Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company - Early Printed Books, Substantive Manuscripts, U.S. and Latin Americana, Mexico & New World Languages, Hispanica, Histories & the History of Ideas, Travels, Cookery, Law, Religion, & Bibles (All Antiquarian)

PRB&M has, over its 20+ years, accumulated a NOTABLE QUANTITY of books and pamphlets printed after our "core stock" cut-off date of 1820, or out of our usual subject areas, or of kinds NOT sensibly catalogued by our usual methods.

    Most areIN ENGLISH and have prices under $250 — sometimes, aLOT under.


                     
We now have an entire floor of such slightly-accidental jollities,  all more or less neatly arranged on shelving in "unfinished" but climate-controlled space,  the challenge beingHow to MANAGE the stuff??  so that it overpowers neither our catalogues nor this website?   How to offer it effectively WITHOUT obscuring our identity as . . .

Into the headachy Muddle —          
"WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO?!" —         
strode SHOPCAT SESSA mrowring —
"Let ME handle it!"


To which we said YES! and now . . .
SESSABKS
"A Division of PRB&M"
 offers our "stacks material" via
ABAA/ILAB
. . . & even, occasionally,
       eBay.

 
TWO NOTES:                   

Because Sessa's paws areNOT CAMERA-COMPATIBLE,  his database offerings are unillustrated. 

HeDOES SELECT SOME items from PRB&M's regular stock — top price,  $850.  (IF these also appear at our own website, they're illustrated there — ONLY.)

As always, PRB&M invites you first to browse
SESSA'S PEOPLE'S BOOKS!
Via the firm's own
extensive & highly illustrated
INDEPENDENT
            website . . .
 
 
 
With its books browsably arrayed in nearly 200 illustrated catalogues organized by Century Language & Topic,
www.prbm.com
offers a real sense of our REGULAR
departments, “aisles,”
& shelves . . .

THEN!

Visit  SESSABKS via
the ABAA-ILAB database! 

 

     Click here or use this link —
always available on the navigation bar:

PRB&M WILL THANK YOU . . .      
&
SHOPCAT SESSA
WILL THANK YOU!

FOR ANOTHER PICTURE OF SESSA & HIS BOOKS,
AND ANOTHER LINK OR TWO,
CLICK ANY PICTURE OF HIM ON THIS PAGE.

Pictures of SessaBks in its NEW Quarters
will appear here soon —
for now, the photos are flashbacks.