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Member Catalogues

A handful of oddities: Chicago Proto-situationists; Roosevelt's Sister; English Abolitionists; Civil War - Russian Revolution; New Deal Art

April 6, 2016



Includes: a review of the first freedom of religion case presented before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving a Mormon charged with bigamy; an 1880 publication related to women's suffrage; WWII-era plane identification references; dime novels; 1879 July 4th festival broadside; 1497 incunable leaf; etc.

April 1, 2016

14 items in our Spring 2016 Catalog

March 31, 2016

Featuring the best of our new arrivals including Asian calligraphy, a beautiful Bodoni, art deco pochoir, an 18th century drawing manual for hair and hats, and the poetry of harp seals.

March 29, 2016

Our latest and best in all fields, including illustrated books, fine press, children's books, and illuminated manuscripts.

March 29, 2016

Seasons greetings from the JWAB Team! We are pleased to add our contribution to caroling crowd of holiday lists already thronging your inboxes. Ours brings you books on all subjects and at all price points, each almost (sorta, kind of) related to one of our chosen festive themes, among them music, being cold and indigestion.

March 29, 2016



155 items, books, pamphlets, ephemera, and manuscripts concerning North, Central, and South American, English & American literature, travel, fore-edge paintings, and railroads

March 22, 2016

224 items, primarily books & pamphlets on African-Americana, Civil War & the Confederacy, the Constitution, Revolutionary America, as well as individual states & regions

March 22, 2016


An all-illustrated web catalogue of 50+ items dated 1659 to 1996 and priced $35 to $3500; with links to more via our database.

March 22, 2016

133 books and pamphlets, and a few manuscripts and graphics, 1695-1860. A wide variety of early Americana, including 18th- and early 19th-century imprints, Revolutionary War pamphlets, travel and exploration, early juveniles, theology, science and medicine, regional pamphlets, &c., &c.

March 21, 2016

I am please to offer for sale a selection from our recent acquisitions; these include works signed by M. Alvarez Bravo, Ilse Bing, Wynn Bullock, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, O.Winston Link, et al. Also, there are two rare and important pieces from the Photo-Secession.

March 15, 2016