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Rare Book Monthly Reviews - August - 2012 Issue

William Reese Co. Offers a Tribute to Wright Howes and his U.S.IANA

William Reese Co. Offers a Tribute to Wright Howes and his U.S.IANA

For their 294th catalogue, the William Reese Company has issued A Tribute to Wright Howes: Part 1 “b” or Better. Actually, this is Part 1 of the fourth go 'round, Reese having issued tributes to Howes three times previously. Such is his importance in the field of book collecting, Americana in particular. Howes was a Chicago based bookseller for much of the first half of the 20th century. He published 73 catalogues, the last in 1949, and was noted for extensive notes and an encyclopedic knowledge of books in the field of Americana.

As his book selling career was winding down, Howes took on ...

The Founding of America from Seth Kaller Historic Documents

The Founding of America from Seth Kaller Historic Documents

Seth Kaller, Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy Collections has issued a catalogue entitled Washington, the Revolution, and the Founding. For Kaller, original documents provide a means “to see the u...

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A Wide Variety of Material Offered by Forest Books

A Wide Variety of Material Offered by Forest Books

Forest Books has issued a new catalogue with a short title and a long title. Both are accurate. The short is succinct, the long reminiscent of those titles books had in the 19th century, which were...

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Five Centuries of Maps from Jonathan Potter Antique Maps

Five Centuries of Maps from Jonathan Potter Antique Maps

Jonathan Potter Antique Maps has released their Catalogue Summer 2012. No surprise as to what will be found here – maps. Lots of them. They range from the 15th century to the middle of the 20th. Mo...

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Texas and the West from Kenston Rare Books

Texas and the West from Kenston Rare Books

Kenston Rare Books has issued their catalogue for Summer 2012, Fine Books on Texas and the American West. Offered are 270 items, some old, others relatively recent, though the topics of all relate ...

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Fine Books and Manuscripts from James Cummins Bookseller

Fine Books and Manuscripts from James Cummins Bookseller

James Cummins Bookseller has issued Catalogue 112 of Fine Books and Manuscripts. This catalogue contains a wide mix of material, making it hard to describe beyond the word “fine.” The works here ar...

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75 Fine Books from Peter Harrington

75 Fine Books from Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington has issued their 84th catalogue, Seventy-Five Fine Books. These are every bit as fine as the title says. This is a collection of important books, in top condition, in first or othe...

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Miscellaneous Oddities from Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Miscellaneous Oddities from Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Garrett Scott, Bookseller, recently published Catalogue 38, Miscellaneous Acquisitions. Scott's material is mostly shorter form, pamphlets, brochures, advertisements and the like. Most are American...

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A Miscellany from Michael Thompson Books

A Miscellany from Michael Thompson Books

Recently printed is Michael Thompson Books' Summer Miscellany, Consisting of 100 Books, Mostly Recent Acquisitions. I always check Thompson's lists of “100 books” to see how many there actually are...

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China is the Subject for Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books

China is the Subject for Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books

Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books has issued their List 55, with the subject being China. These are works from a western perspective, primarily by Europeans who visited China in an era when the lan...

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    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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    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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