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

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

The drawings include: 1. A pencil sketch of the Cowardly Lion reading an Edgar Allen Poe book. 2. An ink sketch sheet of the Tin Man costumes described as "costumes for Ev's 'The Land of Oz." 3. A rough pencil sketch of the Scarecrow dancing. 4. A charming pencil and watercolor sketch of the scarecrow next to a paint can; he is drawing himself. Described in pencil as "Preproduction art for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", a proposed animated film of the book. Numbers 1, 2 and 4 are inscribed by the artist. MacVeigh was a talented Seattle artist and a committed Oz / Baum fan who had planned to release an animated version of The Wizard of Oz. Tragically, MacVeigh passed away at the age of 32 and the project was never completed.

Four original Wizard of Oz related drawings by Rob Roy MacVeigh.
MacVeigh, Rob Roy.
Seattle: 1977 - 1981. The drawings include: 1. A pencil sketch of the Cowardly Lion reading an Edgar Allen Poe book. 2. An ink.. more
Price: $350.00

24" x 13". Nicely printed in seven colors on a single sheet. With a few faint spots of foxing, and one very short closed edge tear, and a small bit of faint damp soiling in the bottom margin else nice condition. The image is a wilting cream colored flower with a dusky desert skyline in the background. The words below are accented with images of moths and a candle. Goines reference number 52. 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.

Pandora's Box [Original poster].
Goines, David Lance.
[Berkeley]: [Saint Hieronymus Press], [1975]. 24" x 13". Nicely printed in seven colors on a single sheet. With a few faint spots of foxing, and.. more
Price: $65.00

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