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WHAT'S NEW . . .
 This index/welcome page updated  29 JUNE 2008 . . .    
other pages, variously . . .    
 OurNEWEST ARRIVALS were
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                        WELCOME to the SUMMER WEBSHOP . . . 

If you missed the PRB&M
Flag Day 2008
 Garage Sale & Hotdog Gala —
but expect to be travelling I-95 at some other time this summer —
think of visiting!  
 (You'll be within a quarter-mile of us, @ Exit 27)

Please, call or email for an appointment.     

You can CLICK the multi-colored link
  or a picture below to see      
an illustrated description of our current

NOTABLY NIFTY OFFERING



New pictures let regular visitors know when there's a new book or manuscript to click to.
If you would like us to send you the link directly    
by e-mail, each time, we can do so . . . just ask!

Or reviewTHE GALLERY  of Featured Books . . .

Then . . .           

BROWSE @ PRB&M  BY  TOPIC . . .
OR LANGUAGE OR CENTURY . . .

The GREEN button below takes you to
our full, always-evolving
  CATALOGUE of WEB CATALOGUES . . .

. . . with a mere Selection showing below . . .

POST-1820 AMERICANA — click here.    
      PRE-1820 AMERICANA — click here.
Illustrated Books — click here
PROVENANCE — click here   China — click here
   Literature — click here  PLAYBILLS — click here
Natural History — click here   Books about Books — click here
Children/Education/Children's Books — click here
Commerce/Finance/Trade — click here Native Americana — click here
Medicine — click here   Ireland/Irish — click here
Greek & Latin Classics — click here MEXICANA! — click here
Music & Dance — click here German Americana — click here
Bibles, Testaments, & Bible Scholarship — click here
   General Religion — click here    
Judaica/Hebraica — click here     Rare Catholica — click here
Scotland/Scots — click here Chapbooks — click here
Cookery — click here Manuscripts — click here  
Women — click here Human Rights — click here
Books in French — click hereBooks in Italian — click here  
16TH Century Books — click here
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GENERAL MISCELLANY,
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 SUMMERTIME!
ADVENTURE in BOOKSELLING . . .    
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OR!

For the Tale (or Tail) of how
our  subshop "SESSABKS" came to be,
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Come 4 – 8 August, PRB&M partner
David Szewczyk will be co-teaching
“The History of the Book in Latin America,
16th-19th Centuries” in the
CALIFORNIA RARE BOOK SCHOOL.

Please, enquire!
Click on the CRBS logo ABOVE for descriptions
of this & other offerings of
“Book SchoolWest.” 

Next, meet the staff!

PBR&M ships domestically too
  Has PRB&M shipped books to
a country(wo)man of yours?
Or to your national library?

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PRB&M ships worldwide

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