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1968réf. 63106Berkeley CA: Berkeley Graphic Arts 1968. First Edition. Original photographic poster offset printed in black on white stock measuring 44.5cm x 57.75cm 17.5" x 22.75". Moderate wear handling and creasing; light toning soil and some scattered foxing; several tiny tears pin holes and a few small punctures with one immediately to the right of Hutton's neck; unbacked; Very Good. Poster announcing the memorial service for Robert James Hutton 1950-1968 which took place six days after his murder at the hands of Oakland police. Known affectionately as "Lil Bobby" Hutton joined the Black Panther Party at the age of 16 becoming both its first recruit and treasurer of the organization. Hutton was one of 12 Panthers who accompanied Eldridge Cleaver during a confrontation with Oakland police on April 6 1968. The confrontation resulted in a shoot-out between the Panthers and the police at a house in West Oakland during which two police officers were seriously wounded. Both Hutton and Cleaver gave themselves up and during the process of disrobing to prove he was unarmed the police shot Hutton 12 times as he was surrendering. He was the first member of the Black Panther Party to be killed immediately becoming a martyr for the Black Power movement. A sobering artifact and one that has undoubtedly seen use. OCLC notes a single holding at Yale. Berkeley Graphic Arts unknown books
1931réf. 58640New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 2xvi3482pp with photographic frontispiece and 12 plates of illustrations. Spine ends gently nudged private library sticker on title page else a fresh Fine copy. In the original dustjacket with a wraparound photograph of a group of strikers; price-clipped edgeworn with some shallow losses to corners and along upper and lower edges a few tears and attendant creases with a small patch of sticker-pull at lower spine panel; Very Good. First-hand accounts of the trials of southern textile workers "which in 1929 and 1930 startled the world with news of mob hysteria kidnapped organizers the shooting of a chief of police and the cold blooded massacre of six pickets" from front flap. Tippet supplies extensive background on the conditions burdening textile mill workers and detailed coverage of the Elizabethton Marion Gastonia and Danville Strikes. An elusive volume in the first edition particularly in dustjacket. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith unknown books
1932réf. 60679New York: American Museum of Natural History 1932-39 1953-54. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 24.5cm. 4 volumes in taupe paper wrappers printed in black; I: x756pp; II: viii632pp; III: 822pp; IV: x846pp; vol. I with frontispiece 10 plates and folding map of the Congo at rear vol. II color frontis. 2 color pl. 19 black and white pl. vol. III 24 pl. vol. IV 27 pl. all volumes with in-text black and white figures. Largely unopened. Generally whole with minor wear and short tears to wrapper edges occasional external marks and stains vol. I wrapper detached from front joint and with large loss to rear upper corner; overall Very Good. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Vols. LXV LXXV 75A 75B. First edition of "one of the outstanding works of zoological research ever completed on any African region and the best done by an American" ANB. This work deals with the field research Chapin performed with Herbert Lang in the Congo from 1909 to 1915 while Chapin was still a student. He spent his career as a curator of ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History and is widely regarded as one of the best ornithologists of the twentieth century. American Museum of Natural History unknown books
réf. 158623N.p.: N.p. 1990. Collection of 140 vintage silver gelatin and resin-coated press and reference photographs relating to computers and computer history. Every photograph with a dated Reference Library stamp on the verso and many with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Dates span from the 1960s through the 1990s although the balance date from the 1980s and 1990s. A varied and substantial collection spanning computer use in homes schools businesses and other aspects of American society. Included are images relating to calculators and palmtop computers computer programs and applications early "touchscreen" technology CD-ROMs and disk drives computer animation and screensavers computer games and chess printing devices video teleconferencing computer literacy classes and computer-related merchandise. Collection also includes several photographs of computer and display manufacturing and performance and endurance tests. All told an impressive gathering of photographs relating to computer history from an important period of transition in both computer use and technology. Photographs range in size from 12 x 7.75 inches to approximately 5 x 5 inches with the balance measuring 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus with light edgewear on some photographs and resin-coated photographs evenly age toned. N.p. unknown books
