[Film Poster]: Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip
[No place]: Columbia Pictures, 1983. Unbound. One sheet film poster. Measuring 27" x 41". Folded as issued. Slight rubbing at the creases, about fine. A poster for the stand-up comedy film. More
[No place]: Columbia Pictures, 1983. Unbound. One sheet film poster. Measuring 27" x 41". Folded as issued. Slight rubbing at the creases, about fine. A poster for the stand-up comedy film. More
[No place]: New World Pictures, 1971. Unbound. One sheet film poster. Measuring 27" x 41". Folded as issued. Light stain and a couple tears at the folds else near fine. A poster for the 1971 film directed by Jerry deLeon and featuring Jennifer Gan, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, and Pam..... More
New York: Astor Pictures Corp. 1946. Unbound. Folio. [8]pp. Illustrated self-wrappers. 2" horizontal tear at the spine, modest age-toning and very small additional tears, old horizontal fold, overall very good. Film company's press book for a musical comedy with an all-black cast directed by Bud Pollard and featuring comic star..... More
Hollywood: The King Productions, [circa 1927]. Unbound. One small quarto leaf folded to make four pages. Illustrated with photographs. Light wear at the corners, near fine. Bombastic brochure for an apparently salacious film featuring Gaston Glass and Ben Lyons (but probably Ben Lyon). We have been unable to trace the..... More
[Los Angeles]: Warner Brothers, 1938. Unbound. Five film stills of a little-known Warner Brothers short film. Each bears the title and date of September 15, 1938 on the verso, one noted "Warner Bros. Short" . Each is 10" x 8". Sepia-toned, near fine. The five images depict court room scenes..... More
(Mount Vernon, New York: Audio Brandon Films, 1976). Softcover. First edition. Square octavo. [20]pp. Foreword by Wolfgang Klaue. Illustrated from movie stills. Stapled wrappers. Vertical crease throughout, cover abrasion, moderate wear, just about very good. Heavily illustrated promotional brochure for 15 films "from East Germany, only five of which have..... More
[Germany: circa 1925-50]. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (14.5” x 10.5”). A collection of 101 color luggage labels mounted in an elaborate album. Bound in olive-green crushed morocco over boards, with elaborate gilt tooling and turn-ins, a floral design stamped in gold on the front board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The..... More
New York: Printed by Dorr & Butterfield, 1834. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 64pp. Sewn blue printed wrappers. Thin paper spine has mostly perished, a little foxing, else the covers are fresh and bright, an attractive very good copy of a fragile publication. Includes a list of Anti-Slavery societies and their..... More
Philadeplhia: Compliments of the Century Printing Concern of Philadelphia, 1906. Softcover. Printed green stapled wrappers. 12mo. 19, (1)pp. About fine. Rules of the church and lists the pastor, deacons, trustees, etc. More
Pittsfield: Printed by Phinehas Allen and Son, 1834. Softcover. 12mo. 46, [2]pp. Unprinted gray wrappers. Small chip and crease on front wrap, very good. As hard as we tried to make this pamphlet of Herman Melville who later moved to Pittsfield, and where he visited his Uncle Thomas there during..... More
Ashland, Mass. The Trading Post, 1939. Unbound. First edition. A single leaf folded to make four pages. Two horizontal folds, some offsetting, very good or better. 208 items offered for sale written by turn-of-the-century authors, among them John Kendrick Bangs, Richard Harding Davis, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, S. Weir..... More
Hillsborough, [North Carolina]: Printed by Dennis Heartt, 1845. Softcover. First edition. 8pp. One printed leaf folded and unopened. Two neat horizontal folds and a little foxing, still near fine. Report of the Society's first year of existence including a list of its manuscript holdings. *OCLC* locates eight copies. More
San Francisco: Fits Collective, [no date]. Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Crease on front wrap, shallow chip on rear wrap, pages lightly and uniformly toned, very good. More
(Cummington, Massachusetts: Association of Friends of the Cummington School), 1939. Softcover. First edition. Stapled green printed wrappers. Fine. One of 300 copies, with poems by William Bronk, Samuel French Morse, Harry Duncan, and Jane Ward. Beautiful copy. More
Terminal Island, California: Federal Correctional Institute, Terminal Island, 1962, 1963 and 1969. Softcover. Five issues. Quartos and octavos. Mimeographed single sheets printed both sides and single sheets folded to make four pages. Light wear, else fine. Five nonconsecutive issues of the newsletter published for the staff at the Federal Correctional..... More
[No place]: (Public Relations Polish Forces, 1945). Softcover. First edition. Measuring 8" x 6¾". Stapled mimeographed leaves. 25, [1]blank pp. Text in English. Pages toned, small chip and tears on the front wrap, a solid very good copy. An extremely scarce report on Polish resistance activities both in and outside..... More
[New York]: Eastern Air Lines, September 1981. Softcover. Stapled wrappers. 56pp. Slight spotting with slight creasing else about near fine. A 1981 flight attendant manual for Eastern Air Line which was required to be carried by the attendants on every flight. More
(Baltimore: Griffin, Curley & Co. Printers), [circa 1888]. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 19pp. Frontispiece colotype photo. Stitched printed pale gray wrappers. Vertical crease, a few small spots on the wrappers, very good or better. Promotion apparently aimed at those in Baltimore to settle in the new Villa City, Florida, west..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Gales & Seaton, print. 1835. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 16pp. Removed. Some modest age-toning, and wear in the margins, else near fine. House Document No. 185 of the 23rd Congress, 2d Session. *OCLC* locates two copies. More
[Washington, D.C.]: Gales & Seaton, print. 1835. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 6, [2]pp. Removed. Some modest age-toning, and stab holes in the margins, else near fine. House Document No. 39 of the 23rd Congress, 2d Session. Discussion of repairing Castillo de San Marcos, appropriated from the Spanish and renamed, the..... More
[Oakland: The Hells Angels, [1996?]. Unbound. Vintage broadside. 8.5" x 11" Printed in black on red paper. Central photo image of a skulls and playing cards. Two tears along the top where, where it was removed from tacks or nails, old fold, else about very good. More
Staunton, Va. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 1942. Unbound. Flyer or small broadside. Measuring 5.75" x 9". Modestly age-toned, light horizontal fold, else near fine. Advertisement for an appearance at a Virginia church, Wings Over Jordan was a well known Cleveland-based choir who produced the first independently produced national and international..... More
Buffalo, N.Y. Babcock Electric Carriage Co., [circa 1907]. Unbound. Small flyer printed in black and red with photographic illustration. 6" x 9.25". Several small chips and tears in the margins, but essentially stable and good. Illustration shows a woman driving a Babcock Electric Automobile. Several bullet points including: "Fastest Electric..... More
London: W. Speaight & Sons, (1916). Unbound. Illustrated flyer or small broadside. Approximately 7.25" x 10". A couple of very small tears, else near fine. illustrated with three photos of shell fragments, refuting that English aviators killed families in Brussels and positing instead that the families were killed by German..... More
London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Ltd. Unbound. 6" x 9.5". Old horizontal fold, tiny tear in the margin, very good or better. Refutation of German claims that British hospital ships were being used to transport troops and munitions, and there threats that this would "...no longer be tolerated." More