Don’t miss the 2024 ABAA Holiday Virtual Book Fair!

The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) will host a virtual book fair to kick off the end-of-year holidays, December 5-7, 2024, at www.abaa.org/vbf.

The exhibitors can be previewed here...

Doors open at 12 pm ET on Thursday, December 5, 2023 and will remain open continuously until 7 pm ET on Saturday, December 7, 2024. Exhibitors will replenish their booths each night, giving collectors an incentive to visit and shop over multiple days. Admission is free! 

 

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Preview items:

 

The Emerald City of Oz
L. Frank Baum

BAUM, L[yman] Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilly & Britton [1910]. 8vo, 296pp. Navy cloth with spine pictorially stamped in black and silver and color pictorial label affixed to the front. Two-color pictorial endpapers; 16 color plates with metallic green ink. Spine ends rubbed, corners less so, some creasing to cloth at head of spine effecting a few letters in the title, light scratching to front label, sheets a tad aged, else a clean bright copy. This is a Baum Family copy, having the signatures of Frank Joslyn Baum (Frank Jr.) and his son, Joslyn Stanton Baum!

First edition. When Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry need a new home, Dorothy comes up with the perfect answer -- The Emerald City of Oz. But while Dorothy and her family are being welcomed to Oz, the wicked Nome King is busily plotting to conquer Oz and have his dastardly revenge on Princess Ozma and Dorothy. One of the finest Baum family copies we have seen!

 

ANDY WARHOL
The 1966 Boston Institute of Contemporary Art Catalogue

Boston. Institute of Contemporary Art. ANDY WARHOL. Unpaginated catalogue with approximately 35 b&w reproductions. Thin folio, wrappers in a new cloth box, 1966.

 

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE
Carroll, Lewis

Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1900. Hardcover. Good. One of McKay's "Young People's Classics." Octavo, 7 in. x 5 in., pp. 192. lllustrated with four colored plates and numerous drawings by an unattributed artist. Red cloth boards with black title and color drawing of Alice holding a deer to front. Black title to spine. Rubbing to edges; sunning to spine and corners nudged. Spine a bit shaken with tender hinges. Title page has two inch separation at hinge. Light age-toning with unmarked, supple pages.

 

70,000 American refugees. Made in U.S.A.
THE CASE AGAINST JAPANESE INTERNEMENT
Truman B. Douglass

[Japanese Internment] Truman B. Douglass. 70,000 American refugees. Made in U.S.A. Saint Louis, Mo.: Citizens Committee for Resettlement of the Congregational Christian Committee for Work with Japanese Evacuees. [1943]. Blue pictorial wraps. 20 cm. Illustrated. Bibliography. 20 pp. Has been folded, else very good.

OCLC shows eight holdings of a 1943 edition (Cal. St. Univ.-Sacramento; Inst. Gov. Studies; Huntington; UC-Berkeley; UC-Davis; UC-Irvine; Yale & Missouri Hist. Mus.) The date is based on dates in the bibliography. There is a 1942 issue with three holdings (Columbia Univ.; Cal. St.-Northridge & Wisc. Hist. Soc.) There is also a 1944 revised edition with three holdings (Cornell Univ.; Cal. St.-Dominguez & Univ. Guelph). Pamphlet describing the evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The author calls for readers to take action against the unjust treatment of Japanese Americans. "This pamphlet sets forth the relevant facts in connection with the evacuation, and suggests ways in which the reader may help remedy this injustice and check this needless waste of human resources." -- p.1. Photographs of internment camps.

 

Laughing To Keep From Crying [Inscribed Presentation Copy, to Marion Palfi]
HUGHES, Langston

New York: Henry Holt, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For Marion / with continued good wishes ever," signed "Langston," dated March 10, 1952. Octavo; pale blue linen over black cloth, titled in lavender on spine; dustjacket; 206pp. Board corners just touched; mild darkening to endpapers at gutters; still a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), sunned at spine and edges, moderate rubbing, but still complete; just about Very Good.

A late volume of short stories exploring the "subtleties of interracial behavior seldom revealed in fiction" (from jacket copy). Though her surname is not included in the inscription, the presentation is to the German-American documentary photographer Marion Palfi, from whose library the book was acquired. Though no longer a household name, Palfi (1907-1978) was one of the foremost chroniclers of the early Civil Rights movement. She spent the years immediately following WW2 traveling the American South, documenting poverty and social injustice; she was the first photojournalist to arrive in Greenwood, Mississippi during that town's civil rights protests, and the first issue of Ebony magazine featured one of her photographs on its cover. Palfi and Hughes likely became acquainted while she was at work on her landmark collection of portraits, "Great American Artists of Minority Groups" in 1945. DICKINSON 21.

 

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test signed, limited, slipcased edition
Wolfe, Tom, Lawrence Schiller & Ted Streshinsky, edited by Nina Wiener, art direction by Josh Baker, design by Jess Sappenfield

Köln: Taschen, 2016. Hardcover. 355p., 9.75x13.2 inches, the excerpted text of the book about Kesey's Acid Test, photos from the Haight-Ashbury scene in 1968 by Schiller and others, tipped-in facsimiles of Wolfe's papers, handbills etc., translucent limitation page stating "This book is copy number 761 in an edition of one thousand nine hundred sixty-eight copies plus two hundred fifty artist's proofs" signed by Tom Wolfe (date of the page is 2014) near-fine first signed/limited Collectors Edition stated in psychedelic blue boards with tipped-on figure in a very good cardboard slipcase with light wear and similar illustration on front and spine.