Carpe Librum
Rare Books * First Editions * Curiosa
27 Walnut Street, Willliamstown, MA 01267 USA
(413) 281-0522
Among the 40-odd exceptional items in our Winter 2015 offering are:
o Paintings by an American missionary in Iran in the 1830s
o A significant association copy of Melville's The Confidence Man
o Thomas Bewick's edition of The Seasons, with an extra suite of plates
o Holograph letters from H. P. Lovecraft to Stephen King's first editor
o Russian firsts by Brodsky and Bulgakov
o CLR James's Black Jacobins in dustwrapper
o L. Ron Hubbard's rarest book
o A nearly complete run of the kink magazine Bizarre
o A Fluxus periodical
o A game by Nobel Prizewinner John Forbes Nash, Jr.
o A silver gelatin print by Otto Dyer, signed by Gary Cooper
o A watercolor by Clark Ashton Smith
o Harry Buxton Forman's copy of Izaak Walton's Lives.
Latin American and Spanish literature from the libraries of Alberto Rembao and John A. Mackay, including books inscribed by Rafael Alberti, CIro Alegria, German Arciniegas, Ricardo Baroja, Estela Canto, Juan Larrea, Juan Marin, Luis Alberto Sanchez, and Rodolfo Usigli.
Our first catalogue features a selection of exceptional books from our extensive stock. Highlights include a copy of Zamyatin’s We (1924) in the very rare dustwrapper, an inscribed copy of Longfellow’s first volume of poetry (1829), a signed copy of Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds (1934), first issue in dustwrapper, the first novel set in Washington, DC (1822), a 16th century legal text with contemporary marginal notes on sodomy, a beautifully bound copy of Ford & Tyler’s The Young and Evil (1934), the first edition in Russian of The Master and Margarita (1967), original illustration art by Bok, Crumb, and Finlay, and some interesting science fiction.