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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9.25" x 12.25". 113pp. Red cloth with blue lettering. Boards a little soiled, corners and spine tips a little rubbed, one leaf with a short edge tear. Generally VG+ condition. With color illustrated world map endpapers. A marvellous informal geography book containing humorous 'cartograph' maps of each American state by Ruth Taylor. Ruth was also the creator of a wonderful series of similar cartographic maps of Hawaii. This book has become quite scarce. Our U. S. A.: A Gay Geography.
Taylor, Frank J.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. 9.25" x 12.25". 113pp. Red cloth with blue lettering. Boards a little soiled, corners and spine tips a little rubbed,.. more
Price: $750.00
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
8" x 5.25". 223pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Boards and page edges a little soiled, else VG+ condition. The jacket has some edge wear and soiling. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Unmasking Wall Street.
Parker, John Lloyd.
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1932. 8" x 5.25". 223pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Boards and page edges a little soiled, else.. more
Price: $65.00
7.25" x 4.75". 289pp., plus publisher's note and ads. Original printed wrappers. Light soiling and general wear, neat stamp on the front wrapper, else a near fine condition copy of a quite fragile book. A Socialist future utopia. Originally published serially in the Chicago Times. See Bleiler (Checklist) p.18; Negley 10; Sargent p.56; Lewis p.1. Presumed first edition, with 1896 on the copyright page and 1897 on the title page. President John Smith. The Story of the Peaceful Revolution. (Written in 1920).
Adams, Frederick Upham.
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1897. 7.25" x 4.75". 289pp., plus publisher's note and ads. Original printed wrappers. Light soiling and general wear, neat stamp on.. more
Price: $250.00






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