Los Angeles: Saladin Productions, 1971. Unbound. 34 ½ by 22 ½ inches. Psychedelic blacklight poster featuring a woman with long flowing hair with a combination of hippie, drug influenced themes with Medieval imagery. By Joe Petagno, an artist known for his psychedelic album covers, including some for Motorhead, Led Zeppelin..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1870. Cloth. Reddish brown cloth. 143 pp. With eight black and white illustrations, all present as called for. A collection of poetry for children, including the Fairy and the Waterfall, the Little Mermaid, etc. GOOD condition. Heavy fading, mostly to the spine and hinges. Minor..... More
New York, Paris: The Paris Review, 1971. Wraps. Wraps. 191 pp, plus ads. Single issue of this long-running literary journal or little magazine, with poetry by Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Tom Clark and others, as well as "The Art of Poetry XIV," by Pablo Neruda. GOOD condition. Minor fading. Minor..... More
Washington, DC: Off Our Backs, Publisher, 1982. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid newspaper format. 40 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. A single issue of this newspaper devoted to issues affecting women in the United States and worldwide. Founded in 1970, the journal published until 2008, providing a voice to feminist..... More
No Place: No Publisher. Unbound. I'm Black and Proud. No publisher or date. Faint union slug imprinted on the reverse of the pinback. Approximately 1 ¼ inches in diameter. Stickpin style back. Black background with yellow letters. Presumed circa late 1960s to mid 1970s. Black pride/power related pinback. VERY GOOD..... More
No Place: No Publisher. Unbound. Black Power. No printer, place or date. Union slug and name of printing company is printed on the curl, but most of the name of printer is obscured although it appears to be five initials, beginning OB and last initial being a T. 1 7/16..... More
Leipzig: Verlag Von F.C.W. Vogel, 1881. Wraps. Printed wraps. 74 pp., plus ads. All text in German. A lecture on hypnotism (or animal magnetism) and its use in medicine as a cure, focusing on psychological effects, with some consideration of the work in hypnotism and hypnotherapy of Scottish surgeon James..... More
New York: Stitt Publishing Company, 1905. Cloth. Light green illustrated cloth. 249 pp. Part of an adventure series for a juvenile audience, this one finds the Rover Boys in the mining district of Colorado hunting a lost treasure. GOOD condition. Spine toned and faded. Minor fading and soiling to the..... More
Baltimore, MD: Spark, Publisher, 1972. Unbound. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Legal sized yellow paper stock. With a few illustrations. A newsletter issued by workers at the Londontown mill in Baltimore, issued to discuss issues facing workers at the various mills associated with Londontown. The company is perhaps best..... More
Boston: Albert Colby and Company, 1861. Cloth. Red cloth. 426 pp. Later printing, under a different title, of the collection of stories first published as "Forest and Shore; or, Legends of the Pine-Tree State." Contains seven stories of historical fiction recalling life in Maine and on the ocean. GOOD condition..... More
No Place: No publisher. Pamphlet. No publisher, place or date. Presumed US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 1890. Pamphlet, disbound from a larger volume. No wrappers present. 26 pp., plus 18 maps. An account of the various treaties, negotiations and broken treaties involving the Native American Chickasaw and Choctaw lands..... More
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1992. Pamphlet. Brochure style pamphlet. 22 pp. A study of institutionalized racism, tracing its origins in slavery and the slave trade, in which religious and pseudo-scientific rationales were used to justify the practice, which in turn established the idea of white supremacy in institutions. With..... More
Berkeley, CA: Red Mountain Tribe, Publisher, 1971. Tabloid. Tabloid format. 20 pp. Illustrations and photos throughout. A single issue of this radical, counterculture underground newspaper from Berkeley, California, formed after a split with the Berkeley Barb over labor issues. The Tribe embraced more radical and left-wing causes. This issue with..... More
Tuskaloosa (Tuscaloosa), AL: Bland Communications Cooperative, Publisher, 1971. Wraps. no date, 1971. Side folding tabloid newspaper format. 20 pp. Black and white photos, illustrations and comics throughout. Single issue of this underground newspaper from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with counterculture, anti-establishment and anti-Vietnam War content, as well as underground comix style pieces..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1981. Wraps. Color illustrated wraps. 287 pp. Color photographs throughout. A critical work on the emergence of color photography in the contemporary art scene of the 1960s and 70s, discussing aesthetics and problems associated with the medium, as well as addressing detractors of the form. With..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Publisher, 1967. Wraps. Wraps. Unpaginated. Black and white photos of sculpture, as well as black and white and a few color reproductions of paintings, throughout. A catalog to a 1967-68 exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Rico Lebrun, an Italian born..... More
Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 9748496384. 224 pages. With a few black and white illustrations and a fold out map in the rear. Written in the late 1890's, Lefevre chronicled the various tribes in present day Laos and Vietnam, many previously unvisited by white men..... More
Erie, PA: Hammermill Paper Company, Publisher. Wraps. no date, perhaps 1970s. Wraps, being oblong folio in size. When opened, the left side folds down to reveal a printed broadside ad for a circus. The other side depict a woman on an elephant, viewed through partly opened tent flaps. This folds..... More
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991. Cloth. Black cloth in unclipped jacket. Folio. 333 pp. Color reproductions of paintings throughout. A work published to coincide with a retrospective exhibition of American abstract artist Stuart Davis. Critical essays throughout. GOOD jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Some toning to..... More
No Place: No publisher. Unbound. Presumed circa 1916-1920s. Thin die cut cardboard in the shape of an ambulance, with Cupid driving. A lift up flap reveals a wounded soldier handing a valentine to a nurse, along with the text, "It's leap year." Blank reverse with a handwritten inscription "To Harold..... More
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. Brown cloth in price-clipped dust jacket. 274 pp. ISBN: 0874511232. Primarily a photo history of the Piscataqua River area in New Hampshire/Maine. The author, a professional photographer, gathered many photos from 1855 to 1920 that chronicled the..... More
Warren, OH: Machine Cancel Society, Publisher, 2000. Wraps. Side stapled blue wraps. 16 pp. Photocopied examples of flag cancels throughout. A monograph on Boston flag cancellations used by the US Post Office, the first machine cancellations used, preceded by fancy cancellations that sometimes incorporated flags into their designs. Originally written..... More
Portland: The Hound and Horn, Inc, 1929. Wraps. Wraps. Front cover illustrated by Rockwell Kent. A little magazine, originally focusing on Harvard related authors, but evolving by 1930 to a more general, Modernist scope. Hoffman states that it is "in a sense a 'continuation of The Dial,'" (Hoffman p. 285)..... More
Bristol, VT: Terry Harper, Publisher. 1986. Wraps. Illustrated card stock wraps. 16 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. A reprint of an 1865 article in Harper's Magazine that chronicled oil field activity in the area of Vendango County, Pennsylvania, including illustrations. NEAR FINE condition. Very light edgewear. More
London: Horizon, Publisher, 1948. Wraps. Printed wraps. With a few reproductions of drawings by Van Gogh. Single issue of this long running magazine devoted to current trends in literature and art. This with "Sin," by Betrand Russell; "Memories of Franz Kafka," by J.P. Hodin; "Van Gogh, the Suicide Provoked by..... More