Catalogues (Periodicals)

Archives and Manuscripts #12

Bookseller: Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Specialties:
- Manuscripts
- Music
- Periodicals
- Photography
- Prints and drawings
- Second World War
- Sports and games
Other Specialties:
art, baseball, children's books, Thomas Jefferson, American Civil War, African-Americana, exploration, Florida, animals, paintings, illustrations, mathematics, typescripts, North Carolina, women, Russia, Scandinavia, Massachusetts, birds, technology, television, travel, typography, design, World War I
View the catalogue (3.43 MB): 1284_L77.pdf
Download the catalogue: 1284_L77.pdf

An assortment of 35 unique items including original book-related artwork; large runs of periodicals devoted to children's literature, science, the early days of television, and typography and design; albums of interesting vintage photographs; original handwritten and typed manuscripts; and other curiosities and finds, spanning such diverse subjects as art, baseball, the American Civil War, African-Americana, exploration, mathematics, music, travel, and both World Wars.
Catalogue janvier 2013

Bookseller: Librairie Patrick Fréchet
Specialties:
- Art
- Avant Garde
- Literature
- Modern first editions
- Periodicals
View the catalogue (2.88 MB): 1229_Catalogue janvier 2013.pdf
Download the catalogue: 1229_Catalogue janvier 2013.pdf
Fine Americana -- Books, Periodicals, Maps & Views (November, 2012)

Bookseller: Bickerstaff's Books, Maps &c.
Specialties:
- Americana
- Cartography
- Maps
- Periodicals
View the catalogue (1005.45 kB): 1156_showlist-fine americana 11-12.pdf
Download the catalogue: 1156_showlist-fine americana 11-12.pdf

A selection of American books, periodicals, maps and views from the colonial and Revolutionary War periods through about 1850.
Manuscripts & Archives (and Assorted Unusual Items) #11

Bookseller: Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Specialties:
- Art
- Comics
- Literature
- Manuscripts
- Periodicals
- Photography
- Sports and games
Other Specialties:
African-Americana, Architecture, Book Plates, Boxing, Children's Books, Cinema, Civil War (United States), Ephemera, Erotica, Fairy Tales, Genealogy, Golf, Heraldry, Ireland, Japan, Medicine, Music (Punk Rock), Postcards (Signed Literary), Science and Technology, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Theatre
View the catalogue (2.42 MB): 1136_L76.pdf
Download the catalogue: 1136_L76.pdf

A selection of 35 unique items including original book-related artwork (both commercial and underground); archives on various subjects including boxing, documentary film, punk rock; journals of science, photography, and major 19th century literary works; albums of interesting vintage photographs; an unpublished French Enlightenment Proverb Play manuscript; and other curiosities and finds.
Automne 2012

Bookseller: Librairie Patrick Fréchet
Specialties:
- Avant Garde
- Literature
- Modern first editions
- Periodicals
View the catalogue (807.14 kB): 1083_Catalogue Automne 2012.pdf
Download the catalogue: 1083_Catalogue Automne 2012.pdf
GERMAN & ITALIAN PROMOTIONAL TRAVEL EPHEMERA 1920s & 1930s: Tourism & Constructs of National Identity

Bookseller: Old Imprints
Specialties:
- Ephemera
- Maps
- Pamphlets
- Periodicals
- Travel
View the catalogue (3.16 MB): 1080_catalog_national_identity.pdf
Download the catalogue: 1080_catalog_national_identity.pdf

