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Learn more »Autographs & Manuscripts (J.A. Stargardt)
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539 Lots. Highlights include important autograph material by Baudelaire, Sartre, Kant, Freud, Dalí, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, and more.
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art (Kestenbaum)
289 Lots.
Fine & Graphic Art: Lots 1-28
Printed Books: Lots 29-225
Manuscripts & Autograph Letters: Lots 226-267
Holy Land Maps: Lots 268-289
Highlights include:
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Vintage Posters (Swann Galleries)
507 Lots. “Posters of all varieties will be offered, including exhibitions, Art Nouveau, Work Incentive and Judaica. Highlights include a premier selection of skiing and resort advertisements.”
Learn more »Ephemera 37 Fair: 70+ Dealers Exhibiting in Old Greenwich, CT
Leading dealers in Ephemera, Antiquarian Books and Photographs will be exhibiting at the Ephemera 37 fair held in Old Greenwich, CT at the Hyatt Regency.
Exhibitors include:
A Gatherin’
Aaron Benneian Historical Americana
Aiglatson
Al Malpa
Antipodean Books Maps & Prints
Archway Books
Bartleby’s Books
Between the Covers Rare Books
Cardtique
Caren Archive Inc.
Cartophilians
Carydale Books
Class Menagerie
Colebrook Book Barn
Cultural Images
David Cohn
David Thompson Antiques and Art
Dennis Holzman Antiques
Dramatis Personae – Booksellers
Eclectibles
Enchanted Books
Evie Eysenburg
Fairlook Antiques
Fred Tenney’s Ephemera Farm
Gary White-Books & Ephemera
George P. Sutton Rare Books
Gilann Books
High Ridge Books, Inc.
Bob Hoffman
William Hutchison
Ian Brabner Rare Americana
Island Antiques
James Arsenault & Company
Janet West
Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Jeffrey Rovenpor Rare Books
John Bale Books
John Kemler
Joshua Heller Books, Photographica & Misc
Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera
Kaplan & Kopelson Books
Kuenzig Books, ABAA
L & T Respess Books
Le Bookiniste
Lizzyoung bookseller LLC
Locus Solus Rare Books
Martayan Lan Fine Antique Maps
Melrose Books & Art
Michael Maslan Historic Photographs & Ephemera
Mori Books
NCC Antiques
Neverbird Antiques
Patricia Reilly
Peter L. Masi – books
Peter Luke Antiques
Quadrille
R. Dana Sheaff & Co.
Rabelais
Rare Photo Gallery
Resser-Thorner Antiques
Robert Staples
Robinson Murray III, Bookseller
Roland & Co
S & C Resnick
Savoy Books
Schubertiade Music & Arts
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents Inc.
Tamerlane Books
Ten Pound Island Book Co.
The Country Bookshop
The Good Times Bookshop
The Goose River Exchange
The Old Print Shop
Thomas G. Boss Fine Books and Art
University Archives
Valley Americana
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Willis Monie
Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair: March 17-18
The Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair will be held on March 17-18 at the Sid Cutter Pilot’s Pavilion. Exhibitors include:
BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS #1
Andy & Marcee Nettell, ABAA
83 N. Main
Moab, Utah 84532
435-260-8596
email: andy@backofbeyondbooks.com
www.backofbeyondbooks.com
Specialties: Western Americana, Native Americana, Exploration, New Mexico, Ephemera
THE BOOK COLLECTOR, INC. #2
Michael Utt, ABAA
2901 6th Avenue
FortWorth, Texas 76110
817-927-7595
email: bkcolltr@flash.net
www.bookcollectorshop.com
Specialties: Americana, Exploration and Voyages, Native American, Literature
BOOKMARK #22
Mark Holmen
2405 Kestrel Ct. NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107
505-345-1945
email: bookmark1@earthlink.net
www.abqbookfair.com
Specialties: Travel & Exploration, Hunting Fishing, Military History, New Mexico Natural History, Fine binding.
