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197198 pages. Features: Boss Heads for VWs; Performance Cranks; Mint 400 Off Road Bash; and much more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1950ref. 236641950. American cross dressing performance photo archive depicting cisgender men modeling women's bathing suits skirts jewelry and accessories before a mixed audience circa 1950s when gender nonconformity remained vulnerable to public condemnation employment discrimination police surveillance and prosecution under local masquerade and public decency laws. The photographs record gender play within a communal entertainment setting where exaggerated poses costume changes and spectators' laughter temporarily displaced the rigid standards governing masculine appearance in postwar public life. Neither the performers' identities nor their sexual orientations are established but the event preserves a social space in which femininity could be assumed displayed and applauded by men and women. Photo archive of 10 silver gelatin photographs each 3.5" x 3.5" United States circa 1950s. The photographs show several men taking turns before an audience inside a wood paneled bar diner lodge or social hall. Performers model floral and striped bathing suits short skirts necklaces earrings head coverings sunglasses handbags and other accessories sometimes standing with hands on hips or adopting runway poses associated with fashion modeling and beauty contests. One man walks past seated spectators carrying a handbag; another poses beside a jukebox; others appear in groups as participants watch wait or compare costumes. A tattooed performer sits at a counter while applying or adjusting makeup preserving an informal backstage moment within the evening. Women and men sit close to the improvised runway and an illuminated "Exit" sign recurs behind the performers. Cross dressing revues occupied an unstable position in midcentury American culture. Professional female impersonation appeared in traveling productions and nightclub programs including the nationally touring Jewel Box Revue during the 1950s while comparable conduct outside theatrical settings could expose individuals to arrest harassment or forced disclosure. The federal Lavender Scare begun in 1950 treated homosexuality and perceived sexual nonconformity as threats to employment and national security reinforcing the pressure to conceal identities and relationships. This event appears less formal than a commercial revue locating gender performance within an ordinary social gathering where friends and patrons participated as performers witnesses and judges. Light surface wear curling occasional creasing and small edge losses with a larger tear affecting the borders of two photographs; images retain generally strong contrast. Overall in good condition. A compact visual record of men testing the boundaries of acceptable dress and gendered behavior through fashion parody embodied performance and collective amusement in 1950s America. unknown
1976ref. 022635San Francisco: San Francisco Closet Ball Publisher 1976. Wraps. Good. Blue wraps. Unpaginated approximately 40 pp. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. A program of events entertainment staff credits and brief letters from the organizers for the 4th San Francisco Closet Ball. Includes photos of several luminaries although not in drag. The Closet Ball started in 1973 and was an annual drag event that billed itself as "San Francisco's Most Outrageous Coming Out Party!" The ball was essentially a competition for first time drag queens. They would first appear in male attire then return in female attire where they were assisted by more experienced drag queens. Winners were coronated as the Closet Ball Queen. The event also served as a fundraiser for a variety of charities and organizations. Many ads throughout this program for local businesses etc. GOOD condition. Faint vertical crease present. Minor wrinkling toning and soiling. Newspaper clipping laid in on the front page resulting in a square of offsetting. San Francisco Closet Ball, Publisher unknown
1960ref. 152883Los Angeles: National Hot Rod Association 1960. Original style guide for freelance reporters and photographers covering competition drag racing created by the National Hot Rod Association NHRA circa 1960s. The NHRA was founded by Wally Parks editor of Hot Rod magazine in 1951 in order to promote "safety sportsmanship and fellowship" among racer and more broadly to convince the general public and especially police that there was a difference between reckless street racers and hot rod drivers. In 1960 the association began publishing "National Dragster" a biweekly news magazine featuring racing stats and interviews which continues to be published today. Housed in black wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Ten leaves not numbered. Wrapper Very Good plus leaves Very Good plus lightly age-toned bound internally with three silver brads. National Hot Rod Association unknown
2014ref. 1170492014 Editions Rankin Publishing - 2014 - In-4, cartonnage illustré - 166 pages - Très nombreuses reproductions photographiques en couleurs et en N&B hors-texte et pleine page
1998Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include: Geology and natural history (Geology, Geomorphology, Vegetation, Fauna, Paleoenvironments) Geological and paleoenvironmental investigations, Culture and archaeology of trhe outer Kenai coast, Piecing together the history of the outer Kenai coast, Archaeological results of the 1993 survey, Cultural materials,( Houses, cashe or cooking pits, Cobble features, Culturally modified trees, Artifacts) A predictive GIS model of archaeological site locations in Kenai fjords national park, etc.
1919ref. 21981919 N° 19 de janvier - février 1967 - broché dans sa pochette
1979Clean and unmarked. 8 1/2"w x 11"h. Crease on cover. Brittle glue binding. Black and white line drawings (printed on one side of page only) of gender-bending and gay characters posing in their underclothes, awaiting finery. They are cocktail party guests - with Attitude. "To have Attitude means to be able to project very directly one's opinions and feelings about one's own milieu to all viewers tih little more than a gesture, a stance, a look." [from the author's introduction] First Edition.
193250 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Navy flyer Lieut. Soucek and his 1930 altitude record at 43,166 feet; Good Year ad features photos of American Airways planes; Data on the strength of Aircraft Materials; Improving the Control System; Weight Reduction Versus Drag Reduction in Design; The Stark System of Instrument Flying; A New Army Fighting Grade Anti-Knock Aviation Gasoline - article by Major James H. Doolittle; Engineering Deductions of a Flight Around the World - Charles Healy Day and his Errant (Martin); The New Continental R-670; Care and Construction of Metal Propellers; 1931 Aircraft Production; Century Airlines Hangar-Terminal Building; Brief personality profile - with photo - of Charles N. Monteith, Boeing's chief engineer; Obituary of C.T. Porter; Autogiro photo ad inside back cover shows Juan De La Cierva taking off from Pier 34, New York, December 23, 1931; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new Stinson Model "R"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1780ref. 23707(vers 1780) Format 180 x 340 mm, avec marges 220 x 360 mm.
