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am please to offer for sale a selection from our recent acquisitions; these include rare works, many of them signed by, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Alphonse Bertillon, Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard, P.R.P. Dagron, P.H. Emerson, Robert Frank, Lorraine Hansberry, Eikoh Hosoe, Georges Hugnet, Germaine Krull, L. Moholy-Nagy, Nadar, and others.

June 8, 2016


Roaring Twenties Detroit Debutantes, 1830's Whiskey and Temperance, 20th century Coal, Aircraft and Carillon Photographs

June 7, 2016

Robert Louis Stevenson Scandal, Vice, Victorian Trade and Patent, Quakers and Indian Poetry.

May 31, 2016

Vanderbilt letters, Victorian Menus and Silver Plate recipes, WWII Kisses, Oakland Beat Poets, Women Editors, Brooklyn Small Press.

May 31, 2016

195 items, almost all of which belonged to a collector of WWI & WWII airplane replicas and toys. Includes items focusing on aircraft identification which provide extensive information on characteristics of particular models, often with detailed illustrations.

May 31, 2016

Americana, Border Wars, Civil War, etc.

May 31, 2016

An extensive ILLUSTRATED catalogue, with link also to an unillustrated list of mostly US'ian material from our "SessaBks" shelves.

May 30, 2016


Letters, scrapbooks, diaries, photo albums and ephemera from the past are a gift from prior generations to the future. In history books and memoirs, we can read about important events, memorize dates and learn about the principle players. But to understand how it felt to live at a significant time and how it affected people of that time and place, their own accounts are the vehicle that will transport us.

May 23, 2016

LEATHER BINDINGS fine, attractive, and interesting (with our publishers' cloth offered separately); books of many sorts and eras.

May 23, 2016

Recent acquisitions: these include works signed by Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Imogen Cunningham, Judy Dater, Arnold Genthe, Ralph Gibson, Emmet Gowin, Barbara Kruger and others.

May 22, 2016



47 interesting and unusual items having to do with education, including Emma Willard’s sister turning to the lottery, or a student<br /><br /> at Gettysburg College publishing satirical reviews of the professors of 1882, or an epitome of eccentric free speech on campus.

May 5, 2016

48 interesting and unusual items that suggest things could be better, either because the material is driven by some utopian intent or springs from some dreadful circumstance.

May 5, 2016