1911réf. 61583Louisville KY: C.T. Dearing 1911. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Original green cloth over boards titled in gilt on front cover; 193pp; frontispiece and 16 unnumbered leave plates halftones. A nicely preserved copy just lightly rubbed on exterior; text remains bright fresh and supple - Very Good to Near Fine. A well-illustrated and rather scarce Confederate regimental history including maps and portraits of many of the regimental officers. NEVINS 1:93. HOWES G-107aa. DORNBUSCH II:370. C.T. Dearing unknown books
1933réf. 58768New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933. First Trade Edition. First Printing preceded by a limited edition of 350 copies. Octavo 22cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 251pp; illustrated with 70 full-page photographs by Doris Ulmann. Hint of sunning to spine ends some trivial wear to corner tips with a tiny splash mark to topstain; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.50 gently spine-sunned modest wear to joints and extremities with shallow loss to crown several tiny nicks and tears to extremities and a 2" split at lower front flap fold; Very Good. One of the great documentary photobooks of the 1930's examining the lives of black plantation workers in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. The idea for the book was originally conceived by American photographer Doris Ullman 1882-1934 who met Julia Peterkin at a literary gathering in 1929 - the same year Ullman had undertaken a project to create a volume of photographic studies of African Americans throughout the South. Ulmann's portraits of the Gullah people were taken on the Lang Syne plantation owned by the family of Peterkin's husband; paired with text and stories written by Peterkin Ullman's portraits of the former slaves and their descendants have long been praised for both their quality and the sense of dignity they convey. Many times scarcer in an attractive jacket than the signed limited issue published the same year. BLOCKSON 3932; ROTH 101. PARR-BADGER Vol.1 p.135. Robert O. Ballou unknown books
1831réf. 54248Philadelphia: Stoddart and Atherton 1831. Second edition. Three octavo volumes 22cm. Contemporary marbled calf with leather spine labels; engraved extra-title present in each volume; xvi7-362;330;264pp; engraved frontispiece v.1 and 48 inserted leaves of plates; text illus. Faint scattered foxing to text but plates generally clean; bindings exhibit moderate external aging and wear with small losses to leather at spine ends and corners. A complete structurally sound Good or better set. Early ownership signature of a Benj. Webb Jr. on endpaper and extra-title of v.1. A quite presentable set of Godman's treatise on the mammals of North America including some ethnographic notes on Native Americans and a lengthy discussion of the fossil record with special attention given to the Giant Mastodon. Much of the third volume is devoted to a description of the American whale fishery. Godman 1794-1830 was trained as a physician and was for some time the director of the Philadelphia Anatomical Rooms a private medical college where he achieved considerable renown as an anatomist. American Natural History described as "the first systematic treatise on the subject" DAB was first published in Philadelphia from 1826-1828; two "Second Editions" appeared in 1831 this one under the Stoddart & Atherton imprint and another by Key & Mielkie. Sabin and Imprints Bruntjen & Bruntjen note only the latter but OCLC records suggest that the two editions are collected with equivalent frequency. Neither Sabin nor Imprints supply a plate count for the Second Edition but our copy conforms to that at the Smithsonian Institution the only OCLC member institution to provide a collation. SABIN 27663. B&B 7271. Stoddart and Atherton unknown books
1932réf. 47940New York: Moving Picture Operators Union Local 306 / A.F.L. n.d. ca. 1932. Original steel bottle opener/milk cap pick 6.5cm. in length. Minor rustiness else Near Fine. Presumably issued during the 1932 union wars between the New York-based Moving Picture Operators Union Local 306 and the Empire State Motion Picture Union. The dispute came to a head on a Monday evening in early September 1932 when several bottles of phosphorus were thrown into a movie-going crowd at two theaters in Flatbush Brooklyn injuring six. Leaders of the local were interviewed by the District Attorney but claimed innocence arguing that "some persons inimical to Local No. 306 were responsible for the throwing of the phosphorus in the hope of having the blame placed on Local No. 306" "Trade Union" Brooklyn September 8 1932. Tools like this-which combined a bottle opener with a sharp pick for prying caps off milk bottles-were often used for advertising a variety of businesses. Moving Picture Operators Union Local 306 / A.F.L. unknown books
