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1942ref. 167827Hollywood: Republic 1942. Vintage pressbook for the 12-part 1942 film serial. Based on the Fawcett Comics character created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck about a costumed vigilante who seeks to take down a Nazi agent known as The Mask. The 25th of 66 serials produced by Republic starring Kane Richmond as the titular superhero. 12 x 18 inches. 12 pages side-stapled. Very Good plus. Republic unknown books
1876ref. 484621876. Taylor Alfred Swaine 1806-80. Archive of material relating to the famous Charles Bravo poisoning case consisting of 1 Autograph letter signed to Taylor from Harry Bodkin Poland 1829-1928. Bifolium. 3pp. Temple London 29 May 1876. 205 x 127 mm. 2 3 autograph letters signed to Taylor from Augustus K. Stephenson 1827-1904. 15pp. total. London 3 June 1876 2 bifolia 8pp.; 5 June 1876 bifolium 4pp.; and 22 July 1876 bifolium 3pp. 184 x 114 mm. 3 Taylor. The Balham mystery. Galley proof corrected in Taylor's hand of the first portion of an unsigned article in The British Medical Journal 20 May 1876: 631-633. 578 x 148 mm. Together 4 letters and one printed proof. Some rodent damage to Stephenson's letters affecting several words mended in several places with clear tape. Small lacuna along one fold in the galley proof affecting a few words. Minor dampstaining but good to very good. From the library of Alfred Swaine Taylor founder of forensic toxicology an archive relating to the notorious and sensational Charles Bravo poisoning a case that is still unsolved. The Bravo mystery has inspired several works of fiction including Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle 1962 and a three-part BBC serial titled The Poisoning of Charles Bravo 1975. Bravo 1845-76 a 33-year-old barrister died of tartar emetic antimony poisoning on 21 April 1876 less than five months after his marriage to a wealthy widow; the marriage was reportedly an unhappy one. The inquest on Bravo's death held on 25 and 28 April returned an open verdict but the circumstances of the case were so suspicious that Taylor offered his expert advice to Harry Bodkin Poland one of the attorneys for the Crown. Our archive includes the letter Poland sent thanking Taylor for "your letter about the Bravo Case and for the offer of further advice and assistance" and informing Taylor that he "will show your letter to Mr. Augustus K. Stephenson the Solicitor to the Treasury." Stephenson is represented in the archive by three letters asking for Taylor's expert opinion on the case: "You have read the account of the Post-mortem encl. by Dr. Payne . . . That being so does it enable you to form an opinion as to whether the antimony was taken in solid food . . . letter of 3 June. "Assuming small traces of antimony to have been found in the liver of a deceased person-Can you form any opinion as to length of time before death that the antimony was taken" letter of 5 June. "Can you tell me whether antimony in the form of tartar emetic wd. if taken in small doses at intervals during pregnancy induce a miscarriage letter of 22 July. The last item in our archive is a galley proof corrected in Taylor's hand of the first two-thirds of an article on the Bravo case published on 20 May in the British Medical Journal; although the article is unsigned it was most likely written by Taylor. Based on the medical evidence Taylor concluded that Bravo had ingested the fatal dose of antimony during his last meal. He severely criticized the investigators in the case for not testing the remains of the bottle of wine he had drunk with the meal-"the only article of food not shared in common with the three who sat at the dinner-table . . . If tartar emetic had been found in this wine much of the present mystery hanging about the case would be removed . . . In tracing the further history of this bottle we learn that no one now knows what became of it or its contents." . unknown books
1918ref. 184801918. American Red Cross Poland photo album Warsaw Operations 1918-1920 documents U.S. humanitarian operations in Eastern Europe following World War I recording relief work conducted during the Polish-Soviet War and the broader reconstruction of Polish civil and medical infrastructure. The images identify personnel locations and operational units associated with American Red Cross efforts as they provided transport medical care and material aid in a region destabilized by the collapse of empires and the reestablishment of an independent Polish state in 1918. A caption referencing "the Polish-Russian front ARC 1920 Poland" situates the album within active conflict conditions while additional annotations tied to supply trains and field units establish the material as a contemporaneous record of organized international relief. Photo album measuring approximately 8 x 11.5 inches with 34 photographs mounted across 11 leaves each image approximately 3 x 5 inches. The photographs depict American Red Cross