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1957Best.-Nr. 139216Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1957. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Included are two film still photos and two advertisement layout photos. Mimeo snipes once affixed to the versos of the film stills detached but present. Director Corman at his noir-est. The Black Widows a teenage girl gang led by Helen Spain an early favorite of Russ Meyer suspect Barbara Kenney of killing one of their members. Barbara is the sometimes girlfriend of the leader of rival gang and the two gangs prepare for warfare. As the gangs prepare the stories of their private lives unfold and every aspect of family dysfunction is represented showcasing an example of the mid-century "juvenile delinquency" scare. 8 x 10 inches advert photos slightly larger. Very Good plus overall with a corner crease to one film still photo and minor creasing to others. Grant US. Lyons US. Martin 382. Selby US. Spicer US. Allied Artists unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 159582N.p.: N.p. 1989. Vintage flyer advertising two performances by The Butt Boys: one on Saturday April 15 1989 at The Black Box in Phoenix and one on Saturday April 22 1989 at The Crystal Pistol in San Francisco. Spain Rodriguez was one of the foremost underground cartoonists of the late 1960s and 1970s alongside Robert Crumb Gilbert Shelton S. Clay Wilson and Victor Moscoso among others. Performance art group The Butt Boys are best remembered for their circa 1990 performance "The History of Pork" described as "a comic romp through the evolution of pork and man" and as a "hard-boiled urban-macho bad-ass tale of The Three Little Pigs." 8.5 x 11 inches. Light edgewear and rubbing else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 297200Berkeley: Print Mint 1975. Comic. 52p. includes covers 8.25x10.75 inches comics fiction essays critique signed on cover by Griffiths and on contents page by Art Spiegelman very good first printing magazine in stapled color pictorial wraps with R. Crumb cover. Arcade was the late flowering attempt to take underground comix to national newsstands. Lovely hand-separated color cover by R. Crumb. Centerspread by S. Clay Wilson. Kuchar on Lovecraft. Buk's "Bop Against That Curtain" illustrated by Crumb. Aline presents "The Bunch Plays With Herself Print Mint unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 297208Berkeley: Print Mint 1976. Comic. 52p. includes covers 8.25x10.75 inches comics fiction essays critique signed at contents page by Griffith Spiegelman & Spain very good first printing magazine in stapled color pictorial wraps with Jay Lynch cover. Arcade was the late flowering attempt to take underground comix to national newsstands. "Cry-Baby's Blues" by Crumb. "Commedia dell' Zippy". "Some Boxes from the Salvation Army" by Spiegelman. "Gotterdammerung" by Spain. Print Mint unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 297203Berkeley: Print Mint 1975. Comic. 52p. includes covers 8.25x10.75 inches comics fiction essays critique signed at his contribution "Dollboy" by Griffiths and on contents page by Art Spiegelman very good first printing magazine in stapled color pictorial wraps with R. Crumb cover. Arcade was the late flowering attempt to take underground comix to national newsstands. Lovely hand-separated color cover by R. Crumb. Centerspread by Robert Williams. Burroughs' story "Fun City In Ba'Dan" illustrated by Wilson. Print Mint unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 281135Madrid: Fundacion Caja Madrid 2002. paperback. very good. Many text Illus. some in color. 4to pr. wrs. Madrid: Fundacion Caja Madrid 2002. Very good Fundacion Caja Madrid unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 553329San Francisco: Print Mint 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. Three issues. All first printings. Octavo. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Overall near fine with scattered minor wear; issue one moderately creased two small tears and oxidation at one staple. An underground horror comic modeled on the EC comics of the 1950s. Contributors included Spain Rodriguez S. Clay Wilson Kim Deitch Art Spiegelman and Gilbert Shelton among others. Print Mint unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 193414Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza 2001. Softcover. Very Good SIgnature of previous owner on front end page. Blue wraps. 622 pp. 102 bw and 102 color plates. Text in Spanish. Includes an annotated and illustrated catalogue of 102 works. Lavishly illustrated. Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza paperback books