1810réf. 181831810. African AmericanSlavery and Abolition Grégoire Henri. "An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes." First American Edition. This work constitutes one of the earliest sustained Enlightenment arguments in print asserting the intellectual and moral equality of people of African descent. Originally published in French in 1808 as De la littérature des nègres Abbé Henri Grégoire's treatise directly challenged racial pseudoscience and proslavery ideology by assembling biographical and literary evidence of Black achievement. Appearing in English in 1810 in both London and Brooklyn the present Brooklyn printing represents the first American edition and marks the earliest circulation of Grégoire's antiracist argument within the United States issued just two years after the federal abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and decades before emancipation. A Catholic priest revolutionary statesman and Constitutional Bishop of Blois Grégoire was among the most visible European advocates of racial equality and universal civil rights; this text stands as his most focused intervention into transatlantic debates over slavery human capacity and citizenship. Grégoire Henri. An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes; Followed with an Account of the Life and Works of Fifteen Negroes & Mulattoes Distinguished in Science Literature and the Arts. Brooklyn: Printed by Thomas Kirk 1810. First American edition of the first English translation translated by D. B. Warden. Sabin 28728. Blockson 18. Octavo. 253 pages. The text systematically dismantles claims of Black inferiority through documentary case studies examining figures such as Phillis Wheatley as evidence of Black literary achievement Olaudah Equiano as moral and intellectual witness against slavery Benjamin Banneker for scientific accomplishment and Toussaint Louverture as an exemplar of political and military leadership. By grounding abolitionist argument in documented intellectual production rather than abstract sentiment Grégoire constructs what may be understood as an early printed compendium of Black intellectual history aligning Enlightenment universalism with emerging Atlantic abolitionist discourse. Original marbled boards heavily worn. Spine crudely retaped with losses; spine cracked where tape is lacking and back board partially detached. Front free endpaper loose. Title page and contents leaf with partial tear without loss of text. Early manuscript ex-libris note affixed to front pastedown. Textblock clean and complete with scattered foxing. Overall condition fair. Issued contemporaneously with the London printing of 1810 and at a moment when the United States had prohibited the slave trade but not slavery itself this Brooklyn edition represents one of the earliest and most explicit antiracist works printed in the early republic asserting Black intellectual and moral equality through documented achievement and thereby providing foundational documentary evidence for the development of American abolitionist thought. unknown books
1989réf. 56564Perugia: Deputazione di Storia Patria Per L'Umbria 1989. First Edition. Two octavo volumes 24cm. Printed card wrappers in pictorial dustjackets and cloth slipcase. Numerous folding maps and plans. Slight ripple to first twenty or so leaves of Volume 1 else Fine in Very Good slipcase with partial split along one joint. Text entirely in Italian. Deputazione di Storia Patria Per L'Umbria unknown books
1911réf. 174621911. Women's Education. The Story of the Manchester High School for Girls. Manchester: University Press 1911. First edition. Red cloth boards. A number of plates inside depicting key figures and the facilities of the school. The school was founded in 1874 by nine men and women who were prominent citizens of Manchester. The author Sara Burstall had been the Headmistress of the high school since 1898 as well as a Special Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Manchester High School for Girls is today one of Britain's leading girls' schools. Some minor staining to covers but interior is clean and bright. Ex libris. