We've just updated our New Additions page, and the new offerings include a fifty volume Wilkie Collins set, bound in half indigo morocco with marbled paper covered boards; Meehan's four volume THE NATIVE FLOWERS AND FERNS OF THE UNITED STATES, with 192 chromolithographs by Prang; Burritt's celestial ATLAS DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEAVENS; lovely bindings of Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth, and more. Stop by and browse at www.rarebook.com.
We've been mining our shelves, organizing our backlist by subject area. This group of titles, mostly references to the art world of East Asia, includes books long out-of-print and sought-for. Take a look, please, and let us know if there is anything here that pleases you and if there are other works you are seeking in the field. Click here for the list.
Established in 1979, Boston Book Company and its sister store Boston Book Annex offer rare, scholarly books in all fields. Our areas of particular expertise: children's books, photographica, Americana, historical archives, women's books, color plate books, early maps and atlases, sets and fine bindings, American and British literature, Japanese woodblock print books from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, travel and exploration, and scholarly books about Japan and Asia. We buy and sell books in all these categories.