Ann Arbor: La Presse des Torus, 2025. First edition, one of eight numbered copies. 12mo (8.25 x 5.5 inches), original unbleached muslin spine and marbled boards by Vernon Wiering, [4], [4] pages, with [12] leaves of Arnaud’s book from the Fr. Richard press bound in. Two non-consecutive gatherings from the..... More

[America, ca. 1860?]. Glass box made from marbled and decorated paper scraps, with a presumed reused label over a wooden spine, “The Prize.” Contemporary or perhaps slightly later jointed doll laid in, as found. Contemporary or perhaps slightly later jointed doll laid in (as found). More

[Marshall County, Illinois? Tazewell County, Illinois? n. p., ca. 1844]. Single leaf (12.38 x 17 inches), wax crayon, ink and wash on heavy stock. Hints of Transcendental Romanticism in the early Midwest, a fine characteristic mourning scene of a woman leaning against a gravestone inscribed, “To the Memory of Harriet..... More

London: [n. p.], 1756. Second edition. Early added wrappers (8.5 x 5.13 inches) titled in autograph ink, [16], 20 pages. “There is no Man can be supposed ignorant of the Utility, or a Stranger to the Necessity, as well as the Difficulty, of keeping the Streets, Lanes, Courts and Alleys..... More

[Imprint on verso:] Hartford, Conn. Kellogg Brothers, 1863. Image measures approx. 3.25 x 2.25 inches (on a 4 x 2.5 inch printed mount). An evocative image of a little girl who embodied all the tortuous complexities of American race, and who was for a time during the Civil War a...... More

[N. p., but Los Angeles? ca. 1902-1909?]. 35 pages, rectos only on onionskin fastened along the upper edge, with over 200 additions, corrections, and deletions in pencil and ink, likely in the author’s hand. A detailed and seemingly unpublished article or lecture from an agent of the American Red Cross..... More

[N. p., but America? ca. 1870s?]. Albumen print (approx. 9.13 x 5.63 inches) mounted to a drab card stock album leaf. Albumen print of an another portrait of comparable dimensions mounted to the verso. Some wear and soiling, but a nice instance of an inadvertent view behind the scenes of..... More

Sag-Harbor: Printed by Alden Spooner, 1808. First edition thus. 12mo (6.75 x 4.25 inches), later brown half morocco and marbled boards by P. B. Sanford, gilt spine, 144 pages. Frontis portrait. Two local Great Awakenings under one nice Sag Harbor imprint, Buell’s original narrative first published in New York in..... More

Paris, ca. 1952 to, 1956. Oblong commercial photo album (9.88 x 13 inches), green faux alligator, 40 pages of card stock. 67 mounted photos, 11 loose photos laid in. 6 pages of clippings, one mounted poster (folded) advertising a match, various clippings laid in. Highlights and daily sporting life in..... More

Paris: Laboratoire Générale pour Emballages, (1935). First edition. Original pictorial kraft paper wrappers (10.63 x 8.38 inches), 99, [1] pages. Illus. An example of industrial art that one could imagine avidly consumed both by technocrat and Man Ray alike, a trade catalog that rises to the level of artist’s book..... More

[New York: Metropolitan News Co., ca. 1912]. First edition. 8vo, contemporary green quarter binder’s cloth, marbled sides, original pictorial wrappers bound in, 478 pages. A Yiddish-American novel from the prolific Polish-American labor writer, and to judge from the lurid cover art and from the title (“Gold and Blood”) something of..... More

Onitsha: J. C. Brothers Book-Shop, [1971]. A later edition of this popular work. Original pictorial card stock wrappers (8.5 x 5.5 inches), 52 pages, wire stitched. A nice example of Onitsha market literature, the ways of romance in modern Nigeria dramatized by the ups and downs in the courtship of..... More

Boston: C. M. A. Twitchell & Co., 1892. First edition. Original printed red wrappers (6.63 x 4.88 inches), 52 pages. Frontis portrait, two plates. A lively biographical sketch of the personable and moderately eccentric Irish fruit peddler John Lovett of Cambridge, a longtime beloved mascot of Harvard who ostensibly made..... More