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1773réf. 174921773. Grose Francis. Antiquities of England and Wales 1773 a foundational eighteenth century antiquarian survey that documents medieval castles abbeys and architectural remains across England and Wales at a moment when systematic historical preservation had not yet emerged as an institutional practice. Compiled from Grose's own field observations and drawings the work records structures that in many cases were already in decay providing a visual and descriptive archive of the built environment prior to nineteenth century restoration movements. Grose working outside formal academic institutions while serving in excise duties and later traveling with the Surrey Militia produced one of the earliest large scale efforts to catalog national architectural heritage for a broader readership. Grose Francis. Antiquities of England and Wales. London: S. Hooper 1773. Four volumes. Folio. The set is extensively illustrated with engravings based on Grose's drawings including frontispieces vignette title pages and numerous plates throughout each volume depicting abbeys castles and other historic sites. The accompanying descriptive texts provide historical context and architectural detail reflecting Grose's stated aim to produce a readable and accessible account of England and Wales's historical monuments. Upon Grose's death his preparatory sketches and finished drawings for the work were acquired for George III and are now preserved in the British Library underscoring the recognized importance of his documentation. Produced during a period of growing antiquarian interest in Britain Antiquities of England and Wales contributed to the emergence of national historical consciousness tied to landscape architecture and medieval heritage. The work precedes later institutional preservation efforts and remains a key source for the study of sites that have since been altered or lost. Grose's combination of fieldwork illustration and narrative description established a model for subsequent antiquarian publications and shaped how historical monuments were studied and valued. Bound in leather with gilt decoration and marbled endpapers; armorial bookplate present. Some scuffing and abrasions to boards with minor loss at spine ends and reinforcement to one gutter; interiors clean and stable. Overall good condition. unknown books
1856réf. 48037London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1856. First Edition. 12mo 17cm. Flexible red cloth boards lettered in gilt; i-viii1-15624pp. Binding spotted and a bit rubbed at edges but still a pretty copy clean tight and unmarked; with bookplate of Arthur Hoe to front pastedown. A late but important work by the noted Anglo-Irish feminist art historian and traveller. The first portion of the lecture is taken up with a discussion of English laws regarding ownership of property after marriage which Jameson characterizes as "cruel" and "unjust." The remainder of the work seeks to answer the question "whether there be not a possibility of woman sharing practically in the responsibilities of social as well as domestic life" p.3. Jameson goes on to enumerate a group of occupations suited to women in the fields of welfare and relief including hospital-work prison reform reformatories penitentiaries and workhouses. Perhaps most interesting is a lengthy section devoted to the education and training of women which begins with the proposition: "There is no adequate provision for the practical education of the middle and lower classes of girls in this country.and no one in power thinks it worth while to treat this part of educational statics with any particular attention" p.109. Jameson goes on to suggest a number of rather radical reforms to the British educational system including co-educational schools vocational training of young women for "active and social and responsible avocations;" and the creation of colleges for working women. Infrequent in trade and though not strictly rare surprisingly for a work by a well-known British author narrowly held in American institutions - OCLC noting fewer than fifteen copies in North America of which several would appear to be either circulating copies or mis-catalogued electronic resources. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts unknown books
1850réf. 49285Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams 1850. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 85-100pp. Some chipping and a few small losses to wrapper extremities partly affecting author's inscription at head of upper cover else Very Good and sound. One of a series of fascicles on new species of seashells found in Jamaica. SABIN 176. J.S. & C. Adams unknown books
1848réf. 49981Philadelphia: John H. Gihon 1848. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; removed; 1811adspp. Errata slip tipped to title page serving as upper cover slip starting to separate text uniformly foxed contemporary manuscript note at head of title page else Very Good and sound retaining leaf of publisher's advertisements on p. 20. Quite uncommon. John H. Gihon unknown books
