Monthly Archives: January 2007

Bromer Booksellers California Book Fair list.

45 items the Bromers plan to bring to San Francisco, with much in the way of fine press and deluxe items — a smattering of Golden Cockerel, Kelmscott, and Gogmagog Press; an 18th century French miniature binding in 18-carat gold … Continue reading

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Steve Finer – Rare Books, Catalogue 166

244 items, an assortment of material on Agriculture, Beverages, Cookery, Domestic Economy, Horticulture, & Women. The usual range of interesting stuff, including what is billed as the first commercially published soul food cook book, Inez Yergan Kaiser’s Soul Food Cookery … Continue reading

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Bookworm & Silverfish Catalog 573.

205 items in the characteristic Bookworm & Silverfish fold-out broadsheet format, a heterogenous mix of Americana, Southern material, sheet music, literature and miscellanea. Includes a fugitive Pittsbugh novel, Samuel Young’s Tom Hanson, the Avenger, a Tale of the Backwoods (Pittsburgh, … Continue reading

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The consumer of books.

A weblog on aspects of buying and selling antiquarian books and ephemera. We pledge to minimize our use of the word “tome.”

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