Catalog 34 A stellar collection, nearly all new acquisitions from three major collections: fine examples from 1890's, 19th Century English Literature, Fine Bindings, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, many signed and presentation copies, a fine collection of 19th Century children's books, etc. Highlights include Oscar Wilde's, The Sphinx; a fine collection of Vale Press including Pre-Vale titles, a near-complete Laurence Housman collection featuring Large Paper copies and many inscribed copies, Wiener Werkstatte illustrated classic by Minka Podhajska, superb fine bindings including Sarah Prideaux, Hand-Illumined Browning Sonnets Bound by R. R. Adams, Guild of Women Binders, Doves Binding on Kelmscott Press and Binyon's Dream Come True supebly bound by Donnelley, much more. Over 300 items.
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Catalog 34 A stellar collection, nearly all new acquisitions from three major collections: fine examples from 1890's, 19th Century English Literature, Fine Bindings, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, many signed and presentation copies, a fine collection of 19th Century children's books, etc. Highlights include Oscar Wilde's, The Sphinx; a fine collection of Vale Press including Pre-Vale titles, a near-complete Laurence Housman collection featuring Large Paper copies and many inscribed copies, Wiener Werkstatte illustrated classic by Minka Podhajska, superb fine bindings including Sarah Prideaux, Hand-Illumined Browning Sonnets Bound by R. R. Adams, Guild of Women Binders, Doves Binding on Kelmscott Press and Binyon's Dream Come True supebly bound by Donnelley, much more. Over 300 items.
September New Acquisitions Miscellany featuring: two early abolitionist publications; an 1819 American travelogue, including accounts of the Missouri and North-West territories; a first edition of Shackleton's The Heart of the Antarctic; the first illustrated edition of Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; a (twice) signed copy of John Burroughs's The Summit of the Years; an archive of Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzines; three American spiritualist works, including a first American edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Edge of the Unknown.
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Occasional List 27: Verify the Truth 29 interesting items--mostly American, mostly 19th century--ranging from a woman's account of killing a rattlesnake outside Dodge City in 1885, to a fine polygraph trade catalog, to 19th century vernacular dust jackets.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS (BOLERIUM STYLE) Children's books with an emphasis on social movements along with China, Tibet and Mongolia.
List 5: Lawrence of Arabia A selection of items by or about T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)--including some ephemeral rarities, some "must-have" titles for any Lawrence collection, and a few oddball items such as a Dutch comic book history of Lawrence in the Arab Revolt.
Catalogue 82 Fine Printing & Book Arts
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August 2015 Catalog Our monthly miscellany featuring:
- A biography by Edward Ellsberg which includes a 1958 ALS reviewing Orwell's 1984
- over five dozen Edgar Rice Burroughs titles, many in jacket;
- New York history
- early imprints
- collectible editions of Baum, Perrault, Browning
- Gertrude Stein
- signed Edward Gorey
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Zines Including many gay and lesbian publications, zines by people of color, photocopied comix, and products of anarchist and other radical political movements... Plus a few works of pure tastelessness.
Catalogue 93
Catalogue 93 Artists & Authors
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