Our new catalog--WINTER MISCELLANY 2017--contains 61 select items, all new arrivals, in a variety of fields. Highlights Bickham’s 1741 entirely engraved THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN; SCARCE German and Japanese bookplate collections; Plattes’s 1639 A DISCOVERY OF INFINITE TREASURE; signed books & documents by Fidel Castro, Florence Nightingale, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Elizabeth Bishop, Samuel Beckett, etc.; a selection of fine bindings and illustrated books, and much more.
Representing four centuries of devotion, scholarship, printing & bindings; languages, versions, & formats. Roughly 70 items, $135 to $25,000, with links to more.
Catalog 56 includes exciting new arrivals such as: a rare Mother Goose parody, Turvy-Topsy, Rhymes Turned and Illustrated; a first edition of Tomi Ungerer's Crictor; a rare L. Frank Baum Wizard of Oz imitation by Frederic Chapin, Toodles of Treasure Town and her Snow Man; Lilian Price Hacker's gorgeous book, Susan in its original box; The Cat that Jumped out of the Story, illustrated by Peggy Bacon. As always, we've also included a selection of beautiful picture books, classics of juvenile literature, Caldecott Medal and Honor books and Newbery Medal and Honor books, plus signed and inscribed books.