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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9.5" x 5.5". 627pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. With a small bit of wear to the top edges of a few leaves, bookplate, else fine condition. The jacket is in fine condition; probably the nicest example of this jacket we have seen. This beautiful edition features text rendered into modern English by J.U. Nicolson and illustrations from woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. With an introduction by Gordon H. Gerould.

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
New York: Covici Friede, 1934. 9.5" x 5.5". 627pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. With a small bit of wear to the top edges of.. more
Price: $175.00

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

7.5" 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

Group of stereo cards on curved gray mounts with black maker's credit and titles. Each card features a text description of the view on the reverse. The cards show views of Japanese people, cities, tradesman, craftsmen, temples, gardens, soldiers, Manchuria, children, farmers, dwellings, and much more. A marvelous group. The stereoview cards each measure approximately 3.5" x 7".

Lot of 149 stereoview cards of Japan.
Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company, [Circa 1900 - 1908]. Group of stereo cards on curved gray mounts with black maker's credit and titles. Each card features a text description.. more
Price: $400.00

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