagano’s Map of the 1541 Conquest of Tunis, engraved in Venice by the master engraver Matteo Pagano.
This rare and until recently unknown woodcut map was irst catalogued by Szathmáry (1992) who in 1987 bought the only known example of this work in Arezzo. The work was part of a small collection of woodcut plates signed by Matteo Pagano, Giovanni Andrea Vavassore and Tommaso di Salò, which were then sold separately. After that the work was part of the Fritz Hellwig collection.
Szathmáry, in the cataloging of these unpublished woodcuts, dated the map to 1541, probably based on the military events depicted in the table, relating to the siege of Algiers in 1541 by the leet led by Charles V. However, if we accept the hypothesis that the model of this work is the De stadt van Aelgier (1542) by Cornelis Antoniszoon, the work of Pagano must necessarily be later. The other theory, that this plate is the model for the Dutch one, seems to be disproved by the fact that Antoniszoon took part in the expedition of Charles V to the African coast.
The 1541 Algiers expedition occurred when Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire attempted to lead an amphibious attack against the Ottoman Empire’s stronghold of Algiers, in modern Algeria. Inadequate planning, particularly against unfavourable weather, led to the failure of the expedition.
Algiers had been under the control of the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magniicent since its capture in 1529 by Barbarossa. Barbarossa had left Algiers in 1535 to be named High Admiral of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople, and was replaced as governor by Hassan Agha, a eunuch and Sardinian renegade. Hassan had in his service the well-known Ottoman naval commanders Dragut, Sālih Reïs, and Sinān Pasha.
Charles V made considerable preparations for the expedition, wishing to obtain revenge for the recent siege of Buda. However the Spanish and Genoese leets were severely damaged by a storm, forcing him to abandon the venture. The Expedition began in late September 1541, delayed by troubles in Germany and Flanders. The leet was assembled in the Bay of Palma, at Majorca. It had more than 500 sails and 24,000 soldiers. After enduring dificult weather, the leet only arrived off the coast of Algiers on October 19. The most distinguished Spanish commanders accompanied Charles V on this expedition, including Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of Mexico, though he was never invited to the War Council.
Charles established his headquarters on a land promontory surrounded by German troops. German, Spanish, and Italian troops, accompanied by 150 Knights of Malta, began to land while repelling Algerine opposition, soon surrounding the city, except for the northern part. The fate of the city seemed to be sealed, however the following day the weather became severe with heavy rains. Many galleys lost their anchors and 15 were wrecked onshore. As more troops were attempting to land, the Algerines started to make sorties, slaughtering the newly arrived. Charles V was surrounded, and was only saved by the resistance of the Knights of Malta. Andrea Doria managed to ind a safer harbor for the remainder of the leet at Cape Matifu, 5 miles east of Algiers. He enjoined Charles V to abandon his position and join him in Matifu, which Charles V did with great dificulty. From there, still oppressed by the weather, the remaining troops sailed to Bougie, still a Spanish harbor at that time. Charles abandoned his army and sailed home.
RARITY This is the only known example, as previously documented by Bifolco-Ronca. All Matteo Pagano separately published maps are of the utmost rarity.
PROVENANCE Fritz Hellwig collection, purchased at Reiss & Sohn in 2019.
CONDITION DESCRIPTION Worming at centerfold expertly restored on verso. A bit of original color.
Offered by Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique maps, Inc. and found in "Spring 2022."
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Bly, Robert. In a boat on Big Stone Lake / for Jack Maguire.
[Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. Broadside, approx. 18" x 13" letterpress printed, with a blue and yellow silkscreen by Vanden Berg; not examined out of frame; fine.
Signed by Bly and printed in a limited but unspecified number. Number 2 in the first series of "Unicorn Broadsheets."
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books and found in "Recent Acquisitions (June 14, 2022)."
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Antwerp: Plantin, 1591. 2 volumes in one, oblong 4to. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, 2173 woodcut illustrations printed 2-3 per page, indexes of plant names in Latin, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and English at end. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin, initials “A.V.G.H.” and date 1593 gilt stamped on upper cover; hinges and spine ends repaired in vellum, later endpapers. Second edition, of the “most useful reference work in connection with the study of 16th-century botanical illustration.” (Hunt) This copy contains frequent French plantnames and notes added in a legible hand (17th c?), sometimes referring to Bauhin, Dodoens, Mattioli, et. al. Bookplate of The Horicultural Society of New York. Kenneth K. Mackenzie.
