folk, vernacular & outsider books
[Untitled Original Manuscript Illustrated Artist's Book]
[ca. 1970?]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Hand-bound in red morocco, with raised cords and decorative gilt stamping to spine. Moderate edgewear and rubbing. Top edge gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Bookplate taped to ffep; brown geometric design with designer [?] initials ACW at lower right and "Ex Libris AJ". Slight.....
DIE VOLLKOMMENE GASTGEBERIN IST FUR MICH DIE 'DAME MIT DER PEITSCHE" [Cover Title - "For me the perfect host is the "lady with a whip"]
np: [ca. late 1960s]. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Boards. Likely commercial scrapbook, but possibly ad-hoc. Containing [66]pp. plus covers and one fold-out, all mounted both recto and verso with color collages consisting mainly of magazine models, with occassional textual elements (in German, many typed). Spine appears persished. But otherwise sound and.....
[Salesman's Sample Book of Sacramental Vestment Textiles]
[Saint Etienne]: [Les Succrs de G. Bochard], [ca. 1935]. 4to. Commercial burgundy board scrapbook. String-tied with matching silk braid. 10.5” x 8” approx. containing sixteen card-stock leaves mounted recto and verso with 92 original silk sample swatches. Three black-and-white photo illustrations of finished patterns also mounted within. Mild wear and.....
MADONNA ALBUM [Cover Title]. [Original Scrapbook Album]
[Massachusetts]: [ca. 1914]. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong folio. Commercial string-tied album. Cloth covered, limp card boards. Gilt lettering to front. 50 leaves holding a single portrait photograph and 194 clipped artwork reproductions within hand-cut corner mounts at rectos and versos. Each page with ornate outlining and calligraphic titling in white.....
REMINISCENCES OF HAZEL DOROTHEA CHRISTOPHER
Brooklyn: Remington Publishing, n.d. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Black cloth spine over brown cardstock boards, hand-sewn and decorated. Light edgewear and scuffing. Boards attached to cloth tape of spine, but not to sewn text block, apparently as constructed. Typescript with hand annotations and corrections in pen and pencil. Illustrated with.....
[Personal Photo Albums of a Civilian Conservation Corps Member, ca. 1937-1939]
South Lee, MA: (1937-1939). Two matching green oblong 4to. string-tied commercial photo albums, each measuring 10.25" x 7" approx. Comprising 145 snapshot photographs, mounted almost entirely recto only, both tape and corner, to 22 and 32 leaves respectively, with remainder of both albums blank. Standard black album pages with each.....
[Original Scrapbook and Photograph Album an Army Air Corp Pilot]
np [various]: [ca. 1917-1935]. Oblong folio album. String-bound alligator pattern embossed leather covers. 42 leaves with 119 black and white photographs and dozens of documents and other scrap elements mounted both recto and verso. Additional supporting materials laid-in. Leather rubbed with some minor starting at hinges. Contents well preserved. Generally.....
THE MURMURINGS OF A MISANTHROPE: Being the Aeration Plant of the Pet Peeves of a Certain Ybsorc Thenek [pseud]
[Annandale-on-Hudson, NY]: [ca. 1926-29]. Wraps. Folio volume on 24 leaves of hand-made Japan paper tied with a raffia ribbon, typed on rectos only, approx. 12 x 9 inches. Two poems on leaves of green office stock (one with the letterhead of the Bursar's Office of St. Stephen's College) tipped in.....
[Two Annotated Volumes Relating to Theosophy and Esoteric Cryptography]
np [Elsinore, CA]: nd [ca. 1940s?]. Two volumes. The first, mounted awkwardly into a zippered limp leather case and titled "Aheliobas" by hand to front cover. 6" x 4.5" approx. The second, a small notebook, leather over boards, with "Aheliobas" scratched into leather at rear cover. Both volumes worn and.....
[Manuscript Photo Catalogue of Light Fixture Manufacturer]
Waterbury, CT: The Waterbury Metal Wares Co., [ca. 1929]. First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo. commercial album. Limp leather wraps over metal ring binding. Printed catalogue with 75 added leaves holding 85 professional black-and-white photographs, loosely corner-mounted. Some stamped on verso with company name. With numerous additional manuscript notations and dozens.....
ROK NAVY [Interior Title, Original Photograph Album]
np: [ca. 1960-1961]. Hardcover. Oblong folio commercial album measuring approximately 10.5" x 14.5". Green faux-leather covered boards, string bound. 24 card leaves, 21 with 77 black and white snapshot photographs, each measuring approximately 5" x 3.5", recto mounted loosely in corners. Final 3 leaves blank, an additional 3 photographs laid-in;.....
THEATRICAL BIOGRAPHIES [Spine Title; Fan Scrapbook of Late 19th Century Actors and Athletes]
[New York]: 1890. Hardcover. Oblong 24mo. black cloth scrapbook with compiler's intials printed in gilt on cover. Contains [~171] leaves with pasted cut-outs of photos and illustrated portraits of stars, about 65 in total, with orginal typewritten (in blue ribbon, but top copy) biographical information for each. About near fine.....
[Child's Scroll of Cartoon Drawings from Popular Culture]
[ca. 1940s or 1950s]. Manila paper scroll, 3.25" wide, approximately 70 feet long. On the outward-facing side of the paper are drawn cartoon faces in graphite and colored pencil, each labeled with a name. Based on the relative size of each visible drawing – we haven't fully unrolled the scroll.....
