Member Catalogues

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<p>Download our latest catalog featuring a rare signed limited edition of The Snow Queen illustrated by Katharine Beverley and Elizabeth Ellender; an edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Bells illustrated and signed by Edmund Dulac; Harry Clarke’s illustrated edition of Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination; Maria L. Kirk’s uncommon illustrated edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Bemelmans’ Caldecott Award winning Madeline’s Rescue; some very nice illustrated editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Child’s Garden of Verses, and much more.  Enjoy!</p>

<p>18 books and manuscripts</p>

The catalogue includes the Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias’s rare first literary work, Rayito de Estrella (Paris, 1929); a fine first edition of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899); a fine copy in the extremely rare dust jacket of the first edition of Irma Bombech’s The Joy of Cooking (St. Louis, 1931); the rare first American edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Philadelphia, 1844); Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Poems (London, 1898) in the rare dust jacket; a fine copy of the first edition, first issue of Seamus Heaney’s first book, Eleven Poems (Belfast, 1965); Ted Hughes’s Roosting Hawk (Northampton, 1959) inscribed by Hughes to Sylvia Plath’s mother; the first edition of Keats’s Lamia (London, 1820) in original boards; a fine run of Philip Larkin’s appearances in his school literary magazine The Coventrian (Coventry: King Henry VIII School, 1935-1944); the publisher Gaston Gallimard’s copy of the deluxe issue of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dès (Paris: Gallimard, 1914); Wilfred Owen’s Poems (London, 1920) in the rare dust jacket; and an important presentation copy of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus (London, 1960), among others. Among the manuscripts and letters offered are letters from Ray Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg to Hazel Frieda Larsen, the artists’ friend and photography instructor at Black Mountain College; a fine manuscript of Thomas Hardy’s “In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’”, and a highly important series of letters from the poet Charles Olson to Ralph Maud.

A selection of the material from our Spring Catalog, a portion of which was exhibited at the New York Book Week's ABAA "Shadow Show" otherwise known as the "The Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair & The Fine Press Book Fair"<br /><br /> The fair was April, 2014.<br /><br /> This is but a small portion of the material we offer.

<p>A Catalogue of Significant and Unusual Imprints Relating to America</p>

<p>A Catalogue of Significant and Unusual Imprints Relating to America</p>

Books on Bookbinding, Calligraphy, Publishing, Typography, Papermaking, book Design and the Art of the Book.

World War I related books, photographs, letters, documents, etc.

A selection of 36 books by women travelers dating from 1776 to 1940, covering most parts of the globe, and involving travel by foot, horseback, motorcycle, automobile, yacht, rail, and rickshaw.

An extensive, heavily ILLUSTRATED catalogue in one of PRB&M's longtime specialties.

<p>An extensive, heavily ILLUSTRATED catalogue in one of PRB&M’s longtime specialties.</p>

From psychedelic evolution to Marxist revolution; ethnic disquiet to calls for queer riot

25 unusual and interesting items somehow made by hand or for the hand, ranging from an 1877 manuscript account of labor unrest in Chicago to washcloth quintuplets.

Extensively illustrated catalogue of 48 rare and unusual items, available online in PDF and Flash (magazine) format. Published Spring 2014.

Colonial and state histories (including the first historical work on the country as a whole, and biographies of original settlers), presidential biographies, two 19th century nursing titles (one of which is signed association copy), and a miscellany of other interesting material.

We regularly issue catalogs of Modern Literature, available in print version or viewable at our website.

<p>This catalogue lists and describes over 1500 works of art.</p>