Founded in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York in 1978, Riverrun was purchased in 2016 by Thomas Lecky after a 21-year career in the auction world. Tom ran Doyle New York’s Books and Prints Department in the 1990s before moving to Christie’s as a senior specialist and later Head of the New York Books and Manuscripts Department. Tom received his Master’s in American literature from Stanford in 1994 after studying English lit as an undergraduate at Columbia.
Riverrun handles fine, rare, and unusual books from all periods and genres. There are large holdings in art, illustrated books, photography, literature, early printed books, Americana, illustrated books, and fine press. We have thousands of books not listed online in these and many other fields, and are constantly sourcing new material from private collections and public auction. Please let us know if we can help you locate something not listed in our stock.
Tom Lecky is a member of the Appraiser's Association of America, is certified in the field of printed books and manuscripts, and provides USPAP compliant appraisals for estate tax, charitable donation, and insurance. Tom has been a member of The Grolier Club and has appeared as an appraiser on WGBH’s Antiques Roadshow since 1999, and is a member of the Bibliographical Society of America.
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Signed First Edition
William Gropper: Retrospective
by GROPPER, William; August L. FREUNDLICH
Los Angeles and Miami : The Ward Ritchie Press, in conjuction with Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami , 1968 (click for more details)Polly: an opera. Being the second part of The beggar's opera. Written by Mr. Gay
by GAY, John
London : printed for T. Thomson, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster , 1729 (click for more details)Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque
by EBERS, George Motitz
London, Paris, New York : Cassell , 1880 (click for more details)
First Edition
The Chimes
by DICKENS, Charles
London : Chapman and Hall , 1845 (click for more details)William Morris An Address Delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith Before the Hammersmith Socialist Society
by MACKAIL, J. W.
Hammersmith, London : Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society [i.e. Annie and Thomas Cobden-Sanderson] , 1905 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
Smallrun Riverrun: Scarce limited editions
Limitations of fewer than 100 copies
Recent Catalogs
Literature
Fine British and American literature. A joint catalogue with James Cummins Bookseller.