Collection of approximately 270 total pieces of mostly hand-drawn ink and/or pencil tattoo flash designs on tracing paper, some hand-colored as well, with some carbon transfers, compiled and most likely drawn by an artist named Patrick Ford from the Ozarks region of Missouri. Some wrinkling or folding to many pieces..... More
Prague: Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion Prag, [1916 or 1917]. Large quarto (33 × 24 cm). Attractively bound in recent gray boards; [1], 198 leaves of text to rectos only. Pink rubber stamp “Vertraulich” (“Confidential”) to first leaf. Introductory text followed by German-language wanted briefs and photographs. Very good. This..... More
Thirty-three issues total of the rare WWII Allied Forces informational and propaganda weekly journal, issued by the British Information Ministry in agreement with Soviet authorities, first in Kuybyshev (now known as Samara) and then in Moscow beginning in July 1943, containing information for Soviet citizens about British life, culture, and..... More
A first-hand account of the significant fight on Culp's Hill from the Battle of Gettysburg, unsigned but likely written by Captain C.P. Horton, Assistant Adjutant-General of the 149th New York Volunteers, being a 7-page handwritten letter in which Horton describes the events of the battle; sold together with a large..... More
Group of 1960's-1980's mostly political buttons, approximately 120 total, a few duplicates, grouped on a hanging piece of woven green cloth, representing a wide range of groups and causes affiliated with gay rights, women's rights, US/Cuba Friendshipment, the war in the Middle East, abortion rights, pacifism, civil unrest in Latin..... More
Archive of original KKK ephemera and memorabilia, approximately 40 pieces total, including: four issues of "Fiery Cross: Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Freedom", printed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the 1970s; three copies of the flyer "The Fiery Cross Bulletin: An Introduction to the United Klans of America, Inc./Knights of..... More
Original walnut and glass case housing two separate mechanical moving scrolls, each one 30 ft. in length and printed with a continuously joined chromolithographic panorama of the coastline from Providence to Block Island, RI and back again. The first one presenting the Eastern Shore starting at Fox Point in Providence..... More
1899. A complete run in 4 vols., containing altogether many hundreds of pages, of the monthly serial devoted to Spanish and international art, literature, and general culture, edited by Hermenegildo Miralles, Ezequiel Boixet, Francisco Miquel y Badia, and Josep Pasco, including the fiction and poetry of Picon, Pereda, Altamira and..... More
A scarce complete run in 8 issues of the short-lived Dutch Provo mimeographed magazine, with contributions from Duco van Weerlee, Rob Stolk, Hans Tuynman, Peter Bronkhorst, Th. Holterman, Jan de Leeuw, Louis van Abcoude, and Nico van Apeldoorn, three of the issues each devoted to a single topic including a...... More
7 volumes, each volume approx. 500-800 pp., being the complete run, with accompanying indices and supplements, of the renowned Art Nouveau periodical, directed by Alexandre de Riquer and Lluis Via and published under the auspices of the "Unio Catalanista", with critical, literary, artistic, and scientific contributions by many of the..... More
66 total issues bound in 7 volumes of the luxurious 1930s medical journal, "revue mensuelle réservée au corps médical". produced by the Debat pharmaceutical laboratories under the direction of Dr. François Debat, first called "La Revue du Médecin" before the title changed to "Art et Médecine", important particularly for its..... More
The first ten years, housed in 15 volumes (lacking 1905 volume I and 1907 volume I), of the French illustrated sports and leisure journal, under the editorial direction of Pierre Lafitte, composed primarily of photomontages and photo essays with captions and other small amounts of text, with occasional drawings and..... More
Album of 48 original photographs depicting sights around the city of Guatemala, predominantly architectural, some photographs with hand-written captions or captioned within the plate, views include the Catedral Metropolitana, National Theater, Templo de la Recolección, Plaza de Armas, Gran Hotel, Calle de la Libertad, Calle del Mercado, Iglesia de San..... More
