We are interested in purchasing collections, accumulations, and single piecesof quality books, maps, postcards, photographs, and other ephemera.
Some examples follow, but this is NOT an exhaustive list. Feel free to contact us to discuss any items you may want to sell.
Books:
Signed by the author, subject, or someone associated with the book
Leather and Fine bindings
Limited editions
Early Printing (before 1800)
Collections/Accumulations regarding a particular subject (i.e. Kansas History; Ornithology;Quilting; Psychoanalysis; Railroad/Trains; First Editions; Lincoln; etc.)
Children’s Books prior to 1960
Any books with hand colored plates
Small/Local Press
Books with maps prior to 1920s
Kansas History
County Plat Atlases prior to 1930
Other Atlases prior to 1880
School books prior to 1860
Teacher’s folios prior to 1970
Books with real photographs tipped in
Fine/Decorative Bindings
Easton/Franklin/Gryphon Press (100 Greatest Books of All Time; Signed First Editions; NRA Reprints; Classics of Psychiatry, Medicine,Neurology; Etc.) and other similar decorative leather bound
works in Fine Condition.
Folio Society books in Fine Condition
The Arthur H. Clark Company
R. Donnelley / TheLakesidePress
DSM-I and DSM-II
ANYTHING related to Martin and Osa Johnson
ANYTHING related to Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed
Elizabeth Burnaby
Elizabeth Main
Elizabeth Le Blond
MAPS:
Any maps prior to 1870
Kansas prior to 1960s (though mostly collections/accumulations if post 1880)
Any folding/pocket maps prior to 1920
Collections/accumulations of folding road maps prior to 1960
County Plat Atlases prior to 1930
Other Atlases prior to 1880
POSTCARDS:
Real Photo
Halloween
Other holiday cards in Fine condition
Collections/Accumulations of cards mostly before 1930
PHOTOGRAPHS:
Showing identified homes, business’s buildings, and other places, prior to 1970
Events (i.e. county fair, rodeo’s parades, pageants, prior to 1950
Military/War prior to 1946
Famous people/events
Collections/Accumulations mostly prior to 1880
Tin Types
Glass Plates
DIARIES/LETTERS:
Famous/well known individuals
Groups/Organizations prior to 1960
Detailing events, lifestyles, etc. (i.e. early Topeka; Travel; Musicians; Hippies; Circus; Military; Farming/Ranching; Exploration; Etc.
