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We know it’s a lot to swallow in one gulp, but in this catalog, we’ve included almost 100 listings of mostly older items. All of them have been reduced in price, some by as much as 80%. The sale ends on December 15, 2024 so if you’d like to take advantage of some of these discounts, you’ll need to order before then.

Although most items are first-person, original-source Americana such as documents, correspondence, journals, photograph albums, and scrapbooks, you'll also find ephemera and postal history.

View PDF Catalog 23-6 (Holiday Clearance Sale)

This catalog contains 32 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to African-Americana, American Life and Culture, Business, Californiana, Medicine, Military and War, Politics, Slavery, Transportation, Virginiana, Women & Girls, and more.

These items will be on display at the Rare Books & Manuscripts Showcase to be held at Indiana University in late June. While you may purchase any of them now, they will not be shipped until the first week of July 2023.

View PDF Catalog 23-3 (June 2023)

This catalog contains 31 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to African-Americana, the American Civil War, Art Nouveau, Canals, Carnival Rides ,the Cherokee, Disasters, Education, Fashion, 4-H Clubs, Impeachment, Insanity, Irish Independence, Little Big Horn & the Great Sioux War, Maps, Medicine & Nursing, Museology, Politics, Post WWII China, Postal History. Race, Railroads, Reconstruction, Religion, Replevin, Slavery, Steamboats, Thoroughbreds, Vaudeville, Westward Expansion, Women & Girls, World War Two, and more.

View PDF Catalog 23-2 (April 2023)

Catalog 23-1 (January 2023) contains 45 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to the American Civil War, the Atomic Bomb, British rule in Florida, Dutch New York, the Early Fur Trade, Enslaved Workers and Slave Trading, Franklin's Pennsylvania Hospital, Missionaries, the Old China Trade, the Revolutionary War, Spanish Louisiana, Westward Expansion, the child prodigy artist Lilly Martin, and more.

View PDF Catalog 23-1 (January 2023)

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Rare Book & Manuscript Showcase 2023

The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America regularly provides a dealer showcase in conjunction with the American Library Association's Rare Book and Manuscript Section at its annual conference. This year the conference will be held at the Bloomington, Indiana.

The onsite showcase will open 4pm on Wednesday, 28 June and close at 4 pm on Thursday, 29 June. The event is not open to the general public. If you are a customer and would like to attend on Thursday, please let me know, and I can have a ticket held for you at the registration desk.

A virtual showcase will be held in addition to the onsite event. The virtual showcase will run from Noon on Tuesday, 27 June until 8 pm on Friday, 30 June.

Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

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2024 Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition

Catalog 23-6 (Holiday Clearance Sale)

Catalog 23-5 (October 2023)

Catalog 23-4 (August 2023)

Catalog 23-3 (June 2023)

Catalog 23-2 (April 2023)

Catalog 23-1 (January 2023)

Rare Book & Manuscript Showcase 2023