1900réf. 163901900. Women's Education Student Life Wellesley College student decorated fan circa 1900 documents the social networks visual culture and institutional affiliations of women in higher education at the turn of the twentieth century. The object preserves a dense assemblage of personal and collegiate imagery combining photographic portraits of peers with printed insignia from universities and clubs establishing direct evidence of how female students constructed identity and community within elite academic environments. Produced during a period of expanding access to higher education for women the fan records both interpersonal relationships and broader institutional connections linking Wellesley students to a wider network of colleges and social organizations across the United States. Decorated folding fan circa 1900 composed of fabric leaf and wooden guards measuring approximately 10.5 x 19 inches when fully extended. One side features approximately 66 small black-and-white photographic cutouts depicting fellow students and acquaintances from Wellesley College. The reverse incorporates approximately 84 printed and decorative elements including color lithographed and gilt paper logos badges and emblems representing colleges and social clubs with identifiable institutions including Wellesley College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Stanford University and Clark University. The arrangement forms a curated collage integrating personal photography with institutional symbolism. Created within the context of early twentieth-century women's collegiate life the fan reflects the emergence of women's colleges as sites of intellectual formation and social organization where visual memorabilia played a role in documenting friendships affiliations and aspirations. The combination of portraiture and institutional insignia demonstrates how students navigated both intimate and formal networks situating individual experience within a broader academic landscape. Such objects contribute to research in women's education material culture and the history of student life offering insight into how identity and community were materially constructed and preserved. Light soiling to fabric edges with minor wear to wooden elements; images and printed components remain intact and legible. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1870réf. 43875N.p. n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets 25x20.5cm. rectos only "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots minor shallow creases and faint fold lines else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" though which President and of what is not stated in which the author quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors" strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box And mingling in the excitement of an election thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references Mary Wollstonecraft is the only person explicitly mentioned we cannot place with certainty a date or author for the item though the hand ink and paper and reference to women tending to wounded soldiers during wartime indicate this was penned within a few years of the Civil War as the women's suffrage movement was beginning to gather steam in the 1870s. unknown books
1871réf. 47582Rome: Forzani et C. 1871. First Edition. Folio 33cm.; publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 18pp. Wrapper lightly soiled faint vertical creasing a few tiny chips to spine ele Very Good internally fresh and fine save the crease. Polemical attack on the state of the French university system written in March 1871 two months after the end of the disastrous for the French Franco-Prussian War. As Pasteur argues whereas in Germany universities proliferated across the country France "stymied by revolution was always occupied with the sterile search for a better form of government giving only distracted attention to her institutions of higher learning" p. 9 our translation. At the root of all this was the regime of Napoleon I who in the early years of the 19th century neglected the country's twenty-eight extant institutions of higher learning in favor of his Université de France a disastrously centralized state-run institution that he established in 1808. The University suffered greatly during the Restoration and with it the quality of education so that by 1868 only £8000 were being spent for "true academic purposes" across the country cf. W. Chandler Roberts et al "Journal of the Society for Arts Vol. 32 no. 1655 August 8 1884 p. 905 creating a lacuna of learned and innovative thinkers to match Germany's. Perhaps in order to combat this downward trend Pasteur later founded the Pasteur Institute in 1887 serving as its director until his death in 1895. This appears to be the only separate appearance of Pasteur's tract published abroad and distributed to various foreign leading scientific figures among these "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley who makes mention of this work in an address delivered in October of that same year. The essay appeared again in print in 1947 following an even more disastrous encounter with Germany in a collection titled "Pour l'Avenir de la Science Française." This publication quite scarce with four physical copies noted in OCLC as of February 2020. COPAC adds one copy at the LEC Library UK. Forzani et C. unknown books
