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Member Catalogues


Spring 2015: First edition classics by Carroll, Milne, Swift, and Stevenson, several inscribed and extra-illustrated; illustrators including Tenniel, Rackham, Newell, Shepard, and Sendak, as well as some more unusual items including an early English horn book and two very fine pop-up books.

January 28, 2015


From the collection of the pianist renowned for his interpretations both of Beethoven and of 20th-century music.

January 21, 2015

230 items, variously on the southern states and Cuba, African-Americans and slavery, the Civil War, the Confederacy, Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, presidents, railroads, and other topics

January 20, 2015



27 books, manuscripts, and prints from the 15th to 19th century, mainly French and German

January 18, 2015

An illustrated 108-page catalogue devoted to rare and important works of Twentieth Century American poetry, 331 items, including first editions, mostly signed and inscribed, association copies, original letters, photographs, as well as significant collections of the works of John Ashbery, James Merrill, Philip Levine and Wallace Stevens.

January 8, 2015

42 interesting and uncommon items dealing in murder and mayhem and destruction both natural and unnatural: murders, prairie fires, vindictive snowfalls, Romantic deaths, a young girl in the coal pits, the romance of the Rosenbergs, glances at funeral practices and other perhaps morbid preoccupations.

January 6, 2015



Fifty items. Highlights include: signed Ed Ruscha (A FEW PALM TREES), an archive of postcards from artist Sol LeWitt, Richard Prince's CATCHER IN THE RYE, several punk flyers, a Patti Smith letter, the first book to mention Big Foot, and much more. Plus: a catalogue Easter egg. Can you find it?

January 5, 2015

Catalogue IX features collections, archives, manuscripts, photos, album, scrapbooks and other primary materials. 70 items in total, all full-color. Highlights include an important archive from poet Jack Gilbert, original jazz photography, a large trove of professional materials from a prominent department store fashion director, an archive of a 19th century balloonist, and a revealing photo album of early women's education. Plus architecture, Americana, music, art, politics, travel, erotica, aviation, business, and more.

January 5, 2015

Fine continental books 15th to 18th century including incunabula, festival books, portrait books, illustrated, renaissance, science, etc.

December 30, 2014

A short list of historical, literary, religious and political works

December 29, 2014


December 22, 2014