Member Catalogues
A selection of 35 volumes of poetry and verse. Highlights include a copy of Anne Sexton’s To Bedlam and Part Way Back that belonged to her confidant and lover, the psychiatrist Anne Wilder; the exquisite fine press printing of B.H. Fairchild’s poem Beauty by The Blackbird Press; a presentation copy of Robert Pinsky’s The Figured Wheel, inscribed to Farrar Straus, and Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi; and the exceedingly scarce first book by Stella Knight Ruess, mother of the writer, artist, and explorer Everett Ruess and an accomplished poet and artist in her own right.
A short "shelf" yet a wide-ranging array of these historically and scientifically important, culturally illuminating, and often visually arresting books - all arrived here from one fine collection.
“Do you attribute the girls’ fall mostly to drink, to love of dress, or what?”/ “To none of these causes so much as to bad companionship, and the want of resolution to say ‘No.”<br /><br /> Women's Rights, Sex Work Legislation, Social Work. Early Rescuers, Red Light Abatement and Odes, to Flesh in this grouping of Letters and Pamphlets.
The Basics: Amputees, Child Preachers and Reformers, Hitler Youth, Welfare Island, Oxford Group, Quack Medicine and Lunacy Exams, Prostitution, Divine Healing, Cults, First Nude Scenes and Innocent Love.
Classic Anarchist Jo Labadie's Treatise on Love, Outsider Art: The Groundbreaking British Exhibition and Brecht-connection Tress Photography
Ephemera with strong feminist, folk, progressive culture, race-positive, gender-inclusive and worker-supportive narratives.
A small collection of items related to travel: the vivid jungle charactes of Rudyard Kipling, naive manuscript of West Indies sugar traders, Trans-Pacific tours of violin virtuoso Kreisler, Pranavananda's Tibetan journeys and the lure of the ocean in 1920's Florida book.
A selection of French and English books from the mid nineteenth to the early 20th century: many are illustrated with original watercolors, engravings and prints. All are finely bound by Ruban, Meunier, Stikeman or Lortic.
A Selection of Early Dust Jackets, Children’s Books, James Bond, Fly Fishing, Exploration, Fine Press, Nobel Laureates, and More
33 miscellaneous items ranging across this bookselling concern’s usual array of preoccupations: American manuscript material, a splendid photographic vista of a slaughterhouse, two books from an early American olive oil advocate and reforming 19th century woman vegetarian physician, and the promotion of a school for stammerers.
23 interesting and unusual items created by hand or modified by hand or somehow peculiarly intended for the hand.
43 interesting and unusual items dealing with fervent Protestants, including 27 unusual items relating to anti-Catholic sentiments or responses to same.
26 items by or about women, from the radical to the whimsical.
Poetry, John Wieners, trepanation, mail art, anarchism, artists' periodicals, artists' books, concrete poetry, mail art, the mimeograph revolution, surrealist tracts, new publications.
42 items, including books, manuscripts, archives and ephemera relating to Black Mountain College, zines edited by women, fictional punk flyers, Frank Stanford, and suggestions for improved street lighting in the 60's by Up Against the Wall Motherfucker.
From the collection of the pianist renowned for his interpretations of 20th-century music.