Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

If you do not find what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com

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A Female student’s arithmetic primer: bound in luxurious full-red morocco 60 + exercises, including business and commercial transactions

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A Banned Book and its scarce follow-up: incontestable evidence that woman can conceive sans homme

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A volume of eight quarto poems carefully bound together.

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7 SEAS OF CAPT ACID

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

This atlas comprises 48 plates, representing globe gores intended to form a terrestrial globe.

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A sales catalog for a Parisian women’s clothing designer displaying 150 different designs (1904-06), for dresses, coats, hats, furs, parasols, etc. for different seasons—complemented by 8 photographs of dresses.

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Unpublished c. 1968/70 Spanish protest album including two texts by Fernando Arrabal and Jorge Luis Borges

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An annotated copy of the first textbook on differential calculus, with a dozen pages of annotations and corrections by a skilled mathematician, written in a neat legible hand.

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Inspired by William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement in England

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Trade Catalogs and a Victorian manual documenting cycling in the early 20th century