[Sex Pistols Fan Scrapbook]
(Belfast): [ca. 1977-1981]. Wraps. Folio. Commercial (Dickinson Robinson brand) scrapbook, containing 16 leaves, all with newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining to the Sex Pistols adhered with glue and sticky tack. 40 pieces, with many full- page and double- page spreads. Clippings with publication details include Super Sonic (Oct. 1979), New.....
[Four Handmade journals from the 1920s Presented to Florence Mary Winckworth Gunn (1857-1928)]
[1924-1928]. Wraps. Five handwritten, hand-illustrated journals. Four 8vo., one small 4to. All in paper wraps. Sewn bindings have separated or loosened in places, with chipping and wear along spines and edges and some soil to wraps. 1928 journal not bound. All pages present in all volumes, with light toning along.....
[Album of Photographs from a Cruise to Aruba and Venezuela]
Essex Falls: np, 1954. 4to. Full green crushed morocco with snakeskin (yes, you read that right) and gilt tooling to both panels, five raised bands, titling and nautical design gilt-stamped to spine, in original green cloth slipcase rimmed in leather. Ornately patterned endpapers. 170pp. Leather at spine sunned with some.....
[Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. Memorial Book for Dr. R. Allison Miller].
[Philadelphia]: [Penn Mutual Insurance Company], (1905). Hardcover. 4to. Full gilt leather with five raised bands. Silk moire endpapers, with elaborately gilt leather overlap to paste-downs. In original matching slipcase. Five full-color, expertly engrossed pages with blanks surrounding, plus half-title and several blank prelims. Generally near fine with touches of rubbing.....
POEMS 1932-1935
n.p. n.p., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 24mo. Handbound beige cloth boards. Some fraying, particularly to unfinished cloth edges. Corners bumped. "Hand bound by the author"; front hinge starting due to construction technique. Foxing to endpapers; pages otherwise clean. Very good. Collected poems, most notably "Mole in the Earth," first.....
[Scrapbook of Mounted Postmarks ca. 1866 Through the 1890s]
np: nd. Hardcover. 8vo. Blank notebook. Red quarter sheep over marbled boards. 8.5" x 7". 38 leaves, with postmarks pasted to most rectos and many versos. Covers rubbed. Front hinge cracked. FFEP loose. Starting throughout. Good. Visually fascinating collection of several hundred 19th century postmarks arranged by state and assembled.....
[Two Country Music Photograph Albums]
Poughkeepsie, NY: [ca. 1970]. Two albums, each oblong 4to. Measuring approximately 10.25” x 7” with 155 color photographs, loosely mounted rectos only in corners. Album 1: Green faux-leather covers, gilt title decoration to front, sting bound, 59 black paper leaves, each with two photographs recto mounted, 118 prints total; well.....
INDIAN HISTORICAL LEGENDS [with:] THE GREAT SPIRIT RELEASE AND INDIAN HISTORICAL LEGEND [and:] THE THEORY OF BIBOLUTION [plus:] OUR UNIVERSE [Four Original Typescripts/Manuscripts — With Illustrated Folk Art]
Grand Rapids, MI: 1947-1948. Three original typescripts, all containing extensive manuscript additions and corrections, with printed front matter. Plus one shorter holographic manuscript. Two of the typescripts are fastened together with string in the upper left corner, the remaining typescript and manuscript are bound with tape along the top edge.....
[Manuscript Abecebestiary]
Scotland: 1842. Folio; 16" x 12" approx. Contemporary red morocco with large gilt Scottish coat-of-arms to both covers, with numerous additional ornate devices and fleurs-de-lys. Marbled endpapers; AEG. Calligraphic and engrossed manuscript to fourteen leaves, rectos only, each signed at the foot. Plus preliminary dedication leaf. Board slightly bowed. One.....
DELTA-X SHREDDED SOUL
Arlington, VA: [Self-Published], 1972. First Edition. 8vo. Japanese-style sting-bound leather wraps. Touches of wear. Some toning internally. Still, near fine. 214pp. A remarkable collection of unselfconsciously prescient outsider verse. Lelle was a Virginia-based computer scientist (the included note mentions popular 70s computer systems KRONOS and SCOPE) and these amateur poems.....
FAIRCHILDS-EVANSVILLE-E. KY. 1938-1941 [Cover Title] [Original Photo Album]
Fairchilds, KY and Evansville, [IN]: [ca. 1938-1941]. Hardcover. Oblong folio album. Original (likely homemade) wooden covers with screw binding and brass hinges - measuring approximately 15.25" x 12". Containing 29 black paper leaves with 252 black and white, primarily snapshot photographs glue-mounted both recto and verso. Small title photograph to.....
[Photo Album Documenting the Cultivation of Sumatran Tobacco]
[Sumatra], [ca. 1910]. Oblong photo album measuring 7” x 10” approx. String-bound, padded boards in Indonesian batik cloth. 32 sepia-toned photographs glue mounted recto and verso, each measuring 6” x 4.25” approx. Minor soil to cloth with touches of wear at corners. Page edges very lightly worn. Sunning at extremities.....