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1880réf. 57333Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. ca. 1880. Folding Rand McNally Map and Promotional for Eastern Texas Missouri and Arkansas A scarce promotional for Missouri and Arkansas published by the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway featuring a folding map by Rand McNally & Co. The map shows cities rivers railways and geographical features from eastern Texas through Louisiana Arkansas Missouri Mississippi and parts of Illinois Indiana and Alabama. The Iron Mountain Railway owned a large land grant in the central United States but it was not allowed to sell until the railway was completed; now that time had come and they were advertising it heavily. Some of the attractions promoted in the text include wild game hunting including squirrels resources such as zinc and coal good soil river and rail transportation telegraph service "cheap homes in Missouri and Arkansas" and low property taxes. They also exhort the nervous migrant: "This is the time to have decision of character or the opportunity will be lost to you and to your family forever. The strong-hearted Europeans who settled America did not know what they would reap from planting in strange soils and climates. Why should you hesitate about a country peopled an hundred years and well known Have manhood and come." The authors do not limit their reach to the United States either as they make sure to note after listing their prices that "One dollar in American is equal to about four shillings in English money." Also included is a panel of text with a table describing the climate of Little Rock and a list of instructions to railroad agents. The St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway originally established to deliver iron ore from Iron Mountain Missouri to St. Louis eventually stretched from eastern Texas through Missouri and Arkansas. In 1883 it was acquired by Jay Gould and in the 1900s merged into the Missouri Pacific and later Union Pacific Railroads. The folksong "Iron Mountain Baby" tells the true story of a Civil War veteran who walking along the railroad collecting building materials discovered a baby who had been apparently thrown from the train in a valise. When the child grew older the railway paid for his education. The Iron Mountain Baby's story became popular around the United States and has been recorded in numerous forms throughout the years including the 2014 stage musical adaptation Bright Star written by musician and comedian Steve Martin. Though the Iron Mountain Railway put out a number of such promotionals in the late 1870s and early 1880s they remain rather scarce; OCLC records this edition focusing on Arkansas and Missouri only at Harvard and the University of Arkansas at Mullins. Old folds. Minor tanning. Slight splitting along some folds and a few cross-folds. Very good. unknown books
1868réf. 173873Lille: Imprimerie de L. Danel 1868. Limited to 25 copies. Good overall the silk endpaper has lifted from the corner. 3/4/ black leather with 6 raised bands and gilt title second compartment. Purple silk endpapers and pastedowns. T.e.g. Title-page with large gilt-decorated emblem device above imprint. 3 preliminary leaves 7-97 2 pages mounted portrait. Preliminary states "Recueil des Discours Pronounces sur la Tombe du Baron James De Rothschild et des principaux articles de journaux publiées à l'occasion de sa mort et de ses funéreailles Ce Recuei tire vingt-cinq exemplaires est offert A Madame La Baronne James De Rothschild et a sa famille par le personnel du Chemin de fer du Nord." Includes funeral sermons and obituaries published in Le Temps Journal des debats L'Epoque and other perodicals. The photograph shows the Baron as he appeared in 1864. Worthy of restoration and exceedingly scarce. Worldcat locates 4 copies including 1 in the United States. Imprimerie de L. Danel hardcover books
1944réf. 326271Evansville IN: Employees' War Production Committee 1944. Spiral_bound. Unpaginated perhaps ninety pages b&w site photography throughout a much-thumbed copy with creasings to covers handling signs to free margins and a snag to plastic spine. Interior is cleanly and unmarked. A good copy; all photos without being masterpieces combine in sequence to compellingly record the site's transformation and the stages of shipbuilding in steel. Shipyard photos are credited to Jack Rusche and Don Followell and a group photograph of committee members 25 or so occupies the terminal page; other shots record their leisure activity in costume to music. Additional US Navy photos show the ships en route and at destinations such as Marianas Islands. We note that amongst the seven engineering firms engaged in this "joint venture" two are Bechtel-related with aforementioned Missouri Valley Bridge taking the lead. Titlepage text states that the item was "Produced. for the Men and Women of The Evansville Shipyard" implying limited distribution. Employees' War Production Committee unknown books
