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ref. PW1885no place: no date. 4 pp. Lists 30 points referring to war suggesting when it might have been printed. Brown printed wrappers; top corner stained. Very good. Rare. [no date]. unknown books
1799ref. 1352056Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1799. Presumed First Edition. Other. Small Octavo 80 pages; G; Side-sewn pamphlet in original wraps; Housed in blue cloth chemis cover with toned paper label on "spine"; Textblock age-toned with damp staining to final five leaves; Generous margins apparently untrimmed but with some bumping and minor tars not impacting text; Scattered early ink annotations throughout text; "N. Goodwin" written on title page in an early hand. RW Consignment. 1352056. Special Collections - Downstairs. Hudson and Goodwin unknown books
1959ref. 40770Schweinfurt Germany: n.p. 1959. Contents near fine housed in very good album. Affectionate photo album memorializing the mostly harmless exploits of an Army coterie of proto-Beatniks stationed in peacetime Europe and making the most of it. Photo album of a young man in the most fortunate of midcentury micro-generations coming of draft age after the war in Korea and before the American war in Vietnam: able to treat their tour of duty as a lark an adventure; an excuse to drink Bavarian beer and go to motorcycle shows; wear Converse and coke-bottle glasses and sign each other's good-bye cards like an affectionate graduating class. This album records the work and play of soldiers and locals in and around U.S. Army Garrison Schweinfurt: home to several thousand U.S. soldiers and personnel in the years after 1945 and clearly remembered with great affection by those lucky enough to see no combat a little adventure and a lot of hanging out. A good decade younger than the iconic Beats who wrote the formative texts and dreamed the formative dreams for their disciples and imitators the soldiers pictured here are just the right age to be formed by the late '50s popular notion of carefree bohemian youth so sternly corrected by the Beat originals in question: The "foul word Beatnik" wrote Ginsberg is nothing but a "journalistic sneer." Kerouac meanwhile expressed a dour miserablism over the whole business: "Nothing can be more dreary than coolness . a kind of sociological coolness soon to become a fad up to the mass of middle class youth." Well: they were both right but they were both over 30 by then. The Beat ethos and vestiges of a Beat aesthetic could not be contained; as the album proves even in barracks even under Army discipline and orders the youth with their shabby blazers and glasses of absinthe-substitute knew what cool was. Shot by a remarkably skilled amateur photographer or photographers with a fine eye for composition the photographs are technically accomplished with a fine sense of contrast and a keen sensitivity to the opportune moment. At a uniformed military exercise he captures some curious civilian onlookers; out in the surrounding town he takes sensitive candid photos of an impish local toddler strangling her brother. More than this though is the tone of bohemian youth captured both real and aspirational. The heart of the album documents a core group of friends: smoking wearing sunglasses indoors drinking Pernod taking photos reading French newspapers. Throughout the photographer finds time to hunt beauty: men silhouetted against a bleak sky; a young and grim-faced pregnant woman gazing at a leafless tree; cynical children clambering over tank; and of course European women. A captivating series of moments as perfectly framed as any film still. 11'' x 16''. Original oblong photo album lacking original string ties otherwise intact. Paper label mounted to front cover: "Schweinfurt - 1959 / Boudreaux Kites" in pen. 36 album leaves laid in each with black and white photographs mounted to rectos and versos and intact spiderweb tissue guards. Bayonet receipt card for a Francis C. Welch mounted beneath a portrait photo. One greeting card also mounted to first leaf and one additional large 10'' x 8'' photograph laid in. 181 photographs in total. Wear and some warping to album cover; interior leaves largely unaffected. Photos fine. n.p. unknown books
1969ref. 44411City of Industry CA: Collectors Publications 1969. First Edition. Very good. Erotic sleaze pulp collecting two lurid stories of a women's prison and debauched girls' boarding school respectively. With the publisher's usual numerous and varied advertisements for erotica erotic devices ethnic joke books and several scholarly works on JFK. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Blue and white printed wraps. Light edgewear and spine creasing; foxing to fore-edge. Very good. 160 pages plus 32 pages of ads. Collectors Publications paperback books
1970ref. 42874Berkeley: np 1970. First Edition. Very good. Published anonymously by Ken Knabb and others including Isaac Cronin under the name Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous. Throughout 1970 the group produced this and several pamphlets; the present work is illustrated throughout with drawings and typographically laid out like poetry. "We see subversion as a sort of phenomenological scalpel cutting through the surface of the spectacle of the commodity & bringing to light all the most subtle presuppositions on which the society is based." OCLC finds only one copy. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. Moderate toning touches of soil and handling wear to wraps. Interior clean throughout though lightly creased throughout. 16pp. np paperback books
