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March 2019
* New York Antiquarian Book Fair
* RBMS Panel Discussion at NYABF
* Our Book Fair List (so far)
* New Arrivals |
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Our biggest event of the year is quickly approaching! Join us next weekend at the 59th annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ABAA & ILAB). One of the largest antiquarian book fairs in the world, it is sure to be an exciting event.
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave at 66th St
New York, NY 10065
Booth D4
Thursay, March 7 - 5-9pm (Preview)
Friday, March 8 - noon-8pm
Saturday, March 9 - noon-7pm
Sunday, March 10 - noon-5pm
Please contact us for more information, or to inquire about a complimentary pass.
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Discovery Day: Sunday, March 10th, 1-3PM
Free with paid admission to the fair
Bring your old books with you on the Sunday of the fair to have them appraised for free by experts from the ABAA. Josh and Sunday will be among other rare book dealers available to give advice and value estimates on any books that you choose to bring along. |
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Our partial list of books available now and at the NYABF:
Please call or email to inquire about any of the books listed below,
or to place an item on hold.
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O'Connor, Flannery. The Violent Bear It Away.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by O'Connor on the half-title: "For Miller Williams / From Flannery".
$5000 |
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O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1952. First edition, first printing.
$600 |
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Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1907. Second edition, first issue. Signed and inscribed by Dreiser to the front free endpaper.
$1250 |
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Woolf, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Illustrated with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell.
$1500 |
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Flaubert, Gustave. Trois Contes.
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1877. First edition, first printing.
$1250 |
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Nabokoff-Sirin, W. (Nabokov, Vladimir). König, Dame, Bube: ein Spiel mit dem Schiksal
Berlin: Ullstein, 1930. First German edition.
$500 |
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Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First Edition.
$1250 |
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Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First edition, original publisher's cloth.
$500 |
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James, Henry. The Tragic Muse.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. First English edition. One of 500 copies. Three volumes, original publisher's blue cloth.
$750 |
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Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row.
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First edition, advance issue in the publisher's blue wrappers.
$1250 |
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Capote, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms.
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition, first printing of the author's first novel.
$125 |
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Edgeworth, Maria. Leonora.
London: J. Johnson, 1806. First edition. Two volumes.
$125 |
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Edgeworth, Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth. Essay on Irish Bulls.
London: J. Johnson, 1802. First Edition.
$150 |
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James, Henry. The Two Magics.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First edition, second impression, colonial issue.
$1000 |
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James, Henry. The Two Magics.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First edition, second impression, domestic issue.
$400 |
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Sendak, Maurice. Reading is Fun!
Color Lithograph, framed. Printed for Reading is Fundamental, 1979. Signed and inscribed by Sendak to fellow children's book author James Marshall.
$1250 |
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Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First American Edition. Dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon.
$100 |
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Eliot, George. Felix Holt The Radical.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. Three volumes. First edition, in Carter's "A" binding (the earliest), with half-titles.
$1000 |
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Eliot, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons. 1861. First edition. Bound in original publishers cloth with 16 page catalogue.
$600 |
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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First Edition.
$650 |
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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Two volumes.
$250 |
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Trollope, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1867. Two volumes. Illustrated by George H. Thomas. First edition.
$500 |
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Flint, William Russell. Etchings and Dry Points.
London: P. & D. Colnaghi, 1957. Catalogue raisonné by Harold J. L. Wright. Illustrated with original dry point "Manolita" signed Flint as a frontispiece. Limited edition of 135 numbered copies. Signed by Flint on the limitation page.
$250 |
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Churchill, Charles. The Rosciad and the Apology.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891. First edition thus.
$25 |
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Defoe, Daniel. A View of the Invisible World: Or, General History of Apparitions.
London, 1752. Good. Revised edition. A good copy, front hinge cracked and almost disbound.
$1250 |
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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale.
Corke: Printed for Eugene Swiney, 1766. Pirated Corke edition.
$650 |
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A Collection of 25 First Editions by Raymond Chandler
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"You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell."
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Chandler, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Rare in the original dust jacket.
$4500 |
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These books are our newest arrivals, we are currently cataloguing the rest for the NYABF! Please call or email to inquire.
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Collection of Beat material owned by a friend of Allen Ginsberg...
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BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF MARSHALL EFRON
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Marshall Efron (b. 1938) is an American actor, humorist, and author associated with the art and literary scene in San Francisco and New York, particularly the Beat community. Most famous for his satirical television show on PBS, The Great American Dream Machine (1971-1972), and his radio shows on WBAI and KPFK, Efron also worked as a clerk at City Lights Books in San Francisco, a bookstore and publishing house founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953 that served as a creative hub for writers of the Beat generation. Well known among the community, Efron remained friends with Ferlinghetti and other writers like Allen Ginsberg and Dylan Thomas throughout his career.
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The collection, consisting of 22 items (including 6 signed books) that will be offered for sale individually, is heavy on Beat poets and their peers, but spans across 20th century America to include the likes of William Faulkner, Groucho Marx, and Kurt Vonnegut. Books, pamphlets, and ephemera are equally important to this collection, and are emblematic of the radical changes that took place in the 1950's and 60's literary scene.
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Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. New York: Delacorte Press, 1973. First edition. $125
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Pictures of the Gone World. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. First edition, ninth printing. $50
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Ginsberg, Allen. Howl, and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1958. First edition, sixth printing. $100
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Ginsberg, Allen. Reality Sandwiches. San Francisco: City Lights, 1972. First edition, first printing. $75
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We are in the process of cataloguing the rest of the collection.
Find us at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair (Booth D4)
to view thecollection in person. Please call or email to inquire.
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