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1993ref. 117793Banff Canada: Walter Phillips Gallery 1993. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of drawings that pits the seven virtues versus the seven vices in a leporello bound in illustrated boards. An about near fine copy with some slanting the binding but otherwise in fine condition. An attractive production. Walter Phillips Gallery unknown books
1999ref. 114249Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1999. First edition. Softcover. Advance excerpt a chapter from the third book from the author of the classic "Blue Highways." A fine unread copy in wrappers. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1974ref. 168327San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art 1974. First Edition. First Edition. Catalog for a 1974 multimedia exhibition documenting five Bay Area-based artists' month-long trip to Baja California funded by the San Francisco Museum of Art. Includes a sheet of "BAJA" stamps designed and printed by Robert Fried along with twelve color slides and eight loose leaves housed in a folding cardboard envelope. All as issued for the catalog. All material Very Good plus to Near Fine. Envelope lightly toned. San Francisco Museum of Art unknown books
1981ref. 147193N.p.: N.p. 1981. Draft script for the 1981 Spanish-American film here under the working title "Bloody Mary." Laid in with the script is a typed letter from casting agent Paul Kohner to producer John R. Pepper returning the script. Text in English. A disquieting satire of Catholicism in the late 20th century from noted Spanish director Bigas Luna wherein a Texan televangelist in need of a new miracle guest for his show travels to Italy to bring back a woman who suffers from stigmata-a rare medical condition which causes the hands and feet to bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross. Set in Italy and Austin Texas shot on location in Barcelona Texas and Los Angeles. White non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 19 with credits for director Bigas Luna. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rust on the front wrapper and first leaf likely from a staple with a white Velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1993ref. 154398Berkeley: Inter-Relations 1993. Volume 1 Issue 3 of Frank Moore and Linda Mac's post-porn zine with performance artist and pro-sex activist Annie Sprinkle featured on the cover. Texts by Moore Veronica Vera R. Dixi Cohn Sprinkle Merle Tofer Luna Sanguine and Dorothy Jesse Beagle with art/photography by Wink Van Kempen Robert Mapplethorpe Sprinkle LaBash Mac Trunz Amy Ardrey and Jan Deen. Laid in is a subscription postcard which reproduces the issue's cover art. "The Cherotic rEvolution" underground zine published from 1991 to 1999 by performance artist and activist Moore featured articles essays and art regarding porn politics capitalism and art. Near Fine in side-stapled self wrappers. Front wrapper with small tear at lower spine and a faint crease to the lower right. Inter-Relations unknown books
1981ref. 12488Matrix Robert Delpire 1981. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY SARAH MOON on the half-title. A pristine copy to boot of the 1981 stated 1st American edition. Fine in a bright Fine dustjacket. Oblong quarto Moon's evocative sensual photographs thruout. Matrix (Robert Delpire) unknown books
1970ref. 43262San Francisco: Bill Presson 1970. First Edition. Very good . Charming mimeo with contributions from Clark Coolidge Tom Clark Tom Veitch an interview with Ted Berrigan Lewis Warsh Dick Gallup and a piece by Wally Moon on Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled pictorial wraps. Light touches of soil handling wear to wraps. Internally bright and clean throughout. Unpaginated. [Bill Presson] unknown books
1932ref. 54966Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1932. Near fine in very good jacket. First edition in the rare original dust jacket chronicling the adventures of a Native girl in the southwest. Grace and Carl Moon both white wrote and illustrated a number of picture books about Native Americans particularly about the Pueblo and Navajo peoples. Carl Moon was also a noted photographer of Native Americans and was commissioned by the Fred Harvey Company in 1907 to photographically document the Native communities of the southwest. Original cloth-backed color pictorial paper boards. In original unclipped $2.00 color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrated endpapers. Illustrated in color by Carl Moon. 59 1 pages. Page numbers added in pencil to top corners. Jacket with short closed tear to front panel rubbing to front joint and a few other spots. Leaves a bit toned at margins. Firm and bright. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
1935ref. 16816n.p.: n.p. 1935. Fine. Large pen and ink drawing with pencil shading from SHANTY ANN by Grace Moon and illustrated by Carol Moon published in 1935 by Frederick A. Stokes. In this drawing little Ann and an older woman are cooking breakfast over an outdoor fire near their California shanty town. The patched-up house is visible in the background; there is much detail in the work. 11.5'' x 8'' image; 16'' x 12'' frame. Single image in pen and ink with pencil shading matted framed and glazed. Not examined outside frame. n.p. unknown books
