Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
23rd February 2017
Another month, another book fair. In the past, New York book fair has taken place in April, but this year it’s moved to the beginning of March. This has meant carefully selecting, even as far back as December last year, which items to take to California, and which items to take to New York. The selection for […]
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26th November 2014
I had quite a bit of interest when I wrote about this book over on The New Antiquarian, so thought I’d share it here, too. I’ve written before about a fictitious Boston imprint. That book had no obvious connection with the United States, but this one does: it’s an early satire on emigration to America, from 1818. […]
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