Americana from Veery Books

New York: Tundra Books, Lower East SIde Tenement Museum, 2001. 55 pp. From the back cover: 'The Gumpertz, the Confinos, the Rogarshevskys, the Baldizzis: four of the hundreds of families whose first home in the New Wolrd was a dar, crowded tenement on New York's Lower East Side at 97 Orchard Street. Linda Granfield brings to life conditions that were… Read more about this item

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. pp. 349. Clean, newish, but for small water stain. 'For an understanding of Bossism, Reform, and Progressivism as they were known in the United States between 1890 and 1912, this book is the most illunimating as well as the most interesting work in existence. . . In the stormy period here covered many… Read more about this item

New York: Christie's, New York, 2005. 311 pp. 482 lots. Many excellent illustrations in color including full page reproductions of both Alexander Wilson's and Audubon's Carolina Parrot or Parakeet. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington, D.C.: Union Panamericana, 1950. 127 pp. 75 songs are presented in simple piano arrangements with lyrics between staves. Adios, florecita blanca, Mi carino, Adelita, Mi dicha lejana, E1Aguinaldo, Mi pollera , Amenca, The Beautiful, Naci en la cumbre, Bainyin, Old Folks at Home, Angelique, o!, Pajarillo barranqueno, El arroyo que murmura, EI palito, Ay ay ay!, La paloma, Ay!… Read more about this item

New Haven: William Reese Co. Bookseller's Catalogues nos. 231, 234 N.D., ca. 2005. 231: lists 221 items 'relating to issues of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world in the 17th to 19th centuries. While a number of items have to do with slavery in the United States, the greater part is devoted to larger field, particularly Caribbean slavery, the… Read more about this item

New York: Sotheby, Parke-Bernet, 1972. 147 pp. 179 Lots. About 100 illustrations, perhaps 10 in color. Including Benbridge, Cassatt, Hassam, Inness, Kensett, Neagle, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, and Rubens Peale, Stuart, Tate, Charles Hawthorne, George Henry Hall, Guy Wiggins, John Frederick Peto, John Singer Sargent, Carl Oscar Borg, William De La Montainge Cary, Gilbert Gaul, Edwin Willard Deming, Charles Craig, W. Meuttman,… Read more about this item

New York: Sotheby's, 2001. 378 pp., 418 lots, Addendum, 8 pp. Some tiny imperfections, some creasing and soiling to fore edge of addendum. Includes 8 pp. insert Addendum lot 223A, the letters of J. D. Salinger to his Daughter Peggy, estimated at $250-350,000, which did not sell. The letters are described at length with several illustrations. Some highlights: lot… Read more about this item