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	About 85 Years Ago: Photo Postcards from America (circa 1907 to 1920) - 1570981507 About 85 Years Ago: Photo Postcards from America contains beautiful day-in-the-life-of postcards from ordinary Pacific Northwest folk in the first 20 year of the 20th century. It's much like looking at someone's photo album -- light on words, heavy on postcards. Evoking a time and place long gone but not quite forgotten (thankfully). A must for anyone interested in real photo postcards of people, buildings, and social activities of the day. We are led gently back into a world not our own... $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	An Electronic Guide to First Editions, CD - 093031306CD Since 1982, Bill McBride's "Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions" has accompanied thousands of book lovers in their hunts. Loyal customers who simply no longer can restaple, clip or band their overused copies together have purchased numerous replacement copies throughout the years. Smart money understands the investment value of high quality, frequently used tools of the trade and McBride's guide is one of the standards in the field, a guide that often pays for itself in its f... $19.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Modern Book Collecting by Robert A. Wilson - 1558211799 When appreciation for the written word evolves into passion, the next logical step is to collect first and rare editions. Modern Book Collecting is recognized as the definitive introduction to book collecting, with key information for both novice and veteran collectors about starting and maintaining a book collection. Focusing on books that are now most often collected - the works of late-nineteenth and twentieth century writers - Robert Wilson details what is collectible and how to make choi... $8.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Postcards from Vermont - 158465158X A vivid picture of four decades of social and cultural history in the Green Mountain State. The golden age of the postcard coincides with a rapidly evolving time when the world was being transformed by the introduction of telephones, cameras, fountain pens, automobiles, trains, and modern magazines. By 1905 the Rural Free Delivery system enabled even Vermonts most remotely located residents to receive these cards in their roadside mailboxes, along with letters and Sears Roebuck catalog... $20.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Price Guide and Bibliographic Check List for Children's & Illustrated Books 1880 - 1970 - 0964728575 Alas, the long awaited 5th edition of the important reference Price Guide and Bibliographic Check List for Childrens & Illustrates Books 1880 - 1970 is here. It's been 8 years since the last edition, so this is a very welcome update. For those not familiar with Lee Baumgartens Price Guide and Bibliographic Check List for Childrens & Illustrates Books, many collectors consider this to be their bible. The first edition was published in 1989, and each edition has expanded consider... $57.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Morgan Library: An American Masterpiece - 1857592174 Both a museum and a center for scholarly research, the Morgan Library is an extraordinary complex of buildings occupying half a block in the heart of New York City. Among the worlds greatest treasuries of seminal artistic, literary, musical, and historical works, the Library s renowned collections of rare books, manuscripts, and drawings have as their principal focus the history, art and literature of the Western world. The collections originated with the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts,... $26.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Visible Traces: Rare Books & Special Collections from the National Library of China - 0964533715 Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China showcases an integral part of Chinese history as documentation and as works of art. The collection of inscribed oracle bones, rubbings, manuscripts, maps, printed books, and artifacts from minority cultures traces, in broad strokes, the evolution of the written and printed word in China, against the vivid backdrop of Chinese society and history. The catalogue is divided into 4 main sections: "Rare Books and... $55.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Western European Illuminated Manuscripts: 8th to 16th Centuries - 1904310478 Western European Illuminated Manuscripts presents a collection which was started during the French Revolution in the late 18th century by Peter Dubrowsky, a bibliophile who was able to purchase manuscripts, incunabula and books from France. It includes missals and sacred texts from the abbeys of Corbie and Saint-Germain-des Pres, and a magnificent series of royal and princely manuscripts, originally in the possession of Jean de Berry and Francs I. There are also Renaissance manuscripts... $28.50     View Details Add To Cart

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