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Welcome to the home of John Howell for Books. Please search or browse our inventory of new, used, and rare books. If you can't find what you like please fill out our off-line search form. We will be happy to search our off-line inventory, other bookstores, and book search services for you.

I am back from the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair, and am shipping books!

On May 7, 2013, I published my latest e-list. It can be had as a PDF by clicking on this link:

May 7th e-List

Please, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the new list, or if you have anything to sell.

Featured Items

A Single Illuminated Vellum Bifolium from a Book of Hours in Latin. Contains the text of John 19:6 - 19:11 on the first folio and John 19:34 - 19:41 on the second folio. 650.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Woodcut print: "Saint Hermengilde." Leonhard Beck (1480-1542). 350.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaf from a Latin Breviary. Excerpt from the Divine Office: In Circumcisione Domini et Octava Nativitatis. 500.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
Four Illuminated Bifolia from a Vellum Psalter, Stitched into a Quire. Latin. Psalms 52.1-70.18 (Psalm 70 incomplete). 500.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Annals of Early Sierra Madre. Edith Blumer Bowen (d. 1950). 300.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Spiritual Poems, Chiefly Done Out of Several Languages. Gray, John (1866-1934). 1000.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
Two Chaucer Leaves. Charles Muscatine (1920-2010). 350.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

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Bookman's Holiday. 85.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	A Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Bayberry Hill Press, 1958-1968. 200.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Ashendene Press: Paper Read to Double Crown Club. 150.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
Cawston Ostrich Farm. 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	A Medieval Mirror: Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500. 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Sweet Roman Hand: Five Hundred Years of Italic Cursive Script. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
The Typographic Book, 1450-1935: A Study of Fine Typography Through Five Centuries. 85.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	The London Bookshop: Being Part One of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits & Premises with Prefatory Reminiscence by Percy Muir. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury. 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
Talks on Book-Collecting. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	The Mastery of Books: Hints on Reading and the Use of Libraries. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	The Great Book-Collectors. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
A Manual on Bookselling. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	A Bookbinders' Florilegium. 250.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Atlas of the World. 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
San Francisco, The Doomed City. Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906. 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Spring and Summer, 1909. 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Facets of Yosemite. 300.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
Yuba County, California. 40.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Patience and Her Garden. 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	The Decorative Letter. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
Neighbor of the Foxes. Henry David Thoreau, from his Journals. 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Bookbinding & Printing Facts. 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart	Pressroom Follies: Franklin, Poe, Bierce Twain and Rexroth on American Journalism. 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

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