This group of new acquisitions contains a wide variety of material, including an early experiment with X-ray imaging; a lettered copy of Edward Gorey's The Sopping Thursday, with original artwork; the only example of Ernest Hemingway's high school writing to appear on the market; and a previously unknown, unrecorded eighteenth-century miniature prayer book. These, and many more items, were on display at the 44th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, February 11-13, 2011. This catalog was selected as the Pick of the Week by Ibookcollector.

This selection of recently acquired items includes several works about the book arts and papermaking, brilliant Art Deco pochoir portfolios, miniature books, a treatise on French landscape architecture, and much more.

Catalogue 132 contains our entire stock of juvenile books, games, toys, artwork, and reference books. This includes paper dolls, puzzles, moveable books, optical toys, chapbooks, original artwork for works of children's literature, music and nursery rhymes, and shaped books. Take a look and rediscover a piece of your own childhood.