We're closing out 2021 with a bang, exhibiting this weekend at the Rose City Book Fair in Portland, Oregon. Our list for the show includes an eclectic array of materials from the Pacific Northwest; a fabulous photo album from Alaska; a rare Japanese American newspaper; some wonderful Posada and other Latin Americana; and many other interesting items. Enjoy!
Our first REAL book fair since March 2020! We will be in sunny Santa Monica with an assortment of Californiana, important and interesting Mexican works, a rare and early guide to Cuba, several pieces of Japanese Americana, maps, posters, and much more. Enjoy!
Our first printed catalogue! A representative sampling of our latest inventory with many fabulous items. Highlights include the first American work on aeronautics; an 18th-century manuscript signed by a Mexican freedman; a lengthy manuscript volume of decrees and sermons from the Philippines in the 19th century; the account of a Russian traveler in the American West; one of the first Brooklyn telephone directories; and more. Enjoy!
We had hoped to be greeting you in real life from our booth at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, but plans change -- as do viruses -- and here we are at yet another virtual book fair. We have nevertheless compiled an interesting assortment of materials that we had planned to display in our glass cases. There are selections of Japanese Americana, several fascinating manuscript and archival pieces, views of Havana and Philadelphia, some stalwarts like Robert Rogers, and the usual blend of things we just couldn’t resist. To see them in person, you’ll simply have to place an order. Enjoy!
This month we did three virtual book fairs. This list is comprised of twenty-one items from two of the three fairs, featuring a Cincinnati directory with an African American section, an Alabama prison magazine, several railroad promotional broadsides, a Standard Oil sales manual from the 1920s, Western maps and photography, and more. Enjoy!
Our latest list features twenty works of poetry from the late-19th and early-20th century, many of them unrecorded or known in minimal copies. Though slightly outside our usual bailiwick, we hope you enjoy these unusual imprints and obscure verses.
This list is comprised of thirty items freshly catalogued covering the West from Arkansas to Alaska. Highlights include the narrative of a Cuban traveler in Colorado; an archive of ephemera from a Houston YWCA social club; early Texas territorial printing; real photo postcards from the Mexican Revolution; a book of Montana cattle brands; and an African American photo album from 1940s Texas. There are maps, photographs, and archives, and much more. Enjoy!
For this year’s RBMS Showcase (Virtual Edition), we have compiled a representative sampling of our inventory comprised of sixty items, ranging from Mexican cook books to oil maps to Cuban slavery items to murder broadsides. Highlights include a large collection of cook books by Josefina Velazquez Leon, the first celebrity chef of Mexico; an archive of letters by famed Boston soprano Mrs. J.H. Long; a 1980s vernacular manuscript on tarot; Sanborn fire insurance maps of Santa Fe; the scrapbook photo album of a Texas border patrolman in the 1940s; an archival photo album documenting the work of airforce engineers in Japan during World War II; and many other fascinating and unusual archives and imprints. Enjoy!