THE BOOK STOP #10-B
Jerry Lane
505-268-889
BILLY THE KID BOOK RANGE #28
Tim Hagaman
P. O. Box 292
Springer, New Mexico 87747
505-504-4772
email: timhagaman@msn.com
Specialties: Southwest Americana, Brand Books, Cowboys, Indians, Lawmen, Outlaws & Hippies, Maps, Primitives, Six-Shooters
BRISTLECONE BOOKS #15
Kevin & Caroline Lescroart
P. O. Box 385
Ridgway, Colorado 81432
970-209-7426
email: bconebooks@yahoo.com
Specialties: Poetry, Ephemera, Art, Western Fiction, General Stock in All Fields
CATRON GRANT BOOKS #8
Christie Lucero
2181 Zaragosa Road SE
Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124
505-896-2221
email: cjl@catrongrantbooks.com
www.catrongrantbooks.com
Specialties: China, India, Tibet, Mongolia, Travel & Exploration,WWII, Pacific & Southeast Asia, Non-Fiction
CHIRICAHUA BOOKS #18-A
Alfredo Gonzales
P. O. Box 216
Tucson, Arizona 85702
520-884-1240
email:chiribk@msn.com
Specialties: Western Americana, Mexico, Travel
MARK CRAIG, BOOKSELLER #23
1918 Olive ,Unit 2501
Dallas, Texas 75201
Specialties: Fine bindings
CRANE’S BILL BOOKS #24-A
Jeffrey Lee
1907 Buena Vista Dr. SE No. 11
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-504-5163
email: cranesbill@comcast.net
DUMONT MAPS & BOOKS #26
Andre & Carol Dumont
P. O. Box 10250
Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-988-1076
email: info@dumontbooks.com
Specialties: Antique maps, ephemera, out of print books, travel and exploration
BILL HILL PAPER & PHOTOGRAPHS #11
Bill Hill
P. O Box 753
Peralta, New Mexico 87042
505-865-8245
email: up55atit@netzero.net
Specialties: Paper, Trade Cards, Photographs, New Mexico
FAR WEST MAPS & BOOKS #17
Myron West
3422 Monroe Ave
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
email: info@FarWestMaps.com
www.Farwestmaps.com
Specialties: Antique Maps and books of all parts of the world; Specializing in the exploration and settlement of the American West
GREENFIELD BOOKS #5
Michael Park, Caroline Park
1 North Allison Avenue
Greenfield, Missouri 65661
417-693-1779
email: mpark@greenfieldbooks.com
www.greenfieldbooks.com
Specialties: Eccentric First Editions, Fine Bindings, Exploration, Early American Medicine, Prints, Engravings, Maps
GUNSTOCK HILL Books #7
Henry Lewis
239 Johnson St.
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505-983-0088
email: gunstockhillbook@aol.com
www.gunstockhillbooks.com
Specialties: First & Limited Editions in Many Areas—Western Americana, History, Science, Fiction and more
