Member Catalogues

<p>To mark my tenth anniversary as a book dealer, I’ve gathered all of the unsold material from my first five catalogues into one 64-item e-catalogue. But this is not exactly a sale list. Rather, the catalogue attempts to expose and describe the misjudgments that contributed to each item’s sadly unsold state. There are overvalued association copies, neglected scrapbooks, under-appreciated poetry, and ignored modern art. All formerly so, I hope. But mistakes were made: pandering, bias, infatuation, fetishization, inexperience, ignorance, confusion, impatience…I really am terribly sorry.</p>

Catalog of maps, primarily 19th century separately published maps of the United States

<p>76 books with illustrations in color from my stock of illustrated books, color plate books, pochoir, architecture, design, landscape, posters and trade catalogues</p>

<p>Vellum Illuminated Manuscript Material Printed Books from 1505-1799 (and Fine Modern Facsimiles, Early Documents, and Single Printed Leaves)</p>

A list of rare modern and antiquarian books to be exhibited at the RBMS conference in Las Vegas at the ABAA Booksellers' Showcase, June 24-25, 2014

292 items on women and society from the 16th century to the present

a selection of books, zines, vinyl, demos, photographs, fashion, posters, flyers, and other material documenting the history, influence, and enduring appeal of heavy metal over the past fifty years

Artists' Books, Private Press, Fine 19th Century Literature, Illustrated Books, and more

<p>Or, Prolegomena to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. This illustrated online-only list collects 31 items largely dealing with the myriad manifold attractions of unregulated medicine or hinting in some way at the perils of food adulteration, with forays into later questions of public health or popular medical reform.</p>

An online-only illustrated catalog, 21 interesting and uncommon items relating in some way to American religious thought, from a scarce early Brooklyn anti-Catholic pamphlet to prophetic revelation of the secret pact made by the first President Bush with UFO demons.

25 recent arrivals that embody some idea of interesting people or remarkable places. The people range from America’s foremost early lion tamer to a stalwart Philadelphia fireman, or from an early two-fisted Portland free-thought divorce lawyer to a 19th century railroad man and proto-Gershon Legman. The places cover such far-flung locales as homes for disabled Civil War veterans to the Delaware river set ablaze by an inventor in hopes of pecuniary gain, or from the biblical beauties of the commercial quarter of Hobart, Oklahoma to the distant missionary presses of Calcutta and New Zealand. (Even the romance of backwoods “Pittburgo” in 1761 is conjured up in a curious fictitious imprint.)

We try hard to offer superior or distinguished copies of food and drink books, well researched, in condition befitting collectors. We hope you find this catalogue a tasty introduction to our books and to our shop.

July, 2011, we headed to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, the annual international conference for drink history and craft cocktail creation. We displayed hundreds of rare books on cocktails, drink history, distilling, wine, soda fountains and more.

<p>Our first catalogue of antiquarian titles contains books from the 18th through the 20th centuries, and includes cookbooks, artist’s books, farm and garden books, cocktail manuals and more. Issued 2010.</p>

This catalogue collects arrivals hailing from the long tail of American religion, ingenious schemes, Utopian thought, radical and reactionaries, neglected literature, popular entertainments, and Hippocratic pursuits turned to a profit, the whole tending toward books, pamphlets and ephemera from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

<p>An illustrated online-only list of 20 objects of high and low culture that somehow embody a number of the preoccupations of this bookselling concern: race in America, sex and/or eugenics, popular medicine, the American endeavor of making a quick buck, and a fine work from a brilliant 19th century outsider poet-artist.</p>

29 items, with full-color illustrations

42 items on coffee, tea, chocolate, and sugar, with full-color illustrations