Bookseller Catalogs
Catalogue 142: World’s Fairs & International Expositions Catalogue 142, devoted exclusively to Worlds’ Fairs and International Exposition. This catalogue consists of 590 books, pamphlets, brochures, catalogues, broadsides and other printed matter—issued by exhibiting countries as well as from commercial exhibitors—covering the topic from 1851 (London) to 1970 (Osaka). Besides examples from major and minor Worlds’ Fairs held in America—for example, the Chicago Fairs of 1893 (Columbian Exposition) and 1933-34 (Century of Progress), the San Francisco Fairs (1915 Panama-Pacific, 1939-40 Golden Gate International), and of course the New York Fair of 1939-40—the catalogue includes hundreds of print items from European expositions, especially the various Parisian expositions (1889, 1900, 1925, 1931, 1937) and the Barcelona Exposition of 1929. Numerous items from minor worlds’ fairs as well. The catalogue is available in electronic (low resolution pdf) format, with over 100 illustrations, many in living color. A small number of paper copies are available at $10, ppd; institutions gratis.
How to request a print version: Small number of paper copies available upon request and availability.
New acquisitions January 2014
18 books and manuscripts
How to request a print version: Please send email to nina@musinskyrarebooks.com
James S. Jaffe Rare Books. Rare Books & First Editions, Fine Printing & Literary Art, Autograph Lett
By James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
James S. Jaffe Rare Books. Rare Books & First Editions, Fine Printing & Literary Art, Autograph Lett The catalogue includes the Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias’s rare first literary work, Rayito de Estrella (Paris, 1929); a fine first edition of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899); a fine copy in the extremely rare dust jacket of the first edition of Irma Bombech’s The Joy of Cooking (St. Louis, 1931); the rare first American edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Philadelphia, 1844); Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Poems (London, 1898) in the rare dust jacket; a fine copy of the first edition, first issue of Seamus Heaney’s first book, Eleven Poems (Belfast, 1965); Ted Hughes’s Roosting Hawk (Northampton, 1959) inscribed by Hughes to Sylvia Plath’s mother; the first edition of Keats’s Lamia (London, 1820) in original boards; a fine run of Philip Larkin’s appearances in his school literary magazine The Coventrian (Coventry: King Henry VIII School, 1935-1944); the publisher Gaston Gallimard’s copy of the deluxe issue of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dès (Paris: Gallimard, 1914); Wilfred Owen’s Poems (London, 1920) in the rare dust jacket; and an important presentation copy of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus (London, 1960), among others. Among the manuscripts and letters offered are letters from Ray Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg to Hazel Frieda Larsen, the artists’ friend and photography instructor at Black Mountain College; a fine manuscript of Thomas Hardy’s “In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’”, and a highly important series of letters from the poet Charles Olson to Ralph Maud.
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New York Spring Catalog - Shadow Show 2014 A selection of the material from our Spring Catalog, a portion of which was exhibited at the New York Book Week's ABAA "Shadow Show" otherwise known as the "The Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair & The Fine Press Book Fair"
The fair was April, 2014.
This is but a small portion of the material we offer.
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List 211 - Books about Books and the History of Printing Books on Bookbinding, Calligraphy, Publishing, Typography, Papermaking, book Design and the Art of the Book.
World War I Aviation List - July 2014 World War I related books, photographs, letters, documents, etc.
List 3: Adventurous Women A selection of 36 books by women travelers dating from 1776 to 1940, covering most parts of the globe, and involving travel by foot, horseback, motorcycle, automobile, yacht, rail, and rickshaw.
Ephemera of San Francisco From psychedelic evolution to Marxist revolution; ethnic disquiet to calls for queer riot