Catalogs
We post new virtual catalogs on our home page every 5 or 6 weeks
usually with some theme in mind. Past catalogs have centered around
individual authors (Auden, Shaw, etc.) or subject matters (Aviation,
19th Century British Literature, etc.). Two or three times a year, the
catalog is a medley of finer, scarcer items including incunables,
hand-colored plate books, and superb association copies, such as books
inscribed by Franklin Roosevelt to his sons.
We hope you will visit us frequently to find items in your areas of collecting. We will certainly be working hard to come up with the unusual and desirable books and autographs that many have become accustomed to seeing from us.
Our new Summer Miscellany contains 71 items ranging in price from $15 to $7500. Highlights are complete sets of Living Hand, the Franklin Library Signed 60, the Capra Chapbook Series, and a patron's set of the Kenyon Review with all contributions signed by the authors including a number of Nobel Prize winners. Also included are early travel books, manuscripts of John Burroughs and William Wordsworth, and interesting fine press material. We hope you enjoy browsing through.
Our Spring catalog contains 35 select items, mostly signed books and hand-colored plate books but speckled with other rarities as well. Included are books signed by Einstein, Earhart, Yeats, and several Presidents including Kennedy, Fillmore, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Truman (to his Secretary of Treasury). The Dedication Copy of radical John Reed's first book is present as well as an unpublished manuscript by him and a signed advance copy of Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prize winning THE GOOD EARTH. There are several wonderfully illustrated books including Osborne's 1742 Collection of Voyages with 37 maps, most by Moll and two featuring California as an island. Hand-colored plate books are highlighted by Andrews's THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, 1797-1815, and Chaumeton's famous French herbal FLORE MEDICALE. And we musn't forget a 19th century German Natural History Manuscript with drawings, a signed limited Stephen King, and the First American Edition of DRACULA.
We hope you will visit us frequently to find items in your areas of collecting. We will certainly be working hard to come up with the unusual and desirable books and autographs that many have become accustomed to seeing from us.
Our new Summer Miscellany contains 71 items ranging in price from $15 to $7500. Highlights are complete sets of Living Hand, the Franklin Library Signed 60, the Capra Chapbook Series, and a patron's set of the Kenyon Review with all contributions signed by the authors including a number of Nobel Prize winners. Also included are early travel books, manuscripts of John Burroughs and William Wordsworth, and interesting fine press material. We hope you enjoy browsing through.
Our Spring catalog contains 35 select items, mostly signed books and hand-colored plate books but speckled with other rarities as well. Included are books signed by Einstein, Earhart, Yeats, and several Presidents including Kennedy, Fillmore, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Truman (to his Secretary of Treasury). The Dedication Copy of radical John Reed's first book is present as well as an unpublished manuscript by him and a signed advance copy of Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prize winning THE GOOD EARTH. There are several wonderfully illustrated books including Osborne's 1742 Collection of Voyages with 37 maps, most by Moll and two featuring California as an island. Hand-colored plate books are highlighted by Andrews's THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, 1797-1815, and Chaumeton's famous French herbal FLORE MEDICALE. And we musn't forget a 19th century German Natural History Manuscript with drawings, a signed limited Stephen King, and the First American Edition of DRACULA.
On 5 August 1850, a rather momentous event in American literary history
occurred, the occasion being a hike and picnic on Monument Mt. near
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The participants included Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. The hike marked the
first meeting of two of the giants of nineteenth century American
literature: Hawthorne and Melville. Although their friendship would not
last through the years, its duration was intense, and Hawthorne advised
Melville on his current work which would be published the following
year, MOBY DICK. Our latest catalog honors these three grand figures and
includes 50 items, some rare and many interesting. We hope you enjoy
browsing through.
Our FALL 2009 NEW ARRIVALS Catalog features 60 select items in a variety of fields. Highlights include items signed by Neil Armstrong, Amelia Earhart, James Joyce, Jackie Kennedy, D. H. Lawrence, John Muir, Flannery O'Connor, J. D. Salinger, Dylan Thomas, etc. as well as Illustrated books from the 17th Century, the First American Text on Psychiatry, an archive of letters by Frank McCourt, Hand-Colored Plate books, and more.
Our ROBERT FROST Catalog contains over 100 items ranging in price from $35 to $50,000. Included are approximately 75 SIGNED items of which approximately 20 contain lines of poetry, in some cases complete stanzas or poems, in the hand of Frost.
Future catalogs will feature 19th Century American Literature, author collections of Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Parker, and others, as well as fine early printed books and exceptional signed books.
Future catalogs will feature 19th Century American Literature, author collections of Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Parker, and others, as well as fine early printed books and exceptional signed books.