1916réf. 44105New York: The Naval History Society / De Vinne Press 1916. First Limited Edition. Limited to 650 hand-numbered copies. Octavo 24cm in publisher's slipcase. Half parchment over paper-covered boards; lxxviii269pp; frontispiece 4 inserted leaves of plates. Minimal aging to parchment spine else Fine in a lightly worn slipcase. Prospectus laid in. The seventh volume in the series. The Naval History Society / De Vinne Press unknown books
1887réf. 44983New York: Brown Green & Adams 1887. First Edition. Quarto 29cm.; publisher's tan printed side-stitched wrappers; 16pp.; steel-engravings throughout including one full-page. Lacking rear wrapper upper wrapper separated but present the whole covered in contemporary pencil scribbles and faint dampstaining a few shallow losses not appoaching text. Fair to Good condition. Promotional work describing the amenities of the company factory and town founded by the American Waltham Watch Company in Waltham Massachusetts. The author John Swinton 1829 - 1901 was born outside Edinburgh Scotland and arrived in the United States by way of Canada as a young man having apprenticed as a typesetter for the Montreal newspaper the "Witness." After arriving in New York City Swinton worked for numerous newspapers among them the "Times" and it was during this period he first became interested in labor politics even running unsuccessfully for mayor on the Industrial Political Party ticket in 1874. In 1883 Swinton founded the pro-labor journal "John Swinton's Paper" though due to lack of support and an outright boycott organized by the Knights of Labor the editor and his family was facing penury by 1887. In that year he published the final issue of his "Paper" and wrote the present pamphlet presumably to stave off the wolf at the door. The present piece depicts Waltham's company town in superlative language opening with the statement that "In the State of Massachusetts there is not a lovelier or more attractive town than Waltham" p. 5. Perhaps the only dampening feature is an illustration of the factory floor on which a small child is smilingly employed. For additional biographical information see the DAB Vol. 18 p. 252. Brown, Green & Adams] unknown books
1895réf. 44165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books
1926réf. 38323London and elsewhere: Various Publishers 1926. Fifteen pieces including printed periodicals and ephemera. Contents generally fresh and well-preserved; a few with original folds from distribution; Very Good. The majority housed in a custom folding cloth chemise and quarter-morocco slipcase. Includes: • The British Gazette. Vol 1 no 1 - Vol 1 no 8 all issued. Lon: HMSO May 5- May 13 1926. All issues in excellent state of preservation with slight tenderness but no tears or loss at the horizontal and vertical mailing folds. • Strike Bulletin. Bradford: TheYorkshire Observer. 2 issues. no. 1 May 5 1926 & no. 6 May 11 1926. Mimeographed sheets corner stapled; 5pp 6pp. Horizontal folds at bottom 2" whether from storage or distribution uncertain. "Cessation of work by the whole Technical and Labouring staff of "The Yorkshire Observer" - without notice and in flagrant disregard of their contracts of service - has made it necessary for us to present these small sheets instead of a normal newspaper." • London Daily Express. 2 issues. Nos. 8126-27 May 12-13 1926; 1 4pp. Both issues severely abbreviated due to work stoppages. • Mayfair Bulletin. Giving the Latest Strike Home & Foreign News. 14th May 1926. Lon: April Showers Ltd. Mimeographed on pink paper corner stapled with horizontal folds from distribution. • Broadside: Emergency Bulletin! Strike to Continue - No prospect of Early Settlement. Sans imprint. Letterpress recto-only; ca 26 x 21cm 10" x 8"; type in single column below double rule. Announces a number of emergency measures to replace striking transportation newspaper and dairy workers including the pending appearance of The British Gazette. OCLC locates one copy only British Library. • Handbill: Hurley's Library Free Bulletin. Obtainable twice daily at Hurley's Newspaper Counter without charge. May 10 1926; ca 25cm x 10cm 10" x 4"; printed both sides of sheet. Announces latest strike news; verso bears headline: "Hurley's - our Library Service is Not on Strike!" WITH "British Gazette / Latest Strike News / British Gazette / Official" A printed broadside presumably intended for newspaper outlets 30" x 20" boldly printed in large typefaces with accompanying official HMG crests. Clean and strong some creases from previous folding and some very light spots of browning here and there a very good example with no evidence of having been used "in the field". Issued