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 the end of July 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
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19th Century Decorated Paper Bindings, Decorated Cloth Bindings and Historic Works New York Book & Ephemera Fair Catalog
Featured item:
BROOKS, Gwendolyn
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); yellow and green cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in brown on spine; dustjacket; x,180,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock, touch of offsetting to endpapers, with lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears, two clear tape mends and two old tape ghosts on verso, with two faint splash marks on rear panel; Very Good+.
An attractive copy of Brooks's first novel, comprised of 34 interconnected vignettes which provide a realistic portrayal of Black life in Chicago, as seen through the eyes of a sensitive girl growing up and into marriage and motherhood" (COAN, p.186). BLOCKSON 5845.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books and found in "African American History & Culture."
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- 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
- Catalog 257: Miscellaneous Selections *New*
- E-catalog 143: A Miscellany *New*
- E-catalog 142: Latin American Literature *New*
- E-catalog 141: Psychology Books *New*
- E-catalog 140: Author's First Books *New*
- E-catalog 139: Decorative Cloth Bindings *New*
- Fall Into a Good Book: Notable New Listings *New*
- Books With to Dream *New*
- A Bit of History *New*
- BEAT THE HEAT! *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
- Arts & Crafts *New*
- Mostly Calligraphy *New*
- 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
- Brattlecast #135: Big Book Hauls (Podcast)
- Brattlecast #134: A Signing by Hancock (Podcast)
- Lettering and Typography *New*
- Summer Sale *New*
- Miniature Books (40% Off) *New*
- Catalogue Two: Not Fair
- New Publication Announcement: Paul Theroux's Facing Ka'ena Point
- Massive Archive of Golden Age Science Fiction Fanzines & Ephemera *New*
- E-list #60: African Americana
Featured item:
Massive Archive of Fanzines from the Golden Age of Science Fiction [Day, Don] et al.
[Various Places]: [Various Publishers], 1930s-1970s. An immense archive of over 3,000 original fanzines and ephemera, mostly from the late 1930s to mid/ late-1950s-- the years when scifi fandom was a closeknit group of correspondents, before the scifi boom expanded its audience. A small percentage of later fanzines (from mid '50s to the 1970s) are included, but the collection is primarily rooted in the Golden Era of Science-Fiction, from the late 1930s and 1940s.
This archive shows the highly-organized and sophisticated world of mid-20th century fandom fandom, made up of far-flung individuals who had found one another by reaching out to into the ether, united by their love of dreaming of the future, while using present day printing technology and speaking to each other through DIY-publishing. While mostly published in America, some fanzines hail from the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Mexico.
Ephemera includes convention programs, polls, notes and circulars from fanzine editors, ballots and constitutional papers of associations, and original illustrations....
PROVENANCE
As trading was a large part of scifi fan culture, many of the fanzines bear different owners' names but a large percentage of the collection accumulated by Don Day. Donald Byrne Day (1909-1978) was a singular force in Pacific Northwestern fandom during the Golden Era. By day he was a postal worker in Portland, Oregon but in his spare time he also managed to edit the influential fanzine The Fanscient, found the Portland Science-Fantasy Society and independent publisher Perri Press, chair NorWesCon (the 1950 World Science Fiction Convention or Worldcon), and become “perhaps the greatest of the early bibliographers of sf” according to no less an authority than The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books. Extensive details available here...
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- African American E-list *New*
- Southern Cookery *New*
- California E-list *New*
Featured item:
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA: LOUISIANA STATE RICE MILLING CO., INC, 1919. 2 Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 48 pp. Promotional cookbook by a Louisiana rice manufacturer. The first 28 pages print a discussion of the advantages of rice as well as text on rice culture and rice cultivation. This section prints many illustrations from drawings, mostly showing the cultivation and consumption of rice in China. It discusses the nutritional and economic advantages of rice, the crop’s benefits to infants and to the sick, the history of rice culture, and its methods of production, including "primitive" Asian methods and advanced modern methods. The rest of the book prints rice recipes, including many recipes for gumbos and jambalayas, as well as recipes for rice with tomatoes Mexican style, Greek rice, rice tortillas, and Vienna rice custard. An attractive copy with mild tearing, chipping, and creasing to wrappers, bit of foxing to pages.
