Books for sale
Objects with stories for curious minds.
Old books and odd things, chosen for what they tell. Read the stories
Natural history · 1901
Velvet worms, centipedes and the first of the insects
$20
English literature · 1909
Oscar Wilde’s long letter from prison, written to Lord Alfred Douglas
$35
Folklore · 1917
Paul Radin goes to Oaxaca to collect the folklore
$50
Religion · 1908
The calendar that told New Orleans priests what to pray, day by day
$30
COLLECTION / POWER
How the Cold War was argued
Senators, witnesses and a committee that heard it first. Transcripts of rooms the public could not enter, printed years later.
4 objects
French Indochina · 1926
A French novelist’s road trip through colonial Indochina
$35
Veterinary anatomy · 1964
760 pages on the ox, for the veterinarians who study it
$65
Northampton Massachusetts · 1904
Northampton throws itself a 250th birthday
$25
Music · 1888
A German handbook of music theory, 1888
$35
English Civil War · 1895
Friends on opposite sides of England’s Civil War, in G. A. Henty’s adventure
$25
Onomastics · 1919
Reading a river valley through its place names
$50
Spanish literature · 1906
Life inside a hospital, as a Spanish writer saw it in the early 1900s
$50
COLLECTION / PREVIOUS OWNERS
Previous owners
A name, a dedication, a date: the copies where someone who owned the book before us wrote in it.
29 objects
Welsh language · 1937
How to read Welsh before it was modern
$49
Music · 1965
Cuba’s music, traced back to Africa, in 108 illustrations
$60
New York City · 1936
A year of Broadway kept as a journal of occasional notes, 1936
$20