Books for sale
Objects with stories for curious minds.
Old books and odd things, chosen for what they tell. Read the stories
Music · 1961
How to archive African music: a handbook for Hugh Tracey’s library of transcriptions
$60
English political satire · 1924
Late-1700s English satire against the French Revolution and its supporters
$40
Onomastics · 1919
Reading a river valley through its place names
$50
French Indochina · 1926
A French novelist’s road trip through colonial Indochina
$35
COLLECTION / PREVIOUS OWNERS
Previous owners
Copies that were given, kept and passed on: a doctor’s gift to a friend, a curator’s letter still inside, a lodge’s present to a journalist.
28 objects
U.S. intelligence history · 1976
Congress turns its investigators on domestic intelligence
In a lot
English literature · 1873
A Frenchman explains the English through their books
$80
Millenarianism · 1962
What communities do when they expect the world to change
$40
Biography · 1896
Darwin, in his own letters, gathered by his son after his death
$30
Travel · 1927
An illustrated introduction to Sweden for English readers, 1927
$25
Anthropology · 1960
An anthropologist’s portrait of the Acholi of Uganda
$40
Local history · 1878
A Massachusetts town turns 100 and writes it all down
$60
COLLECTION / POWER
How the Cold War was argued
Senators, witnesses and the questions asked behind closed doors, printed years later for everyone else to read.
4 objects
Mycology · 1926
How fungi grown in a lab dish can be told apart: a 1926 study
$20
Northampton Massachusetts · 1904
Northampton throws itself a 250th birthday
$25
New York City · 1936
A year of Broadway kept as a journal of occasional notes, 1936
$20