Author Archives: Ray Boas

KNIVES WITH CORKSCREWS by BOB NUGENT – 1987 Softcover, 8 1/2 by 11 inches, published by the author in Hillsboro, New Hampshire in 1987 with 31 pages packed with information, line drawings and photographs. UNCOMMON with history, knife construction, basic … Continue reading →

KENTUCKY PIONEER GENEALOGY AND RECORDS – 6 YEARS (24 ISSUES) OF THE JOURNAL Kentucky Pioneer Genealogy and Records: A Genealogical Journal Devoted to Kentucky Has been published by the Society of Kentucky Pioneers since 1979. Offered as one lot are … Continue reading →

1877 – A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES – LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFIRST EDITION – UNCOMMON Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877, 290 pages, publisher’s advertisements. Hardcover, good, wear to cloth and some light foxing, cant to bookblock as seen below. The No Name Series, published … Continue reading →

1657 – Della Santissima Eucaristia orazioni 30. Di Giouanni Rho della Compagnia di Giesu translates to:Orations of the Holy Eucharist 30. By Giouanni Rho of the Company of Giesu 17th century religious text, bound in vellum, at one time in … Continue reading →

1955 – THE MODEL ENGINEER – 27 ISSUES Model Engineer Magazine was first published, in the United Kingdom, to support the hobby of model engineering in 1898 by Percival Marshall, who was to remain its editor for over 50 years. It has been owned by MyTime … Continue reading →

By Clark W. Bryan of Great Barrington, Massachusetts – Prepared for the Housatonic Railroad with illustrations from the Cameras of Julius Hall and George W. Lovejoy. Offered is the uncommon original 32 page travel booklet (sadly also now available in … Continue reading →

1868 – CYCLOPAEDIA OF COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS ANECDOTES: COMPRISING INTERESTING REMINISCENCES AND FACTS, REMARKABLE TRAITS AND HUMORS, AND… Notable Sayings, Dealings, Experiences, and Witticisms of Merchants, Traders, Bankers, Mercantile Celebrities, Millionnaires (sic), Bargain Makers, etc. etc. … nearly three thousand … Continue reading →

THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN by GEORGE BICKHAM Original – circa 1741 plate THE HONEST MERCHANT – THOROWGOOD TO TRUEMAN by G. BLAND An original copperplate engraving from Bickham’s noted work. Paper measures about 9 7/8 inches by 15 1/2 inches. There is … Continue reading →

1887 ROYAL JUBILEE – QUEEN VICTORIA -COLLECTION OF FOUR BOUND NEWSPAPERS – CHROMOLITHS and BLACK and WHITE ENGRAVINGS Bound in olive green cloth, hardcover measuring about 12 inches by 15 1/2 inches are three London publications (plus one) relating to … Continue reading →

When my bookshop was in New Preston, Connecticut, from 1995 to 2002, in what I will call my “amazing days of book selling,” a number of publications (actual real printed magazines, remember those?) I stocked in the shop for my … Continue reading →