Welcome to the Digital Version of Our Bookstore

We stock over 20,000 rare, uncommon and non-existent titles in the sciences and the maths. Our strongest areas are in the 1880-1920 period for work that appears in English, French and German. We have particularly strong holdings in the history of quantum theory and the development of atomic and particle physics.

We also have an unusual stock of 30,000 pamphlets in diverse areas, though the unifying theme seems to be that they are in general interesting and rare. The majority of the pamphlets have few or no listings in the cataloguing and bibliographic tool known as the OCLC/WorldCat catalog, which lists some 100,000,000 books in library collections worldwide. Some of the areas in this collection include bridge and canal engineering, American WWII propaganda leaflets, Weimar politics, Russia 1905-1922, 19th century American mining, labor and labor disputes 1900-1930, sound-on-film motion pictures 1923-1935, and so on.

In association with our science bookstore we also operate Longstreet Antiquarian Maps & Prints, which has an open gallery just this side of the town square in Asheville, North Carolina. In stock at the gallery are many thousands of antique maps, from early 20th-century American county maps to 16th century world maps, plus celestial and geological maps, all of which range from the excruciatingly detailed and informative to the wishful and archaic. One strong subsection of the maps is our thematic and graphical display of information section, where you can find a 20-foot-long display of human history, imaginative and enumerative comparisons of naval strength in 1905, comparative heights of mountains and lengths of rivers to name but a few.

Also in stock are thousands of antique images arranged in hundreds of categories, all of which are on display in bins, stored in labeled boxes or housed in over 300 binders and portfolios.

A new addition to our store is our selection of museum quality reprints of depression-era America photographs from the spectacular Farm Security Administration (FSA) Historical Section, featuring the work of Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Walker Evans and other. These images are generally quite large (averaging about 26 x 32 inches) printed on photographic paper with pigmented inks. Click on Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" to view more of these images.

We also have a very large selection of photographic reproductions of panoramic images of American cities from the 1895-1935 period. There are over 1000 mages to choose from for cities around the country. These images are also museum quality efforts, printed on heavy semi-matte photographic paper with pigmented inks, and can reach eight feet in length--the average dimension of these prints is an impressive 10 x 50 inches.

Asheville, North Carolina, Panoramic Photograph
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SPECIAL COLLECTION

We have an extensive selection of Computer and Computational books from the pre-1962 era.
This is a fantastic collection and not catalogued in our database or anywhere else on the internet.
(Please note that this is a large file -- 1 megabyte.)
Click here to browse this special collection.