personnel aboard trains and railway platforms including a documented ARC supply train as well as automobile units in transit or undergoing roadside repair captioned "American Red Cross cars 1918 Poland." Several images include handwritten annotations identifying subjects locations and squadron designations. One photograph shows a group of workers assembled on a makeshift structure with a caption identifying "Van Wert in charge of one of the relief trains" indicating named personnel connected to field operations. Produced during the initial phase of internationally coordinated humanitarian intervention in postwar Poland the album aligns with the 1919 recognition of the Polish Red Cross by the International Committee of the Red Cross which facilitated the transfer of hospitals medical trains and logistical infrastructure into Polish administration. The photographs document the integration of American aid within these systems including rail-based medical transport and mobile support units critical to relief distribution in contested and newly reorganized territories. Some photographs detached from leaves and a tear to the front cover; images and structure otherwise intact. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1968ref. 392804Los Angeles: Elysium Inc 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with just a touch of rubbing. An anthology of writing centered around the Sexual Freedom Movement largely by the two editors but including contributions by Ben Fong-Torres and Tuli Kupferberg. Elysium Inc hardcover books
1968ref. 393079Los Angeles: Elysium Inc 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a tape repair of the crown and a touch of rubbing. An anthology of writing centered around the Sexual Freedom Movement largely by the two editors but including contributions by Ben Fong-Torres and Tuli Kupferberg. Elysium Inc hardcover books
1965ref. 63258New York: Oliver Layton Press 1965. 7" x 5¼" saddle-stitched but wrappers separated from text block; pp. 59 1; very good. Contributions by Tuli Kupferberg George Montgomery and others with illustrations by Ed Sanders Arthur Lewis Jefferson Poland and Michael Francis Itkin. Among those on the Advisory Committee are Allen Ginsberg Tuli Kupferberg Peter Orlovsky Diane di Prima and Ed Sanders. Oliver Layton Press unknown books
1862ref. 27140Columbus Ohio: Ohio State Journal Printing Co. 1862. 85 3 pp. Disbound with original printed wrappers spine wrappers shorn. A small rubberstamp on blank verso of title page. Very Good. The book delivers just what the title says. Sabin 56879. III Dornbusch 1055. Ohio State Journal Printing Co. unknown books
1849ref. 1415914London: Samuel Highley 1849. Hardcover. Octavo. In Good plus condition. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt emblem to front board gilt titling to spine and blind tooling. Spine and boards have rubbing and toning throughout with shelfwear to edges and some scuffing to cloth; joints are splitting but still attached. Text block has wear to edges and tearing to edges of a few leaves; many gatherings uncut at their top edges; splitting to hinges and age-toning and foxing throughout. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. 1415914. Special Collections - Upstairs. Samuel Highley hardcover books
1875ref. 337542Dakota Territory 1875. unbound. 2 pages Dakota Territory August 1875. This document -- a Statement of Forage and Straw -- is signed by Captain John S. Poland "J.S. Poland" known for his letter which provided an account of Custer's Last Stand at Little Bighorn and Lt. William Badger who served under Major Marcus Reno during the Battle of Little Bighorn. The document lists the amount of oats corn barley hay fodder and straw consumed by the animals at the Standing Rock Reservation in The Dakota Territory. The front cover measures 8.5 x 3.75 inches and folds out to the inner page with lists measuring 16.75 x 11 inches. Natural folds and slight creasing in one spot; near fine condition. John S. Poland was a career officer in the United States Army. A Union Army veteran of the American Civil War he also served in the American Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War. Poland attained the rank of brigadier general and was most notable for his command of the 17th Infantry Regiment and 2nd Division First Army Corps. William Badger was part of Reno's battalion and he was one one of the officers who fought in the dismounted charge Reno ordered after his initial attack. Badger survived the battle and he later took part in the post-battle investigations and court of inquiry. unknown books
1915ref. 92286South Portland: Printed by Hiram Ricker & Sons 1915. Paperback. Very Good. illustrated black & white. 48p. Softcover. Original wrapper. 20 cm. Front cover crease. Printed by Hiram Ricker & Sons paperback books