Paris: Izdanie Tsentral’nogo Komiteta (A. Gnatovskii), 1909. Octavo (20.7 × 14.5 cm). Original orange printed wrappers; 484 pp. In later red cloth portfolio, with gilt title to front board. Wrappers somewhat discolored; tear to first leaf; else very good. First edition of speeches and other proceedings from the Congress, which..... More
A complete run of 6 issues in 4 volumes of the short-lived Estonian avant-garde literary and cultural journal, under the editorial direction of Bernhard Linde (nos. 1 and 2) and August Alle (nos. 3/4 and 5/6), inspired by Henry Barbusse, along with the French journal "Clarté" and the leftist, pacifist..... More
![Nuevo Film [New Film], no. 1 (1967) through no. 4 (1969) (all published](/pictures/thumb/48645_001.jpg?v=1580326696)
A complete run in four issues (151, 203, 147, 135) of the Uruguayan film journal, under the editorial direction of Luis Elbert and A. Sanjurjo Toucon, containing essays and interviews on topics including the history of color film, Fellini, the directorial style of Richard Lester, Uruguayan film, the future of..... More
50 mimeographed pages total containing the stapled minutes of five meetings held by the Surrealists in Paris, the minutes taken variously by Yves Battistini, Édouard Jaguer, Lucien Justet, and Christian Dotremont, together with some single-page typed letters from the same time period. 4to., with original printed cover titled “Comptes rendus..... More
A rare complete run (issue no. 23 actually a double issue, 22/23) of the Italian counterculture journal, founded in 1970 by a group of intellectuals and artists, including Andrea Valcarenghi, edited at times by Valcarenghi, Guido Vivi, and Marina Valcarenghi, most issues approx. 16-24 pp., covering topics related to underground..... More
A complete run in 10 volumes of the avant-garde Dutch-language series devoted to the history of early modern film, each volume focused on an individual topic and by a different author, the series edited overall by C.J. Graadt van Roggen, with topics including film in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Russia..... More
Two parts in one volume, 433 and 365 pp., regarding the construction of the Stevens Hotel and the Stevens Hotel Service Building, including "specifications for the materials and labor for the...Work required in the erection and completion of a 25-story, basement and sub-basement fireproof hotel building, located on Michigan Boulevard..... More
![Trn: Humoristický Občasník [The Thorn: A Humorous Periodical]. Vol. I, No. 1 (1966) through...](/pictures/thumb/48768_001.jpg?v=1580326727)
A complete run in 6 issues, each issue 32-48 pp., of the provocative satirical 60's Czech journal under the editorial direction of Jan Jirasek, published during the brief period of political liberalization leading up to the Prague Spring of 1968, with political satire, erotic and literary humor, and innovative typographic..... More
A complete run of the Scandinavian avant-garde art and literature journal, housed together in continuously paginated 128 pp. volume, (each issue approx. 16 pp.), published in both Finnish and Swedish, under the editorial direction of Lauri Haarla, Haggar Olsson, and Raoul af Hällström, containing essays on literature, music, theater, and..... More
1915. A complete run of the first and second series of the Catalan art journal under the editorial direction of Santiago Segura i Burguess, bound in 7 volumes, including the two undated supplements "Biblioteca de Arte 'Vell i Nou'" Vol. III and IV, of the variously paginated (altogether over 2000..... More
Tallinn: ["Aktsiooni" Kirjastus], 1927-1933. Octavos (16.3 x 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Peet Aren, Märt Laarman and Jaan Vahtra; 28, [4]; 60, [4]; and 63, [I] pp. Very good or better. Antson (1899-1945) was an Estonian teacher, journalist, and writer who participated in the "Aktsioon" ("Action") literary group and..... More
1957. 4 vols.: Venetian School. 2 vols., XIV, 206 pp. text, 46 pp. topographical index, 1336 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color); and Florentine School. 2 vols., XIV, 222 pp. text, 39 pp. topographical index, 1480 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth. London/New York (Phaidon)..... More