![[Archive]: American World War One Sheet Music](/pictures/thumb/386706.jpg?v=1457685007)
1914-1918. A collection of 16 folded sheet music from World War One. Each is a quarto, ranging in condition from good to near fine with some modest age-toning, edgewear, and with some tearing. Each music sheet is illustrated, with 15 done so in color and the last in black and... More
Baltimore: Isaac Friedenwald, 1889. First edition. Very good in three quarter black leather with blue cloth covered boards, leather is worn and scuffed, corners worn through, the hinges are just starting, front endpaper is missing. Monthly issues of this periodical. Each issue is 12 pages. More
Albany: State of New York, 1907. First edition. Green cloth binding with ribbon ties and gilt titling, with 57 folding highway maps printed in color laid in. The maps are a trifle foxed at the very top edge, but else all maps and binding fine, with spine lettering of the... More
![[Movie press book]: The Norman Studios Present the Super Feature Photoplay. The Flying Ace](/pictures/thumb/405168.JPG?v=1504105494)
Arlington, Florida: Norman Studios, (nd-1926). Very large folio. One page folded to make four. Cover printed in orange and blue. Old folds, possibly as issued, chips on the bottom corners affecting a few letters, large stain at bottom a fair only example of this pressbook to be used by theatre... More
Paris: Hachette, [no date - circa 1925]. Edition unknown. Printed flexible linen self-wrappers. Octavo. (12)pp. A "cloth book." A bit of fraying at extremities of the wrappers, very good or better. More
![[Photo Album]: 1950 Automotive Road Trip](/pictures/thumb/397726.jpg?v=1459397739)
[Circa 1950]. Quarto commercial album. Measuring approximately 10.25" x 7.25". A total of 88 leaves with the first 37 containing 123 black and white photographs and photo postcards dry set in corner mounts on the versos and rectos (the final pages are unused). Overall very good plus or better. Album... More
![[Photo Album]: Interior Designer 1960](/pictures/thumb/414343.jpg?v=1486570223)
New York, Toronto, Connecticut: 1960s. Quarto measuring 10.5" x 11.5". Flexible black leather three-ring binder with gold metal corners. Contains 37 color photographs measuring between 3.5" x 5" and 8" x 10" with some captions. Near fine album with some rubbing with fine photographs.A photo album presumably kept by an... More
![[Punk Flyer]: Bad Brains at The Elite Club](/pictures/thumb/381038.jpg?v=1457684775)
San Francisco: [no publisher), March 5, 1982. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on 14" x 8.5" paper. Fine. An original flyer promoting a 1982 show at The Elite Club in San Francisco featuring Bad Brains, Lewd, Wasted Youth, Crucifix, Code of Honor, and Vicious Circle. The Elite Club was on the original... More
[circa 1957?]. Original artwork. Measuring approximately 7" x 10". Goauche on stiff paper. Fine. A collection of 70 full-color drawings of women's summer apparel and swim wear from an unknown 1950s fashion designer likely used for either reference during production or for use in a fashion catalog. The majority of... More
Berkeley, California: Samois, 1979. First edition. Octavo. 45pp. Stapled Illustrated yellow wrappers. Modest wear on the wrappers, very good or better. Practical guide to Sadomasochism for lesbians, all written by women, issued by Samois, a group of S&M aficionados who met regularly. Scarce. OCLC locates seven copies. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1942). First edition. Cloth foxed, else very good in a very good dustwrappre with spine faded, small nicks along top edge. Inscribed by Conrad and stamped Dec 11, 1942 on the front fly. More
[New York]: Gillian Webster Barr Bailey, [circa 1965]. First and presumed only edition. Quarto. 71pp, plus inserted illustrations. Canvas tape and printed beige wrappers. Photomechanically reproduced sheets. Some foxing on the wrappers and a faint crease to the top corner of the front wrap and first couple of leaves, very... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Dissertation Services, 1995. Authorized facsimile of a 1992 dissertation by an African-American woman academic. Small square quarto. Wrappers with applied printed label. Crease to three page corners else fine. Full-page inscription by the author: "To Don Kline[?], The person who introduced me to the world of... More
New York: William Sloane Associates, (1948). First edition. Fine in a very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper, with a couple of very shallow chips and tears, but none of the usual spine fading. Second book. More
Cleveland: World, 1942. First edition, number 259 of 425. Signed by the author. A little foxing to the front and back endpapers and few scratches and a little rubbing to the leather on the head and tail of the spine, else fine; in slipcase. More
Chicago: Sherwin Beach Press, 1993. First edition. Oblong quarto. Flexible wrappers. Fine. Written in 1983, when it was published in the Chicago Reader. The story of low income people living on a welfare program that provided them with $144 a month, with the individual narratives accompanied by four splendid photographic... More
Boston: B.J. Brimmer, 1925. First edition. Fine in near very good plus dustwrapper with several modest chips along the extremities. Edited by a noted African-American poet, this is an important compendium representing most active American poets of the period. This copy Signed by several poets at each of their contributions... More
![Die Schuldlosen: Roman in Elf Erzahlungen [The Guiltless]. Hermann BROCH.](/pictures/thumb/109306.jpg?v=1457677677)
Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, 1950. First edition. Text in German, not published in English translation until 1974. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of soiling. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in from the publisher, addressed to the New York Times. More
Chicago: Shasta, (1951). First edition. A trifle foxed on the endpaper, else fine in a lightly rubbed and spine tanned, very good plus dustwrapper. Signed by the author. A collection of science-fiction stories. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. (1946). First American edition. Light sunning, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a little rubbing and light wear on the spine. Inscribed by screenwriter Mel Dinelli to columnist Louella Parsons. Butler's first novel (first published in England in 1940), a reduced-size wartime book... More
Princeton, N.J. The Falcon Press, 1908. First edition. 12mo. Gray stapled wrappers. Modest wear, a near fine copy. Butler went on to become an important book collector, particularly of Arnold Bennett and James Joyce. Significant parts of his collection are at Bucknell and the University of Pennsylvania. More
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1970. First edition. Near fine in a rubbed, about very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Signed by the author. Probably self-published and definitely self-consciously hip "Now Generation" poetry by a New Jersey-born college Dean at Lehigh. The author photo of Campbell sitting around "rapping"... More
Envelope Signed: "Sam Cooke" with Sammy Davis, Jr.'s name printed on the rear, and with his Hollywood return address stamped on the front, postmarked 25 July 1958, and addressed to Miss Hattie Bea Hightower in Detroit. Envelope is torn open on one side not affecting the signature, and is in... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Limited edition with this being number 248 of four hundred copies printed of which three hundred seventy-five are numbered. Quarto. 96pp. Half cloth with gilt-stamped spine title, papercovered boards with black title. Owner's decorative bookplate laid on front pastedown, extremities lightly worn, else very... More
Chicago: The Goose-Quill, 1902. Small octavo. Stapled Illustrated buff wrappers. Small chips at the edges of the wrappers, label remnant on the front wrap, but a good or better copy. Satiric journal published between 1900 and 1904, described in a contemporary Publisher's Weekly review as a cross between the Chap... More