Collection of 27 mimeographed documents from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center dating from January 1, 1944 to October 17, 1945, spanning most of the time of the camp's operation and comprised mostly of Community Council meeting minutes, together with notes from the first session of the Study Committee for the..... More
[Tallinn: self-published, 1989]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; xerox-reproduced reduced typescript; 14 pp. Very good. An important, anonymously published brochure which summarizes the results of the first meeting of the Baltic Assembly on May 13-14, 1989 in Tallinn, a key step in the independence movement of the..... 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
A significant run of 60 issues (unknown how many total were published, possibly 64) of the bulletin put out by the Propaganda Commission of the Generalitat de Catalunya and targeted at Catalonians not currently in the country, likely exiles, with the goal of keeping the exiled citizens informed about what..... More
A beautiful group of 16 examples of early to mid-20th century American sheet music, most 4-8 pp., the covers noteworthy for their bright and colorful patriotic imagery, including Uncle Sam, military figures, war scenes, the Statue of Liberty, and women wearing flags, by a wide range of composers. Some minor..... More
A beautiful and sizable group of approximately 65 examples of World War I-era American sheet music, most 4 pp., the covers noteworthy for their bright and colorful patriotic imagery, including military figures and soldiers, Uncle Sam, stylish women with soldier suitors, images from war bond posters, nurses, flags, Allied powers..... More
A complete run in seven fascicules of the Argentinian cultural and political journal, edited by Luis Aznar and Guillermo Korn, born out of the socialist branch of the Reforma Universitaria, each issue with a specific focus topic and subtitle, celebrating the Reformation as a political-cultural and socialist movement, each issue..... More
Interesting group of 40 gelatin silver prints taken on behalf of the Farm Security Administration and the Resettlement Administration, primarily depicting the resettlement of poor farmers, including six photographs by Dorothea Lange, twelve by Arthur Rothstein, six by Russell Lee, six by John Vachon, one by Carl Mydans, and a...... More
Various places, mostly Buffalo, NY, ca. 1861–1862. Most approximately 3 x 5-1/2 inches or 2-5/8 x 4-7/8 inches each. Loose as issued, housed in new album. Very good; generally minimal wear; some with light toning, foxing, or soiling; a few with very minor tears. Group of 183 unused patriotic Civil..... 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
Unpaginated (circa 220 pp.) text documenting the life of the Soviet leader, including images of numerous letters and articles written by the leader accompanied by translations into English, the work is a remarkable example of political hagiography, featuring images from the moment of his birth through to his death, heavily..... More
A collection of 58 non-consecutive issues of the newsletter put out by the Safety Department of the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Co. (M.W.A.K.) for its workers, together with a single bonus unnumbered newsletter, edited by Pete Shrauger, most issues approx. 6-12 pp. and printed on various colors of paper, with information including notices..... More
Warsaw: Paṅstwowe Wydawnictwo Literatury Politycznej, 1945. Octavo (20.3 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 50, [1] pp. Very good; small owner signature to title. Early volume documenting the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The book was published shortly after the end of WWII in May 1945. Aside from numerous..... More
[Warsaw]: Wydawnictwo Oddzialu Propagandy Gl. Zarzadu Polityczno-Wychowawczego Wojska Polskiego, 1945. Octavo. Original side-stapled photo-illustrated wrappers; 29, [3] pp. Very good or better. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, volume documenting the Warsaw Uprising (August 1–October 2, 1944), the largest armed resistance campaign carried out during WWII and a...... More
A complete run in 42 issues of the scarce French news and sound journal published with the assistance of the radio station Europe No 1 and edited by Cl. Claude-Maxe, Ithier de Roquemaurel, and Jean-Pierre Castel, each issue comprised of six record-style sound sheets related to the news, culture, and..... 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
5 (of a total of 8) issues, continuously paginated 13-48 and 73-96 pp., of the special newspaper documenting the life and Communist exploits of Tamara Bunke, better known as Tania the Guerrilla, an Argentine-born East German communist revolutionary and spy who joined the Cuban Revolution and fought under Che Guevara..... More
A scarce May 25, 1970, special edition of the Cuban newspaper Granma, the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party, 48 pp., chronicling the history of American aggression towards Cuba following the Cuban Revolution and the start of Communist rule in 1959, including coverage of the perceived and actual transgressions..... More
Tbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1930. Octavo (17.6 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed "O. Bur" in Cyrillic); 278, [3] pp. Wrappers professionally restored preserving part of spine strip; light overall wear; stain to front wrapper; internally very good. First and only edition of the Georgian translation of Henri Barbusse's account of..... More
8 vols. bound in 4. XVIII, 328, XII, 411, XII, 372, VII, 386, XVI, 393, XII, 459, XX, 452, XX, 412, 180 pp. text summarizing almost nine thousand pieces of source material for the study of 17th century France, including documents from an astonishingly wide variety of sources, indices. 8vo..... More
XVI, 438 pp. treatise on the life, works and miracles of St. Francis, the history of his order and treatment of St. Francis in art, introduction by Pope Leo XIII, bibliographic notes, profusely illustrated, 35 plates. Lg. 4to. Boards. Paris (E. Plon, Nourrit) 1885. More
Unpaginated (circa 110 pp.) English translation of the French philosophical text by the Marxist theorist in which he postulates that modern life has become a series of representations, with the result that life is no longer being directly experienced, heavily illustrated throughout with reproductions of paintings and photographs used to..... More
2 vols., 654 pp. text on the ideas and works of the Humanist theologian, including discussion of his supporters, collaborators and illustrators, bibliography, index, profusely illustrated (many portraits). 8vo. Boards, slipcase. Cologne (Wienand) 1967. More
43 pp. volume containing ten total colored plates of Napoleonic paper dolls, with accompanying descriptive text by Aristide Fabre, the ten plates depicting Napoleon Bonaparte as military general; Napoleon in ceremonial robes; Napoleon's hunting costume and frock coat; Empress Josephine in ceremonial costume and dressed to go to town; the..... More