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[1939 New York World's Fair / Washington, D.C. Photo Album]
[1939-1940]. Oblong string-tied photo album, 7 x 10 inches approx. Brown textured gilt-stamped boards with minor edgewear. Contains 23 black paper leaves with black and white photos mounted recto only for the first 13 leaves; recto and verso for the last ten. Captions in white ink leave occasional traces on.....
BUXOM BELLES: The Magazine for Artists and Photographers - Special Edition
New York: Delmar Publishing, nd [ca. 1960]. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Old price stamped to front cover. Mild rubbing, edgewear. a couple of pages creased at the corners. Else sound. [32]pp. "36 Art Poses." All B&W and full-page. Most arty studio semi-nudes.
[DAVID BOWIE PHOTO ARCHIVE]
[London, etc.]: [ca. 1963-1991]. 52 original black and white photographs, of which six are 8'' x 6'' and the rest 8'' by 10''. Agency stamps on verso; some photos also include dates and/or photographers' names in ink on verso. Minimal wear; a very few photos show a faint corner crease.....
E.G. COMMUNIQUE / E.G. Newsletter [Vol. 1, Issues 1, 2, 3]
New York: EG Records, Inc., 1979, 1980. First Edition. Wraps. 4tos. Stapled wraps. Three issues. Minor edgewear, with some faint spotting to front cover of Issue 2 only. Very good plus overall. First three issues of the E.G. Records Newsletter, founded to promote the label's artists following the January '79.....
FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: A History of the Shiloh Baptist Church 1863-1988
Washington DC: n.p., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's boards with gilt and blind titles. Gift inscription at ffep. Minor toning to edges of text block, else clean and bright. Near fine. An illustrated history of the historically black church, including many photographs, historical documents and drawings.
INSIDE STORY June 1958
New York: JB Publishing, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Staplebound in wraps. Some light edgewear and rubbing. Interior toned but clean. Very good overall. June 1958 edition of this bi-monthly gossip magazine. Amongst celebritiy scandals and pop culture news is an account by a doctor Louis Maraventano describing in great.....
MONDAY SPRING 1975
New York: Monday, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled mimeo. Wraps Dampstained along spine with touches of shelfwear. Interior bright. Good. Printed at the Poetry Project. Mimeo mag featuring work from Michael Sappol, Yuki Hartman, Larry Hayes, John Neely and others.
THE NABISCO SHOWCASE
[East Hanover, NJ]: [National Biscuit Company], [circa 1965]. Ring_bound. 4to. Red ring binder with raised white lettering and logo on front cover. Plastic sleeves contain 167 individual product cards, three snapshots, and 4pp. of additional printed advertising material. Binder exterior worn, with light soil. Contents clean and bright with the.....
SHELTER NOW April 1971
London and Edinburgh: National Campaign for the Homeless and Scottish Campaign for the Homeless, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Self wraps. Some minor rubbing and edge-wear. Very slight foxing at lower portion of front wrap. Ex-library, with stamp at front, first page and a cataloging slip stapled to wrap. Interior.....
Life in a Man-of-War or Scenes in 'Old Ironsides' During Her Cruise in the Pacific
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First edition. Hard Cover. Large 8vo. A good, sound copy; worn at edges. Rubbing to spine. Starting at front hinge. From a limited edition of 785, this being no. 174. 288pp.
THE BACKCOUNTRY HANDBOOK: An Illustrated Guide to the Techniques and Joys of the Wilderness Experience by the Editors of Mother Earth News
New York: Fireside / Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Very good in like jacket. Jacket lightly toned at edges, mild edgewear. Book bumped at a couple corners. Clean and sound overall. First edition of this guide to the outdoors and a rather uncommon Abbey item. 191pp. with.....
THE SHUDDERS: A Thatcher Colt Police Mystery
New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, (1943). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly toned with some edgewear including some creasing around spine. Faint touches of dampstaining along bottom edge of rear panel. Price-clipped. Foxing and dampstaining to cloth. Interior generally bright and clean.....