Offered by Caroliniana and found in "Southern Cookery."
- Inhabited by Winston (January 2022)
- Winston for Your Walls
Featured item:
First edition of an especially virulent astrological prediction for the year 1565 by the Erfurt physician and astronomer Joannes Hebenstreit, who produced prognostications for every year from 1553 until his death in 1569, but exemplars from some of these years have not survived. The text surrounding the bizarre title woodcut sums up Hebenstreit's main points well: in 1565 the Pope will die, the Turks will perish, plague will reign, war will ravage, the Empire will fall. The arresting title woodcut illustrates a soldier and a skeleton bearing a coffin upon a catafalque covered with a mortcloth and topped with a papal tiara, all set against a backdrop of a burning city, the smoke from which roils in a turbulent sky where a dragon encircles two foreboding, eclipsed suns. Each of Hebenstreit's predictions are provided in graphic, apocalyptic detail, and he offers ideas for neither remedy nor prevention. Indeed, in the final section, Hebenstreit predicts not only a resurgence of plague, but something new and even worse: a fresh pestilence that will bring with it untold suffering and an unimaginable symptomatology that will drive the afflicted mad before it kills. The most doomsaying prognostication in Hebenstreit's oeuvre. No copies located in American libraries.
Offered by W.S. Cotter Rare Books and found in "Heat Wave."
- New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com (716) 688-8723 to request…
- African Americana *New*
- Irish Literature *New*
- Old Mill Bookshop: Modern First Editions *New*
- Sporting (mid-August 2022) *New*
Featured item:
Original Recording of James Joyce Reading 'Anna Livia Plurabelle' : Signed by Joyce
Cambridge, (England): The Orthological Institute/ (Made in England by Gramophone Co. Ltd.), [circa 1929].
First pressing. Original Recording of James Joyce Reading 'Anna Livia Plurabelle' : Signed by Joyce. A fine copy of a scarce, fragile recording, in publisher's original (unprinted) brown wrapper.
With inscribed slip by Joyce, to Jean [E. Mison], a freelance journalist based in Cambridge from approximately 1927 to 1964.
Recorded by C. K. Ogden, the creator of Basic English, one of the editors of the first English translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and author, with I. A. Richards, of The Meaning of Meaning, among his other accomplishments, was also experimenting with the recording of poets and writers. He had already published a Basic English version of Anna Livia Plurabelle, which amused Joyce, and so Sylvia Beach arranged for a meeting and the recording. She said of the results: "how beautiful Joyce's rendering of an Irish washerwoman's brogue" (Beach, Sylvia, "Recording James Joyce").
OCLC lists six holdings [McMaster, Indiana, Northwestern, Minnesota, Texas (HRC) and Wyoming]. Scarce, especially with publisher's printed statement and signed by James Joyce. Following this first pressing, for G. K. Ogden, there were three later pressing (for His Master's Voice, Argus Book Shop and Gotham Book Mart).
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller and found in "Irish Literature."
- 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
Featured item:
BISHOP, Isabella Bird. Among the Tibetans
London: Religious Tract Society, (1894). First edition, Small Octavo. 159, [1] pp. including 21 full page illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. gilt lama figure on front. In the exceedingly rare dust jacket (albeit
with large chunks missing from spine and upper front). A spotless copy in a printed dust jacket.
Isabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904) was an English traveler who made a remarkable series of journeys at the end of the 19th century. She is what we would call an inveterate traveler and explorer. Her first journey was occasioned by an illness; she set sail for Canada and the U. S. in 1854 to recover. She must have gotten the travel bug for she did not stop traveling for many decades (and mostly alone). Her next stop was Hawaii and she chronicled that in her book Six Months in the Sandwich Island published in1875. On to Japan and finally to the locale that she was most fascinated by; Northern India and Tibet. She traveled to Kashmir and Ladakh in the far north on the border with Tibet. During her travels one of her horses lost its footing while crossing a river. The horse drowned and Bird suffered two broken ribs. On her return to Simla in northern India she met up with Major Herbert Sawyer who was on his way to Persia. The two traveled together through the desert in midwinter and arrived in Tehran half-dead. After depositing the major at his new duty station, Bird set out alone and spent the next six months traveling at the head of her own caravan through northern Iran, Kurdistan, and Turkey.
