Website back online

We have just restored the Boston Book Company website after some down time due to a server problem. All email to rarebook.com addresses and orders placed through our other listings (ABE, antiqbook, ILAB, ABAA) were received as usual during this time. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

New batch of October New Additions online

We've just updated our New Additions page, and the new offerings include a fifty volume Wilkie Collins set, bound in half indigo morocco with marbled paper covered boards; Meehan's four volume THE NATIVE FLOWERS AND FERNS OF THE UNITED STATES, with 192 chromolithographs by Prang; Burritt's celestial ATLAS DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEAVENS; lovely bindings of Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth, and more. Stop by and browse at www.rarebook.com.

New East Asian Art Reference list online

We've been mining our shelves, organizing our backlist by subject area. This group of titles, mostly references to the art world of East Asia, includes books long out-of-print and sought-for. Take a look, please, and let us know if there is anything here that pleases you and if there are other works you are seeking in the field. Click here for the list.