Member Catalogues
First and early editions of Chopin works.
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.
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.
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.
Catalog 51 contains 125 items including a signed limited edition of Muirhead Bone's Children's Children, an uncommon Lois Lenski decorated title, Book of Enchantment from 1928 in the original dust jacket, Harold Gaze's Goblin's Glen, beautiful and affordable French language titles, a scarce Caldecott Honor title by Susan Jeffers and a signed copy of the Newbery Medal winning Higher Power of Lucky as well as a signed copy of Moon Over Manifest.
Children's books with an emphasis on social movements along with China, Tibet and Mongolia.
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.
Includes: **John Jewel's A Defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande, 1597, 1st edition variant.<br /> **Theophylact of Bulgaria on the Gospels translated by Oecolampadius, the Basle<br /> Reformer, Basle, 1527 bound with his Commentary on the Epistles of Paul, Cologne, 1529<br /> **Richard Baxter's Saint's Everlasting Rest in a very nice binding, 1677.
Over 60 diaries, scrapbooks, and photo albums with some books and other things too.
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.
Autograph Letters, Signed Scores, Printed Music, Books, Programs, Drawings, Posters, Prints, Photographs & Related Ephemera.
Books on Opera, Opera Singers, Recordings, Composers, Musicology, Reference, &c.
This catalogue offers 145 items acquired since January 2015. Highlights include a notable commentary on books of the Digest printed in 1514 with endleaves derived from a 1498 papal bull and a contemporary chained binding, a collection of statutes that includes the first printing of the English Bill of Rights, signed first editions of books by Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter and Learned Hand and Montiel y Duarte’s Estudio Sobre Garantia Individuales, an important Mexican treatise on civil rights.
With an emphasis on war and the diaspora, including a selection of Chinese works in support of the Khmer Rouge
54 posters from feminist, lesbian, and labor-related movements.