Offered by Nat DesMarais Rare Books and found in "Tibet."
- New Arrivals (September 13, 2022) *New*
Featured item:
Optimistic Boxes 1-5 [Complete]
Robert Filliou
Remscheid, Germany: VICE-Versand, 1968-1981. Three wooden boxes, a stone, and a pink ceramic pig, each in varying dimensions, with affixed labels, each initialled by the artist.
A rare complete set of Filliou's most infamous, linguistically canny series of multiples, issued in numbers over a 13 year period. Each of the the multiples conveys a sentence broken into two parts, which in their division gain a suprising or ironic meaning. The first three numbers each present boxes, with printed labels on the top of each which bear the first half of each sentence.
Optimistic Box No. 1 bears a pink label on the top panel, which states "thank god for modern weapons..." The inside contains a hefty, roughly boxed shape rock, with the second title label inside the top panel finishes the sentence; "we don't throw stones anymore."The inside label is initialled by the artist.
Boite Optimistie No. 2 states "VIVE LE MARIAGE" on the upper label. The box opens to display an initialled spine label inside, which comples the phrase with "A TROIS." Inside the lower portion of the box is pasted a pornographic photograph of a threesome.
Optimistic Box No. 3 is a small wooden box that unfolds into a chess set. The silver title label on the upper panel reads "so much the better if you can't play chess" and opens to show a silver paper label inside the top cover, which reads "you won't imitate Marcel Duchamp." The box is empty.
The final installment of the series is a double number, and materially quite different from the previous numbers, taking the form of a glazed pink porcelain piggy bank, approximately 6 inches long and four inches wide. The pink color of the pig echoes the pink labels of Optimistic Box No. 1. There are labels on two sides of the pig. One label states "one thing I learned since I was born" and the second "that i must die since i was born."
Near fine to fine, with some minor bubbling to the labels of no. 1. The upper label also shows a short nick to upper margin. The labels of No. 2 show some apparent discoloration, similar to all examples we've handled. The labels of the final number are somewhat toned, with the signature largely faded.
Scarce in commerce, particularly the final number.
Offered by Division Leap and found in "Fall New Arrivals."
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
- E-list No. 88 Miscellany: Hints for Smokers, Airport Design, Animalysis & Of Course, the Children *New*
- E-list No. 87 Miscellany: Slips of Speech, Veils of Charm, Suffrage, WWII
Featured item:
Temperance Pledge Political Cartoon
United States. 1880s. Handcolored political cartoon in the style of a Penny Dreadful in support of the Temperance movement. Subtitled "Shake Him Off and Sign", the image depicts a poor drunken fellow in the shape of a whiskey bottle, about to sign a "Temperance Pledge" with the devil looking sadly on. Measures 9.5" by 7.5", verso blank. Very good. Short tears and chips, creased where previously folded.
Offered by Eclectibles and found in "E-list No. 88."
- Comic collection of William "Gatz" Hjortsberg -- Details available upon request from info@elkriverbooks.com...
- Highlights from the ABAA Virtual Book Fair
- September E-list *New*
- August 2022 E-list *New*
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
Featured item:
Seutter, Carl A. Der Mixologist: illustriertes internationales Getränke-buch. Third Edition.
Nordhausen: Heinrich Killinger, [ca. 1922]. 225 by 175mm (8¾ by 7 inches). Original illustrated boards; 103 pp. In German. Frontispiece of an American bar and a handful of additional illustrations throughout.
Very good plus. Light sun stain to cover.
The German opus of mixology. Seutter worked extensively in the United States as a bartender and brought back to Europe these recipes along with an extensive description of European punches and bowels. Includes such unusual concoctions such as the Oyster-Cocktail, Turkish Blood, Egg-Mulled Wine, Egg-Absinthe, etcetera. Also, describes the necessary implements to properly mix drinks and the differences between American and German methods of mixing Absinthe.
From the estate of Ulrich Klever (1922-1990), German nonfiction author and TV cook.
Offered by Mark Funke, Bookseller and found in "August Fresh Sheet."
- 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...