1969ref. 618002New York: The Crisis Publishing Co. Inc 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. Vol. 76 No. 2 Whole Number 660. Cover portrait of Frederick Douglass by Charles Alston. Slim octavo. 3 58-97 5 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Address label of Anna Butler see below on the lower wrap causing just a bit of rippling front cover with a bit of faint staining a near fine copy. Prints "The Negro as Fighting Man" by Michael S. Davidson "Negro History or Mythology" by Roy Wilkins "That Other Man" by playwright Loften Mitchell "Teach Me Harlem a Poem" by Lee Bennett Hopkins "Alston: American Artist" by Warren Marr II" and a six-page history of the NAACP that month being its sixtieth anniversary among other material. The final five pages print photographs of NAACP members honored with Life Memberships. The recipient of this copy is undoubtedly Atlantic City schoolteacher Anna Land Butler an African-American woman who published at least two books of poetry one of which we handled the magazine's response letter she submitted to The Crisis. An interesting issue with a nice association. The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc unknown books
1968ref. 618003New York: The Crisis Publishing Co. Inc 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Periodical. Octavo. 140 2 pp. Illustrated. Address label of Warren Morgan of Baltimore see below on the lower wrap causing a bit of light rippling. Light wear and a bit of light marginal foxing near fine. Issue of the important NAACP magazine founded by W.E.B. Du Bois published the month of Dr. King's assassination. Given the fact that they had almost no time to prepare this issue prints a memorial cover portrait an editorial titled "The Martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr." and "NAACP mourns loss of Dr. King" in the "Battlefront section" alongside several articles that must have already been slated for publication. The intrepid B.T. Enterprises of Cleveland Ohio has also taken out a half-page ad selling memorial medals honoring Dr. King. This issue was mailed to Warren Morgan of Baltimore a civil rights activist who was also sadly the victim of racial violence: according to a March 1964 article in The New York Times Morgan at that time the head of Students Action for Equality at Maryland State College and six other African-American students were invited by the pastor to Easter Service at a White Methodist church and three of them were attacked after the service by a dozen young White men. Warren was hospitalized with a fractured cheekbone. Warren would go on to receive his doctorate at Oklahoma State University and work as the Vice President of Student Affairs at Florida A&M University and Dean of Student Affairs at Benedict College among others. An important copy of an important magazine with a powerful association. The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc unknown books
1949ref. 188141949. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother 1949 brought Moon's 1943 novel of a Black Florida family's migration to Harlem into the postwar mass-market paperback trade centering the racial discrimination Ben encounters after moving North. The novel follows Ben from Florida to Harlem where expectations of greater freedom confront housing employment and interpersonal racism; his later military service returns him to the segregated South. Published originally during World War II the narrative placed these experiences within the movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities and the persistence of racial discrimination beyond the Jim Crow South. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother. New York City: Bantam Books November 1949. Bantam edition. First paperback printing. 246 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. 8vo. No dust jacket as issued. The front wrapper depicts Ben and his fiancée Birdie on a Harlem street confronted by a white man clutching papers with buildings and street activity visible behind them. Red blue and gold dominate the illustration. Across the upper margin appears the publisher's line "He came up North for freedom and got---Harlem!" The rear wrapper announces "Born the Wrong Color" in red lettering and summarizes Ben's experiences of racial prejudice. The cover's language and confrontation scene recast Moon's novel for the postwar paperback market by emphasizing racial conflict as its principal selling point. First published by Doubleday Doran in 1943 The Darker Brother follows Ben his mother and sister from Florida to Harlem and traces the consequences of racial violence and discrimination as Ben searches for work plans a future with Birdie and enters military service. Contemporary reviews recognized race relations as the novel's central subject while Moon continued addressing racial discrimination in A Primer for White Folks 1945 and The High Cost of Prejudice 1947. The 1949 Bantam edition is particularly revealing for the history of African American representation in popular publishing: its wrapper converts a novel about Black migration and racism into the visual and promotional vocabulary of the mid-century paperback juxtaposing the promise of northern freedom with the publisher's stark Harlem street scene. Minor creasing to the lower right corner of the front wrapper and minor chipping to the spine neither affecting text or illustration; internally clean and overall very good condition. unknown books
1991ref. 458250Los Angeles: Burning Gate Press 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 341pp. L-shaped impression that doesn't break the paper covering on cover textblock edges with a bit of light foxing and soil very good or better lacking the dust jacket. Burning Gate Press hardcover books
1984ref. 442592New York: Alfred Van Der Marck 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 208pp. Short tear near spine tail near fine in a very good sunned dustwrapper with front flap corner clipped price intact flaps creased. Alfred Van Der Marck hardcover books
