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Showing posts with label Rare books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rare books. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

A Bodhisattva of the Book: William Dailey

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by Stephen J. Gertz With a note of sadness, Booktryst is otherwise pleased to announce its latest publication, A Bodhisattva of the ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Booktryst At Rare Books - LA

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by Stephen J. Gertz Booktryst makes its book fair debut at Rare Books Los Angeles , at the Pasadena Convention Center February 1-2, 20...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

New Book: The Remarkable Martin Stone

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by Stephen J. Gertz Booktryst is pleased to announce the publication of its newest book and first fine press edition...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

A Book Shop Owner As Stuntman

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Illustration by Arnold M. Herr ©2016 At the Megalopolis Book Shop, Mickey Tsimmis was all about customer service. No matter how pote...
Friday, September 16, 2016

A Rare & Used Book Shop Owner's Lament

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Illustration by Arnold M. Herr ©2016 Poor Mickey Tsimmis, his innocence lost in cruel Hollywood, the burg without mercy, the hamle...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

A Legend in the Hollywood Book Trade

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by Stephen J. Gertz The following appears as the Preface to this just published collaboration of Poltroon Press and Booktryst. ...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Sartain's Original Engraved Steel Plate Of Charlotte Brontë Portrait Comes To Market

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by Stephen J. Gertz The plate. (Image surrounding engraved oval is a reflection off the plate while photographed). The original ste...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

1st Edition Of Emancipation Proclamation & Final Edition Of Lincoln's Hair

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by Stephen J. Gertz A copy of the first edition in book form of the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that freed the slaves in ...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Mark Twain, Collector Of Compliments

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by Stephen J. Gertz Little Montana Girl's Compliment "She was gazing thoughtfully at a photograph of Mark Twain on a neighbor...
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Friday, May 2, 2014

Stories By Great Danes Are Not Dogs

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by Stephen J. Gertz The literature of mid-nineteenth century Denmark is the subject this anthology of tales and verse selected and tr...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Awful Visitation Of Four Dreadful Monsters To Four Young Women

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by Stephen J. Gertz The awful Visitation of  Four Dreadful  Monsters,   To four Young Women, at one of  their Houses in this ...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Spectacular Simone de Beauvoir Archive $380,000-$470,000 At Christie's

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by Stephen J. Gertz An outstanding trove of over 350 original and unpublished signed autograph letters and postcards written by Frenc...
Friday, April 25, 2014

A Superlative Original Kate Greenaway Watercolor

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by Stephen J. Gertz   A scarce and significant Kate Greenaway painting, this beautiful gouache, an important early example of her evo...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

An "Excessively Rare" Thomas Rowlandson Suite Of Caricatures

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1800, Rudolph Ackermann , the great print publisher, issued Masqueronians , a suite of six hand-colored emblem...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Primo Copy Of Piranese's Imaginary Prisons $270,000-$400,000 At Christie's

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by Stephen J. Gertz "I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would b...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Dime Novels Led To Boy's Death By Lynching

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by Stephen J. Gertz "Kansas city, Jan. 24 - The Times' Wichita, Kansas, special says: Reports are received here to the effec...