- Advance Fall Catalog, Slice 2 *New*
- Dance & Ballet *New*
- 17th-Century Books, Mostly Drama *New*
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
- Hart Crane (Forthcoming) -- for more information, contact mail@goldwasserbooks.com...
- Walker Evans - 35 items
- Ten Incumabula from Inventory *New*
- Aldus Manutius and his Family *New*
- Sixteenth Century Books in English on Theological Controversies *New*
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
Featured item:
Illustrated manuscript on paper, signed “Yashiro Nakagawa” on the first leaf.
One full-page & three double-page brush drawings in black & gray. 12 leaves, mostly folding. 8vo (243 x 160 mm.), orig. hand-drawn pictorial wrappers (a little stained & worn), stitched as issued, label on upper cover “Soba narabini kendon no yurai” (“Notes on Soba & Origins of the Word Kendon). [Japan: at end “copied 1833”].
A fascinating and nicely illustrated manuscript on soba noodles, with a history, recipes, and related stories. The illustrations are finely and expressively drawn.
On the first leaf of text, we learn this was written by Yashiro Nakagawa and edited by Tainotei. The fine full-page drawing at the beginning depicts a man kneading soba dough surrounded by all the ingredients and tools of his profession. Behind him is a woman tending the fire underneath a large boiling pot of water. The beginning text describes the materials used to make various soba noodles.
The text transitions to a moral story of a Chinese woman with kendon (selfish) qualities who does not want to share her food. In the first double-page illustration, she is shown sitting in a Chinese-style room and is approached by a Buddhist priest, Pindola Bharadvaja (or, in Japanese, Bindora osho), one of the Sixteen Arhats, Buddhist practitioners who had taken vows of poverty. Pindola is shown practicing takuhatsu, the act of going house to house asking for food and donations. This illustration is entitled (in trans.): “Pindola asking a selfish woman for a food donation.”
The story shows a deep knowledge of Buddhism and is filled with witty puns, kyoka poems, and parodies of ethical behavior. The next double-page illustration depicts the rotting corpse of Pindola being dragged away by disciples, who are holding their noses because of the odor. The text returns to the subject of soba and tea ceremony in Japan. There is a discussion of the famous Grand Kitano tea ceremony hosted by Hideyoshi in 1587, during which soba noodles were served. The text also states that soba is good for health.
The final double-page illustration shows the woman being punished for her stinginess.
This is followed by a series of kyoka poems about soba. It is stated that the entire text was edited in 1713 and was copied in 1833. This manuscript presents many mysteries, and we have only suggested the possibilities of research.
In very good condition.
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. and found in "Illustrated Japanese Gastronomic Manuscripts."
- E-list 206 New Arrivals in Poetry Photography Art Literature *New*
- E-list 205 New Arrivals in Poetry Photography Art Literature *New*
- E-list 204 New Arrivals in Poetry Photography Art Literature *New*
- Illustration and Design *New*
- 12 New Acquisitions (June 2022)
Featured item:
Bruno Munari. Uomini sulla Luna.
Milan: Sugar Editore, 1962. First edition of Bruno Munari’s science fiction panorama depicting a colony on the moon, accompanied by two discs containing audio of the imaginary lunar settlement. A single paragraph at the beginning of the panorama sets the scene, introducing space captain “Bill Ventura” in his spaceship, followed by Munari’s stunning color-printed lunar panorama, which can be viewed in two-panel sections or as an unbroken landscape. Viewers encounter a space station above the moon, with windows revealing the activities of the astronauts inside, followed by the bustling lunar colony itself, built under a protective dome, featuring decorative trees, a theater, a tennis court, and a swimming pool.
The flip side of the panorama offers a rough timeline of missile developments from the 1940s to the 1960s, ending with the United States Army’s Nike Zeus of the early 1960s. In the front and back folds of the panorama are two discs from outer space: the first contains messages from the space station to the lunar settlement, and the second the sounds within the first city on the moon. Text in Italian. OCLC records one holding, at Stanford. A near-fine example of popular space race iconography in the years just before humans set foot on the moon.
Double-sided panorama, measuring 7.75 inches square, 93 inches fully unfolded. Printed in color on both sides, with pockets in first and last panels holding flexible white 33-rpm records. Lightest edgewear.
Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers and found in their recent catalog "12 New Acquisitions."
- Rare Books Santa Monica
- Fine Press & Wood Engravings (October 2021)
- Catalog 417: A Note from the Editors -- New Catalog Series w/Recent Acquisitions
- Catalog 416: Amusing Things of Little Consequence: Letterheads
Featured item:
Akhmadeeva, Ioulia
Libro de botones / Book of Buttons
Aguascalientes, Mexico: National Engraving Workshop, 2017. Hardcover. Special digital edition of 5 copies. This digital edition is printed on acid-free paper from the artist's original watercolor lithographs. Bound in tan linen covered boards by Alternativa Grafica in Russian linen with silkscreened title and decoration. This book "is about some moments of the life of Antonina Sidorova (1924-2013), the artist’s grandmother. Each page is a story told by Antonina to the artist. About how at the age of five a horse took her into the woods. About how she sewed her first garment destroying a new dress and hair styled her rag doll with her own recently styled hair. Difficulties at an orphanage in Leningrad with Spanish children, while her mother was imprisoned in 1936. Her marriage at age of 17 with captain Vasily Voloshin, in the first year of the Patriotic War against German fascism in 1941. About when she went with her husband to live in the Far East of the USSR and helped the Army of the Soviet front sewing military coats. The book ends with the birth of her eldest daughter Valentina, mother of the artist. The button is a conductive element in the lives of the Voloshiny women, just because Antonina was a wonderful seamstress. The fabrics that are presented on the pages are pieces of clothing made by her and her daughter" (book artist). Created by Russian born book artist Ioulia Akhmadeeva, who has resided and worked in Mexico since 1994. She is a full professor of the book arts at the university in Morelia, Michoacá. Fine.
Offered by Kelmscott Books and found in "Artists' Books."
- 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
- British Monarchy, 1574-c.1840 (September 20, 2022) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, Scottish, American & Continental Law, 1587-1960 (September 13, 2022) *New*
- Prisons & Punishment, 1708-1982 (September 6, 2022) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law, 1584-1950 (August 30, 2022) *New*
- Legal Education, 1531-1933 (August 23, 2022) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law, 1602-1950 (August 16, 2022) *New*
- Early English Law, 1501-1627 (August 9, 2022) *New*
Featured item:
London: Printed by J. How, For William Bently, At Hallifax, In Yorkshire, 1708. [vi], 174 pp. With woodcut illustration of the Halifax gibbet opposite title page. 12mo (5-3/4" x 3-1/4"). Contemporary sheep, gilt paneling to boards, rebacked in period-style vellum, raised bands and blind fillets to spine, gilt tooling to board edges, marbled endpapers, blind tooling to inside edges. Light rubbing with some scuffing and wear to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, including corners, which are bumped and worn, front hinge cracked. Moderate toning to interior, occasional faint dampspotting, faint dampstain to bottom half of text block in a few places, slight loss to corners in a few places with no loss to text, ownership signature (of "N. Hunton") dated 1712 to front endleaf, early(?) annotations to illustration leaf and p. 67. First edition.
The Halifax gibbet was an early guillotine used to execute petty criminals until the mid-seventeenth century, long after use of the devices had been abandoned elsewhere. The law allowing the executions was an echo of feudal privileges given to the Lord of the Manor of Wakefield allowing him to execute anyone for the theft of goods of a certain value. The practice of Halifax's gibbet law was ultimately ended by Cromwell in 1650, but its legacy loomed large in the town. Midgely wrote our account while in prison for debt, either from his own imagination or an existing manuscript, but could not afford to have it published. Bentley, the parish clerk, discovered the manuscript and published it under his own name with some additions (likely the story of Eland, which seems unrelated to the gibbet). It was reissued in 1712 with a new title page and again in 1761 by Bentley's grandson.
Offered by The Lawbook Exchange and found in "Prisons & Punishment, 1708-1982."
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- New Arrivals (June 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
- Women *New*
- It's FIVE O'CLOCK in Reykjavik - Cocktail list *New*
- Food Writing/Food History *New*
- The Papers of Russell Edson *New*
- Short List of Periodicals: First Issues, Complete or Extended Runs from Inception
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
- New Acquisitions (September 2022) *New*
- New Antiquarian Music List (July 2022)
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DOCUMENTS
- Fall Occult List *New*
- Leonard Baskin Prints and Proofs *New*
- Diane Jacobs and the Scantron Press *New*
Featured item:
Baskin, Leonard. Round Crow Etching [Artist Proof, Second State].
