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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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

7.5" 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

24" x 18". Nicely printed in nine colors; plus gold, on a single sheet. With a few small, faint spots of foxing, else fine condition. The image shows a forlorn woman sitting at a counter. She is wearing a brooch with a design that resembles the woman. A rose lies next to her on the counter. On the wall behind her is a picture (mirror?) of the same scene. Goines reference number 68. 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.

Letter from an Unknown Woman. [Original poster].
Goines, David Lance.
[Berkeley]: [Saint Hieronymus Press], [1977]. 24" x 18". Nicely printed in nine colors; plus gold, on a single sheet. With a few small, faint spots.. more
Price: $50.00

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