1916réf. 004541Roanoke VA: Virginia Bridge and Iron Company 1916. Very good. Seven covers envelopes - unused n. d. ca 1916; 3 3/4 x 6 1/2; captioned monochrome illustrations from photographs to recto; one with a small cut to bottom edge else overall very minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. Founded in Roanoke in 1888 as the American Bridge Works its name would be changed to the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company in 1893 it would grow into a major structural steel and bridge builder eventually opening branch plants in Memphis and Birmingham and manufacturing hundreds of highway metal truss bridges railroad bridges and commercial building frames across the American South and Mid-Atlantic. A large number of their surviving structures are currently listed on the US National Register of Historic Places NRHP such as High Bridge in Farmville VA larkton Bridge in Nathalie VA the State Highway 23 Bridge at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Texas and so on. The current advertising covers featured various projects of the company including the Ocean Steamship Company's terminals in Savannah GA Norfolk and Western Railway Company Coal Pier in Norfolk VA which would evolve into the largest and fastest coal-loading complex in the Northern Hemisphere Mississippi River's Harahan Bridge in Memphis TN etc. Virginia Bridge and Iron Company unknown books
1996réf. 403084California 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. A Collection of 100 used concert tickets featuring punk new wave and heavy metal bands performing in California from 1983 through 1996. The tickets vary in size from 3” x 2” to 5.25” x 2.5”. All items are near fine with light soiling and a modest amount of creasing except for three torn tickets and 4 tickets stubs from use. The L.A. and Bay Area rock scene started in the late 1970s until new wave and heavy metal bands became the central focus of the 1980s. Some of the bands include: Mötley Crüe Iron Maiden Guns N’ Roses Depeche Mode Fatal Attraction Porno for Pyros Billy Idol Culture Club and others. The tickets span from Los Angeles to San Francisco and cities in between from 26 different venues some of which include The Troubadour Coconut Teaszer The Stone Trocadero Transfer The Metro Cow Palace The Palomino and Filthy McNasty Station. Many of the tickets are bright colors with printed pictures and stamped band logos showing the typographic designs of the time frame. Many bands kicked off their careers in California during this time. Mötley Crüe a popular heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981 is featured here playing at Oakland stadium on October 10 1987. The band is well known for their heavy make-up shocking clothing high-heeled boots and their abuse of drugs and alcohol. In 1985 the band transitioned to a more glam metal style influencing the heavy metal signature look. Guns N' Roses formed in 1985 in Los Angeles and is featured here playing at the Warfield Theatre on February 5 1988. They are a hard rock band that quickly gained popularity after the release of their debut album “Appetite for Destruction” which has sold over 28 million copies worldwide. The band has been labeled as the "the most dangerous band in the world" due to their rebelliousness and were credited to the rekindling of rock music during a time of dance music and glam metal. 1n 1992 Porno for Pyros formed in Los Angeles as an alternative rock group formed out of Jane’s Addiction. They are featured here playing at the Trocadero Transfer on June 19 1996. Their shows featured props extras and pyrotechnics. The band lasted through the mid-1990s and mixed the sounds of grunge and rock together. In the 1980s California became the melting pot of music genres mixing in punk rock new wave and metal. Certain venues became synonymous with the music genres and bands of that time. The Stone opened in the 1980s and was linked to the Keystone Berkeley and Keystone Palo Alto. It was large enough for a capacity of 700 sold only hard liquor at the bar and attracted an audience with bigger hair bigger shoes and makeup. It featured many local and big name artists in its day and was an important part of the Bay Area rock scene in the 1980s. The Coconut Teaszer operated from the 1980s through the mid-2000s. It hosted bands from all genres and featured a downstairs acoustic bar named “8121”. Sawdust on the dance floor and giant goblets for draft beer were some of the popular trademarks of the venue. One of the notable and peculiar policies of the venue was “no open toe shoes” which was painted on the front door. The Troubadour which is still functioning today opened in 1957. New wave and punk was the main feature for The Troubadour in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through the 1980’s the venue became synonymous with the heavy metal genre and glam bands during that time. Today The Troubadour is revered as one of Hollywood’s most respected places to see live music. An attractive collection of brightly colored concert tickets featuring popular heavy metal and punk bands from the 1980s through the mid-1990s displaying over a decade of music in California. hardcover books
1970réf. 569480Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 168pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Light toning on endpapers from binder's glue near fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear slight toning and a couple tiny tears. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