12 SHOT: A Photopoem
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled in pink wraps. sunning at spine and along top edge of rear wrap. Interior bright and clean. Very good. Number 172 of 500. Short verse accompanied by photographs of a car.
VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY: DIVINE HERITAGE OF MAN
New York: Vedanta Society, (1903). Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth. Very good. Minor shelf wear/soil. Name and date to front pastedown. Else clean and sound throughout. Scarce second edition. 215pp. plus ads.
1937 ACADEMY PLAYERS DIRECTORY BULLETIN: Special Edition
(Beverly Hills): (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), (1981). Revised. Wraps. 4to. Pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Mild edgewear, sunning. Bright, clean, tight throughout. 248pp. A reproduction of the 1937 directory of Hollywood actors' headshots, phone numbers, and studio information. Includes introduction and preface.
[Archive of] NEW YORK CITY IN 1979: to Jeanne’s insulted beauty
[New York]: [Various], [1979-1991]. Photocopy of typescript with one page original typescript bearing top-copy typed corrections and holograph number, that page taped to verso of letterhead. 60pp. printed on recto only, stapled at top right corner with neat tape reinforcement over staple on title page. Light wear to title page.....
AN ANTHOLOGY OF ONE LINE POEMS [Dragonfly Pamphlet 2] [BUT IS IT POETRY? - Cover Title]
np: The Dragonfly, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong miniature. 8.5" by 2.75" approx. Side-stapled wraps. Very good. Wraps a bit rubbed; rear wrapper fully detached. Else clean and bright. Binding sound. Unpaginated. Uncommon collection of minimalist single-line poems, with contributions from Bill Zavatsky, Charles Simic, William Stafford, Robert Bly, and.....
SHAKESPEARE: The Biography
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2005. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in near fine jacket. Jacket sharp and bright with a couple of small rubs at one fold. Unclipped. Book clean and sound. SIGNED by author on published-issued bookplate affixed to ffep. 572pp. with index.
ACTION PUBLICATIONS BOOKS [Catalog of Erotic Literature]
Studio City, CA: Action Publishing Co., [circa 1960]. First Edition. Brochure. Single sheet, 11'' x 17.5'' approx, folded in half and again in thirds, as issued. Light wear to edges and fold lines, with a few very small tears and creases. Faint toning. Very good plus. Undated mail-order catalog of.....
YOSEMITE AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Red cloth spine over blue-grey cloth boards, in grey dust jacket. Spine sunned. Minor rubbing to corners. Faint toning to pages. Very good plus in like jacket. Includes 116 plates, with Adams' own foreword. Introductory essay by Paul Brooks.....
THE PORTFOLIOS OF ANSEL ADAMS
Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown and Company, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Pale grey cloth boards in white dust jacket. Minor edgewear; spine and top edges sunned. INSCRIBED by Adams on title page. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Reproductions of seven portfolios of photographs made from 1936.....
New York State Museum Bulletin, No. 332 - Februrary 1943
Albany, NY: University of the State of New York, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Very good. Covers toned. Mild edgewear. Else sounds and complete with all maps and plates. Geology of the Coxcackie Wuadrangle, New York by Winifred Goldring. With a chapter on glacial geology. Includes three.....
HENRY JAMES: Selected Letters
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Touches of rubbing to jacket. Mild shelf-wear. Else clean and sound throughout. DJ unclipped. 587pp.
THE SHORE PATROL'S SLUT
Chatsworth, CA: Stag Books, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Illustrated wraps. With original publisher's order blanks intact. Mild handling wear, faint creasing across front. Light toning to contents. Overall clean, sound. An uncommon early release on the Stag imprint. Catalog number 155. With graphic cover illustration. Sleaze and the female.....
JUDY'S TEEN-TOPICS / Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1952
Framingham, MA: Dennison Manufacturing Co., 1952. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Single sheet folded in horizontal thirds [6pp.] Mild toning; light edgewear. Very good. Halloween issue of this monthly guide for girls of the early 1950s; the publication was equal parts part social training manual, craft project suggestions, and advertisement for.....