HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE NEW YORK BOOK FAIR The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair runs from 4-7 April. We will be on Booth D3. We have recently issued a new catalogue to coincide with the fair and this is on our website. On this list, there are a few selected highlights from the catalogue as well as some new items. Among these is a collection of six books by Robert Frank, three of which are inscribed to one of his closest collaborators, Kazuhiko Motomura who published three of Frank’s books. Two of these three are here. This is an important group of books by one of the great photographers. The touching inscriptions Frank made to Motomura are a testament to the centrality of this relationship to Frank’s career. Among the other highlights is another great photobook – Ruscha’s Twentysix gasoline stations in the rare, original glassine wrapper. Some extraordinary science – a rare work of avant la lettre non-Euclidean geometry and a beautiful collection of seventeenth-century student notes. There is some challenging sexuality: boys, black beetles and the first erotic novel written by a woman. Dr Johnson’s satire on Robert Walpole, some unrecorded late eighteenth-century music books for the newly fashionable guitar and, appropriately enough for a book fair in New York, the first printer’s manual written by an American printer for American printers.
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