McBride Rare Books Celebrates a Moving Experience: how suite it is!
- by Bruce E. McKinney
Moving possibilities
McBride Rare Books Celebrates a Moving Experience: how suite it is!
McBride Rare Books are members of the ABAA, ILAB, IOBA and ESA, and specialize in Latin Americana, Western Americana, and African Americana. Recently they had reasons to downsize a tad. I wondered what the upside is downsizing. When I called them, James told me that the rent is lower, they gain a water view, and the space is closer to the elevator. – It sounds like a win to me.
Then I Googled their career experiences and found they are bibliographic nomads.
The rare book and collectible paper business for Teri Osborn and James McBride has been a moving experience. Teri’s career began at Bloomington, Indiana in 2005 and would take her to Worcester, Massachusetts; Edmonton, Alberta; and then New Haven, Connecticut in 2008. James McBride’s career in books and paper started in Austin, Texas in 2011. His next stop was St. Andrews, Scotland, then he too joined the William Reese Company. There they found each other and formed a partnership in 2018 becoming McBride Rare Books. Most recently they’ve been in Dobbs Ferry and will continue to be – this time they are simply moving down the hall.
To celebrate I’ve asked them to issue an eCatalogue: Caveat Mover.
Whimsical yes, but they are serious people. The rare book and paper field is undergoing significant change. The McBride partners’ strength is deep research and serious cataloguing. If your approach to collectible paper is deep and serious, give these folks a call. They are both young and experienced. And remember, behind every great collector, there’s always a great dealer. If you have ambitions to be serious, talk to them. Here is their new contact information:
McBride Rare Books
145 Palisade Street, Suite 359 Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
