Rare Book Monthly Reviews - May - 2018 Issue

A Variety from Yesterday's Muse Books

A Variety from Yesterday's Muse Books

The latest catalogue from Yesterday's Muse Books comes without a title, but it certainly has a most colorful cover. Neither is there a description of its contents, though it would be reasonable to describe it as a miscellany. Here are a few subjects with numerous representatives, particularly the first and last of these. There are books in fine bindings, about photography, poetry, children's books, and a selection of works by Edgar Rice Burroughs to make you go ape. While you may associate Burroughs with his most famous character, Tarzan of the Apes, he wrote several other extensive series,...

More from the Civil War from the George S. MacManus Company

More from the Civil War from the George S. MacManus Company

The George S. MacManus Company has issued a new catalogue on The Civil War (Part IV). MacManus' Civil War catalogues provide an enormous amount of material, much of it obscure or from small edition...

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From Pole to Pole - Adventures Far North and South from Shapero Rare Books

From Pole to Pole - Adventures Far North and South from Shapero Rare Books

Shapero Rare Books has issued a catalogue Of Penguins and Polar Bears. It shouldn't take too long to figure out what this is about. It is not so much about those particular species, but of their ha...

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Recent Acquisitions in Americana from the William Reese Company

Recent Acquisitions in Americana from the William Reese Company

The William Reese Company has issued their 352nd catalogue, Recent Acquisitions in Americana. This is something of an American history lesson, covering a variety of issues, famous and obscure, from...

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