1963ref. 1103431963 Editions du Compas - 1963 - In-4, cartonnage toilé décoré sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs de l'éditeur - 309 p. - Très nombreuses superbes illustrations in et hors-texte en couleurs et en N&B
2008ref. 1309291591xbvkTokyo, 2008. 208 pages on glossy colour-paper, colourful illustrated throughout. - Publisher's silverstamped pink hardcover; 4to.(ca. 28 x 19 cm).
1973545 pages including index. Chapters include: Commercial Explosives; Blasting Supplies and Accessories; Blasting with Safety Fuse; Blasting Electrically; Blasting with Detonating Cord; Loading Explosives; Blasting in Underground Mines; Blasting in Coal Mines; Tunnelling Operations; Surface Blasting Operations; Blasting Ditches, Stumps, Boulders, Gravel Pits, Fills, etc.; Seismic Prospecting; Use of Explosives for Special Purposes; Transportation, Distribution and Storage; Accident Prevention; Electric Blasting Caps - Average Resistances; Copper Lead Wire - Resistance and Capacity; Maximum Number of Electric Blasting Caps for Series-in-Parallel Circuits; Properties of C-I-L High Explosives; Properties of C-I-L Blasting Agents; Approximate Average Weight per Cartridge; Approximate Average Weight of Explosives per foot in Column Loads; Properties of C-I-L Permitted Explosives. Properties of C-I-L Blasting Agents; Loading Densities. Appendices include: Blasting Check-up Form; Calculations for a Large Electrical Blast; Average Weight of Various Materials; Abstract Revised British Table of Distances. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
ref. 022741San Francisco: No Publisher. Unbound. Good. no date circa 1981. Single sheet pink paper stock 8 ½ by 14 inches. Printed in landscape format. Really awesome illustration of the Sluts a Go-Go present. A flyer promoting The Blonde Sin show held at Hotel Utah from November 1980 through 1981. Blonde Sin was the third iteration of Doris Fish and the Sluts a Go Go's debut performance. The debut began in 1979 was rewritten in early 1980 and rewritten again for a debut in November of 1980. As the Doris Fish Forever website notes this show "established the Sluts a Go-Go as San Franciso drag stars" See the Doris Fish Forever website for previous and following information. Doris Fish was a noted drag performer both in her original home country of Australia and in San Francisco. She performed in some drag shows in Australia as part of Sylvia and the Synthetics in the early 1970s but gained fame for her work with the Sluts a Go-Go in the 1980s. GOOD condition. Horizontal and vertical fold creases present. Remnants of cellophane tape at the corners. Minor soiling. No Publisher unknown
1996ref. LFA-126724154N° 143 - Octobre 1996 : 40 pages, format 155 x 235 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, bon état
195766 pages. Features: '52-'53-'54 Merc Review - Builder Richard Soderquist of Turlock, CA, Phil Schmidt '52 Merc, Steve Berg '52 Merc; Harry Cruse '53 Merc; Butch Johnson '54 Merc; Johnny Rosier '53 Merc; Headlight Shades - the easy way; Gene Winfield - Custom Shop Restyles for the '49-'52 Chevs; National Drag Championships; Bonneville Speed Trials; Quarter Midget (Go-Kart) Buyer's Guide; Gorgeous blonde featured in black and white photo ad for Grant piston rings inside back cover; and more. Above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
ref. 15667Letter: Tredegar Monmouthshire Wales. 12 July 1844. Copy agreement: 29 October 1841. Copy agreement: 2pp. 4to. Letter: 1p. 4to. The two on a single bifolium with the agreement on both sides of the first leaf and the letter on the recto of the second. The reverse of the second leaf is addressed with Penny Red stamp and Newport and Tredegar postmarks to 'Henry Mostyn Esq Solr Usk'. In good condition lightly aged and worn. The agreement begins: 'Mrs Williams to let to Mr Powell and Mr William Protheroe her Coal under lands at Pen y Van Bedwellty whilst any Marketable Coal remains unworked paying 1s/- Royalty 2520 lbs to the ton weighed at Court y bella or any other public machine. . Mr Powell and Mr William Protheroe are to work the Coal belonging to Sir H. Protheroe's representatives under the undivided lands held by them with Mrs Williams as well as some other adjoining lands.' Other topics include the 'Usual covenants' 'Way leave' 'rubbish room'. In the letter signed 'R. Waters' Waters explains that he is sending 'a copy of the agreement which was entered into by Mrs. Lawrence & Messrs. Powell & Protheroe as the basis or instruction for the Coal Lease entered into between the parties'. While conceding that the agreement 'was not signed by Mrs. Lawrence' Waters explains that it was made 'with her sanction & approval & in the presence of all the parties interested therein.' Bedwellty Pits coal mine was sunk in 1850 by the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. Letter: Tredegar [Monmouthshire, Wales]. 12 July 1844. Copy agreement: 29 October 1841. unknown
1981ref. 2111902160604795Shueisha 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shueisha paperback
2019ref. x-0367437422Taylor & Francis 2019. Hardcover. New. 248 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
2021ref. x-1032239816Routledge 2021. Paperback. New. 216 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.55 inches. Routledge paperback
ref. 1032239816.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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ref. ria9781032239811_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage a form established over a hundred years ago to contemporary literature. It argues that collage is a pe paperback
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