1980ref. 221631980. Solidarity movement ephemera archive. 1980s-1989. This archive documents opposition organizing and political communication in eastern Poland during the final phase of Communist rule with particular emphasis on labor unrest student activism and the 1989 electoral campaign that led to partial democratic reform. The material records how Solidarność operated through underground print culture and regional coordination including strike reporting candidate promotion and direct appeals to voters. It provides primary evidence of political messaging grassroots mobilization and the emergence of open electoral discourse in the months preceding the June 1989 elections. Archive of over 30 pieces of printed ephemera and underground publications produced in the Lublin and Zamość regions primarily in Polish in varying formats including newspapers broadsheets flyers tickets brochures and a pennant. Key items include Biuletyn Solidarność Nos. 2 and 3 15 and 22 May 1989 issued by the Regional Committee for Lublin-Zamość containing articles such as "Protest płacowy na uczelniach lubelskich" documenting wage protests at Lublin universities and an interview with candidate Adam Kozaczyński titled "Mogę pracować dla ludzi i dla kraju." Additional coverage includes "Wyborcy o kandydatach" presenting voter responses to candidates. Student activism appears in Gazeta Strajkowa Lublin Nr. 3 a hectograph-printed publication of the Independent Students' Association NZS criticizing state education policy with statements including "Nie narusza w żadnym stopniu postulatów studentów" and "Odradza nadal Ministerstwo Oświaty i Wychowania." A 13 May 1989 issue of Przegląd Wiadomości Agencyjnych features a mining strike in Lubin under the headline "STRAJK" accompanied by an image of workers holding a protest banner. Election materials include flyers and cards bearing the slogan "Twoja Szansa Solidarność: Wybory 1989" promoting candidates such as Tadeusz Mańka Adam Stanowski and Henryk Janusz Stępniak along with a facsimile-signed letter from Lech Wałęsa dated May 1989 urging coordinated political participation. These materials were produced during the rapid political transformation of 1989 when negotiations between the Communist government and opposition groups led to partially free elections and the eventual formation of a non-Communist government. Underground and semi-legal print media played a central role in disseminating information coordinating protest and legitimizing opposition candidates particularly in regional centers such as Lublin. Light toning and minor wear consistent with ephemeral use; overall very good. A concentrated archive of Solidarity print culture preserving the language organization and visual strategies of political mobilization at the end of Communist rule in Poland. unknown books
1943ref. 140946511London New York & Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Co 1943. First edition. First edition. 16 pp. Staple bound in publisher's self wraps. Near Fine with a little rusting to staples and staining along spine. A bright attractive copy of a momentous historical document. For the first time this pamphlet publicly disclosed the ongoing Holocaust for an Allied audience in the midst of World War II with information provided by Polish diplomat-tuned-secret-agent Jan Karski. It focused on events in Poland including the Warsaw Ghetto rebellion and mentioned various concentration camps in Eastern Europe. It also contained the text of the Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations of 17 December 1942 and an excerpt of a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk of 27 November 1942. Rare in commerce. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Co unknown books
1898ref. 1410130London: Smith Elder & Co 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 40 pages plus 20 plates. In Very Good minus condition. In full burgundy cloth binding with gilt titling to cover and spine. Boards show moderate rubbing along edges at fore corners and along joints. Very faint stain in top corner of front cover. Text block shows moderate age toning and wear along edges with lighter toning and moderate foxing throughout. Mild splitting to hinges. Pen ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf. Shelved in Room A. 1410130. Special Collections - Upstairs. Smith, Elder, & Co hardcover books
1872ref. 37670Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1872. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good copy with loose stitching faint soiling on wrappers. 38 pp. 8vo. January 9 1872. 42d Congress 2d Session. Senate. Report No. 15. Election frauds in Arkansas. [U.S. Government Printing Office] unknown books
