Rare Book Monthly

Articles - July - 2009 Issue

19 New Catalogues Up for Review

Nineteen new catalogues are reviewed this month.

Nineteen new catalogues are reviewed this month.


This month, we review 19 new bookseller catalogues. Literature is the focus of the William Reese Company, while James Pepper Rare Books features literature and film, James Cummins Bookseller literature and Americana. David Lesser Antiquarian Books offers strictly Americana.

The 19th Century Shop has a collection of important books and manuscripts. The Raab Collection presents historic, signed documents. Peter Masi Books offers a "mixed bag" of uncommon items; Marc Selvaggio Bookseller has uncommon and often unusual works "on paper." Twelfth Street Booksellers offers items from the collection of the unusual, eccentric book collector Michael Hurley.

From England, Samuel Gedge, Ltd., has antiquarian books and ephemera, Bernard Shapero Rare Books rare books and photographs, Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books looks at the history of ideas, while Leo Cadogan Rare Books offers a summer catalogue of antiquarian works.

Helen Kahn and Associates are focused on books printed before 1700. The George S. MacManus Company is targeted on America's Civil War. Burkhard Sulzen offers fine and rare posters from the Continent. The Ten Pound Island Book Company offers maritime works from the Laurence Urdang Collection. Plaza Books has items relating to Mexico and the American Southwest, Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books on the Dutch East Indies and other areas the Dutch explored.

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  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.

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