MCINBOOKS #21
Marvin McIntyre
2907 Marquette Ave.
Farmington, New Mexico 87402
505-325-3412
email: mcinbooks@sisna.com
www.mcinbooks.com
Specialties: Modern Signed First Editions, Tony Hillerman, Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, Larry McMurtry
TERRENCE MURPHY BOOKS #19
Terrence Murphy
11 Monte Alto Place
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508
505-466-1309
email: terrence.murphy@centurylink.net
Specialties: Civil War, New Mexico, Central America, Archaeology, General Americana, Children’s
JOHN W. NUTTER, BOOKMAN #24-B
John Nutter
334 W. Mary Etta Ave.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115
801-867-4137
email: john.nutter@hsc.utah.edu
Specialties: Signed Books, 1st Edition Literature & Poetry, Western & Native Americana, Photography & Art, Miscellaneous Non-Fiction
PAGE 1 BOOKS #20
Maureen Shaw
5850 Eubank Blvd. NE B-41
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111
505-294-2026
email: antiquarian@page1book.com
www.page1book.com
Specialties: Western Americana, Native American, New Mexico, Science Fiction, Gift Items
OCTAVAYE BOOK BINDING #18-B
Wendy Ossoinig
4752 Great Divide Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76137
817-891-0246
email: Wendy@octavaye.com
Specialties: Book Restoration & Binding, Protective Enclosures
THE PHILADELPHIA PRINT SHOP WEST #16
Chris Lane
201 Fillmore St. #101
Denver, Colorado 80206
303-322-4757
email: Lane@pps-west.com
www.pps-west.com
Specialties: Antique prints and maps
NICHOLAS POTTER, BOOKSELLER #10-A
Nick Potter, ABAA
227 E. Palace Ave., Ste.M
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505-983-5434
email: nick@nicholaspotterbooks.com
www.nicholaspotterbooks.com
Specialties: General antiquarian, New Mexico and the Southwest
JOHN RANDALL BOOKS #9
John Randall, ABAA
P. O. Box 40047
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196
505-256-7172
email: jrandallbooks@gmail.com
Specialties: Fine Bindings, Southwest Americana
PYRO’S BOOKS #14
Lynn Eaves
9309 Indian School Rd. NE #19
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87112
505-269-8796
email: leaves1274@msn.com
Specialties: Collectible books and paper in all fields
EDWARD RIPP, BOOKSELLER #12
Ed Ripp
2638 6th St. NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107
505-345-7477
email: ripp505@gmail.com
Specialties: Art, Photography, Gen. Stock
RITA ROBBINS BOOKS #25
Rita Robbins
707 Baca St.
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
505-660-3544
email: rmrcollage@aol.com
Specialties: Beautiful Bindings, Children’s, General New Mexico & Southwest, Interesting Characters & Personalties of the Southwest
SABINO BOOKS AND ANTIQUES #3
Paul and Kathy Nickens
5168 N. Windriver Place
Tucson, Arizona 85750
520-990-8881
email: NickensKM@aol.com
Specialties: Non-fiction, Southwest, Out-of-print, Ephemera, Santa Fe Railway, Fred Harvey
KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS #6
Ken Sanders, ABAA
268 South 200 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
801-652-5570
email: Ksanders@Kensandersbooks.com
www.Kensandersbooks.com
Specialties: Western Explorations, Travels, Native American, Utah/Mormon, Wordless novels, Illustrated Books, Literature
SILVERWOLF TRADING CO. #27
Bob Kanner
P. O. Box 10389
Albuquerque, NM 87184
505-898-5293
email: WLFMN@aol.com
Specialties: New Mexico, Native Americana, Orientalia,General Rare & Antiquarian
TITLE WAVE BOOKS #13
Leslie Gulley
2318 Wisconsin St. NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110
505-294-9495
email: info@titlewavebooks.com
www.titlewavebooks.com
ANNETTE TIXIER BOOKS LLC #4
Annette Tixier
600 4th St. NE
Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124
505-250-6648
email: annette@atixier.com
Specialties: Western Americana, Exploration, Ephemera, Literature
Illustration Art (Swann Galleries)
280 Lots. “Featuring iconic and familiar originals, with new-to-market works by Charles Addams, Al Hirschfeld’s drawings of Audrey Hepburn, and 1930s magazine covers by Erté.”
Learn more »Editions and Works on Paper (Forum Auctions)
409 Lots. Highlights include works by Banksy, Warhol, Richter, Lichtenstein, Haring, Picasso, Hockney and more.
Learn more »Rare Books, Prints & Photographs, Manuscripts & Archives (Henri Godts)
464 Lots.
Bibliophily: Lots 1-11
Popular Prints: Lots 12-25
Japanese prints: Lots 26-31
Old Drawings & Prints: Lots 32-75
19th Century Drawings & Prints: Lots 76-90
Modern Drawings & Prints: Lots 91-111
Photographs: Lots 112-124
Arts: Lots 125-148
History, Law, Economy: Lots 149-196
Religion: Lots 197-219
Travels & Exploration: Lots 220-248
Cartography: Lots 249-260
Science: Lots 261-276
Manuscripts & Archives: Lots 277-333
16th Century editions: Lots 334-346
17th Century editions: Lots 347-349
18th Century editions: Lots 350-358
19th Century editions: Lots 359-364
Modern Books: Lots 365-406
Belgium: Views & Maps: Lots 407-435
Belgium: Books: Lots 436-464
Learn more »Judaica Auction (Ader)
250 lots. Highlights including material on the Dreyfus affair, examples of antisemitic propaganda, a manuscript from 1760 from Victor François Duke of Broglie guaranteeing the safety and liberty of the Jewish community in Worms (lot 37), ephemera and photographs related to the Holocaust, and a complete set of the extremely rare Roman Vishniac portfolio ‘The Vanished World’ (est. €15,000-€18,000). An incomplete set of ‘The Vanished World’ (11 of 12 photographs present) sold at Sotheby’s in 2011 for $25,000.
