Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc, 1972. Wraps. Wraps. Unpaginated. Black and white and a few color photos throughout. A catalog for a 1972 exhibition of photography held by MIT. Many photos portray subtle religious/prayer poses, with many landscape photos as well. Includes work by Ansel Adams, Jerry Uelsmann, Paul Strand, Edward... More
Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 1999. Cloth. Gray cloth in unclipped jacket. 303 pp. Color reproductions of paintings throughout. A work issued to coincide with an exhibition gathering together work held in the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, offering an historical and critical survey of the important role Dresden... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1838. First Edition. Cloth. Brown cloth with subtle raised floral patterning. Xi, 276 pp. Provenance: signed by noted abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison on the first endpaper, dated August 5, 1841, and including a handwritten inscription to a Lydia W. Russell. A work advocating a vegetarian... More
New York: Seven Gables Bookshop/printed at the Spiral Press, 1950. First Edition. Wraps. First Edition. Wraps. One of 500 copies. 8pp. A facsimile of a brief letter written by John Bannister Tabb to Frederick M. Hopkins, mentioning "the spell of Emily Dickinson." This is a page and a half letter... More
No Place: No Publisher. Wraps. No publisher, place or date. Perhaps published by the author in Coventry, Connecticut. No date. Cream illustrated wraps. 44 pp. A few illustrations throughout. SIGNED by Adelma Grenier Simmons. A piece discussing various geraniums and a variety of flowering plants and herbs, focusing primarilu on... More
Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co, 1837. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, lacking any wraps issued. Perhaps disbound from a larger work. 16 pp. A piece reinforcing gender stereotypes, being a reactionary attack on women participating in the abolitionist movement, as well as those seeking to gain equal rights for women. Hubbard asserts that... More
Iowa City, IA: The Lamp in the Spine, Publisher, 1971. Wraps. Wraps. 96 pp. Single issue of this little magazine containing poetry and prose. This includes work by Vachel Lindsay, Wendy Salinger, James Moore and others. VERY GOOD condition. Minor uneven fading. Light bumping and wrinkling along the extremities. More
San Francisco: Performing Arts Social Society, Publisher, 1980. Wraps. Side stapled newsprint wraps, illustrated. 48 pp. Photos, illustrations and ads throughout. An issue of this newspaper/journal produced by the Kerista Commune, a utopian commune that originated in New York and combined a practice of poly-fidelity with counterculture and pop-psychology in... More
Cambridge, MA: The Houghton Library, 1981. Wraps. Cream colored wraps. Unpaginated. Black and white photos throughout. An annotated catalog to watermarked paper collected by engraver and printer James McBey, providing details on various papers made in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. VERY GOOD condition. Minor soiling and... More
Paris: Bertrand Duplessis, Publisher, 1978. Wraps. Illustrated wraps with French flaps. Unpaginated. Black and white photos of sculptures throughout, with a color print laid inside the rear flap, and brown line drawing at the centerfold. All text in French. A catalog of sculpture by Jacques Coquillay, a French sculptor and... More
![The Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rock Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, performed during the Years 1804-5-6[...] 2 Volumes. Slipcase. Meriwether Lewis, William Clark.](/pictures/thumb/013350.JPG?v=1547517041)
New York: Heritage Press, 1962. Hard Cover. Map illustrated paper covered boards with cloth spines, in orange slipcases. 545 pp., between the two volumes. Fold out map at the end of volume one. Heritage Press edition of this classic work recalling the explorations of Lewis and Clark through the American... More
Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1971. Wraps. Side stapled green wraps. Cover caligraph by Brion Gysin. 130 pp. A co-published issue of two little magazines, Intrepid and the Floating Bear, being the final issue of FLOATING BEAR. The Floating Bear was an influential little magazine at the forefront of the mimeo... More
Toronto: Toronto Anarchist League, Publisher, 1978. Unbound. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Printed on both sides. With a few small illustrations. A newsletter published by the Toronto Anarchist League, discussing events, conferences and publications. This includes brief discussion of a Women's Day March held on March 11, 1978... More
London: Dayglow, Publisher. Wraps. : no date, circa 1979. Bright pink and black side stapled wraps. 13 by 8 inches. 14 pp. Black and white clip art throughout. A fanzine out of London blending clip art with the usual sort of coverage of punk and new wave acts, as well... More
Roxbury, MA: Skunk Piss, Presumed Publisher, 1978. Unbound. Single sheet, printed on one side only. 14 by 8 ½ inches. Photomechanically reproduced portrait photos of various people, perhaps all associated with either the fanzine Skunk Piss, or with the punk and new wave scene in Boston, Massachusetts. This piece advertises... More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. Square quarto. Unpaginated. Black and white photos of sculpture and artwork throughout. A catalog to an exhibition of work by Lucas Samaras, accompanied by commentary by the artist throughout. Lucas Samaras is an artist who's worked in a variety... More
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1940. Hard Cover. Color illustrated cardboard covers. 424 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. A science fiction and fantasy adventure for a juvenile audience, following the exploits of Flash Gordon held prisoner by Ming the Merciless on Mongo. GOOD condition. General fading, scuffing and toning. Hinges... More
Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co, 1862. Wraps. Printed wraps. 27 pp. A libretto by Benjamin Edward Woolf for the Doctor of Alcantara, a comic opera that originated as a collaboration between composer Julius Eichberg and Woolf. States performed for the first time at the Boston Museum, April 7th, 1862. GOOD... More
Burlington, VT: Wm. H. Lawrence and Co., presumed Publisher. Unbound. no date, perhaps late 1800s, early 1900. Single sheet 14 5/8 by 9 ¼ inches. Pinkish/orange paper. An advertisement for Susan J. Lawrence's Wild Cherry Cough syrup, stating "Don't cough and hack your life away." Produced by William H. Lawrence... More
Washington: The Preservation Press, 1992. Cloth. Black cloth in unclipped jacket. Small, square folio. 240 pp. Color photos, black and white photos and illustrations throughout. A survey and history of the Regency house and design in England, and how it affected architectural design in the United States. This includes a.... More
No Place: No Publisher. Wraps. No publisher, place or date. Presumed Kuwait, circa 1968, based on OCLC records. Wraps. Oblong quarto. Approximately 40 pages. Black and white reproductions of paintings and sculpture throughout. A catalog to an exhibition of art by artists from Kuwait, with text in Arabic, English, French... More
Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2007. Cloth. #90 of 300 copies. Red cloth. No jacket. 146 pp. A work of genealogy documenting the American ancestry of Julia Hutchinson born in the 1800s in Connecticut and traces her ancestors in America back to 1624. VERY GOOD+ condition. Minor fading. More
New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898. Cloth. Red cloth. Small oblong format. Unpaginated. Black and white photos throughout. A photographic review and survey of the United States' actions and war against the Spanish in the Spanish-American War, including photos of US troops (and a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, among others... More
Bielefeld: Verlag von Velhagen und Klasing, 1908. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. Folio. All text in German. Single issue of this magazine devoted to book publishing and related arts, with articles related to early printing history. This includes a biography of Johann Peter Lysers, portraits in German handwritten work of the Middle... More
New York: Avant-Garde Media, Publisher, 1968. Wraps. Color illustrated wraps (front cover by Tom Wesselman). Unpaginated. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout, as well as a few color reproductions of paintings by Tom Wesselman. Single issue of this magazine, touching on a variety of subjects then considered a bit... More