Pryor-Johnson Rare Books

12/04/2020

Our first virtual book fair, live NOW through Tuesday. Take a look!

11/21/2020

We mourn the death of Jan Morris, one of the great travel writers, and a breaker of barriers.

07/21/2020

It isn’t every day I get to handle signed Willa Cather and Thomas Hardy. It gladdens my sorrowing heart...

07/07/2020

For the first time in four months, new books listed on Abe. Some sublime things: lovely signed firsts of Woolf’s Orlando, Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress and Waller’s Bridges of Madison County @ Pryor-Johnson Rare Books

06/22/2020

Phase II, List II — happy days at Pryor-Johnson Rare Books. Link in bio. Act fast!

06/19/2020

Juneteenth is for the first time a holiday in New York State. We celebrate a holiday intimately connected to reading and slavery with Dunbar’s Poems of Cabin and Field. Dunbar was the son of enslaved parents, and one of America’s first black poets to be recognized internationally.

06/08/2020

We begin today to re-emerge. As our thanks to our clients for sticking by us through immense difficulty, we offer our first list since the pandemic began: Signed Modern Firsts I (Achebe–Kunzru). All priced under $500 and most under $100. Have a look, and strike while the iron's hot!

https://www.pryorjohnsonrarebooks.com/s/P-JRB-Signed-Modern-Firsts-I-A-K.pdf

We sell rare and antiquarian books, ranging from sixteenth-century texts to contemporary first editions, many signed. Our specialties include photography, books about books, exploration and natural science.

03/13/2020

Salus populi suprema lex esto (Cicero, De legibus III.8). Let the supreme law be the well-being of the people. Pryor-Johnson will be appointment-only from today. Be safe, care as best you can for those who are precarious, and while you’re alone, read.

03/11/2020

Thanks, writing in about our books! We’re both items in the title, and three in the article (we see see you, Darwin). Kind of an overwhelming weekend. Gonna take a minute...

03/05/2020

Ready Aim Book! Booth D30. The Park Avenue Armory.

02/25/2020

We made pEnCiLs. Write on! Stay sharp! Keep graphiting!

02/21/2020

Greenwich Village 2020! Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Comment for a ticket...