1949ref. 418147New York: Doubleday & Company 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with some soiling and several very short tears. Winner of the George Washington Carver award for outstanding writing by or about African-Americans. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1904ref. 392578Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Decorative green cloth stamped in purple and gilt top edge gilt. Illustrated. Near fine with modest edgewear. Part of the "Art Lover's Series. L.C. Page & Company hardcover books
2004ref. 379906New York: Doubleday 2004. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Advance reading copy. Wrappers. Fine. Doubleday unknown books
ref. 324981Signed "Yaz-yah Chee" below photo on mount. Image 10 x 7 inches. Framed and glazed. Signed "Yaz-yah Chee" below photo on mount. Image 10 x 7 inches. unknown books
1902ref. 267927London: Webster and Compy. 60 Piccadilly W. 1902. Printed ledger 136 pp. accomplished in black ink in a neat hand on 95 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Original half dark green morocco and marbled endsheets. Minor surface rubbing else very good. Printed ledger 136 pp. accomplished in black ink in a neat hand on 95 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Record of shooting partridge pheasant hare pigeon and the occasional woodcock; with notes of ferreting and a few seasons' salmon fishing covering sport on several Scottish estates: Charlesfield Gask Auchterader Perthshire 1889-1899; Strobhall Perthshire 1900-1902; and Bachilton Perthshire 1889-1902. The total bag was nearly 3000 including 1267 partridge 863 pheasants 232 hares and 275 rabbits. Kept in a meticulous hand identifying members of the shooting parties places and occasional remarks on weather and conditions. There is a separate record of pheasants reared and shot at Gask and Stobhall at end. A single page records salmon and grilse taken at a dozen pools on an unidentified stretch of river the Earn near Gask perhaps in seven seasons. Signed by Ernest Moon on verso of flyleaf. Webster and Compy., 60, Piccadilly, W. unknown books
ref. 229666Los Angeles: Bright Dot Publications 1980. First edition. Photographs in color by Susie Tracy daughter of SPENCER TRACY. 1 vols. 8 X 8 inches. Printed pictorial wrappers with color reproduction of Pritt on upper cover. First edition. Photographs in color by Susie Tracy daughter of SPENCER TRACY. 1 vols. 8 X 8 inches. A touching copy rich with Tracy-Hepburn associations featuring the photographs of Spencer Tracy's daughter Susie b. 1934 to illustrate the life of a favorite deaf cat. This copy is inscribed by Hepburn to her agent Freya Manston: "For Freya & her Cats "with affection "Kate" Spencer Tracy's first-born son John was born deaf; Tracy's wife Louise with Spencer's support and encouragement founded the famous John Tracy Clinic in honor of their son. It opened in 1942 the same year that Hepburn and Tracy began their legendary association. Bright Dot Publications unknown books
1975ref. 545939Wheaton Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Inc 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Wil Rose. Octavo. 110pp. Binding and edges a bit foxed trifle musty very good in about very good dust jacket with a short split and tear and heavy internal foxing. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc hardcover books
1865ref. 42290New York: Alexander Strahan & Co 1865. Fourth edition small 8vo pp. xlvi 180 24. Strahan catalogue dated May 1866 appended at the rear; some foxing else a very good copy in original green cloth. A censure of Henry Alford Dean of Canterbury's "The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling" and related essays bolstered by 24 pp. of reviews from the press at the front and another 40 pp. of supporting criticism at the rear. Kennedy 5550. Alexander Strahan & Co unknown books
1863ref. 30892London: Hatchard & Co 1863. First edition 8vo pp. 27 1; bound with: Moon A Second Defence of the Queen's English. London: Hatchard & Co. 1863; pp. 38; bound with: Opinions of the Press for both of the foregoing 1 leaf each; bound with: Just published . Poems: by G Washington Moon pp. 4 ostensibly an advertisement but including two poems one entitled "Deeds not Words." Later wrappers; very good. Apt criticism of the Dean's infamous essay which Moon found to be riddled with structural and grammatical inaccuracies. This pamphlet had no small influence was later expanded with A Second Defense. Hatchard & Co unknown books
2000ref. 9177Northampton MA: Oxingale Press 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Archival Box. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The innaugural publication of the Oxingale Press. A musical collaboration with cellist Matt Haimovitz and composer Luna Woolf performed by soprano Eileen Clark and Haimovitz. The music of the album inspired the book of poems featuring original color etchings by Kuch whose interpretations create a visual counterpoint to the compositions. Very minor shelf/edge wear and a hit of sun else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound gold cloth spine blue paste paper boards red and black ink label copperplate etching onlay; drop spine clamshell box audio cd fits into space in box. 4to. Illus color and b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 53 of 70. Signed by the artists. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Oxingale Press hardcover books
2011ref. 81662Berkeley: Beatitude Press 2011. First edition. 81 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Luna. Berkeley: Beatitude Press unknown books
