Manhattan Rare Book Company

I’m having a field day clicking through here. Looking at the pictures of rare books make my fingers itch. Click around – some amazing things in there! I am particularly entranced by this one. Like this beautiful close-up of one of the images. Oh, and the books in the whole “Americana/Civil War” section are gorgeous … I feel like a caveman. ME WANT. ME WANT.

But naturally, the following one makes me DROOL:

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Co., 1922. Quarto, original blue-green wrappers. Custom half-leather box. $60,000.

First edition, one of 750 printed on handmade paper (out of a total edition of 1000). A superb, unrestored copy in original wrappers. Very light soiling to wrappers, slight wear to spine, faint crease on front cover. A spectacular copy, most rare in this condition.

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6 Responses to Manhattan Rare Book Company

  1. Kate P says:

    Seems like a coincidence that I was just talking to my mom last night at choir practice about how the copy I used in college had the sheet music to “Jerusalem” in it. (Obviously we were practicing “Jerusalem” for Palm Sunday.)
    I never loved my 20th c. British & Irish Novelists professor more than when he played audio of “Jerusalem” and Molly’s dialogue at the end for our class.

  2. steve on the mountain says:

    Holy moly! That Ulysses Grant 2-volume memoir is in my brother’s house as we speak (inherited from my Twain-loving grandfather’s library). Unfortunately, it’s condition is nowhere near as good as the one imaged.
    And the non-Grant Ulysses is a definite drool.

  3. Emily says:

    I wish I was a millionaire so I could buy two copies of that book – one for you and one for your Dad.

  4. redclay says:

    i used to read those churchill second world war editions in a big leather chair in the den.
    everything was brown as dried blood, and soaked up light like a sponge. the books were heavy as they ought to be, though, put a little boys legs to sleep you read em long enough. we had him on vellum, we had winston on vinyl. it was a little spooky to listen and read at the same time. especially when the written word was so different.
    his speeches, Lord God Almighty.
    they ought to make them mandatory in school today.
    world trade center footage, winston, and then stories about irish monasteries in the dark ages.

    all this to say, thanks for the goldbug variations. haven’t finished yet, but it does seem worth the time.

  5. red says:

    redclay – oh cool – you’re reading it?? It’s something else, isn’t it?

  6. ChrisN says:

    Can we link our Amazon.com wish lists to this site?

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