Rare Book Monthly

Articles - October - 2015 Issue

Eight New Catalogues Reviewed This Month

8 new catalogues.

8 new catalogues.

This month we review 8 new booksellers' catalogues. High Ridge Books features atlases, directories, maps, and other material with a geographic orientation. Hordern House Rare Books focuses on a particular geographic location and time – Pacific voyages and Australia up to the time of that continent's early settlement. David Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books concentrates on 18th and 19th century material from the United States' portion of America, while Plaza Books features items from just below the U.S. border, mostly Mexico, but a few from farther south.

 

L & T Respess Books offers a selection of sporting books, manuscripts, and ephemera. Lorne Bair Rare Books presents an assortment of books and ephemera pertaining to radical (mostly leftist) politics from the late 19th and 20th century. Peter Harrington has a mix of important items while James Gray Booksellers focuses on books that are very old.

 

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  • Sotheby'sFine Books, Manuscripts & MoreAvailable for Immediate Purchase Sotheby'sFine Books, Manuscripts & MoreAvailable for Immediate Purchase
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
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    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.
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    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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