Catalogue Search Results for Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

This particularly eclectic list includes a nice assortment of small press titles.

April 26, 2022



An assortment of new acquisitions, largely books and autographs. Highlights include many titles extra-illustrated with signed cards; photography; baseball; Civil War; modern fiction; film; presidential...

January 11, 2022

A nice selection of publications from The Limited Editions Club in a wide variety of subjects.

November 23, 2021

Selections from the library of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) and some new arrivals

November 11, 2021

30 Items Under $300: including some early "green" Lakesides, athlete autographs, the WPA Galena Guide, poetry, a Civil War broadside . . .

September 23, 2021

An eclectic-as-ever mix of 35 recently-catalogued books and autographs.

August 17, 2021

Highlights include a WW2 bombers photo archive, a smattering of architectural trade catalogues, and Illinois poets Masters (first edition of first book), Lindsay (personal copy of film criticism title) and extra-illustrated Sandburgs.

May 18, 2021

Book highlights include a baseball rarity, several Chicago-related titles, much poetry + architecture. Autographs featured in world leaders, exploration, business + military. Several commemorative medallions round out this eclectic list.

April 20, 2021

A list particularly heavy in Architecture, Medical and Children's books, with a selection of autographs in the fields of Art, Law, Religion and Military.

March 9, 2021


Big Little Books, archives, uncorrected galleys, a Buddhist text leaf written on tree bark, Confederate currency, political buttons, medallions, ribbons . . .

November 30, 2020

New arrivals include several T.S. Eliot firsts, a few titles from assassinated Romanian critic Ioan Couliano's library, signed firsts from novelist sisters Helen and Olive White, and . . . an anti-temperance watch fob.

October 20, 2020

Select new arrivals include an early football title with autograph additions, biographies, film autographs, crime fiction, and some beautiful antiquarian volumes

September 8, 2020

31 items including a lovely Hans Christian Andersen volume, several titles for fans of Henry Clay, a William Cullen Bryant poetry collection + an ALS, as well as Civil War and Americana

July 21, 2020

Featuring titles in literary criticism, civil war, travel & exploration, early Lakeside Classics, Oz, biography + military history

June 24, 2020

27 newly catalogued items include titles on freemasonry, socialism and civil war.

May 7, 2020