1958. Unnumbered State Proof. Bright and clean. Sheet 13x12.5"; image 13.5" in diameter. Etching. Notation, inscription and signed by artist. Near Fine. Original Print.
Never mounted. From the Gehenna book Capriccio. Inscribed by Baskin, "For Jeanne& Robert from Leonard”. From the collection of Robert & Jeanne Quigley, both friends of Baskin. Robert was a superb woodworker and made woodblocks for Leonard’s prints and sculpture.
Offered by Lux Mentis Booksellers and found in "Leonard Baskin Prints & Proofs."
- 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 #43 *New*
- E-list #42
- Firsts of de Saint-Exupery & Hemingway
- Selection of Historic Editions of African-American Magazines from the 1940s-1970s
- September List *New*
- End of Summer Miscellany *New*
- Italian Librettos *New*
- 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
- Catalog Two *New*
- List #39: From Slavery to Civil Rights *New*
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
Featured item:
CLASSICAL DICTIONARY — Vocabularius variorum terminorum: ex poetis et historiographis congestus.
Strassburg: Johann Prüss, 18 February [25 January] “MCCCCII” (i.e., 1502). 4to (200 x 142 mm). [34] leaves, the last blank. Title and headings in gothic type, text in roman. Annunciation woodcut on title: the Virgin and angel within a floral wreath, angels above and two worshippers below; on verso a full-page woodcut of the Virgin and Child in Majesty, with typographic inscription “Virgo roga pr[o]le[m] q[uod] plebe[m] seruet et urbe[m]” on an undulating banner. A nice copy (first and last leaves each with a short marginal tear to title-leaf, small stain to penultimate leaf, a couple of colored pencil underlines to colophon). Modern parchment over thin boards.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the dating error in the colophon uncorrected, of a basic and still useful index of places and people in classical history, literature and mythology (mainly Greek). Written in simple Latin, this handy booklet provides concise identifications of “proper names of famous men [and women], cities, provinces, mountains, and rivers, most often found in poetry and histories.” The three-line introduction states that the glossary was condensed from Tortellius (from his massive Orthographia, first printed Rome 1471) and other unspecified works.
Offered by Musinsky Rare Books and found in "E-catalogue 25."
- 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
- The Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books *New*
- Old School Press *New*
- Books on Bookplatess: New Acquisitions *New*
- Catalog 58 May 2022 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
- Summer 2022 *New*
- Medicine
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
- The Bunker Hill Archive (Newsletter)
- New Historical Documents (Newsletter)
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- Special List 460, Genealogy *New*
- Special List 459, Jesuitica *New*
- Special List 458, Animals *New*
- Special List 457: Fifteen Recent Acquisitions *New*
- Americana E-list - By the Hands of Women 2022 *New*
- New Acquisitions in Americana, September 2022 *New*
- E-list: Winds of Change *New*
- Americana E-list: True Crime 2022 *New*
- Americana E-list - Games & Gambles *New*
- Catalog 49 (2022)
- Catalog 48 (2021)
ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- Firsts London 2022 *New*
- The Employee’s Choice Catalogue *New*
Featured item:
Harris Lewine
Plate of eight stamps created in 1957 to promote the release of The Unique Thelonious Monk, the second album in Thelonious Monk’s legendary tenure with Riverside Records. One of what are likely only a few existing examples. The design for the initial release (Riverside 12-209, 1956) was decidedly bland, and the label decided to reissue the album in 1957 with a revised (and now legendary) design. The new cover idea was conceived by Riverside's Harris Lewine and Paul Bacon using a photograph taken by Lawrence Shustak, designed and hand-lettered by Ken Braren, and executed in a lined philatelic version by Weber Processing in Philadelphia. Upon seeing the finished product, Lewine had the idea of producing plates of actual stamps to promote the record, complete with adhesive backing and standard stamp perforation. Lewine notes that the promotional effort was more than a little stifled when letters began turning up in mailboxes with the promotional stamps being used as actual postage (complete with cancels from the post office). Riverside was contacted by the FBI and advised to cease and desist or face legal action, at which point nearly all the stamps were destroyed. Monk’s second album for Riverside presented a collection of standards by a variety of composers, and importantly, utilized a new rhythm section consisting of Art Blakey and Oscar Pettiford, who would go on to become key players in Monk’s various efforts with Riverside and beyond. Near Fine on philatelic paper stock.
