Prague: Odeon, 1929. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 103 pp. About very good; very gentle crease to front wrapper. Uncommon anthology gathering translations of poems by Conrad Aiken, T. E. Hulme, Langston Hughes, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara..... More
Berkeley, California: Last Gasp, 1978-1987. Issue no. 1 a third-edition reprint from 1988. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Original colorful illustrated side-stapled wrappers. Issues unpaginated: 32, 32, 46, and 40 pages. Overall fine condition. A complete run in four issues of the underground comic, edited by American author, underground cartoonist, and..... 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
Collection of 73 flyers documenting assorted performances from the influential Texas hardcore punk band, Big Boys, the performances taking place mainly within Texas but also with some flyer examples from out-of-state shows in California and Washington D.C., for concerts where the Big Boys headlined, played with, or opened for other..... More
Unpaginated (23 pp.) catalogue for the group exhibition held at Artists Space from January 7 through 22, 1977, with an auction on January 22, directed by Helene Winer, coordinated by Patrick O'Connell, and auctioneered by David Reddon, with more than 60 artists participating including John Ahearn, Diane Bertolo, Charles Clough..... More
6-page typed and mimeographed bulletin printed on board the USS General A.W. Brewster, titled "Welcome Aboard" and intended to introduce new crew members to life on the ship, with information such as the day's schedule including meal times, inspections, and recreational activities, opening hours for the ship's barber shop 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
A collection of approx. 65 pamphlets, mostly religious in nature though peppered with some secular tracts, most published in the United States in the first half of the 19th century but with a few before and after, including a wealth of sermons relating to the nature and practice of religion..... 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
Small group of seven flyers from the late 1970s and 1980s, advertising various cowboy-themed nights at bars and clubs in San Francisco, including: "Desperados Cowboy Night", offering a cash prize for "Worst Cowgirl Drag"; "J&Ds Chuckwagon" at The Stables; "Areno Rodeo Bar-B-Q" at the Arena; live Country & Western Sundays..... 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
Small group of papers and documents affiliated with the USS General W.G. Haan, a WWII-era Navy transport ship, likely collected by a serviceman, including: three single-sheet issues of the on-board ship bulletin "Haan Our Way - Frisco Bound", from a voyage in early December 1946 returning troops to San Francisco..... More
SS Marine Devil: self-published, 1947. Quartos (32 × 25.5 to 40 × 27.5 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; ca. 4–6 pp. per issue of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Some toning and creasing; scattered ink annotations; overall very good. Significant run of this newsletter published on board the SS Marine..... 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
[np, circa 1930]. Twelve postal envelopes measuring 9.2 x 16.5 cm each. Loose as issued. Very light occasional dust-staining, very good condition. This collection of twelve unused satirical postal covers comprise a complete series titled "Jury Report on Prohibition". Each envelope contains a caricature of a juror (eleven men and..... More
Single 6-pp. souvenir edition of the newsletter printed aboard the USS General George O. Squier during its voyage of December 1945 and January 1946, transporting troops home from World War II, containing a letter to the troops about their return home and re-acclimating to life in the United States, the..... More
A significant group of approximately 113 unique flyers (including a few variants) from the mid-1980s punk scene in the California Bay Area, all collected by a single person, photomechanicaly produced on various colors of paper stock. Various sizes, most 11" x 8.5". Overall very good condition, minor edgewear, a few..... 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
Unpaginated (16 pp.) guide containing a total of 16 elevation maps, including maps showing trails along routes between cities such as St. Louis, Greenville, Effingham, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Richmond, Dayton, Columbus, Zanesville, Wheeling, Uniontown, Cumberland, Hagerstown, and Baltimore, showing landmarks, summits, hotels, garages, gas stations, tourist camp grounds, and other..... More
Collection of original photographs and related ephemera chronicling the vaudeville and circus career of "The Darings" and, later, "Jim Daring's Chimps", comprised of 77 original photographs, 8 photo postcards, and 6 additional pieces of assorted ephemera including flyers for the RKO Palace in New York and the former Rocky Point..... More
Single issue of the newsletter printed on board the S.S. Bardstown Victory, approximately 14 pages of typed and mimeographed text, including a list of the newsletter's staff, a letter in appreciation to the readers and to the crew of the ship, the ship's roster, a message from the Captain of..... More
Three issues of the newsletter distributed on board the S.S. Marine Serpent during its 5th voyage, the first two issues each a double-sided typed and mimeographed page, containing news stories, sports scores and news items, information on movies shown on board, voyage statistics, and maps, the third issue being the..... More
Altogether 23 issues, each circa 19 pp., of the rare postwar German film magazine documenting the lives and work of German and American film actors, each issue including profiles of actors such as Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Orson Wells, Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, Marlon Brando, and Marilyn Monroe..... 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
A single 4-pp. issue of the newsletter distributed on board the SS Zanesville Victory, printed early on in its fourth voyage returning troops home from Europe, this one from Antwerp to New York, containing an article on atom bom testing, chaplain's notices, information on separation centers, a message from the..... More