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32 books printed in the 16th Century.

September 22, 2022

September 21, 2022


Second Story Books is proud to present the Milford Foxwell, Jr. Medical Collection.

September 20, 2022


107 items: Books, pamphlets, printed ephemera, and a few manuscripts and drawings — for example, editions of Dame Juliana Berners, John J. Brown, H.W. Herbert, Charles Lanman, and Alfred Ronalds — field and stream sports in America, Britain, Canada, and on the Continent — horse classics, veterinary medicine, taxidermy — and bibliographies.

September 19, 2022

September 19, 2022

A Short List of New Acquisition Highlights.

September 18, 2022

42 books, including the history of science, education, the history of astronomy, FESSENKOV & ROZHKOUSKI 1953 Atlas of Gaseous Dust Nebulae with 56 original photographs, HOLTZAPFFEL's Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, etc

September 16, 2022

24 items including: - original set designs for Alfredo Catalani's opera Loreley - a collection of rare 19th century Portuguese musical imprints, including a number of pieces by women composers - an original sketchleaf from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - an original portrait drawing of Verdi, apparently unrecorded - a 16th century "picture-motet" with music by Cornelius Verdonck, a very early example of engraved music - an autograph letter from Wagner to Milanese music publisher Giovanna Lucca relative to rehearsals of Lohengrin

September 15, 2022

September 14, 2022

Thirty-two recent arrivals including many books extra-illustrated with appropriate autograph additions in varied subjects: Sports, Civil War, Modern Fiction, Aviation, Illinois, Literature, Western Americana and Poetry.

September 13, 2022

A catalogue for Firsts London Rare Book Fair

September 13, 2022


September 12, 2022

Beginning 6 September through 30 September, <br /><br /> all books, photographsand ephemera will be on sale as follows:<br /><br /> Items priced from $1 - $300 are discounted 40%.<br /><br /> Items priced from $301 and up are discounted 25%.

September 9, 2022

Our new catalog -- 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE -- contains 40 new arrivals including a run of Edgar Allan Poe and scarce items by other 19th Century American masters including William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

September 6, 2022