Catalogue 144: Ephemeral Americana Business, Advertising, Trade Catalogues, Education, Women's Culture, Health & Medicine, Amusements & Entertainments.
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Catalogue 144: Ephemeral Americana Business, Advertising, Trade Catalogues, Education, Women's Culture, Health & Medicine, Amusements & Entertainments.
Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books - CATALOG 96 - MODERN POETRY A catalog of 84 modern poetry titles, featuring signed and inscribed items by W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Rita Dove, T. S. Eliot, William Everson, Robert Frost, Jim Harrison, Jane Kenyon, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Gary Snyder, Wallace Stevens, and many others.
How to request a print version: Printed copies of Catalog 96 are available by emailing us: info@PoetryJett.com with your postal mailing address.
A Catalog of Theatrical Ephemera September 2015
A Catalog of Theatrical Ephemera September 2015 Craig Clinton has just prepared A Catalog of Theatrical Ephemera, including items such as play bills, prints and magazines, covering the following topic categories: Actors, Japanese Theatre Prints, Opera, Play Ephemera, Portraits, Programs/Broadsides, Scenery, Sheet Music, Spectacles, Theatre History, Views, Miscellaneous. This richly illustrated catalog provides a fascinating view into the world of the theater from the eighteenth century to the recent past. For those with an interest in the topic, there is much to look at. The pdf catalog available for download here orders these items chronologically within the topic categories. The items can also be viewed online at www.oldimprints.com. In either format we hope that exploration of this catalog will be both an enjoyable and a worthwhile activity.
Catalogue 62: Illuminations Our latest in fine illuminated books and manuscripts including stunning miniatures and illuminations from the 13th through the early 16th century, as well as the very first book printed by computer from the 19th century.
Catalog 166 Schulson Autographs is pleased to offer Catalog 166, a list of 17 items from our inventory. The catalog shows a photograph of Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister, on the cover.
How to request a print version: printable pdf
Haydn First & Early Editions: September 2015 First and early editions of Haydn's works.
How to request a print version: Catalogue is available online.
Chopin First & Early Editions: September 2015 First and early editions of Chopin works.
How to request a print version: Catalogue is available online.
Catalog 33 Our annual and largest catalog of the year featuring predominately new acquisitions. Perhaps our finest to date, with a large selection of fine bindings (including "The Germ" in a superb Doves Binding), a fine assortment of early juveniles from 1800-1830, Jugendstil (some extremely rare and sought after), some very rare and stunning Morris & Company offerings, Arts & Crafts original art, as well as our usual strong representation in 19th Century British literature and autographs and manuscripts.
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.
How to request a print version: Printable PDF