Howdy, y’all! We are excited to be offering some lovely items we’ve accrued through the year at the first (annual?) Western States Book and Paper Fair! This is an online gathering of booksellers and paper handlers from across—as the name implies—the Western States.
We are particularly enthused to show for the first time a number of very special rare items from a large collection of G. K. Chesterton we acquired this year. Among scores of early printings of the better half of Chesterton’s 100 odd single-author works we received many signed items, portraits, drawings, photographs, and perhaps the pièce de résistance, a signed original typescript of an essay for GK’s Weekly with GKC’s hand-written corrections. Check out our offerings tomorrow through Saturday, and keep your eyes peeled for the full “ChesterBelloc” (there’s a lot of HB in there too) catalog any day now.
Also featured––much to the chagrin of our handlers who tried to restrain us from offering large, bulky, 100lb sets at an online book fair––will be a bright and striking set of Rickett’s Wild Flowers of the United States, a lovely deluxe edition of Ruskin’s Works, a 5 volume presentation edition of the 1885 Revised Version for the American Revision Committee, and a primo 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica 11th Ed.