1972Best.-Nr. 313558San Francisco: Honeywell and Todd 1972. Poster. 29x19.5 inch poster by the underground comix artist depicting a gang fight outside of a restaurant near fine we have purchased the remaining undistributed stash from the artist's estate. Spain born Manuel Rodriguez a prolific contributor to underground comix and an illustrator of posters for the San Francisco Mime Troupe is perhaps best known for his characters Trashman and Big Bitch. He has written and drawn a great deal about his own youthful experience in a motorcycle gang in east Buffalo the Road Vultures. Honeywell and Todd unknown books
1850Best.-Nr. 49643Madrid 1850. Folio pp. 8; fine. A list of the prints in the museum. OCLC locates only an 1857 edition. unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 257338Berkeley: Himalayan Watershed Properties 1971. Newspaper. 36p. folded tabloid underground newspaper photos art psychedelia reviews poetry lightly-worn else very good on newsprint. Interviews with Jerry Garcia & Melvin Van Peebles. Comix by Spain and Wilson. Choppers! Leathermen! Biker Art! Himalayan Watershed Properties unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 162000N.p.: R and S Film Enterprises 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A rare pair of photographs from Rita Hayworth's low-budget wanderings between 1967-1970 during which she worked with French and Italian genre filmmakers as well as the likes of William Grefè in the US. Note however that Ms. Hayworth is not present in either of these images. A psychedelic exploitation film in which Hayworth stars as a wealthy matron married to a wheelchair-bound husband. She has an affair with a young author triggering disastrous results. Shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. R and S Film Enterprises unknown books
1827Best.-Nr. 45152Barcelona: Juan Francisco Piferrer 1827. Nueva Edicion. Two volumes bound in one; small 12mo 15cm.; full contemporary sheep marbled endpapers; xvi150; 2xv1156pp. Boards a bit scuffed with some brief peeling of leather corners bumped else Very Good internally fine. Contemporary owner's brief ink and pencil notes to final leaf of text and rear free endpaper. Includes recipes for dyes stains inks lacquers varnishes stain removers perfumes toothpaste and drinks and liqueurs. Juan Francisco Piferrer unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 61253New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; reddish-brown cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 89-2542pp. Base of spine gently nudged light wear to extremities with some dust-soil and faint foxing to text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 gently spine-sunned with moderate wear some dust-soil and faint stains and a few small losses tears and attendant creases; five clear tape mends on verso; Very Good. The author's first book under this pseudonym set in Southern California in which tough-guy "confidential agent" Bill Rye "investigates a girl who claims to be an oil tycoon's illegitimate daughter" BAIRD 9. HUBIN p.384. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1826Best.-Nr. 308088London: Printed for James Duncan 1826. Folding map and 7 plates. 2 vols. 12mo. Quarter contemp. calf and marbled boards spine rubbed joints splitting but solid. Internally fine. Bookplate of Thomas Henry Graham. Folding map and 7 plates. 2 vols. 12mo. Printed for James Duncan unknown books
1818Best.-Nr. 60522New York: James Eastburn & Co 1818. First American from the last London edition. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Cloth-backed papered boards paper spine labels. An especially bright clean copy. Fine. Bookplates. First American from the last London edition. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. James Eastburn & Co unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 4801Barcelona: Orfebres de Espana Sociedad Anonima 1920. Tall brad-bound trade catalogue 23 leaves printed rectos only. Trade catalogue of flatware illustrated in various patterns. Some wear to the printed card-stock wrappers otherwise very good. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies. Orfebres de Espana, Sociedad Anonima unknown books
Best.-Nr. B02021-6Madrid Minsterio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes 1934. 2 vols. vii 3 595 3pp.; 559 plates 23 1pp. 4to. Cloth 3/4 leather.; orig. wraps. bound in. Madrid (Minsterio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes), 1934. hardcover books
