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Join us at the Manhattan Rare Book & Fine Press Fair this weekend!

By bridge and by tunnel, this week we're commuting ourselves and our books to New York for the Manhattan Rare Book & Fine Press Fair. There, we plan to shake things up with a signed copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Steven Daiber's Roiling Habana tackles Cuba's turbulent tourist industry. Charles Bukowski’s parting shot at the U. S. Mail goes postal in Felicia Rice's near miniature limited edition. One of the stars of our show, a recently commissioned embroidered binding by Hannah Brown on the Ashendene Press's La Vita Nuova, threads medieval romance, Arts & Crafts design, and modern handiwork.

Whether you take a cab, bike, or bus, you can find us on Saturday, May 2nd at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

See you there,

P. S. & Co. Rare Books
 

Highlights

La Vita Nuova di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino

(Bayford): Ashendene Press, 1895

The first in a splendid line of Italian books printed by Hornby and only the second book of the Press, this copy has been specially bound by Hannah Brown in full red morocco over boards with white and burgundy leather onlays accented by masterful embroidered designs. The doublures of continuous red leather feature gilt thread embroidered into the shape of a fleeing Beatrice's dress. Learn more...

A Little Miscellany of Verse Gathered from Various Sources Being the Fourth Series

Cleveland, OH: Clerk's Press, 1915

One of no more than thirty-two copies. Each title in the assemblage is separately paginated and separately limited, though none here has been numbered, suggesting that this miscellany was compiled out of leftover copies. Bound in full green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated, by The Booklovers Shop of Cleveland, an incarnation of the Club Bindery. Learn more...

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky

NY: Random House, 1971

First edition. Inscribed by Alinsky to the photographer, Yousuf Karsh, and his wife, Estrellita. Alinsky's manual has been highly influential to various leftist organizers, and the cause of much mumbling and grumbling from conservative pundits. Annotations in pen at initial pages, presumably from Karsh and thus a rare insight into his political leanings. Learn more...

Roiling Habana by Steven Daiber

Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press, 2016

One of ten copies, signed and numbered at the colophon. Booklet in wrappers, accompanied by two folded sheets from the 1978 Atlas de Cuba, each one overprinted with silkscreen. The layered images convey the conflicted historical portrait of Cuba: the Atlas had been produced for the 20th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, over which a silhouette of the American Embassy recalls the Bush administration's 2004 embargo against Cuba and stamped quotations and reproductions of photographs mark Barack Obama's 2016 visit to Havana. Learn more...

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942

First edition. Signed by Burton on the title page. In dust wrapper with correct price; early Caldecott and ALA picture book award stickers affixed to lower front panel. The story of a "well-built" pink house that was initially set atop a small hill in the countryside before the location gradually becomes developed and the house overtaken by skyscrapers. It has a happy ending, though! Learn more...

A Fine Man, A Fine Book by Charles Bukowski

Santa Cruz: Mutant Drone Press, 1982

One of 63 copies. Signed by the printer, Felicia Rice. The scarce first printing of Rice's excerpt from Bukowski's Post Office, which Rice made to give out to her fellow carriers when she was leaving her position at the titular establishment. Its origins are in labor relations, and the accompanying illustrations are, then, aptly derived from Dickens's Oliver. Learn more...

Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered by William Matthews

NY: The Grolier Club, 1889

Matthews' text is transcribed from a lecture given at the Grolier Club on March 25, 1885, in which he outlines the history of decorative and luxury bindings. The volume's unique binding demonstrates four distinct styles covered in the lecture on its four panels. Inscribed by Chicago-based bookseller and publisher A. C. McClurg to A. J. Cox, owner of one of the most prolific bookbinding firms in Chicago at the time. Learn more...

CL Psalmen Davids by Ambrosius Lobwasser

Amsterdam: Iod. Iansson (i.e., Jodocus Janssonius), 1649

German book of psalms with engraved title-page illustration and printed music throughout. Lobwasser's translation of the psalms, which was first published in 1573, and largely adapted Claude Goudimel's harmonizations, found wide use in German reform services, and remained in print until about 1771. Bound in contemporary morocco, tooled in blind, silver fore-edge clasp. All edges gilt and gauffered. Learn more...

All Strange Away by Samuel Beckett

NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1976

One of 200 copies. Signed by Beckett and Gorey. The first appearance in print of Beckett's text, illustrated with small tan & black vignettes in the margins by Gorey. Learn more...

In These Leaves [Farsi]

(Paris?), 1976

The introductory leaf provides the title in Farsi and then, in Farsi, French, and German, attributes the work to "Jacques, an Armenian revolutionary printer," whose designs "illustrate the fascist regime now in Iran." Each illustration presents a harrowing image of the conditions under the Shah of the Imperial State of Iran in the years just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Learn more...
 
Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books
607 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-247-2818
Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books
607 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116