1955ref. 41459New York: The Heritage Press 1955. First Edition. thus. Very good . A beautifully illustrated Heritage Press copy uncommon with original newsletter and member bill. 635pp. Hardcover. 4to. Maroon and beige woven cloth maroon lettering to spine title illustration to front. In maroon publisher's slipcase with original Sanglass newsletter and Member's bill for the title with envelope laid-in. Spine cloth age toned outer page edge moderately foxed. Binding sound interior contents clean slipcase with light shelf wear else near fine. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1976ref. 42873New England: np 1976. Very good . Five short essays on various topics showing a strong situationist influence. Includes remarks on Bay Area activists psychiatry and several diaristic passages. Not in OCLC or Ford. Wraps. 8vo. Self-wraps. Very good plus. Mild handling wear and surface creases. Several corrections in felt-tip pen. "Additions and Corrections" slip laid in. 28pp. np paperback books
ref. 43982n.p.: n.p. 1970. Near fine. Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella neatly and distinctively handwritten and illustrated in brown ink. The material veers in tone from the parodic to the surreal to the philosophically melancholic; the style incorporates a recondite vocabulary "the pyral tarantism of being in the world" and a single consistent insistent voice alternating long unpunctuated Joycean streams of frantic consciousness with brief and airless sentence fragments. A perpetual undercurrent of violent sexuality surfaces as much in the settings and scenery as in the events: a car crash; a game of human chess; a blazing furnace; a slaughterhouse. The table of contents gives titles for each work but no author's name; the bookplate with initials "A. J." offer the only clue to the item's creator or owner. The authorial narration steps out of its queasy dreamtime now and then to comment on itself "It would appear that this is the whim of the authors" or to focus on a concrete and precisely dated image: "Week-end Traffic" catalogs automobile makes and models in obsessive parodic almost Ballardian detail - a 1931 Alfa-Romeo; a '28 Lombard a Triumph Scorpion - and characters offer each other Passing Cloud cigarettes. But for the most part settings are as hard to place as the book itself. Character names are almost but not quite real: Nish Rogoze Valetta Fedor Shad. Illustrated with line drawings in brown pen presumably also by the writer with occasional accents in black and brief captions taken from the scenes they illustrate. The execution is skilled but careful often quoting other artwork as in the illustration to the final story "Communication" whose subject is the Breughel painting Dulle Griet; we see a copy of Brueghel's scene through the latticework of a window. Other illustrations appear to be carefully composed from copies or multiple tracings giving something of the effect of a Max Ernst collage - particularly the images of a horse-headed woman and a lion-headed man perhaps an intentional quotation from Une Semaine de Bonte. A Piranesi-esque interior gives way to a crowned woman in 20th century corset and garter belt: the Queen. Although a precise date cannot be given this book bears the stamp of a London bindery which operated as Bailey Bros. until a name-change in the 1970s and references in the text place its composition after the 1930s; we estimate the date of production to be circa the late 1960s to early 1970s - though its private library feel perhaps hints at a possible earlier creation. Bizarre and unsettling yet also the product of an original voice. In short: a singular artist's book of unique vision. Original red morocco with raised bands and decorative gilt stamping to spine. Top edge gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. 205 pages. Bookplate taped to ffep; brown geometric design with designer initials ACW at lower right and "Ex Libris AJ". Gilt stamping to lower edge of back cover below paste-down: "BOUND BY BAILEY BROS. LTD." Slight chipping to leather at inside rear hinge. Light edgewear and rubbing. n.p. hardcover books
1933ref. 43257New York: The Macaulay Company 1933. Second printing. Very good in a good jacket. Sensational novel of two OB-GYN doctors and their patients. Despite the book's "completely frank medical vocabulary" and use of a "simple and easily understandable glossary" a contemporary review in the Journal of the American Medical Association summed up the work thus: "The book is neither fish nor fowl neither fiction nor science neither essay nor poetry. It is just an attempt to capitalize the public's morbid interest in obstetrics gynecology and abortions." Hardcover. 8vo. Dark brown cloth with maroon titles and illustration stamped to front board and spine. In original pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in a good DJ. 1.25" tall chip to jacket front panel. Some creasing and chipping to top and bottom of jacket especially at spine; price clipped. Boards a bit rubbed with a thin layer of soil. Front hinge repaired. Clean throughout. 307pp. The Macaulay Company hardcover books
1817ref. 624649London: John Murray / Publsihed for the Author by R. Ackermann 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated second edition. Octavo. 146; 215pp. Two plates one folding and a frontispiece portrait of Napoleon in the second volume. Half leather and marbled paper covered boards with black morocco title label gilt. Re-backed preserving the boards tiny early owner name at top of each title page intermittent scattered foxing and the boards quite rubbed but a sound and not displeasing copy. John Murray / Publsihed for the Author, by R. Ackermann hardcover books
