[Rarebooks] RICHMOND, VA., BOOK FAIR, SATURDAY

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
Thu Apr 26 18:41:02 EDT 2012






Items Available at the Richmond Book Fair on Saturday, April 28th



Art:     McKenney and Hall Native American folio print

            1848 Currier print of American Presidents in a nice old frame



Afro-Americana, including:  Minstrel show memorabilia

            Anti-slavery acts passed by Queen Victoria’s Parliament

            19th-century photograph

            Broadsides, &c:  Joe Louis fight. Paul Robeson’s death 

            Etc.



19th-Century Sheet Music, including:  Early and illustrated items,  items of Afro-American,  Civil War, & L. M. Gottschalk interest, a Confederate imprint, &c.   



Stage and Film Ephemera



Civil War and Military Ephemera Collection (for sale as a lot), including:  

            Autograph signed letters and signatures          

            Correspondence regarding weapons manufacture

            Military documents – American Wars



SF/F Ephemera, including:  Typescript MSS

            Illustrated broadside



Early Printings and MSS, including:  French Revolution-era pamphlet

            Second Aldine edition of Lucan

            Unique liturgical text in a deluxe binding

            Two 13th-century Bible leaves in late Caroline/proto-Gothic script with elaborate

            red and blue initials

            16th-century large quarto with two 12th- and 14th-century MSS fragments in the

binding



Washington Family Correspondence and Ephemera, mid-1800s (for sale as a lot)



Other Items of Interest:  7 issues of the famous avant-garde magazine Broom in

            individual decorated boxes

            Spring 1938 VERVE

            Unrecorded Rackham binding (illustrated Edgar Allen Poe)

            Illustrated books and first editions

            Early medical works with illustrations

            Americana

            Assorted miscellaneous bargain books



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