Learn more »Fine Literature with Lawrence Ferlinghetti & the Beats (PBA Galleries, Auction 610)
443 lots will be offered at PBA Galleries in Auction 610 (“Fine Literature with Lawrence Ferlinghetti & the Beats”) on March 23. Highlights include first editions of Tolkien’s The Hobbit (est. $25,000-$35,000), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (est. $10,000-$15,000), the quite rare first American edition of The Hobbit (est. $8,000-$12,000). As experienced collectors know, these books are very difficult to find in top condition; many copies that appear show considerable wear or worse. The copies offered at PBA, while respectable enough, are certainly not top copies, though at the right price they merit consideration as demand for first editions of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy remains strong.
Other notable lots include a nice copy of the first printing of Frank Herbert’s Dune (est. $2500-$3500), a copy of the very rare author’s edition of Kenneth Patchen’s Fables and Other Little Tales (limited to 50 copies) and roughly 100 lots by or about Charles Bukowski (no surprise for a PBA sale), a decent copy of the first English edition of Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep (with a rather high estimate); though it should be noted that a slightly nicer copy of the same is available from Royal Books for $300.
The full catalogue is here.
Learn more »Autographs and Memorabilia: 505 Lots (Bloomsbury)
505 Lots. The vast majority of lots are offered at estimates of £1000 or less; a few highlights include a Kung Fu book with annotations and drawings in the hand of Bruce Lee (est. £8,000-£10,000), two autograph letters signed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) estimated at £3000-£5000, and an attractive photograph of Winston & Clementine Churchill, signed by both (est. £1200-£1500) Other notable lots include autograph material and memorabilia relating to John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Bobby Moore, Pink Floyd, and Humphrey Bogart. The full catalogue is here.
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, & Ephemera (Addison & Sarova)
213 Lots.
Highlights include a fragment of an autograph signed letter, signed “Ch. Darwin). 4.75” x 3″(lot 12), a first edition of the complete score of Handel’s Judas Macchabaeus (lot 35, est. $800-1200), an Italian broadside from 1611 warning of an outbreak of the plague (lot 47, est. $1000-1500), a photo album containing 49 photographs of the aftermath of the Johnstown flood (lot 81, est. $400-600), the scarce 1805 first edition of Sarah Catherine Martin’s The Comic Adventure of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (lot 155, est. $2000-4000), and more.
Learn more »Libri Antichi e Rari (433 Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions)
433 Lots. Lot 27 is the rare first edition of Fabrizio Caroso’s Il Ballarino, (published in Venice by Francesco Ziletti), one of the most important early treatises on dance (est. € 4.000-8.000). Lot 39 is a first edition of Le Antichita Di Ercolano Esposte. Commissioned by Charles III of Naples to catalogue the magnificent art discovered at Herculaneum between 1738 and 1761, this lavish production played an important role in the development of Neo-Classicism in Europe. Other highlights include:
Lot 53. Houel Jean. Voyage Pittoresque des Isles de Sicile, Malte et de Lipari … A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1782. (Est. €15,000-30,000.)
Lot 58. Sacrobosco Ioannes. Sphaera mundi. Add: Georgius Purbachius: Theoricae … a. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, October 4, 1490.(Est. € 3,000-6,000.)
