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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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

13" x 9". 8pp. Color illustrated card stock boards. Mild general use; still overall near fine condition. The magnificent pop up is in excellent working order. Voitech Kubasta was an artist for Artia, a state-run import / export company in Prague. In the 1950s and 1960s, he engineered and illustrated pop-up books for Artia that were marketed throughout the world by Bancroft and Company of London. His colorful, engaging designs accompanied fairy tales as well as children's story books with modern settings and stories. He is without a doubt one of the greatest of all pop-up 'engineers'.

Marco Polo.
Kubasta, V. [Voitech ].
London: Bancroft & Co., 1962. 13" x 9". 8pp. Color illustrated card stock boards. Mild general use; still overall near fine condition. The magnificent pop.. more
Price: $125.00

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

7.5" x 5". 486pp. Blue patterned cloth with a beige cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Mild rubbing to edges, else near fine condition; the distinctive jacket is bright but has a couple chips at the spine tips and a 1/4" hole halfway down the spine along the rear hinge.

Zelda Marsh.
Norris, Charles G.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927. 7.5" x 5". 486pp. Blue patterned cloth with a beige cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Mild rubbing to edges, else.. more
Price: $65.00

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