Interest in travel writing as a literary genre has led to several engaging books that examine narratives written by English and Continental authors in the 1920s and 1930s. This scholarly interest suggests an ancillary area of investigation, one at a far remove from literary studies, but intriguing nonetheless; that is, an exploration of likely agendas shaping the ephemeral pamphlets, brochures and booklets crafted by European government agencies or private service providers, those tasked with attracting the much-needed tourist dollar (or lira or deutsche mark) to European countries struggling with depressed post-war economies.
The primary agenda behind these ephemeral items was, of course, commercial, but within a context of self-promotion, issues of national identity inevitably come to the fore. With this idea in mind, we have prepared a short catalogue featuring promotional travel material produced in Germany and Italy between the World Wars, with particular attention given to material aimed at English-speaking travelers. Interest in the travel ephemera of Germany and Italy from these decades stems in no small measure from the idealized constructs foregrounded in their tourist publications, constructs masking the reality of totalitarian regimes complicit in forging the Axis Alliance in the years leading up to World War II.
Catalogue n° 39 - library's catalog of the "Avoués d'Appel"

Bookseller: La Mémoire du Droit
Specialties:
- Criminology
- Early printing
- Law
- Local history
- Napoleon
- Periodicals
- Political Science
View the catalogue (3.83 MB): 1016_catalogue39.pdf
Download the catalogue: 1016_catalogue39.pdf

Following the disappearance of the "Avoués d'Appel"(French peculiarity), La Mémoire du Droit was requested to prepare the library's catalog so as to sell the entire collection. Today I am very pleased to send you this unique document.

There are more than 300 references with among them some texts of great editorial or legal importance and about 10 000 volumes which gather collections of fundamental interest and very often complete since first issue.

I leave you to discover this catalog and no doubt this will be an achievement which will stand out and will be put forward as a reference document for legal libraries.

Usually kept in good condition, books are mainly bearing the arms of the Chamber of the "Avoués" from the Paris Court of Appeal and can append library's marks.

We are staying at your disposal to give you more photos than those given on the website or catalog.
A Catalogue of Vintage “House Plan” Ephemera: "Homes Suitable to all Stations and Conditions of Life"

Bookseller: Old Imprints
Specialties:
- Architecture
- Ephemera
- Periodicals
View the catalogue (1.36 MB): 825_American Houseplan Ephemera.pdf
Download the catalogue: 825_American Houseplan Ephemera.pdf

Oldimprints.com is pleased to offer a catalogue of house plan booklets and brochures dating from the early 1900s through 1970. These “pattern books,” depicting a home’s exterior together with detailed floor plans and enticing descriptive paragraphs, feature page after page of designs for homes both large and small. The images and evocative language employed in the catalogues and brochures engaged the imaginations of readers of an earlier era as they pondered the virtues or liabilities of individual designs (see, for example, the prolix verbiage of item 47803, page 6). Insidiously, the dream of home ownership took hold....The house plans booklets and brochures offered in the present catalogue have been gathered over a period of years and provide insight into firms that “directed most of their business to those who would aspire to the American dream of achieving not only home ownership, but ownership of a house which was of a particular status-communicating type.” (Smeins, Building an American Identity, p.99).... The concept of 20th century “pattern book” ephemera as signifiers of evolving social and moral imperatives is one of the more intriguing derivatives of these engaging vintage brochures and booklets, and is surely an area of investigation warranting further study.
First Books & Before

Bookseller: Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Specialties:
- Autographs
- First Editions
- Literature
- Modern first editions
- Periodicals
- Poetry
- Popular Culture
Other Specialties:
Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Science-Fiction, Yearbooks, Anthologies
View the catalogue (4.47 MB): 707_BTC_172.pdf
Download the catalogue: 707_BTC_172.pdf

A large selection (over 650 items) of material from the beginnings of authors' careers. Unlike other "First Books" catalogs, this list is not limited to merely first books, but instead contains many stories, poems, essays, and other works published by authors BEFORE they published their first books. In addition, there are many signed and advance copies of authors' first books. All material is united by the perspective that when these items were published, their authors were not well established and the works in this catalog had to stand on their own merits rather than their authors' reputations.
Catalogue Automne 2011

Bookseller: Librairie Patrick Fréchet
Specialties:
- Literature
- Modern first editions
- Periodicals
- Photography
- Poetry
View the catalogue (1.18 MB): 678_Catalogue automne 2011.pdf
Download the catalogue: 678_Catalogue automne 2011.pdf