Catalogues

March 2026 Outlaws, Firearms, and True Crime

March 2026 Outlaws, Firearms, and True Crime

Wayside Books offers a collection of books relating to Outlaws, Firearms, and True Crime. Included are books about Oklahoma outlaws and lawmen; early 20th century bank robbers; gun training and handling; and true crime accounts of the Amityville murder, David Berkowitz (aka Son of Sam), the Scarsdale Diet doctor murder, and two books on the "Bloody Benders," a family who murdered at least 8 travelers in remote Southeast Kansas in the early 1870s, regarded by many today as America’s first documented case of serial killing. Some titles are signed.

November 2025

November 2025

Wayside Books offers a short catalog of some of our most recent acquisitions. Included are a signed and numbered three-volume set of Carl Van Doren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Benjamin Franklin; an 1840 edition of Martin Luther’s A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galations; a rare signed first edition of Anthony Lewis’s Gideon’s Trumpet; and a signed copy of Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra’s autobiography Schirra’s Space.

Via Libri Showcase October 2025

Via Libri Showcase October 2025

Wayside Books is offering an eclectic collection of rare and collectible books and ephemera. Highpoints include a leaf from Inscriptiones Sacrosanctae by Peter Apian from 1533; a signed first British edition of Ghostway, by Tony Hillerman; an inscribed and signed copy of a Rare Book Saga, by H. P. Kraus; a Syracuse, New York music archive; a rare broadsheet advertising rockabilly legend Jerry Lee Lewis; World War II Navy newsletters from the USS Fletcher; a first edition of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop; and signed/inscribed books by Richard Booth, Ray Bradbury, Erskine Caldwell, Ellen Gilchrist, Barry Hannah, Pete Townshend, John Updike, and Richard Wilbur.
Vintage Finds August 2025

Vintage Finds August 2025

Wayside Books offers a selection of some of our oldest and newest materials, including leaves from books from the 16th century, nineteenth century maps of North America, classics from Oliver Wendell Holmes and Willa Cather, and early nineteenth century British publications including the Poems of Robert Burns, and a book on prayer with an intriguing owner’s signature.

Printing Catalog, July 2025

Printing Catalog, July 2025

Wayside Books presents a catalog for a collection of books about printing history, processes, and methods dating from 1902 to 1964. Included are catalogs for linotype printing, and books on engraving and intertype faces.

Fall 2024

Fall 2024

Wayside Books is offering an eclectic collection of books that include two signed astronaut books, American classics from Erskine Caldwell, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Larry McMurtry, John Steinbeck, and John Updike; three books about the world of rare books; and several other curious titles, some signed by the author. 

Socialist, Communist, Utopian, Anarchist, Radical, and Free-Thought Literature

Socialist, Communist, Utopian, Anarchist, Radical, and Free-Thought Literature

Wayside Books is offering a selection of literature focusing on socialism, communism, anarchy and radicalism, free-thought, and utopian themes. Included is a book on the Brook Farm Experiment of the 1840s; a book on three Tennessee 19th century utopian communities; books by Frederick Engels and Meridel Le Sueur, and a rare pamphlet on Japanese socialism.

Interesting Places and Open Spaces

Interesting Places and Open Spaces

Just in time for the summer travel season, a collection of historical and travel documents pertaining mostly to the American Southwest and Mexico.