Rare Book Monthly Articles - July - 2005 Issue

The Snider Sale of Important Americana Meets High Expectations

By Bruce McKinney Both Christies and Jay Snider have reason to celebrate the successful outcome of Mr. Snider's sale of important Americana in New York on June 21st which realized $6,318,720 including hammer against aggregate low and high estimates of $3,886,700 and $5,631,500. Fifty-eight lots failed to sell including 16 of the 27 early almanacs that were interesting but in many cases carried high reserves. For the most part the items that failed to sell were the less expensive ones. Buyers could be equally pleased. According to the paddle numbers 52 individual accounts were cre...

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Alibris Visited

By Karen Wright As an online and brick and mortar bookseller with eighteen or so year's experience, I was curious as to how some of the "big boys" run their businesses. Since my store is within...

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June 20th, 2005 with Marguerite Goldschmidt

By Bruce McKinney Notes on a conversation with Marguerite Goldschmidt, widow of Lucien Goldschmidt, long time New York book dealer. I met Marguerite at the Grolier Club in New York. I was ...

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Search Through J.P. Morgan's Private Collection -- from Your Home

By Michael Stillman A century ago, one of America's most remarkable men put together one of the most remarkable collections of books, manuscripts and art. He was J. Pierpont Morgan, a name stil...

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A Flair For the Dramatic -- Edgar Rice Burroughs

By Carl Burnham As a kid in the 1960s, I became immersed in reading of his fantastic tales of John Carter of Mars, Venus, the land of Pellucidar, and of course the jungle adventures of Tarzan. ...

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Collecting has its Moments

By Bruce McKinney For the past three years we have been building AE. The experience has been tough and fascinating. We thought we were simply going to capture information about books and put ...

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"Turning The Pages:" Another Step Forward For Online Books

By Michael Stillman The process of placing books online, a move from old-fashioned reality to virtual reality, has taken another step forward with the "Turning The Pages" feature recently offer...

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The Case for Short Stories

By Bruce McKinney Many readers disdain short stories as morsels rather than meals although serious readers of short stories will beg to differ. Those people who complain are still, these many ...

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The Rosenbach Acquires Important Joyce Portrait

By Michael Stillman The Rosenbach Museum and Library recently purchased an important drawing of James Joyce to add to its collection. The addition of the portrait is particularly significant to ...

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  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.

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