We buy and sell old and rare books as well as vintage photographs, postcards, manuscript material such as old diaries and letters, etc.

We also maintain an inventory of vintage ephemera of historical interest, including prints, maps, postcards, posters and other interesting historical printed and manuscript material.
We are always interested in buying single books or whole collections.
Let us know if you have books for sale. We make house calls on short notice in Seattle and can visit other locales if the circumstances warrant. Call us today at 206 624 4100 if you have books for sale!

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7.5" x 5". 227pp., plus ads. Illustrated brown paper covered boards showing a black workman sitting on a box. A really interesting publisher's trade binding. With a short note inked on the title page, corners a little bumped, else nice VG+ condition. With a frontispiece by Hanson Booth. A collection of short stories in black dialect about a 22 year old Texas servant. Almanzar.
Davis, J. Frank.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. 7.5" x 5". 227pp., plus ads. Illustrated brown paper covered boards showing a black workman sitting on a box. A.. more
Price: $40.00
7.75" x 10.5". Color illustrated flexible boards, string bound. 9pp. of English language text preceded by a double page map and seven gravure photographic plates. Faint stamp and a couple faint erasures on the front board, a few small ink and pencil margin marks, one leaf with a small scrape, else nice VG+ condition. This unusual book describes the area around the villages of Kori and Tabayama, the river Tama, intake and supply canals, the Yodobashi water filter beds, the pumping house and offices at Yodobashi, etc. The five color illustration on the front board has a strong arts & crafts flavor. It depicts a traditional Japanese building on a riverbank with trees in the foreground and mountains in the background. The Water Supply of Tokio.
(Tokio): (K. Ogawa), [Circa 1913]. 7.75" x 10.5". Color illustrated flexible boards, string bound. 9pp. of English language text preceded by a double page map.. more
Price: $300.00
22.25" x 8" image, painted on four panels in ink and gouache on paper. With two additional images drawn on the reverse of two of the panels. Folded accordion style. With the original custom clamshell box. This striking image shows the interior of a barroom. The patrons are cats, with an extra large cat attending patrons behind the bar, and a lizard in a hat playing a guitar onstage. A bright and striking image. The paintings on the reverse show the saloon's front door and a kitty eying a piece of cheese sitting in front of a mouse hole. Sin Boldly.
Blocker, Mare.
Jerome, Arizona: 1995. 22.25" x 8" image, painted on four panels in ink and gouache on paper. With two additional images drawn on.. more
Price: $750.00
Original diecut embossed four sheet calendar. Each sheet is printed with beautiful chromolithographic illustrations, the days and dates for 3 months, and an appropriate seasonal poetic quote. The sheets are held together with rings and a chain through punch holes along the top edge. Near fine, very bright condition. A magnificently produced illustrated item. Worship of Nature. Calendar for 1900.
New York, London, Berlin: International Art Publishing Co., Ltd., 1899?. Original diecut embossed four sheet calendar. Each sheet is printed with beautiful chromolithographic illustrations, the days and dates for 3.. more
Price: $100.00






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