Start the new year off right by perusing the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below.
AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA TISHMAN BOOK APPRAISALS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOOK SHOP
CHARLES AGVENT
ARS LIBRI LTD.
ARTISAN BOOKS & BINDERY
BACK CREEK BOOKS
BARTLEBY'S BOOKS
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS
BETWEEN THE COVERS RARE BOOKS
Featured item:
Revolving Pictures: A Novel Colour Book with Dioramic Effects
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton [1892] First edition. Quarto. Quarter cloth and chromolithographed paper over boards. Floral endpapers. Eight revolving plates in very nice working order. Very small tear on front fly, a couple of small punctures on the spine, else about fine. A lovely copy.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books and found in "Catalog 252."
BOLERIUM BOOKS
DAVID BRASS RARE BOOKS
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BAYNTUN, binder. !e Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. With Twelve Hand-colored Plates after Drawings by Gilbert James.
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [ca. 1904-1908]. Deluxe edition of 250? copies with the photogravure plates hand colored. Small quarto. Twelve !ne hand-colored photogravure plates including frontispiece, all with original tissue-guards. Bound by Bayntun of Bath ca. 1910. Full turquoise crushed levant morocco, front cover double-ruled in gilt surrounding two elaborate wide borders of grapevines inlaid in purple, brown and dark green morocco's within a border of elaborate gilt pointille. "The large center panel with an inlaid multi-colored morocco and gilt decorated !gure based on the hand-colored frontispiece. Above and below the inlaid !gure are two panels enclosing the the title in decorative gilt. Lower cover bordered in gilt and black. Spine with !ve raised bands, decoratively inlaid with leaves and bunches of grapes in dark green and purple morocco's. Five of the panels with elaborate gilt pointille, the remaining one lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board-edges, and turn-ins, cream watered silk liners and end-leaves, all edges gilt. A spectacular example of an early 'Bayntun Rubaiyat'. Housed in a later? #eece-lined blue cloth slipcase.
Offered by David Brass Rare Books and found in "Holiday Gift Catalogue."
BRATTLE BOOK SHOP
BROMER BOOKSELLERS
BUDDENBROOKS, INC.
THE COLOPHON BOOK SHOP
JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER
DEWOLFE & WOOD
DOWNTON BROWN BOOKS, LLC
Featured item:
[Record of a Japanese in America] Aru zaibei nihonjin no kiroku [2 volumes, complete]
Koide, Jo "Joseph"
Notes: "An autobiography of an Issei leftist, a native of Tokyo and a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin. The first volume covers the period prior to World War II and includes his years in the Soviet Union; the second treats his wartime internment experience and his service to the American government from 1944." —A Buried Past, 808.
Koide (1902–ca. 1976) trained at the Lenin International School in Moscow in the 1930s, yet in spite of his strong Communist ties, he joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the Second World War. He is profiled in Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory by Brian Masaru Hayashi (Oxford University Press, 2021). According to Hideo Hoshide, another Japanese American who worked for the OSS, Koide (a pseudonym) was the leader of the Japanese section of the OSS during the Second World War. See Densho Digital Archive.
A unique perspective on the Japanese American experience. Your cataloguer could not determine what happened to Koide after these memoirs were published.
Edition + Condition: First editions of both volumes. Near fine copies of both volumes in very good slipcases. Volume two has the original obi (bellyband).
Publication: Tokyo: Yushindo, 1967–1970.
Offered by Downtown Brown Books and foundd in "Catalog 61: Japanese Americana."
ECLECTIBLES
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A Christmas Stocking Full of Good Things. Harriet E. Manchester (selector) Peter Paul & Bro.
Buffalo, NY. 1880. Twentieth Thousand. 20 pp. Press of the Courier Company. 9 ½” x 4 ½”. Illustrated wraps, die-cut in the shape of a stocking with ribbon tie binding. Selections include Christmas Eve, Old Santa Claus, Katie's Wants, Christmas night in the Quarter and many more. All are attributed; many from contemporary periodicals.
Offered by Eclectibles and found in "E-list 84."