réf. 148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian. In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. Set and shot on location in Sicily. Script: Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding. List of scenes: 10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown books
1890réf. 32067East Berlin CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co ca. 1890s. Large broadside 31.75x47cm.; previous mail folds as issued very slightly postally used on verso else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards including information on production materials and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888 the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November 2016 at the Connecticut Historical Society. Berlin Iron Bridge Co unknown books
1987réf. 200600New York: The Witkin Gallery 1987. First edition. Softcover. Features brief essays by Robert Ferro and Elsa Dorfman. Includes 25 black and white images by Cratsley as well as a small photograph of him. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Signed by Cratsley on the title page. A very nicely printed book. The Witkin Gallery unknown books
1955réf. 181325San Francisco: the Brotherhood 1955. Pamphlet. 16p. pocketbook format very good in orange wraps. the Brotherhood unknown books
réf. 239457Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 8.75" x 12". This charming map of Dunkirk shows the city as it sits on the coast of the southernmost part of the North Sea here labeled as the Sea of Flanders. Working circa 1705 De Fer has represented the city with a schematized drawing of its exterior walls. Canals connecting the city to nearby towns and churches are also depicted and labeled. Sand bars are drawn and mountains are represented pictorically and a decorative compass rose at the upper left points due north. The map is in very good condition with no chips or tears and minor staining. Nicolas de Fer 1646-1720 was a French cartographer engraver and publisher. He became official geographer to the French Dauphin 1691 and to the Spanish King 1702 and was renowned particularly for his maps of the French coast of which this is a fine example. unknown books
1701réf. 23030Paris: Nicolas De Fer 1701. First Edition. Very Good. Ginville Vincent de. Ginville Vincent de. First Edition. Paper size 42.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Plate mark 34 x 22.5 cm. Marginal paper clip stain inked '109' upper right corner some marginal chipping to the paper and old penciled price lower right. A few unobtrusive spots inside the plate marks. Copperplate engraving by Vincent de Ginville with later awfully bright hand color. This map would frame up nicely. There appears to be several versions of this map. The David Rumsey Collection has an example dated on the cartouch 1705 which he notes as being from Nicolas De Fer's Atlas Curieux published later. The Library of Congress has an example of the map offered here with the 1701 date and a separate page with explanations of the map. We don't know where this 1701 example came from separately issued or another atlas. The map highlights locations of Indian villages found by La Salle during his explorations of the coastal areas of the United States. We see the Gulf of Mexico Cap de la Floride and many inland village names. A nice map showing some early history of the southern United States. It includes parts of modern-day Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Florida as well as the Bahamas and Cuba. Nicolas De Fer unknown books
1880réf. 59233St. Louis Mo.: Woodward & Tiernan Printers 1880. Broadsheet 28 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches folded to narrow 8vo recto with 13 panels of promotional text touting Arkansas as an agricultural paradise verso with a map of Arkansas featuring the railway lines and eight panels of promotional text illustrated with two wood engravings with some emphasis on healthful springs and "advantages to poor people." Stamp Agent on rear wrapper. OCLC locates four copies Arkansas-Fayetteville SMU Missouri Yale. Very good. Original illustrated wrappers with red highlighting. 59233. Woodward & Tiernan, Printers unknown books
1983réf. 239856New York: That New Magazine 1983. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news ads cartoons photos very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on Fantasia Fair in Provincetown for trans people. "La Cage Aux Folles" on Broadway A lot of AIDS warnings information calls for funding. That New Magazine unknown books
1983réf. 240024New York: That New Magazine 1983. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news ads cartoons photos very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story: "Gaypoon 2" Also Crisp on Woody Allen and the start of Christopher Street Personals. That New Magazine unknown books
1984réf. 309353New York: That New Magazine 1984. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news ads cartoons photos spine rolled else very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story: "Robert Ferro." Also Quentin Crisp on Divine in "Lust in the Dust. That New Magazine unknown books
1984réf. 215316New York: That New Magazine 1984. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news ads cartoons photos very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story: "Robert Ferro" Also Quentin Crisp on Divine in "Lust in the Dust. That New Magazine unknown books
