Updates
Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.
Fairs & Events
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2024
4th-7th April 2024
We are excited to be returning to the Park Avenue Armory for the 2024 edition of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, running from 4th to 7th April.
Bernard, Jeffrey, Adam, Eleanor and Oliver look forward to meeting old friends and customers and meeting new ones too.
Stand A3
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If you would like a ticket, please contact newyork@shapero.com.
About Us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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FEATURED ITEMS
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Mirror Box.
CARRION, Ulises.Original price $2,397.00 - Original price $2,397.00Original price $0.00$2,397.00$2,397.00 - $2,397.00Current price $2,397.00Edition of 100. Ulises Carrión is a key figure in Mexican conceptual art as an artist, editor, curator, and theorist of the post-1960s internationa...
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Stains (E.B9)
RUSCHA, Ed.Original price $86,279.00 - Original price $86,279.00Original price $0.00$86,279.00$86,279.00 - $86,279.00Current price $86,279.00The complete portfolio of 76 stains (Mixed Media), 1969, on Eagle Coupon Bond paper, including the additional stain on white silk moiré fabric box...
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales.
WILDE, Oscar; CRANE, Walter & HOOD, Jacomb (illustrators).Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Oscar Wilde's marvellous all-time favourite work, as illustrated and embellished by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood.First trade edition; large 8vo (2...
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Publisher's file photographs for Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967.
[WARHOL, Andy]. FINKELSTEIN, Nathan Louis 'Nat'.Original price $8,309.00 - Original price $8,309.00Original price $0.00$8,309.00$8,309.00 - $8,309.00Current price $8,309.00The publisher used these prints during preparation for Nat Finkelstein's 1989 book Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967, first published in th...
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The Golden Notebook.
LESSING, Doris.Original price $2,876.00 - Original price $2,876.00Original price $0.00$2,876.00$2,876.00 - $2,876.00Current price $2,876.00Signed by the author. Signed first edition of the author's masterpiece, and one of the greatest South African novels of the 20th century. This firs...
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The Hostage.
BEHAN, Brendan.Original price $1,119.00 - Original price $1,119.00Original price $0.00$1,119.00$1,119.00 - $1,119.00Current price $1,119.00One of 26 copies - specially bound and signed by the author. First US edition of Behan's masterwork, this being copy N of 26 lettered copies specia...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