LES ENLUMINURES
EVENING STAR BOOKS
MARK FUNKE, BOOKSELLER
Featured item:
American Numismatics Including Indigenous Currencies Dickeson, Montroville Wilson. The American Numismatical Manual of the Currency or Money of the Aborigines, and Colonial, State, and United States Coins. With Historical and Descriptive Notices of Each Coin or Series. Illustrated by Nineteen Plates of Fac-Similes.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859. 290 by 230mm (11½ by 9 inches). Lg. 4to.; 256 pp. Index. Plus 19 color printed plates. with multiple images on each, most printed in copper, silver and gold in order to represent the original coins. Frontispiece lithograph portrait of the author bound in. In addition, there are some text woodcuts. Very nicely rebound in 1/2 black morocco, gilt, over the original pebbled boards. Top edge gilt. Very good plus, except light foxing throughout and old water stain at bottom inner margin of last few leaves, no plates affected. A leading text on collecting American coins. Hard to find in such a nice binding. Includes an extensive discussion on currency of Indigenous Americans and other Indigenous people, and five of the plates detail their currencies. A lovely book for the serious American coin collector. Listed in Bennett Color Printing pg. 34.
Offered by Mark Funke, Bookseller and found in "Inflation & Economics."
L.N. GOLAY BOOKS
JEFF HIRSCH BOOKS
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Ansel Adams and John Szarkowski.
The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Signed First Edition).
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1977. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 124 pages. Preface by Ansel Adams. Features an introduction by John Szarkowski. A monograph on the seven limited edition portfolios produced by Adams between 1936 to 1976. Includes 90 black and white images along with bibliographical information about each portfolio. A near fine copy with a few small spots to the boards in a very near fine dust jacket and with a laid in related piece of ephemera. Signed by Adams on the half title page in the year of publication.
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books and found in "E-list 190."
HONEY & WAX BOOKSELLERS
Featured item:
Engraved ticket to Charles Dickens’s farewell dinner.
[London]: November 2, 1867. Pale green coated card, measuring 3 ×4.5 inches, printed recto only: “Dinner given to Mr. Charles Dickens / on the occasion of / His Departure for the United States / Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen St. / Saturday, November 2nd 1867, Seven o’clock.”
Admission ticket #70 for the public banquet given in honor of Charles Dickens as he embarked on his final American reading tour. In 1867, Dickens was at the height of his literary fame, and the grand farewell dinner at London’s Freemason’s Hall was attended by almost five hundred guests, including Matthew Arnold, Wilkie Collins, Alfred Tennyson, and Anthony Trollope. In his response to the toasts, Dickens outlined his reasons for returning to America: “ I am inspired . . . by a natural desire to see for myself the astonishing change and progress of a quarter of a century over there, to grasp the hands of many faithful friends whom I left upon those shores, to see the faces of a multitude of new friends upon whom I have never looked, and last, not least, to use my best endeavor to lay down a third cable of intercommunication and alliance between the old world and the new.” Dickens was overwhelmed by the occasion, writing to his friend Harry Wills the following day: “When I got up to speak, but for taking a desperate hold of myself, I should have lost my sight and voice and sat down again.” A near-fine souvenir of the Victorian literary scene.
Offered by Honey & Wax Books & found in their "Catalog 10."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD.
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
LITTLE SAGES BOOKS
LIZZYOUNG BOOKSELLER
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
LUX MENTIS BOOKSELLERS
KENNETH MALLORY, BOOKSELLER
JEFFREY D. MANCEVICE, INC.
ABAA Bibliography Week Showcase
January 26-27, 2022
A virtual book fair open continuously from Noon EST on Wednesday until 7:00 pm EST on Thursday.
www.abaa.org/vbf
Explore the finest rare books, manuscripts, and ephemera. Shop the virtual booths of ABAA members and discover their latest acquisitions and rare finds.
MARE BOOKSELLERS
MARTAYAN LAN RARE BOOKS & MAPS
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
KATE MITAS, BOOKSELLER
MUSINSKY RARE BOOKS
Featured item:
CARTAGLORIA. A letterpress and engraved portable folding altar card or Cartagloria. [France, ca. 1630]
A folding triptych consisting of three large engraved broadsides with letterpress text, containing 30 scenes and portraits, engraved by Isaac Briot and published by Nicolas de Mathonière, the engravings finely colored by a contemporary hand and illuminated in gold, surrounding letterpress text printed in red and black with 11 illuminated initials; the central panel measuring 538 x 295 mm. (sheet size), the side panels a bit narrower (538 x 273 mm). Illuminated coat of arms of the family Richard de la Barollière added within bottom scene of central panel. The broadsides mounted on three hinged boards, covered in olive goatskin, each broadside Musinsky Rare Books framed in a gold-tooled roll, covers paneled with triple gilt fillets, fleurons at corners and central La Barollière arms, the middle cover lettered in gold capitals “Canon pour la Chappelle du Chasteau de la Barrolliere. Dediée à la Sacrée Vierge du Sainct Rozaire MDCXXXIII.” A few tiny chips to broadsides, the paper slightly darkened, a few small splashes of silvery white ink in upper central panel, binding with some minor scrapes and gouges, two covers with dampstain in a lower corner, rubbing to backstrips and extremities. Provenance: Nicolas Richard de la Barollière (d. 1634 or 1635), painted arms & supra-libros.