Offered by Sanctuary Books and found in "Botany & Gardening."
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BILL JUSTICE (1914-2011) Animator for Disney Studios.
Two Original Sketches Signed. Chip 'n' Dale Sketch Signed, on a 3 x 5 inch card. Justice sketched two of his popular and favorite characters, the chipmunks Chip and Dale. He inscribed and signed the drawing rendered in black marker, "Best wishes to Bill, Bill Justice." Undated. (A note to Baby Boomers: Justice directed the animated Mickey Mouse March opening for "The Mickey Mouse Club. [can be purchased separately for $295.00] Pinocchio's smiling face grace's the LOVE Stamp First Day Cover. Pencil sketch, inscribed and signed, postmarked Aug. 8, 1988. Justice sketched Pinocchio near the red "LOVE" above four red roses identified as Aristocral Cachets and above the printed explanation of the rose's association with love. Between Pinocchio's face and the very popular and colorful rose adorned Love stamp, Justice wrote, "Best Wishes to Kati," and signed, "Bill Justice," below the postmark. Perhaps best known as the animator of the chipmunk duo, Chip and Dale, Justice was a contributing animator for "Pinocchio," Disney's 1940 animation film. Justice's long career for Disney Studios involved many aspects of animation film making and also included engineering projects related to Disney theme parks.
Perhaps best known as the animator of the chipmunk duo, Chip and Dale, Justice was a contributing animator for "Pinocchio," Disney's 1940 animation film. Justice's long career for Disney Studios involved many aspects of animation film making and also included engineering projects related to Disney theme parks. (A note to Baby Boomers: Justice directed the animated Mickey Mouse March opening for "The Mickey Mouse Club.").
Offered by Schulson Autographs and found in "Catalog 189."
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Featured item:
GOLD SCALE In ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER'S WOODEN CASE, Circa 1850. E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra. William Street, 73. New York.
[California Gold Rush].
New York: E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra, (n. d.). Circa 1850. Suspension gold scale made of brass, with troy and grain weights. Troy weights nested, ranging from 1/16 to 4 oz; grain weights include 2, 6, and 10. Case: 1-11/16" x 6-11/16" x 3-1/8". Scale, when hanging: ~8-1/4" x 7-1/8", brass balances 2-1/2" in diameter. Wooden case with a hinged lid and hook clasps, seller's label to inside of lid. Interior has carved compartments for the brass scale and weights, including a small compartment for grain weights with a hinged lid. Light general wear to case and weights, brass balances a bit tarnished. Only contains the three grain weights, so perhaps others missing? VG overall. Item #42777
In 1850, the New York firm of E. Fabreguettes, Fils & Morra, importers of French fancy goods, attempted to capitalize on the California Gold Rush by adding gold scales to their wares. Notices in several of the city's papers in late October and early November of that year, including the Monday, November 4th edition of The Evening Post, advertised the following:
"GOLD SCALES. || The subscribers offer for sale the best and most approved pattern of French Standard Gold Scales, adjusted exactly to the United States Mint Standard, of every size and weight. || These scales are so made that they take but very little compass when packed, and are much more neatly and conveniently finished, than either the English, German, or American article. As we have all that are made of this pattern, parties having orders for shipment to California, are solicited to examine them before purchasing elsewhere. Also for sale, a variety of French fancy goods, accordeons [sic], &c. || E. Fabreguettes, Fils & Morra, 73 William Street, (up stairs.)."
E. Fabreguettes, Fils & Morra was located at 61 Maiden Lane until at least 1847, moving to their William Street address in 1848 or 1849. No later advertisements for these scales appear to have been issued in New York newspapers, leading us to conjecture that the firm's venture into the gold mining market was perhaps not particularly successful. It is, of course, impossible to say with any certainty if this particular scale was originally used during the Gold Rush, though this one here offered was purchased in California, giving rise to possibility it may very well have been. In either case, a nice artifact from the California Gold Rush era.
Offered by Tavistock Books and found in "California, Our 31st State."
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
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