Lot 59. Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usu Parisiensem…Imprime a Paris: par Jean Barbier et Guillaume le Rouge, 1509. (Est. €5,000 – 10,000)
Lot 87. No Saint-Jean Claude Richard (de). Voyage pittoresque description ou des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicilies … A Paris: [De l’Imprimerie de Clousier, rue de Sorbonne], 1781-1786.(Est. € 8.000-15.000.)
Lot 342. Appianus Alexandrinus. Romanarum historiarum [graece]. Paris: Charles Estienne, 1551. (Est. € 3.000–6.000.)
Learn more »Books and Works on Paper (Bloomsbury Auctions)
280 Lots offered.
Among the most interesting lots on offer is the very rare first edition of Frederich Spee’s Cautio Criminalis, an attack on the wave of witch-hunts and the use of torture in Germany in the 1620s that led to the brutal torture and execution of hundreds of women, men and children. Published anonymously, Spee’s work, the first of its kind, has been recognized as “one of the most stirring examples of an individual speaking truth to power” (Marcus Hellyer). (Very rare. Searching rarebookhub and ABPC yields just one auction result.) The estimate is £2000-3000 (lot 7). Interested in witches? Sokol Books has a first edition of the exceptionally rare Discoverie of Witchcraft.
Lot 176 is a 1972 Cambridge University Press facsimile of the important third edition of Newton’s Principia, the last edition published in Newton’s lifetime and the basis for all subsequent editions. For collectors interested in acquiring the 1726 edition itself, Milestones of Science offers a large paper copy in contemporary calf for €29,000.
Lot 252 is a rare collection of photographs by Henry Ponting, published in 1905 by Ogawa Kazuma. “One of his main achievements was to develop the collotype as a means of attaining a wider audience than was obtainable through the souvenir albums that were so popular at the time. Herbert Ponting, the photographer, is perhaps best known for his photographs of the 1910 Antarctic Expedition, but he lived in Japan from 1901 to 1906 resulting in at least two books” (Bloomsbury’s cataloguer note). Estimate is £500-700.
Subjects in the sale include English Literature (50 lots), Travel & Topography (39 lots), Children’s & Illustrated books (29 lots), Modern first editions (20 lots), Maps (20 lots), Continental Literature (17 lots), Natural history (10 lots), and Art & Architecture (7 lots).
A short list of popular modern first editions in the sale:
Lot 68. A set of C.S. Lewis’s The Narnia Chronicles in 7 volumes with dust jackets (‘sympathetic & skillful restoration’). Est. £5000–7000.
Lot 83. A decent copy of the first edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the third issue). Est. £2000–3000.
Lot 80. Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on front free endpaper. Est. £1500–2000.
Lot 65. Heaney (Seamus). Wintering Out. First edition, inscribed with autograph quatrain from Heaney to Ivan Gilman. Est. £400–600.
Lot 71. McCarthy (Cormac). [The Border Trilogy]. First editions of All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. Est. £200–300.
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Printed & Manuscript African Americana (Swann Galleries)
524 Lots. Highlights include a Civil War-period carte-de-visite album that includes two photographs of Harriet Tubman (one unrecorded), an exceptional autograph letter signed by Frederick Douglass, a signed and inscribed first edition of Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (first editions of this title come around but signed and inscribed is extremely rare), carte-de-viste photogaph of Isabella Baumfre (“Soujourner Truth”), some exceptional Martin Luther King material, including a working draft of King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail, (lot 260), an extensive archive of papers from the Montgomery Improvement Association (lot 256), an extraordinary home-made sign made in support of the Selma Montgomery March (lot 273), an example of the famous I AM A MAN placard (lot 284), and two manuscripts by for Malcolm X’s “God’s Angry Men” columns published by the Los Angeles Herald Dispatch in the summer of 1957 (both manuscripts with annotations and corrections).
FROM LEADING DEALERS:
A collection of press releases issued for the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963), offered by Between the Covers.
An autograph manuscript for a page for M.L.K.’s first book, A Stride Toward Freedom, offered by Seth Kaller.
An early edition of Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom, the second of his three autobiographies, with an inscription (but no signature) from Douglass to Zerviah Temple Watkeys, offered by Jeffrey Marks.
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