1982ref. 102741New York: Star Dist 1982. Paperback. 180p. illustrated with explicit drawings very good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-511. Star Dist paperback books
1982ref. 156905New York: Star Dist 1982. Paperback. 180p. illustrated with explicit drawings very good first printing PBO in original explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-512. Star Dist paperback books
1913ref. 16591BEST RECENT FICTION BY THE FOREMOST WRITERS Macmillan 1913 first edition fine in fold out wraps printed on both sides highliting with both texts and photos some of their stable of writers: Winston Churchill -The Inside of the Cup Edmund Lester Pearson -The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Alice Brown -Robin Hood's Barn Robert Herrick -His Great Adventure Mary S. Watts -Van Cleve Latta Griswold -Deering at Princeton Zona Gale -When I Was A Little Girl Jack London -The Valley of the Moon Mabel Osgood Wright -The Stranger at the Gate J. E. Patterson -His Father's Wife and Charles G. D. Roberts -Children of the Wild. Macmillan paperback books
ref. 16699SPELL ME Merrimack Publishing N.d. just about fine in full color pictorial wraps with interior spinning wheels in fine condition with 13 leaves of full color illustrations. Merrimack Publishing paperback books
1982ref. 308649New York: Star Dist 1982. Paperback. 180p. explicit illustrations price sticker on cover else a good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-521. Star Dist paperback books
1982ref. 299370New York: Star Dist 1982. Paperback. 180p. ads illustrated throughout by explicit drawings price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-523. Cum beat the meat and feel the heat On the avenue I'm taking you to Forty-Second Street. Star Dist paperback books
1913ref. NF4207Jell-O America's Most Famous Dessert. "Even if you can't cook you can make a Jell-O Dessert" Gennesee Pure Food Co.; 1913 first edition fine in full color pictorial wraps. Staple bound with string tie for the additional string hole still present. Replete with recipes and 12 full color chromolithographs printed by the J. Ottman Lith. Co. Gennesee Pure Food Co paperback books
1915ref. 16005Jell-O and the Kewpies : America's most famous dessert The Genessee Pure Food Co. ca. 1915 first edition some light dust-soil else near fine in color pictorial wraps with 18 numbered pages of recipes including the four page JELL-O Ice Cream Powder Booklet.brought to you in fine color with the help of Rose O'Neills Kewpies. The Genessee Pure Food Co. paperback books
1914ref. 16007The Jell-O Girl Gives A Party The Jell-O Co. Inc. ca.1914 first edition some dust-soiling to the covers else vg in full color pictorial wraps with fine full color pictorial contents within on virtually every page of which nine are by Kewpie Doll inventor Rose O'Neill. Staple bound with string tie for the additional string hole still present as is the four page JELL-O Ice Cream Powder Booklet. The Jell-O Co. paperback books
ref. 16006NO TITLE A DANISH CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY BOOKLET N.d. perhaps mid 19th century 7 leaves two with short closed tears each with a full color full page illustration hand colored with flexible board covers. Measures 6.25 by 3.75 inches with full color paste-on of Santa giving a gift to a little boy on front cover. None unknown books
1821ref. 16008THE ROYAL ALPHABET; OR CHILD'S BEST INSTRUCTOR. To which is added THE HISTORY OF A LITTLE BOY FOUND UNDER A HAYCOCK Hudson; Printed by Ashbel Stoddard And Sold Wholesale and Retail at his Book Store 1821 front cover soiled rear cover absent staining throughout with tide ring profusely illustrated with woodblocks a fair copy at best and desirable for its scarcity but not condition. Measures 4 by 2.5 inches. Ashbel Stoddard unknown books
1895ref. 16004Fairy's Pie / ROUND PIE SHAPED ADVERTISEMENT FOR T. E. Dougherty's Mince Pie Meat T. E. Dougherty 1895 first edition fine in flexible boards resembling a pie top & bottom with full color pictorial lithographs and / or fairy tales or poetry on every other page. A very quaint production. T. E. Dougherty hardcover books
1967ref. 14804THE CHRISTMAS BOX OR NEW YEAR'S GIFT The Singing Tree Press 1967 fine in wraps with illustrations. An apparent reprint of the first book published by The Religious Tract Society. The Singing Tree Press paperback books
1971ref. NF4170THE KENNEDY QUARTERLY VOLUME X NUMBER FOUR Kennedy Galleries Inc. 1971 first edition near fine in full color pictorial wraps. This volume is replete with 19th century American art it's raison d'etre. Kennedy Galleries, Inc. paperback books
1834ref. 14626THE HISTORY OF LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY: WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH THE WHITE FRIARS AND THE COVENTRY CROSS Printed by J. Turner ca. 1834 -1844 40 pages counting the covers with pages 6 thru 39 enumerated see through stain to the front wrap dust-soiling to the covers tiny chip missing from the lower front corner tip some wear to the spine else a just about vg copy with 5 woodcut images with the 6 panel illustrated fold-out of the march through the city. An early 19th century work for children. J. Turner unknown books
