Specializing in Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.

Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

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We always have an inventory of unique Americana on hand, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, history, culture, or society. We also always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history), and other paper ephemera as well. We hope you'll take some time to look around our website or, better yet, visit us at one of our shows. Each year, we set up at six to ten book fairs and/or philatelic exhibitions throughout the country. We also participate in a number of virtual book fairs, and we regularly issue catalogs.

Terms of Sale

Sales tax of 6% required for books shipped to addresses in Virginia. Standard domestic shipping is free, however additional fees may be required for heavy, oversized, or unusually-shaped items.

Returns accepted for any reason for a full refund (less shipping) if we receive the return within 14 days of shipment and items are received in the same condition as sent. Advance notice of any return would be appreciated.

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Kurt Sanftleben

Virginia Beach, VA 23454

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(571) 409-0144

(757) 716-3336

http://read-em-again.com

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Recently Listed Items

1862 – Letter from a New Orleans attorney providing outdated information to an associate in New York regarding the method of sending mail to him across-the-lines in the early years of the Civil War

by Louis Janin

New Orleans, Louisiana 1862 (click for more details)

1889 – “Democrats Sweep the Country” - comical election results cartoon broadside from Bucks County in which the Democratic Party plays fast and loose with its claim of a sweep

Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1889 (click for more details)

1810 – Letter from the Commanding General of a Massachusetts Militia Division to one of his brigade commanders expressing irritation that an election of a company officer had been bungled

by Major General Nathaniel Goodwin

Plymouth, Massachusetts 1810 (click for more details)

1851 – Letter from a a pair of San Francisco commission merchants describing the expected effect of the catastrophic fire that destroyed three-quarters of the city

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1887-1888 – Four maps of the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon that have been removed from an unidentified government publication

by H. L. Muldrow

Washington, DC 1888 (click for more details)

Recent Catalogs

Paper Americana - January 2023 Catalog 23-1 (January 2023) contains 45 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to the American Civil War, the Atomic Bomb, British rule in Florida, Dutch New York, the Early Fur Trade, Enslaved Workers and Slave Trading, Franklin's Pennsylvania Hospital, Missionaries, the Old China Trade, the Revolutionary War, Spanish Louisiana, Westward Expansion, the child prodigy artist Lilly Martin, and more.