Offered by Musinsky Rare Books and found in "E-catalogue 23."
OLD IMPRINTS
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LARGE VINTAGE COLOR POP-UP Advent Calendar.
Sweden. Mid-century. Pop-up color advent calendar, in card covers 13 1/2 x 10 inches, unfolding to an imposing 20 x 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Light edgewear, a few soft creases near spine; overall very good clean condition. A brightly colored diorama of Santa's workshop, with cherubic blond elves playing and preparing the presents. The covers depict two children admiring the calendar with Santa looking on. The text at bottom reads: "E. O. & Co., nr. 5982. Made in Sweden." A large, uncommon and dramatic display for the Christmas season.
Offered by Old Imprints and found in "Christmas & Holidays 2021."
PALINURUS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
RAPTIS RARE BOOKS
READ'EM AGAIN BOOKS
WILLIAM REESE COMPANY
L&T RESPESS BOOKS
ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
DAHL, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. 8vo. [viii], 62, [2] pp. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth with an image of Mr. Fox on the front cover, author and title on spine, a fine clipped dust jacket with minor soiling; interior excellent. First edition, first printing (with the words “First Edition” on the copyright page) of this classic work by Dahl. The story revolves around Mr. Fox’s determination to protect his family from three farmers. Descriptions of the farmers as well as the animals around the area, including Mr. Fox and his family, are enthralling and are embellished by the wonderful illustrations of Donald Chaffin. The book was released simultaneously in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin. An animated film directed by Wes Anderson was released in 2009.
Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books and found in "Holiday Catalog 2021."
RULON-MILLER BOOKS
KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS
SCHULSON AUTOGRAPHS
Featured item:
CHARLES SCHULZ, GARY TRUDEAU
Snoopy Original Sketch Signed with Zonker Harris Original Sketch Signed.
Each cartoonist has drawn his lovable character on a 6.75 x 11 tall inch card. The Snoopy and Zonker Harris sketches are signed by their creators, "Schulz" and "G. B. Trudeau."
Schulz (1922-2000) American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip. Trudeau (b.1948) American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.
Offered by Schulson Autographs and found in "Catalog 188, Fall 2021."
GARRETT SCOTT, BOOKSELLER
SECOND LIFE BOOKS
TAVISTOCK BOOKS
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
Featured item:
FRASCONI, Antonio. Birds from My Homeland. With Notes from W.H. Hudson’s “Birds of La Plata.”
[New York: Antonio Frasconi, 1958.] 11 in. x 8 ¼ in. [28] pp. With ten woodcuts hand-colored by Frasconi. Paper is Hosho, handmade in Japan. Hand-colored vignette on title-page. Dedicated to the Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist Pablo Casals. Original blue paper-covered boards printed with a flock of birds in black. Slight wear to spine and a bit of sunning. Head of spine repaired with piece of matching paper. Interior is fine, clean, and bright. Overall a very good copy of a beautiful production by Frasconi.
Offered by Michael R. Thompson Rare Books and found in their latest catalog "New Year Miscellany."
TRIOLET RARE BOOKS
TSCHANZ RARE BOOKS
THE VEATCHS ARTS OF THE BOOK
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS
WHITMORE RARE BOOKS
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
Featured item:
Grahame, Kenneth; Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). The Wind in the Willows.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Sm. folio, 245, [246, colophon] pp. Sixteen color plates mounted within dark green borders, with captions, on heavy paper. Original patterned boards backed in gilt lettered beige buckram, top edge gilt others uncut; one corner bumped otherwise a fine, clean, unopened copy in the original, slightly worn slipcase. § Limited to 2020 copies beautifully designed and signed by Bruce Rogers; this is copy is 845. This was Arthur Rackham’s final project, and he died before the book’s publication.
Offered by John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller and found in "40 Books for the Holidays."
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