1825réf. BK0190Stockholm Sweden 1825. One large folded commercial sheet written on several panels with integral address panel to Messrs. Brown & Ives Providence Rhode Island endorsed "Pr. Brig Harvest" with Newport "SHIP" marking. Headed "Triplicate. Old folds and light handling wear very good. A commercial letter and account from the Stockholm mercantile house of Kantzow & Biel to Brown & Ives of Providence concerning the execution of a large order for Swedish iron. The firm reports that it is assembling a shipment of arranging its transport while the accounting on another portion of the same sheet records the value of the iron and related charges. The letter reports: "the contents giving us the desired opportunity of confirming you Your order for a Shipmt. of 200 Tons Iron to be ship'd & appointed and convoy which we shall of course prevail the commencement on." The letter dates from a period of rapid expansion in Swedish iron exports to the United States which had displaced Britain as Sweden's most important foreign market for bar iron. Britain had reduced its dependence on Swedish imports while American tariff legislation favored hammered iron from Sweden and Russia over British rolled iron. American demand became particularly important to the Swedish industry in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The United States purchased approximately three-fifths of Sweden's iron exports in 1822 with mainly American vessels engaged in the trade. The account also records a credit entered July 28 "By your proportion of dividend in payment from the Swedish Government". Brown & Ives had longstanding claims against Sweden arising from American property seized during the Napoleonic Wars including tobacco and rice belonging to the firm taken from the General Hamilton in 1810.1 The Swedish government finally settled the American claims in July 1825 following years of diplomatic representations concerning the confiscation and sale of American property at Stralsund. The credit recorded here appears to represent Brown & Ives's share of that indemnity entered less than two weeks after the settlement was formally concluded on July 16. The correspondence thus brings together two aspects of Swedish-American relations in the immediate postwar period: the expansion of an iron trade increasingly important to Sweden's economy and the settlement of commercial grievances dating back fifteen years. The shift reflected the changing geography of Atlantic commerce as Britain's increasingly mechanized iron industry reduced its dependence on Swedish imports while the rapidly industrializing United States emerged as Sweden's principal customer. However American iron production expanded enough to challenge Sweden's position in the American market particularly beginning in the 1830s and 1840s. 1 Calendar of the Miscellaneous Letters Received by the Department of State Government Printing Office 1897 47. . unknown books
1937réf. 243896Kansas City MO: the Brotherhood 1937. 98p. plus four-page index; staplebound booklet very good. the Brotherhood unknown books
1953réf. 243802San Francisco: the Brotherhood 1953. Pamphlet. 23p. staplebound booklet 3.5x5 inches very good condition. the Brotherhood unknown books
1725réf. 204942Paris: de Fer Nicolas 1725. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 5.25" x 6.25". Charming miniature map of Denmark with the Coat of Arms incorporated in the cartouche. Map includes both Schleswig and Holstein while today part of the former and all of the latter are northern Germany. Nicolas de Fer 1646-1720 was a French cartographer engraver and publisher. He became official geographer to the French Dauphin 1691 and to the Spanish King 1702. de Fer, Nicolas unknown books
1893réf. 28094London: T. Fisher Unwin 1893. Pseudonym Library edition narrow 12mo pp. 93; original yellow wrappers spine worn and chipped shaken still a good sound copy. Three short stories by the author of Dreams and The Story of an African Farm. T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1970réf. 160429N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless oversize color reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Jim Brown and Marianna Hill. In 1860s Mexico two men lead a band of Apaches against a fortress said to contain the treasures of Austrian emperor Maximilian. Among the first films to be rated R. Shot on location in Almería Spain. 12 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine lightly curled at the edges. N.p. unknown books
2015réf. 202075New York: Matthew Marks Gallery 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 13 through June 20 2015. Features an essay by Briony Fer. Includes 12 figures and 21 color illustrations. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket and with laid in compliments slip. Matthew Marks Gallery unknown books
réf. 218412Paris: Librairie Générale de L'Architecxture et des Travaux Publics Ducher et Cie nd. Missing 6 20 26 30 32 50 83 of 84 plates 2 of plate 22. 2 page of text. 1 vols. Folio. In portfolio. Some foxing to plates else near fine. Missing 6 20 26 30 32 50 83 of 84 plates 2 of plate 22. 2 page of text. 1 vols. Folio. Librairie Générale de L'Architecxture et des Travaux Publics Ducher et Cie unknown books
