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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7.25" 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

24" x 18". Nicely printed in five colors; plus gold, on a single sheet. Light soiling and small ink price on the reverse, else fine condition. The image is of a rotary printing press in black. The large wheel in front is printed in red and gold. Goines reference number 62. Goines, a widely admired American artist and printer, is especially noted for his beautiful and innovative poster art. Goines illustrated many cookbooks for chef Alice Waters as well as creating several anniversary posters for her iconic restaurant, Chez Panisse.

Full Circle First Birthday. Vintage Graphics [Original poster].
Goines, David Lance.
[Berkeley]: [Saint Hieronymus Press], [1976]. 24" x 18". Nicely printed in five colors; plus gold, on a single sheet. Light soiling and small ink price.. more
Price: $50.00

8" x 5.25". 317pp. Beige cloth stamped in blue and black, in dust wrapper. Light soiling along the top edge, one leaf chipped along the fore edge, else nice VG+ condition. The very uncommon jacket has some edge wear, a one inch tear, and other general use. This copy signed and inscribed on the first leaf: "With all good wishes of the author / Walter Gibson." Gibson was an American author and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow. Under the pen-name Maxwell Grant he wrote more than 300 novel-length Shadow stories. He also wrote more than a hundred books on magic, psychic phenomena, true crime, mysteries, rope knots, yoga, hypnotism, and games, and served as a ghost writer for books on magic and spiritualism by Harry Houdini and other noted magicians.

Houdini's Escapes. Prepared From Houdini's Private Notebooks and Memoranda With the Assistance of Beatrice Houdini, and Bernard M.L. Ernest, President of the Parent Assembly of the Society of American Magicians.
Houdini & Walter Gibson.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. 8" x 5.25". 317pp. Beige cloth stamped in blue and black, in dust wrapper. Light soiling along the top edge,.. 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

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