Little Sages Books
Specializing in Women, History, Art, Books Arts, Fine Press/Small Press, Culture, Social Movements. Ephemera, Photography, Archives, Letters, Manuscripts.
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Used and antiquarian brick and mortar book and ephemera shop with a primary focus on women, non-traditional Americana narratives, art, photography, social history, culture. . . We work intensively with letters, photographic archives, prints and ephemera (posters, broadsides, diaries, letters, journals, pamphlets, handmade items) in many languages relating to Women, Art, Culture, American and Social History. . . We are passionate and active within many communities, travelling extensively to participate in fairs, symposiums and workshops, in a spirit of collaboration, engagement, and exploration for the greater good of the trade and the academic community. . . As well, please call upon us for Appraisals, Exhibition Research, Collection Development, Public Speaking, Panel Participation, Podcast and Video Presentations.Appraisals
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Public Speaking
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Recently Added Books
Gustave Baumann: Nearer to Art
by Martin F. Krause, Madeline Carol Yurtseven, David Acton
The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata [Prospectus]
by Robert Burns; John C. Weston, editor; Leonard Baskin, illustrator
The Rubaiyat Of A Dentist
by Lancaster, Howard N.
A Human Document
by Robert G. Gardner; Leonard Baskin, illustrator
What Was It? [Signed Copy]
by Fitz-James Obrien; Leonard Baskin, illustrator
An American Rubaiyat
by Fred G. Fisher
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Brazil, 90s Rock Zines, Italian Jazz, Aerial Photographs, Juliet Low Girl Scout Camp Album
Roaring Twenties Detroit Debutantes, 1830's Whiskey and Temperance, 20th century Coal, Aircraft and Carillon Photographs
Robert Louis Stevenson Scandal, Vice, Victorian Trade and Patent, Quakers and Indian Poetry.
Vanderbilt letters, Victorian Menus and Silver Plate recipes, WWII Kisses, Oakland Beat Poets, Women Editors, Brooklyn Small Press.
A handful of oddities: Chicago Proto-situationists; Roosevelt's Sister; English Abolitionists; Civil War - Russian Revolution; New Deal Art
French Christmas Toy Catalog, 1920s; Original Children's Art "Tom, Tom the Piper's Son"; Kinderleider, Victorian chromolithography to folksongs, Schubert, Mozart, Goethe; Holographic Classroom Prophecy; WWII Latvian DP Children's Book; Original Art - Surreal with Toys and Weapons
Letters: Anti-vivisection Letter from unrecorded Animal Rights periodical editor; Typed letter signed from the President of Harvard University to Professor Minot, donor to Medical Library; Manuscript letter regarding Kentucky Doctor visiting New York Lawyer with a lady friend; Manuscript letter from the poet Charles Swain; Manuscript letter on Carisbrooke Castle letterhead, Isle of Wight; Princess Beatrice and Lady Milford Haven British Royalty; Manuscript letter from George Dixon, member of British Parliament to Sir Forster; Forster's Education Act Victorian Education Reform England and Wales; Typed letter signed from the President of J.P. Morgan, 1918; Economic Theory; Manuscript Letter from British Judge Lewis Cave; Royal Courts of Justice; Illustrated Letterhead from Healing Waters of West Virginia, Alkaline Water; Manuscript Letter from Cuba to the Northeast on Ship Chandler's letterhead, 1879.
“Do you attribute the girls’ fall mostly to drink, to love of dress, or what?”/ “To none of these causes so much as to bad companionship, and the want of resolution to say ‘No.”<br /><br /> Women's Rights, Sex Work Legislation, Social Work. Early Rescuers, Red Light Abatement and Odes, to Flesh in this grouping of Letters and Pamphlets.
The Basics: Amputees, Child Preachers and Reformers, Hitler Youth, Welfare Island, Oxford Group, Quack Medicine and Lunacy Exams, Prostitution, Divine Healing, Cults, First Nude Scenes and Innocent Love.
Classic Anarchist Jo Labadie's Treatise on Love, Outsider Art: The Groundbreaking British Exhibition and Brecht-connection Tress Photography
Ephemera with strong feminist, folk, progressive culture, race-positive, gender-inclusive and worker-supportive narratives.