1906ref. 43115Los Angeles: Blue Book Publishing 1906. First edition. Pictorial paper wrappers. A good copy wrappers damp stained and torn with small chips at corners first dozen leaves damp stained along inner and outer margins else clean. 64 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 12mo. Old Series Vol. V. No 3 New Series Vol. I No. 2. Known as the Traveler's Blue Book through March 1906. While the main article by C. Beauregard Poland contains eight photographs of the devastation and reports on the quake an accompanying map of California superimposed over the eastern midwest attempts to allay any fears about moving to California by illustrating just how large the state is. There is no need to worry. An earthquake in San Francisco does not affect Los Angeles. California is safe. "Did it ever occur to you That California is the ideal state of homes happiness and prosperity That the climate of California is so nice the year round that one can work out of doors all the time. farming pays. land can be bought. good land . is not costly." p. 16. Other articles promote other regions of California. Surprisingly scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this issue and only two institutional holdings of the old and/or new series Yale and Huntington but neither containing this issue. Blue Book Publishing unknown books
1962ref. 199026Atlanta Georgia: Atlanta Art Association Galleries / Browse Borrow And Buy Gallery 1962. Softcover. VG- scuffs scratches & smudges to wraps; light sunning to edges & spine; blue ink 'check-mark' to upper front edge. corners rubbed. listings and illustrations may have instances of light blue ink 'check-marks.'. pale blue textured wraps w/ darker blue illustration & printing. approx 32 unpaginated pgs w/ bw illustrations. Essays by Reginald Poland. Detailed 89 piece listing and 22 black/white illustrations. Exhibition held February 6 through February 25 1962. Atlanta Art Association Galleries / Browse, Borrow And Buy Gallery paperback books
1933ref. 173338New York: Edgar Weyhe 1933. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Paperback. VG with minor coiling to orange dustjacket covers otherwise almost like new except for some separation of spine at the very top. Orange printed dustjacket surrounding a white printed glued wrap-around stiff cover. 54 pp. Two color plates including a signed in pencil lithograph portrait of Shore by Jean Charlot 18 bw photographic reproductions after photographs of the artist's work by Edward Weston 5 smaller bw reproductions which may be lithographs at the head of the text articles. The first color plate may also be a color lithograph but it is not signed. One of Armitage's rarest works. A monograph on the art and career of California modernist painter Henrietta Shore.The portrait by Charlot is signed by the artist but hideous. Includes an article by Edward Weston who also photographed the original artworks by Shore. Includes articles by Merle Armitage Edward Weston and an Appraisal by Reginald Poland. Very rare. Forward colophon reads "Two hundred numbered copies of this book designed by Merle Armitage have been printed . by the Will A. Kistler Company . It is set in twelve point Rockwell type and the entire contents of the book is printed by the Artochrome Process. The photographs of the paintings pastels crayons and drawings in this book were made from the originals by Edward Weston. This is copy no. blank"--Colophon./ Descriptive letterpress on versos facing the plates." Edgar Weyhe paperback books
1915ref. 363211915. Softbound. Very dampstained but no pages stick together and very little rippling. Very usable. Greenish wraps. 48 pp. 17 bw plates. 140 or so artists and sculptors are represented by 120 oils 28 watercolors 14 miniatures and 22 works of sculpture. Rare. paperback books
1912ref. 28601912. Softbound. VG. Greenish wraps. 48 pp. 16 bw plates. 124 artists and sculptors are represented by 101 oils 30 watercolors 24 miniatures and 30 works of sculpture. Rare. paperback books
1899ref. 364591899. Softbound. VG. Black wraps. 16 pp. 4 bw plates. 35 works listed. Rare. Includes illustrated works by Alexander Pope F.H. Hatfield Abbott Graves Eva Cowdery. paperback books
1909ref. 1361241909. Softbound. VG old inked name on cover at top. Greenish wraps. 42 pp. 14 bw plates. 164 paintings and 9 sculptures. Rare. Artists biographies at rear. Great copy with many prominent Boston artists represented. Some of the artists represented include Frank Benson William John Bixbee Anne Blake Dwight Blaney J.G. Brown Adelaide Cole Chase Colin Campbell Cooper Emma Lambert Cooper Charles Courtney Curran Leon Dabo John Enneking Ben Foster Henry Gallison Abbott Graves Robert Vonnah Childe Hassam Jean N. Oliver Hugh Bolton Jones Cullen Yates Isidore Konti Bela Lyon Pratt Philip Little Rhoda Holmes Nicholls Adelaide Palmer Ben Foster Alexander Pope etc. paperback books
1906ref. 364581906. Softbound. VG soiling to front cover. Tan wraps. 46 pp. 10 bw plates. or so artists and sculptors are represented by 132 oils 29 miniatures and 6 works of sculpture. Rare. Includes illustrated works by Bela L. Pratt Carlton T. Chapman Ben Foster Ava de Lagercrantz Joseph Lauber F.H. Richardson Harriette Wood Robinson Walter Satterlee Edmund C. Tarbell Douglas Volk. paperback books
