W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera
Specializing in appraisals, collection management, Americana, art and design, avant garde, circus and magic, unusual collections and exhibitions, ephemera, manuscripts
About
W. C. Baker Rare Books specializes in rare printed and manuscript materials in Americana, avant-garde literature, social movements, and the history of unusual collections, exhibitions, and performances. In addition to buying and selling, we serve as rare book appraisers and consultants to both institutions and private collectors. Will Baker is an IRS-qualified appraiser, compliant with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) through August 24, 2023, and provides appraisal services for donation, estate, insurance, and other purposes.Terms of Sale
Payments may be submitted by check, wire transfer, credit card, or PayPal. Libraries and known customers may be billed. All materials are guaranteed to be as described. Purchases may be returned within ten days of receipt after contacting the seller, provided they are in the same condition as when received. All items are subject to prior sale.
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Recently Added Books
THE OPENER OF THE WAY
by Bloch, Robert
![[Original Art for SIGNALS Limited Edition Edward Gorey LITHOGRAPH #4 (Gazebo)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/624/532/1499532624.0.m.0.jpg)
![[Somnambulist (original art)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/036/064/1497064036.0.m.jpg)
[Somnambulist (original art)]
by Gorey, Edward
![JOYEUX NOËL" [original art]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/031/064/1497064031.0.m.jpg)
JOYEUX NOËL" [original art]
by Gorey, Edward
![[Original Art for the Album Cover and Liner Notes of THE HAPLESS CHILD AND OTHER INSCRUTABLE STORIES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/018/064/1497064018.0.m.jpg)
![UNE SAISON EN ENFER [EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES DE ANDRÉ MASSON]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/140/888/1480888140.0.m.0.jpg)
UNE SAISON EN ENFER [EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES DE ANDRÉ MASSON]
by Rimbaud, Arthur; André Masson [artist]
LES POÈMES DE T'AO TS'IEN
by Sanyu (artist); T'ao Ts'ien (i.e., Tao Yuanming); Liang Tsong Tai (i.e., Liang Zongdai, translator); Paul Valéry (preface)
VVV : POETRY, PLASTIC ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY : NUMBER 4 : February 1944
by Hare, David (ed.); André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst (editorial advisers); Leonora Carrington, Aimé Césaire, Georges Duthuit, Charles Duits, Philip Lamantia, Robert Lebel, Benjamin Péret, Robert Allerton Parker, Patrick Waldberg [et al.] (author
Recently added catalogues
Books, photography, and ephemera.
Featuring the work of visionary artist Richard O. Tyler and circle produced at his Lower East Side Uranian Press, including Tyler's artist's-book masterpiece, The Planets, and various chapbooks and broadsides, many excessively rare.
A collection of manuscripts, photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, and other unbound items relating to 20th-century arts and literature.
30 items that emerged from New York counterculture and avant-garde scenes of the 1960s and early 1970s (with particular attention to second-generation New York School poets).
20 items relating to religion (mostly Christianity, ca. 1500–1978).
A Selection of Unusual Printed and Manuscript Works Relating to Magic, Museums, Religion, Science, the Stage, and Other Diverse Subjects