Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards..... More
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 begining in July 1943, containing information for Soviet citizens about British life, culture, and..... More
A collection of approx. 72 pamphlets, mostly religious in nature though peppered with some secular tracts, most published in Great Britain in the18th century but with a few before and after, including a wealth of sermons relating to the nature and practice of religion, its place in civil society, and..... More
Photo album with approximately 94 mostly black-and-white photographs collected by a member of the Bay Area BDSM community in the late 1980s and early 1990s, pictures depict events including the Pride parade, a pageant with women in assorted bondage restraints, portraits, and candid shots, most with community members dressed in..... More
Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian..... More
Altogether 63 issues of 97 total published. [Moscow?], 1941–1944. Various sizes. Original photo-illustrated self-wrappers; most 4 pp. each. Paper size varied, some trimmed, most offset in various color halftones with red highlights, some scattered toning and creasing as expected, slight rubbing, minor scattered pencil and red pencil marks to a...... More
Color-illustrated poster, printed by the newspaper Libre Parole towards the end of the Dreyfus Affair, depicting in four rows of four illustrations each the most essential scenes from the story of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, told with an anti-Semitic and anti-Freemason slant, each cartoon with a lengthy caption underneath. Some mild..... More
A complete run of all 25 issues (bound in one volume, each issue approx. 24 pp.) of the short-lived cultural journal published in Barcelona shortly before the tumultuous era of the Spanish Civil War, featuring articles on cultural and social events, art, cinema, travel, sports, politics, fashion, etc., with contributions..... More
19th century lotto and checkers game comprised of: a folding lithographed gameboard with checkerboard center and printed rules in two flanking columns of text; 24 individual bingo-style lotto boards in four colored sets of six boards each, the blank spaces having been hand-colored; 19 black painted wooden checker-style discs and..... More
A complete run in 13 fasciscules - 12 numbered issues plus supplemental issue - of the short-lived official publication of the Oranje Vrijstaat Amsterdam, published by the Kabouter group, successors to the Dutch Provo movement, edited collaboratively by Roel van Duyn, Jan van Amerongen, Akke Blaauw, Toon Muller, Ewout van..... More
A complete run of the 1900 edition of the Catalan humor and literary journal bound in a single volume, each issue approx. 8 pp. and containing brief works of prose and poetry, together with the complete texts of the nine short comedic plays which appeared in serial format over the..... More
Late 19th century educational tool for teaching children the four basic rules of arithmetic, devised by Father Charier, former student of the École Supérieure et Industrielle de la ville de Metz, formed as two octagonal stiff cardboard disks joined at the center, the top disk divided into four sections, one..... More
![Le Parapluie. No. 1 (November 1970) through No. 13 (special vacances [1973]) (all published](/pictures/thumb/47763.jpg?v=1580326659)
A complete run of the irregularly published, eclectic Parisian underground music and counterculture monthly under the editorial direction of Henri-Jean Enu, consisting of thirteen issues (24 pp. each) plus the rare comix supplement (No. 1, February 1971), combining music journalism and radical politics with adventurous illustrations, comix, and written features..... More
A complete run in 22 issues of the newspaper which ran on a daily basis, in addition to the weekly Rouge, during the period of the 1974 Presidential elections, each issue 8 pp., edited by Daniel Bensaid, covering the election and related events. Illustrated profusely throughout from photographs and drawings..... More
24 of the 25 issues published of the short-lived Australian counterculture journal (a duplicate copy of Vol. I, No. 10 bound in place of Vol. II, No. 6), bound in a single volume, edited by Richard Neville and published by Richard Walsh, most issues 28 pp., containing articles and interviews..... More
![Neues Forum [New Forum]. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (all published](/pictures/thumb/P6180_1.jpg?v=1592502004)
[Berlin]: [Neues Forum], [1989]. A4, with xeroxed and otherwise reproduced typescript and computer-printed text to rectos; 12, 10, and 10 pp. Two issues with holes punched to left margin; else very good. Three issues, comprising a complete run, of this rare and influential GDR oppositional bulletin, published November 8, 31..... More
219 pp. late 18th century guidebook to ancient and modern Rome, divided into ten days of sightseeing in different geographical areas of the city, with information on the city's ancient and modern architecture, including churches, monasteries, colleges, temples, theaters, forums, palaces, statues, libraries, and works of art, illustrated with eight..... More
264 pp. official bulletin from the exposition inaugurated on May 16, 1896, under the editorial direction of Émile Deshays, containing information on the various facets of the exposition, including the different pavilions, events, and architects. Tables, indices. Illustrated profusely throughout from photographs and drawings, including thirty-five full-page plates. Some toning..... More
Three rare issues of the sometimes humorous internal newsletter from by Company 1905 of the Civilian Conservation Corps of California, dated January 24, July 25, and August 31, 1936, put out by the Camp Hawkins Bar outpost, containing camp and company news regarding programming, promotions, and projects, anecdotes on camp..... More
[Prague: Umělecko-Průmyslové Museum, OZKP, 1934]. Quarto (30.3 × 21.6 cm). Original tan portfolio with printed label affixed to front wrapper; inserted text part (12 pp) and 33 plates, including photo reproductions, original color and black and white lithographs, woodcuts, and heliographs by notable figures in the Polish art and avant-garde..... More
A complete run in 189 issues (lacking only 2 issues: Vol. I, No. 8 and Vol. II, No. 37) of the international Trotskyist political journal before its name changed to Intercontinental Press, under the editorial direction of Joseph Hansen, Pierre Frank, Livia Maitan, and George Novack, published under the auspices..... More
2 vols., 336, 326 pp. detailed scholarly catalogue of woodblock prints created in Girona, Spain, dating from the 17th through the 19th centuries, collected and used by, among others, the printing company Carreras, 880 illus. (some in color) throughout the text, incl. initials, motifs, symbols, borders, and vignettes, often of..... More
(lii), 186 pp. architectural treatise on the three Greek orders and other basic architectural and construction details such as windows and doors couched in a self-promotional work intended to present Antoine as an original architectural theorist, illustrating his treatise with the designs of his own projects, including the façade of..... More