New York Book Fair: General Catalog Our general stock catalog for the 2020 New York Antiquarian Book Fair
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New York Book Fair: General Catalog Our general stock catalog for the 2020 New York Antiquarian Book Fair
Signed Modern Firsts II: Le–Wolff The second part of a list of our signed first editions.
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Signed Modern Firsts I: Achebe–Kunzru The first part of a list of our signed first editions.
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Holiday Hundred One hundred books for the holidays.
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Greenwich Village Signed Firsts Mostly signed modern firsts, with some art & photography and some books about books.
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Brooklyn Miscellaney A miscellaney gathered for Brooklyn in four categories: I. Antiquarian — II. Fine Press, Limited Editions and Books about Books III. Art, Photographic and Illustrated Books — IV. Modern First Editions.
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Counter-Culture As we settle in our new downtown space we sometimes miss the Upper East Side. The Met was a good neighbor, and Crawford-Doyle, now of blessed memory, an even better land-lord and friend. But now we’re in NoMad, the goofy name for the erst canyon between the Flatiron and Herald Square. Perhaps we’ve changed as a bookshop, too; a longtime punkish-beatish streak has now emerged fully. Looking around in preparation for the Greenwich Village fair, we saw in every section — photography, poetry, even antiquarian — evidence of our love of iconoclasm.
Ironic, really, that a bookseller, whose job it is to cherish and to preserve, should so much enjoy the products of movements that rejected and protested and destroyed. Probably to their dismay, various counter-culture movements share much in the way of aesthetics. There is a current of starkness that belies profusion. Patti Smith perhaps exemplifies this best of all. There is a riot of progression in her photographs, poetry and music that makes her work from the 1970’s as compelling as that from 2017. Nan Goldin, Hunter Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski all, like Smith, questioned and rejected, and in so doing opened new channels in their art. We hope you’ll enjoy this selection of what they left behind, and get a better sense of their stances than you will passing the former CBGB with a wistful gaze.
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