Austin, TX: Metagaming, 1980. Unbound. Illustrated pink cardboard box with 47 page manual. 49 loose game pieces and a single die present. Presumably missing 2 counters. A role playing/adventure style game, being a sequel to the original Death Test. Adventurers try to pass the death test to join an army..... More
New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Publisher, 1968. Wraps. Printed wraps. A long running little magazine focusing on art, literature and politics, that during the 1950s and 60s, was supported by funds from the CIA through its front, The American Committee for Cultural Freedom. This issue with a discussion..... More
Chicago: Workers Congress (M-L), 1976. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid newspaper. 8 pp. With a few photos. A newspaper issued by the Workers Congress (M-L), an organization formed after a split with the Black Workers Congress, a split mostly due to party dogma. Several pages devoted to the life and work..... More
New York: Horizon Press, 1953. Cloth. Beige cloth in unclipped jacket. 326 pp. Black and white photos throughout. A collection of essays by Frank Lloyd Wright providing his theories and philosophies of architecture, most given as lectures in the late 1930s. Wright discusses cities and skyscrapers, the cardboard house, etc...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Cloth. Gray cloth. No jacket. 217 pp. Black and white illustrations by the author. A collection of short stories mythologizing and documenting the life of cowboys in the American West, drawing on the author's experiences. GOOD condition. Uneven toning and browning to the covers..... More
New York: The American Federation of Arts. Wraps. no date, presumed 1961. Illustrated wraps. Unpaginated. Black and white reproductions of paintings throughout. A catalog to a 1961-62 traveling exhibition of the art of American artist Marsden Hartley, with a short critical introduction to his work. GOOD condition. Ink note on..... More
Portland, ME: H.A. Manning Company, 1939. Cloth. Orange cloth covers printed with text. 504 pp. Fold out map at the rear. Black and white photo ads throughout. A directory for Biddeford, Saco and Old Orchard Beach Maine, including residents, businesses, institutions, churches, record of city governments, etc. GOOD condition. Covers..... More
Sturbridge, MA: Old Sturbridge, Inc, 1992. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. 143 pp. Black and white and a few color illustrations throughout. A work issued to coincide with an exhibition of portrait paintings of primarily New England residents, with essays looking at iconography, the importance of portrait painting to society, etc. With..... More
London: Punch, Publisher, 1895. Half-Leather. Half leather with marbled boards. 312 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bound volume of this long running British magazine devoted to humor and satire, especially known for its cartoons and caricatures. GOOD condition. Some scuffing and a few gouges/scrapes to the leather at the..... More
Jamaica, NY: Black Art, Ltd, 1977. Wraps. Color illustrated wraps. 68 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Single issue of this journal devoted to Black art and artists, with articles on artists such as Larry Walker, Fremez, Falania, Camille Billops and Chester Williams. From the collection of Zelma..... More
Los Angeles: Alliance for Survival, presumed Publisher, 1985. Unbound. no date, presumed 1985. Single sheet, offset printed. 8 ½ by 11 inches. A flier for a benefit concert presented by Youth for Peace and featuring the punk bands MIA, Wasted Youth, Entropy, Savage Republic, Just Because, The Iconoclast, Stukas Over..... More
Exeter, UK: No publisher, 1978. Wraps. Side stapled zine. Approximately 11 ¾ by 8 ¼ inches. 28 pp. Black and white photos and clip art throughout. Single issue of this zine from the Exeter region of England, absorbing two other earlier zines from the area, Catrap and Stranded. This particular..... More
Berkeley: American Civil Liberties Union Berkeley-Albany Chapter, Publisher. 1968. Wraps. Booklet, single stapled, 8 ½ by 11 inches. 44 leaves, printed on single sides only. A report by the Police Conduct Complaint Center, an organization formed by the Berkeley-Albany chapter of the ACLU in an effort to document police violence..... More
San Francisco: Student Strike Committee, Publisher, 1968. Unbound. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Printed on a single side only. Photomechanically reproduced. A flier announcing a solidarity demonstration, soliciting students from other Bay area campuses to support the demonstration at San Francisco State. This protest was to be held..... More
New York: Rolex Watch, USA, Publisher, 1974. Wraps. Printed wraps. Unpaginated, perhaps around 50 pp. Color photographs throughout. A work issued to coincide with an exhibition of watches, representing a range of watches from over a four hundred year period. This includes historical and explanatory commentary on the variety of..... More
New York: Strohmeyer and Wyman, 1898. Unbound. Thick card stock sheets, 7 by 3 ½ inches. Four stereoscope photographs depicting the following: "On the Deck of the US Monitor, 'Terror;'" "United States Cruiser 'Newark;'" "United States Battleship 'Maine,'" indicating it had been subsequently blown up; "Morning drill on the US..... More
New York: R.A.T. Publications, 1969. Tabloid. Side folding newspaper. Approximately 16 ½ by 11 ¼ inches. 20 pp., with black and white photos and illustrations throughout. An issue of this New York based newspaper founded in 1968, known for its coverage of far left organizations and causes and militant stance..... More
Whittier, CA: Flipside Magazine, 1983. Wraps. Side stapled photo illustrated wraps. 8 ½ by 11 inches. Black and white reproduced photos throughout. Flip Side was started in 1977 by Al Kowalewski, Larry Lash, Tory, Pooch, and X-8, a group of music fans who frequented The Masque in Hollywood, California. Used..... More
Philadelphia: Freedom Press, Inc, 1969. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid format newspaper, with a full front page photo of Malcolm X. 16 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Single issue of this underground newspaper embracing radical, left wing and socialist causes (with a Marxist-Leninist bent). The Temple Free Press originated at..... More
No Place: No publisher. Unbound. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. A flier highlighting events being held in celebration of the people of Berkeley gaining the right to assemble on Telegraph Avenue. The piece lists a program of events including a performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe Gorilla..... More
No Place: No publisher. Unbound. No publisher, place or date. Perhaps Berkeley, CA, 1968. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Perhaps printed using a spirit duplicator. A flier urging protestors to not provoke police and others, requesting that "we prevent window breaking and rock throwing. A Confrontation at this..... More
Portsmouth, NH: Harp Seal Productions/Joshua Norton, Publisher, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. First edition. Photo illustrated wraps. 16 pp. Black and white photos throughout. A monograph of the photography of Philip Scalia, presenting work depicting derelict and aging mills, factories, houses, cars and people. GOOD condition. Faint foxing and toning to..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford SDS. Wraps. no date, presumed late 1960s. Illustrated wraps. Unpaginated. With a few illustrations. Written by the Stanford University chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the work contrasts the mainstream liberal student's perspective of Stanford with the reality experienced by members of the SDS..... More
No Place: No publisher. Wraps. No publisher, place or date. Perhaps circa 1792 based on OCLC records. Side sewn wraps. 16 pp. All text in German. An apparent piece of German satire, perhaps using a character of a braggart soldier (conjecture based on the mention of war several times throughout..... More
New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1962. Cloth. Red cloth. No jacket.75 pp. A facsimile reprint of the 1869 original, being a bibliography of works relating to Hawaii and its inhabitants. Preceded by a short history. VERY GOOD condition. Minor scuffing and soiling to the covers. More