1967ref. 263296Berkeley: Berkeley Barb 1967. Newspaper. 16p. folded tabloid underground newspaper illustrated with b&w photos local ads articles news columns toning very good on newsprint. Cover story on SF State Campus insurrection with semi-nude Jeffrey "Fuck" Poland toking and Black Power leader Jimmy Garrett. Farmworkers win court battle. Tuli on How to Think About the Police. The issue numbering for volume 5 got out of whack so we have stated the issue and whole number as printed though these may be incorrect. Berkeley Barb unknown books
1971ref. 267974San Francisco: Sexual Freedom League SF 1971. Magazine. 16p. folded tabloid newspaper articles poetry fiction services and resources events nude photos and illustrations centerfold poster very good on newsprint. Cover story on Group Sex. Also Rev. Fuck reviews Hans Holzer's "The Truth About Witchcraft." Centerfold poster Freedom to Love photomontage by Dupont. "Eros in a Male Value Society" by Gearhart. According to the Online Archive of California Bancroft: "The Sexual Freedom League was founded in 1963 in New York City. Julian Beck Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Leo Koch were among those on the Advisory Committee of the original group which was active in demonstrations for a wide range of causes." The original SFL was formed in NYC by Jefferson Poland in 1963 as New York City League for Sexual Freedom. When Poland moved to the Bay Area from NYC in 1966 he founded the SFL in the East Bay which was a loose-knit group with few rules little organization and no fees. After he broke away several others stepped in to create their own versions of the league including Richard Thorne Margo Rila and her husband Frank Esposito Rila. By 1971 several SFL chapters had formed around the US including the one of which Don Jackson was a member. Jackson whose copy this is was a gay activist in California who contributed to The Alpine County Project aka Stonewall Nation. In a letter responding to internal strife over liberal and conservative leaders in the SFL Jackson a Libertarian offered himself as a liberal candidate for office. The San Francisco chapter was headed up by Margo St. James at this time. Sexual Freedom League SF unknown books
1945ref. 47189Krakow: Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik" Czytelnik Publishing Cooperative 1945. First edition. Softcover. g to von-. Octavo 8 1/4 x 6". 93pp. 13 leaves of double sided photographic plates interleaved and unpaginated. Illustrated tan red and black wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Photographic b/w frontispiece. Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik." Possibly an earlier publication on lower quality paper compare to a slightly smaller publication by the "Library of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR" Biblioteczka Zwiazku Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR with the same text in different layout. That publication issued on higher quality paper and with twenty-eight photogravures three more than in this publication with twelve photographs appearing in both publications though in lesser quality here. Court Proceedings of the Polish-Soviet Special Criminal Court established in Lublin in August 1944 in order to investigate the crimes committed by the Germans in the Majdanek extermination camp. Despite the importance of this document it must be mentioned that the Commission made erroneous assumptions regarding the duration of the camp and the number of people killed at Majdanek. The Publishing cooperative "Czytelnik" was established behind Soviet front lines in 1944. It became the first post-World War II. publisher in Poland. The total numbers of the victims is still controversial: In this report 1.5 million victims of different nationalities were counted however according to the latest researches there were 79000 victims 59000 of whom were Jews See: Kranz T.: "Bookkeeping of Death and Prisoner Mortality at Majdanek." pp. 81-110. In: Silberklang D. Ed.: Yad Vashem Studies. Vol. 35:1. Jerusalem 2007. Illustrated with 25 pages of b/w photographic reproductions including a frontispiece on 13 double-sided interleaved plates altogether thirty-two photographs depicting members of the Commission Nazi guards now prisoners who used to run the camp and survivors alike testifying before the Commission. Also includes views of the actual concentration camp piles of suitcases Zyklon B poison gas pellets gas chambers ovens and survivors amid corpses. Wrappers with some chipping rubbing creasing and/or closed tears to extremities. Small stain on the back cover and side edge of book block. Verso of frontispiece with a vertical crease. Some pages throughout with some light age toning or small water spots. Overall text and images clear and vibrant. Wrappers in good interior in very good- condition overall. One of two editions of this work published in Moscow and Krakow in 1945. It is not certain which was released first. Each has different wrappers size pagination and publishers. Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik" (Czytelnik Publishing Cooperative) unknown books
