N.p.: ca. 1910, though photographs developed ca. 1950. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior..... More

Highland, IL: 1983-1985. Two black three-ring binders (29cm) filled with manuscript and printed recipes and accompanying chromogenic snapshots. Some wrinkling and soil to contents from use, else Very Good. Binding I: Relating entirely to the Bouquet Garni School of Cookery founded by Joy Bullivant, a graduate of the..... More

New York: Washington Street Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green printed staple bound wrappers; [4],69pp. Very light sunning to wrapper margins, else a Fine example. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper verso, "For Kay Masson [?] / Clearly a kindred spirit, with grateful esteem -- Amy Clampitt /..... More

Honolulu, HI: April the 19th, 1854. Two-page autograph letter written on single sheet of blue paper (25.5x20cm); approximately 500 words. Deep old mail folds slightly obscuring some of the text, a few small chips and brief splitting to margins, else About Very Good, and for the most part still quite..... More

Pocket notebook (16 x 8cm); 40 leaves. Handwritten notes in ink on each recto. Staple-bound at top edge with black tape covering. Perforated leaves. Cardboard backing with no front cover, possibly as issued (one stub remains on top from a torn-out sheet; unsure if this was a cover page or..... More

Chicago, IL: Poetry, 1964. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm); publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; [2],61pp. Toning and light wear to margins, else Very Good. Signed by Saroyan on p. 20 at the head of his contribution Six Poems. Together with a somewhat sarcastic and revealing autograph letter signed..... More

Washington, DC: [n.p.], 1917. Two-page autographed letter signed on single sheet of Henry P. Blair's (son of the letter's author) office stationery. Light edgewear and toning; mail folds. Very Good. Henry W. Blair served as Senator from New Hampshire and here urges Brisbane to come interview him regarding Suffrage for..... More

South Dennis, MA: 1932-1934. Small archive of letters by Benjamin Franklin Perkins Jr. (1922-2002) addressed to his parents spanning the three summers he spent at Camp Bonnie Dune, "The Nautical Camp for Boys." Collection is comprised of seven autograph letters in pencil and ink on Camp letterhead, six retaining the..... More

New York area, ca. 1970s. Archive of materials belonging to jazz and R&B organist Bill "Mr. Honky Tonk" Doggett consisting of the following: a.) Handwritten sheet music for four different songs all with “words and music by Bill Doggett” written on top right corner. Quartos (32cm). One written..... More

United States: 1960. Large, slim quarto (30.5cm); original cord-bound decorative black and gilt boards, "Scrap Book" to upper cover; [50]pp. filled to completion with seventy-eight (78) magazine clippings captioned in manuscript ink, the two-paged carbon typescript describing the assignment for this Home Decoration scrapbook mounted to final two leaves. Moderate..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 188 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in red. Autograph letter signed from The Graduate author Charles Webb to literary agent Llewellyn Howland mounted to front endpapers. Additional typed letter signed from Webb to Howland, and a carbon..... More

Albany, NY: 1860-1861. Octavo (20cm); red morocco album with gilt decoration and stamping; edges gilt;  [122]pp; thirty-six (36) oval- or square-cut albumen and salt print portrait photographs pasted to most page rectos. Boards generally dust soiled, scuffed, and rubbed at margins with wear to corners and spine ends missing; gilt..... More

Paris: s.i., 1873. Quarto (28cm); publisher's full pictorial black morocco stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; [37]ll. filled to completion with 535 color embossed crests. Binding quite worn and soiled and spine partly perished, several crest examples crudely removed (and not included in the count), most likely lacking one leaf..... More