{"id":6169,"date":"2007-03-29T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:06:55","slug":"manhattan-rare-book-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6169","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Rare Book Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a field day clicking through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattanrarebooks.com\/\">here<\/a>.  Looking at the pictures of rare books make my fingers itch.  Click around &#8211; some amazing things in there!  I am particularly entranced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattanrarebooks-art.com\/barbier_nijinsky.htm\">this one<\/a>.  Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattanrarebooks-art.com\/images\/barbier\/nijinsky%20pic1.jpg\">this beautiful close-up <\/a>of one of the images.  Oh, and the books in the whole<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattanrarebooks-history.com\/\"> &#8220;Americana\/Civil War&#8221; section<\/a> are gorgeous &#8230; I feel like a caveman.  ME WANT.  ME WANT.<\/p>\n<p>But naturally, the following one makes me DROOL:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ulyssesunrestoredcopy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ulyssesunrestoredcopy.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ulyssesunrestoredcopy-167x200.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ulyssesunrestoredcopy-334x400.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ulyssesunrestoredcopy-84x100.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Co., 1922. Quarto, original blue-green wrappers. Custom half-leather box. $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a field day clicking through here. Looking at the pictures of rare books make my fingers itch. Click around &#8211; some amazing things in there! I am particularly entranced by this one. Like this beautiful close-up of one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,28],"tags":[35,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180319,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions\/180319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}