1853Best.-Nr. 34200Madrid: En la Imprenta Nacional 1853. First edition. Cloth. A good copy lacking the front board large chip on spine contents sharp and very good. 560 pp.; 263 pp. 16mo. En la Imprenta Nacional hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 553708San Francisco: The San Francisco Comic Book Co 1970. Softcover. Very Good. First printing. Octavo. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Very good with oxidation at the staples toning to the interior pages and general creasing and rubbing. Contributors include Robert Crumb S. Clay Wilson Dan O'Neill Spain Rodriguez and Rick Griffin among others. The San Francisco Comic Book Co unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 326650San Francisco: Bottom of the Hill 1998. 19x25 inch screenprint poster fine condition from the artist Spain's estate. The venue took its name from its location at the bottom of Potrero Hill. Bottom of the Hill unknown books
1846Best.-Nr. 3472Madrid 1846. Good. Single leaf. Small tears along edges small stains from ink bleeding through both sides bookseller subject inscription "America" noted at top left corner of recto slight water damage along right edge vertical fold in middle of leaf clearly town torn out of a larger gathering. THE ORDER OF CALATRAVA IS A MILITARY AND CISTERCIAN RELIGIOUS ORDER ESTABLISHED IN THE 12TH CENTURY IN THE KINGDOM OF CASTILLE. Its primary purpose was to protect the town of Calatrava. The order was eventually secularized in 1855 and is now solely an honorific institution. The present document is a handwritten copy of a notification from Dona Isabel II Queen of Spain regarding a habit i.e. the granting of admission into the Order of the Knights of Calatrava on behalf of Don Pedro Regalado Pedroso y Pedroso. The letter is addressed to Don Esteban Hurtado de Mendoza who had been named by the Tribune of Military Orders to occupy said position. DON PEDRO REGALADO PEDROSO Y PEDROSO 1832-1878 descended from an extremely wealthy Havana family; he was accepted as a Novice into the Order in 1849 and as of 1862 he was still a novice Las Ordenes Militares de Santiago Calatrava Alcantara y Montesa Madrid 1862 p. 444 and the same work 1891 edition p. 63. He was Prefect Comendador of the Order of Carlos III. His great residence at Calle Obrapia No. 55 Havana is named after him and is known as the Hotel El Comendador and is one of the jewels of Old Town. PARTIAL TRANSLATION: "Dona Isabel II by the grace of God and the constitution of the Spanish monarchy queen of Spain perpetual administrator of the Order of the Knights of Calavera by apostolic authority to you Don Domingo Olaraval or Don Esteban Hurtado de Mendoza knights of Santiago who have been named by the master tribunal by imperial commission to the order to that which . will be mentioned know this: that Don Pedro Regalado Pedroso y Pedroso citizen of the city of Havana has found favor in our Royal Person with the grace of a habit or position in the Order of Calatrava etc. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: As always we are grateful to Joseph Adams for his translation prowess! unknown books
1740Best.-Nr. 38832London: Printed by Mr. Webb near St. Paul's 1740. 249-1633-34334-56 page 39 1 blank pp. Page 15 misnumbered '51' as issued. Bound in later dark plain wrappers. Very Good. ESTC records four variants all determined by the craziness of the pagination. In all printings the text is continuous. None of ESTC's records quite matches ours. The closest ESTC T222817 tracks ours up to the last printed page which ESTC notes as page '57' rather than our '39.' "Relates in part to Spanish interference with the American trade" Sabin and the Duke's apparent support of Spanish interests. The pamphlet describes Spanish incursions upon British interests in the New World and Spain's disruption of British vessels. England asserted "That the Subjects of the Crown of Great-Britain have an undoubted Right to navigate in the American Seas to and from any Part of His Majesty's Dominion; and for carrying on such Trade and Commerce as they are justly intitled to in America." Sabin 10227. Kress 4493. Printed by Mr. Webb, near St. Paul's unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 34201Madrid: En la Imprenta Nacional 1840. First edition. Brown morocco tooled in blind gilt titles marbled endpapers. A good copy front joint split boards scuffed front hinge starting inked marks on first and last blanks lacking folding chart at p240otherwise leaves clean bookplate of Alberto Parreno on the front pastedown. 268 pp.; 176 pp. Illus. with 2 b/w engravings. 24mo. En la Imprenta Nacional hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 82079Madrid. hardcover. fine. 490 color illustrations. 4to full black leather gilt silk moire endpapers; slipcase. Madrid: Banco de Espana 1979. Fine. unknown books
