Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Ratona Cartonera, 2010. Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 34 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and.....
Price: $30
Guadalajara ("Guanatos"), Mexico: Ediciones El Viaje and La Rueda Cartonera, 2012. Poems from a cartonera publisher but bound without any cardboard. This copy was issued in cloth wrappers, with sewn cover decorations. The flyleafs are newspaper and the section divider is a piece of printed cloth. An interesting adaptation of.....
Price: $95
Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Ratona Cartonera, 2010. Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 34 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and seldom.....
Price: $30
Guadalajara ("Guanatos"), Mexico: La Rueda Cartonera, 2012. Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 32 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and.....
Price: $30
Guanajuato, Mexico: La Milpa Cartonera, 2014. A poetry anthology photocopied on white paper and sewn into cartonera (cardboard) covers. [2], 22 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently.....
Price: $40
Guanajuato, Mexico: La Milpa Cartonera, 2014. Poems photocopied on white paper and sewn into cartonera (cardboard) covers. [2], 7 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers.....
Price: $40
Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico: Ediciones HtuRquesa, 2011. First Edition. Poems in a cartonera edition limited to 300 copies. 99 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers.....
Price: $30
Philadelphia: T. S. Manning, Printer [for the Philadelphia Bar], 1830. First Edition. Pamphlet. A eulogy for Judge Bushrod Washington (1762–1829), who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1798 until his death. His uncle was George Washington, and Bushrod inherited Mount Vernon and the rest of President.....
Price: $150
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First Edition. Pamphlet. A speech on commercial debts and the American bankruptcy laws. Hopkinson begins with the observation that merchants are the United States' ambassadors to the world: "The American merchant then should never forget, that he holds the character of his country, as well.....
Price: $100
[Philadelphia?]: (n.p.), [1829?]. First Edition. An appeal for religious faith over theology. "I have all my life avoided all knotty and disputed points of religion. I argue with nobody about the trinity or the unity of the Godhead; the mysteries of free knowledge and free will; or the profound doctrine of.....
Price: $75
Portsmouth, [NH]: Printed by Charles Turell, 1814. A speech given at the start of Webster's second year in the House as a representative of New Hampshire. He opposes a plan to pay a bounty to men enlisting in the army and to those who convince people to join. His argument.....
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Buenos Ayres (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Imprenta del Estado, 1827. First Edition. One of several heated political jeremiads issued by competing factions in Buenos Aires after the collapse of the administration of Argentina's first president, Bernardino Rivadavia, in June 1827. On September 14, Manuel Dorrego, the governor of Buenos Aires published a......
Price: $300
![March on Washington Funds Solicitation]. Martha Elwell](/pictures/thumb/306800.jpg?v=1598906105)
Portland, OR: Highland Congregational Church, 1963. Ephemera. A letter to members of the Highland Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, soliciting funds to send a delegation to the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Elwell, the chair of the church committee.....
Price: $200
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A biography of the New York Yankee's manager Casey Stengel written by a Sports Illustrated writer. 349 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is.....
Price: $75
New York: Waldon Press, 1961. First Edition. A biography of Abraham Lincoln written in Albanian. The author (1904–1989) was an Albanian Sufi Muslim journalist who emigrated to the US after World War Two. He worked for the Albanian section of the Voice of America and in retirement wrote several books.....
Price: $50
1972-1986. Ephemera. Two typed letters signed from Bradbury to a newspaper writer, one in 1972 in response to an article the recipeint had written about Bradbury and a second dated 1986 after they had met again. Both letters are chatty and talk about writing. In the 1972 letter, Bradbury says, "I.....
Price: $300
![Scar Lover [Proof]. Harry Crews](/pictures/thumb/306985.jpg?v=1600749775)
New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. An advance copy of a novel by the author of The Gospel Singer. 284 pages. A fine copy in printed blue wrappers (paperback). Nicely inscribed to a friend, "Tom, remember by the time it scars over, the pain is gone. Rock on! Harry.....
Price: $125
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 255 pages. A collection of columns for the British newspaper, the Independent, written by Self and illustrated by Steadman. This collection includes many partial page, full page, and double page illustrations. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a......
Price: $95
Lexington, MA: The Stephen Greene Press, 1987. Second Printing. Hardcover. The memoirs of Clemens's youth and early years in the major leagues. Little did anyone know that he would go on to win seven Cy Young awards, more than any other pitcher in baseball history (so far). Second printing. A......
Price: $50
Kansas City, MO, and Shingletown, CA: Ursus Imprints and Mark V. Ziesing, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Short stories, including the title piece, which reimaginges H. G. Wells's Martians facing off against a small town Texas sheriff. 231 pages. Illustrated. First trade edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine.....
Price: $20
![New Chicana/Chicano Writing, Volume 1 [Hardcover Issue]. Charles M. Tatum](/pictures/thumb/306276.jpg?v=1598470220)
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Poetry and prose anthology with contributions from Luis Omar Salinas, Francisco X. Alarcon, Gary Soto, Sandra Cisneros, Juan Felipe Herrera, and others. The scarce hardcover issue; also issued in wrappers (paperback). 185 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy;.....
Price: $25
Reading, England: Thames Facsimile Company, 1962. Hardcover. Small format facsimile of a book published in 1675, the first book in English on clockmaking. 120 pages. 4-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches. Very good, slight spine slant. Bookplate of horology expert Charles Aked and bookstore label inside. Clean hardcover copy; no jacket probably as.....
Price: $40
New York: R. Worthington and Co., 1875. Second American edition. Hardcover. The 1874 and 1882 transits of Venus—when that planet crossed the face of the sun as seen from earth—were major astronomical events and they spurred many expeditions to view the phenomena. This book gives a history of the previous.....
Price: $250
Los Angeles: 1853–1854. Various sizes, most roughly 7-1/2 by 25 inches; on blue paper, folded and docketed. The documents offer a glimpse into the lives of four Mexican Americans living in southern California shortly after it became part of the United States.: 1) Preemption claim of Gerónimo Ybarra, dated December 29, 1853.....
Price: $1,500
San Antonio: M & A Editions, 1977. First Edition. Pamphlet. 31 pages. Poems in Spanish and English. The author's first book, published in an edition of fewer than 500 copies by the poets Angela de Hoyos and Moisés Sandoval. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).....
Price: $30