during the May 5th to May 13th run of The Gazette edited by the famously even-handed Winston Churchill in attempt to push public opinion against well the rest of the public and back in the direction of people who were absolutely not the public. Very definitely counting as one of Churchill's less glorious exploits underlining the fact that you can be a good man an honest man a strong politician and a wealthy landowning member of the aristocracy.but it's impossible to be all of them at the same time. Not recorded in OCLC. A scarce survival. Important archive of primary documents relating to the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain which though brief and a failure from the syndicalist point of view would nonetheless be the only General Strike in British history. The event also established a pattern for Tory suppression of radical labour including the use of "emergency" legislative measures and the mass distribution of propaganda through state-run media. Ironically the strike also presaged a massive sweep to power of the Labour Party in the years immediately following a wave which was at least in part a response to the repressive measures employed by the Conservatives against the Trades Union Congress in the General Strike. Of primary interest here is the complete run of eight issues of The British Gazette a government propaganda sheet edited and including numerous contributions by Winston Churchill who was at this time Chancellor of the Exchequer. Depending upon one's point of view the Gazette marked something of a low-point in Churchill's career: though it claimed to be filling a journalistic void created by striking newspaper workers Churchill's paper was more or less a pure exercise in disinformation filled with intentional inaccuracies intended to build public sentiment against the strikers and to demoralize participants in the strike. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was said to have given Churchill the Gazette job ".to keep him busy and to keep him from doing worse things" see John M. Davidson Memoirs of a Conservative; the newspaper's prevarications so galled professional journalists that one was moved to write: "One of the worst outrages which the country had to endure - and to pay for - in the course of the strike was the publication of the British Gazette. This organ throughout the seven days of its existence was a disgrace alike to the British Government and to British journalism" Kingsley Martin in The New Statesman May 15 1926. Also included here are several other private news sheets indicative of the hunger for information felt by British populace suddenly without any reliable source of news; and a broadside without imprint but likely issued by HMSO as a prospectus of sorts announcing the imminent publication of the Gazette. Various Publishers unknown books
1970réf. 37676New York: Claro Music Corp 1970. First Edition. Bifolium 30.5cm; white and red wrappers with music and lyrics printed in black internally; 4pp. Fine. Original sheet music for the official theme song of the Women's Liberation movement co-written by Betty Friedan and noted children's author Jacquelyn Reinach. The song was written in advance of the Women's Strike for Equality on August 26 1970 sponsored by NOW and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment which effectively gave American women the right to vote. OCLC notes 11 holdings. Claro Music Corp unknown books
1945réf. 27390New York: Wendell Malliet and Company 1945. First Edition. Slim octavo 21cm.; original cloth in pale grey dust jacket printed in maroon; 41pp. A fine copy. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.50 at lower front panel; very lightly worn with a short closed tear to top edge of upper panel spine a shade darkened; Near Fine. A book-length cycle of ".Poems Inspired by the Negro's Fight for Democratic Rights" authored by a young Jewish-American lawyer/poet. The book is dedicated to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt; the African-American composer Hall Johnson contributes a brief foreword; Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted in a blurb on front jacket panel. Uncommon in dustwrapper especially in such nice condition. Wendell Malliet and Company unknown books
1971réf. 19764New York: New York Committee to Free Angela Davis n.d. but ca.1971. Original lithographed poster measuring 42.5cm x 54.5cm 16.75" x 21.5". White stock with black and white photographic image at center and text printed in black at lower margin. Fine. Poster produced by the NY Committee to Free Angela Davis reproducing a well-known and often-used black & white image of Davis in a dashiki. Not separatey listed in OCLC though we note variations of the poster in the Rossman Family Collection at the OMCA and an example of the present copy held at the LOC. New York Committee to Free Angela Davis unknown books
