May 9^th, 2014

Vanessa Bell: An Artist’s Library

By B & B Rare Books, Ltd.

Vanessa Bell: An Artist’s Library 10 books by Virginia Woolf, from the library of her sister (and dust jacket designer) Vanessa Bell

How to request a print version: Email or call us to request a printed copy in the mail: info@bbrarebooks.com / (646) 652-6766

April 18^th, 2014

Occasional List 13: People and Places

By Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Occasional List 13: People and Places 25 recent arrivals that embody some idea of interesting people or remarkable places. The people range from America’s foremost early lion tamer to a stalwart Philadelphia fireman, or from an early two-fisted Portland free-thought divorce lawyer to a 19th century railroad man and proto-Gershon Legman. The places cover such far-flung locales as homes for disabled Civil War veterans to the Delaware river set ablaze by an inventor in hopes of pecuniary gain, or from the biblical beauties of the commercial quarter of Hobart, Oklahoma to the distant missionary presses of Calcutta and New Zealand. (Even the romance of backwoods “Pittburgo” in 1761 is conjured up in a curious fictitious imprint.)

March 6^th, 2014

Rabelais Catalogue No. 2, 2012

By Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink

Rabelais Catalogue No. 2, 2012 We try hard to offer superior or distinguished copies of food and drink books, well researched, in condition befitting collectors. We hope you find this catalogue a tasty introduction to our books and to our shop.

How to request a print version: This catalogue is no longer available in a printed version.

March 6^th, 2014

Tales of the Cocktail Short List 2011

By Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink

Tales of the Cocktail Short List 2011 July, 2011, we headed to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, the annual international conference for drink history and craft cocktail creation. We displayed hundreds of rare books on cocktails, drink history, distilling, wine, soda fountains and more.

How to request a print version: This catalogue is no longer available in print.

March 6^th, 2014

Rabelais Catalogue No. 1, 2010

By Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink

Rabelais Catalogue No. 1, 2010

Our first catalogue of antiquarian titles contains books from the 18th through the 20th centuries, and includes cookbooks, artist’s books, farm and garden books, cocktail manuals and more. Issued 2010.

How to request a print version: This catalogue is no longer available.

March 5^th, 2014

Catalogue 40

By Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Catalogue 40 This catalogue collects arrivals hailing from the long tail of American religion, ingenious schemes, Utopian thought, radical and reactionaries, neglected literature, popular entertainments, and Hippocratic pursuits turned to a profit, the whole tending toward books, pamphlets and ephemera from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

How to request a print version: Contact us at garrett@bibliophagist.com if you would like to receive a printed copy while supplies last.

March 5^th, 2014

Occasional List 12: Obscure Objects

By Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Occasional List 12: Obscure Objects

An illustrated online-only list of 20 objects of high and low culture that somehow embody a number of the preoccupations of this bookselling concern: race in America, sex and/or eugenics, popular medicine, the American endeavor of making a quick buck, and a fine work from a brilliant 19th century outsider poet-artist.