Interesting small catalog from sale titled "A Group of Important Georgian Silver" held on Friday, May 16, 1941, at Parke-Bernet Galleries on East 57th Street. The silver was property of Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., of New York "to be sold consequent on the death of M. Parish-Watson, Esq. The 24-page booklet is self-bound and contains listings of 31 lots and photographs of most of them. A nice period piece for collectors and dealers.

People forget how enjoyable the books of John Buchan are. Just to remind you, he wrote, "The 39 Steps." Here are two paperbacks: Greenmantle, Oxford World's Classics edition from 1993, in very good condition; and Mountain Meadows in a 1946 Bantam Books edition also in very good condition with previous owner's name and date written on ffep and a very small tear at bottom of page after ffep. Two books for the price of one and free shipping within USA.

Offered is the catalog for the Annual Summer Americana Auction of Northeast Auctions, held August 1-3, 2008, in Manchester, New Hampshire. Besides other items, there are 80 lots of Mocha from the renowned collection of Jonathan Rickard. There is also a significant group of pewter. A list of prices realized is included. Catalog is in very good condition, unmarked, with just a minor bruise at edge of front cover.

This is an advance proof of Murray B. Levin's interesting study of the 1962 campaign in Massachusetts in which Edward M. Kennedy, then a totally inexperienced candidate barely eligible by age to serve in the United States Senate, defeated an experienced State Attorney General, also from a powerful political family. This is "an uncorrected proof" with final revisions yet to be made. The text shows some editing had already been done as there are excisions and paste-ins...

"Few area illustrate the evolution of American architecture,both public and domestic, so ideally as Long Island," it says on the back cover. Very interesting book published in 1992 by the AIA. This is a Dover paperback, quarto size, 205 pp. Condition is like new with some very minor wear to cover.

A beautifully printed and illustrated book detailing 318 items in the outstanding collection of American furniture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, one of the best in the country. The author is Richard H. Randall,, Jr. Published in 1965, the catalog is broken down into categories such as chests desks, tables, chairs and clocks and many more. It is a hardcover book in a nice slip case, all in fine condition. The cover of the book has a gilt eagle stamped onto it....

Full title is: American Silver 1655-1825 in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston by Kathryn C. Buhler. This two volume hardcover book was published in 1972 and came in a slipcase. The individual volumes never had dust jackets. This is an essential reference work if one is a serious collector of or dealer in early American silver. The illustration shows the front and back of the slipcase. This is a crisp new copy that has never been used.

Checklist for 1988 exhibit celebrating the gift to Yale by the Kossack family of American silver encompassing at the time almost 4,400 objects dating from about 1720 to 1890. It included 1,965 tea, 774 table, 207 dessert, 199 salt and 49 mustard and other small spoons; 467 sugar shells and tongs; 269 ladles; 151 pieces of holloware; 126 forks; 46 knives; 43 spectacles; 36 serving pieces, and 35 pieces of jewelry representing the work of approximately 1,100 silversmiths...

Classic book on subject, HARDCOVER, quarto volume, America's Quilts and Coverlets by Carleton L. Safford and Robert Bishop, published by Weathervane Books, New York, 1974. Profusely illustrated. Very good condition with some fraying and minor tears to dust jacket. Price includes free Media Mail shipping within the USA.

"A vivid chronicle of a great American family whose members prove to have been every bit as entertaining — and almost as important — as they thought they were," Geoffrey C. Ward, former editor of American Heritage magazine and author of Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt -- quoted on the inner flap of the dust wrapper. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1986. 297 pp., 27 illustrations. Price includes free shipping by media mail.

Anathema, Litanies of Negation by Benjamin DeCasseres, was published in in 1928 by the legendary Gotham Book Mart. It was a limited edition of 1,250 autographed copies of which this is number 488. There is a foreword by Eugene O'Neill, possibly America's greatest playwright, the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for drama and the Nobel Prize for literature. The book has a glassine cover and a black slipcase...

Complete set of Antiques Magazine (The Magazine Antiques) from 1922 to the present. Twenty-four of the years are in the green binders which used to be provided by the magazine. The rest are unbound. An immeasurably valuable resource for the scholar, dealer and collector. Huge and heavy are words appropriate to the size and contents of this set. In good condition. The buyer will need to arrange for pickup and delivery.