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Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts is a private, research-intensive dealer of more than thirty years’ experience in and around New York, specializing in exceptional books, manuscripts, and cultural property. Jay Dillon has been responsible for selling or appraising more than $100 million worth of books and manuscripts spanning some three thousand years — from the Egyptian Book of the Dead ca 1000 BC to the first book on the moon 1969.

Aww, shucks. One citation would’ve been plenty. ·
12/04/2023

Aww, shucks. One citation would’ve been plenty.
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Well, this is fun: **All four variants** of the gilt-morocco ‘ticket’ or bookplate of George Edward Staehle (1923–2008),...
11/22/2023

Well, this is fun:

**All four variants** of the gilt-morocco ‘ticket’ or bookplate of George Edward Staehle (1923–2008), MD, Grolier Club 1963–2008; representing his colonial-revival house (1950) in Short Hills (New Jersey), lettered “EX LIBRIS” in chief and “GEORGE STAEHLE” below, all blocked in gilt on (1) blue-, (2) green-, (3) maroon-, and (4) brown-morocco wafers 43 × 58 mm (1¾ × 2¼ inches); commissioned by Mrs Staehle (as a gift, no doubt) and supplied by Henry Clapp Smith (d. 1974), bookseller, of New York, 1951. Pristine, as new, unused.

10/23/2023

Catch o’ the day

Harmless drudgery du jour.
06/15/2023

Harmless drudgery du jour.

06/08/2023

I ❤️ hyperbole.

Seasonal greeting-card.
09/23/2022

Seasonal greeting-card.

‘The New Yorker’ of course, 21 March:
03/21/2022

‘The New Yorker’ of course, 21 March:

First printing of the word ‘blizzard’, 1829. It appears in a list of “Americanisms” collected by Robley Dunglison (1798–...
01/30/2022

First printing of the word ‘blizzard’, 1829.

It appears in a list of “Americanisms” collected by Robley Dunglison (1798–1868), in the ‘Virginia literary museum’ (Charlottesville) volume 1, no. 27 (16 December 1829), page 418 as below. It didn’t mean “snowstorm” until the 1860s.

The first picture of a Christmas tree published in America, Boston 1835/6 │ Hermann Bokum, 1807–1878 │ The stranger’s gi...
12/12/2021

The first picture of a Christmas tree published in America, Boston 1835/6

│ Hermann Bokum, 1807–1878
│ The stranger’s gift: A Christmas and New Year’s present
│ Boston: Light & Horton, 1836

First edition (only edition). Sabin 6176; Grolier/Elliott 37.
Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts no. R1745
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· Felix Riemkasten (1894–1969) ‘Babette bindet Bücher’ Leipzig: Franz Schneider Verlag, 1935 In 8s (188 × 128 mm, 7⅜ × 5...
02/23/2021

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Felix Riemkasten (1894–1969)
‘Babette bindet Bücher’
Leipzig: Franz Schneider Verlag, 1935

In 8s (188 × 128 mm, 7⅜ × 5 inches): 48 leaves paginated [1]–[96], three full-page and five smaller illustrations by Lotte Oldenburg-Wittig (1896–1982). Publisher’s quarter cloth, color-pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION (first printing), Dillon H1370.

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