Offered by Royal Books and found in "Catalog Seventy-Six."
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
- Recent Acquisitions (September 20, 2022) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions (September 13, 2022) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions (August 16, 2022) *New*
- Whales & Whaling *New*
- A Handfull of 19th Century American Books
- Wines and Viticulture - 17 items from 4 centuries
- 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...
- Catalog 43, "Made the Machine Crack" -- available by request from garrett@bibliophagist.com...
- Catalog 42, Shake Up Open Your Eyes -- available by request from garrett@bibliophagist.com...
- Foxwell Medical History Collection: Part 7 *New*
- Summer 2022 E-list *New*
- Foxwell Medical History Collection, Part 6 *New*
- Foxwell Medical History Collection, Part 5: Fever, Pox, & Plagues *New*
MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- Pamphlets of a Miscellaneous Nature, A FS List *New*
- With A Feminine Touch, a FS List *New*
- Eclectic Ephemera, A FS List *New*
Featured item:
The SILVER RING MYSTERY. Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess Series #13.
Wells, Helen.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1960). 1st Edition. [10], 180, [2 (blank)] pp. Frontis + internal full-page illustrations. 12mo. Light blue tweed binding with dark blue lettering. Blue pictorial eps. Blue topstain. Full color wraparound dust jacket. VG+ (slight cock)/VG+ (some modest extremity wear).
All series adverts list through this title.
Offered by Tavistock Books and found in "With a Feminine Touch, a FS List."
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
- Etiquette, Homemaking, and the Domestic Arts *New*
- Late Summer Miscellany: Education, Early Books, Women’s Studies, Science, and More *New*
- Women, Abolition, and the Civil War *New*
Featured item:
NISSEN, Claus. Tierbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten.
Zürich: L’Art Ancien S.A.,Antiquariat; München: Robert Wölfle, Antiquariat; Olten: Weiss-Hesse, Antiquariat, 1968. Large folio, 19½ x 14¼ in. Illustrated zoological leaves from sixty different books with engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs of a variety of animals, including two incunable leaves and others, some of which have been hand-colored, each matted, fully labeled, and laid into a linen slipcase. This item is accompanied by a quarto text volume, 108, [+1, colophon] pp., with errata slip. It has black-lettered orange wrappers and is placed in a pocket on the inside of the case. Occasional minor foxing, light toning and offsetting to leaves. A fine set of leaves in a very lightly foxed case.
Offered by Michael R. Thompson Rare Books and found in "Late Summer Miscellany" (item #29).
- 2022: Catalog 1 -- print copies available at the upcoming California Book Fair!
- E-list #63: African Americana, Feminist Comix, LGBTQ... *New*
- E-list #62 GLBTQ, Women, Art Exhibitions, Music and more... *New*
Featured item:
Butcher, David.
Andover: Whittington Press, 1992. Two volumes. 9 x 12 1/2. Photographic frontis, xvi, 225 pages, 2 photographic plates, 8 tipped-in original leaves, original wood engraving, and honey label. Quarter vellum & marbled boards. A separate cloth & boards portfolio holds 20 original specimens of Stanbrook Abbey printing (both ephemera and leaves from books). Both volumes housed in slipcase. Fine. Item #13157
One of 50 special copies (of 350), signed by the authors. Butcher's illuminating discussion of the Press is followed by a complete bibliography. A Century for the Century 98.
Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book and found in "Leaves and Leaf Books."
- Catalog 278: THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF GEORGE ELLERY HALE *New*
- Catalog 277: More Books from a Private Collection *New*
- New York Book Fair 2022 -- a joint NY Fair catalog with Konstantinopel Rare Books
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
- July 2021: Mostly Private Press
- New Arrivals: Mostly Literature (May 18, 2021)
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